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Editor: I am compelled to write, responding to the article “Queasy Eats” (May 12). Healthy food service and accountability are important and appropriate topics. At first, I was shocked to see our restaurant named in the article. Since then, my fellow employees of Seascape Restaurant at the pier in Trinidad have been discussing with me […]

Editor: I must express my sincerest gratitude. Not only have my crossword grievances been rectified, but lo, I have been shown the light. Your man Bob really swung the bat this time (“The Hum,” May 26). Where the rest of us so obviously failed, Mr. Doran took upon himself the heavy burden of giving some […]

Editor: While reading the seven stomach churners (“Queasy Eats,” May 12), the words of Dr. Suess came to mind: “That is just sick, sick, sick. Just sick with ick! Ew!” ‘Nuff said. C. J. Williams, Eureka Editor: I was at a restaurant where I saw a gentleman get up to leave. It was painfully obvious […]

Editor: As a long-term employee of St. Joseph Hospital, I was disappointed but not surprised by administration’s denial of a toxic mold problem in PCU and the third floor break room (“Mold Grievance,” May 12). I, therefore, have a modest proposal: Relocate the administrative naysayers to a new office – the third-floor break room – […]

Editor: I want to thank you very much for printing the article on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases and raising awareness, since Humboldt County was identified as an endemic region by the Centers for Disease Control and the California Department of Public Health decades ago (“Repellant,” April 28). We are very ill-prepared and undereducated […]

Editor: It pains me to see frivolous talk about freedom of expression and the environmental implications of beach grass removal filling your mailbox, while serious problems loom ominously in the back pages of your fine publication. I am, of course, referring to the crossword puzzle in your issue of May the 5th. The clue for […]

Editor: I just put down your May 5 edition. I MAY finish reading it after writing this letter. I found the cartoon by Joel Mielke to be deeply disturbing on so many levels that I hardly know where to start. He would seem to imply that residents of Fortuna (and Eureka) are rednecks of low […]

Editor: Ooooh, I can’t wait to start my collection of rare, first-edition, out-of-print, signed e-books! (“Does a Kindle have soul?” May 5) Truth be told, just as the creators and promoters of mp3s are NOT audiophiles, the creators and promoters of e-books are NOT bibliophiles. It is amusing to imagine a group of right-wing religionists […]

Editor: What could have possibly been the intent of Joel Mielke’s “cartoon” in your May 5 issue? Humor? I’ve seen legal notices with more humor. Biting social or political commentary? An obvious lack of talent rules that out. Then what was the Journal‘s motivation for slamming the good citizens of Fortuna by printing the “cartoon”? […]

Editor: Marcy Burstiner, in her commendable article about freedom of expression (and penile image suppression), says that Michelangelo’s statue of David “displays the biblical king in all his biblical splendor” (Media Maven, “Expression is Freedom,” May 5). However splendiferous it may be, I think that for the artist to portray a Jewish youth about to […]

Editor: I applaud Carol Ann Moorhead’s article “Repellant” (April 28) examining Lyme disease. However, it overlooks several important debates in Lyme research. 1) Many studies show that Lyme bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb)) can be transmitted congenitally. 2) Bb also survives blood processing; thus, most blood centers refuse Lyme donors or those having related treatment within […]