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Editor: As a professor in the HSU Department of nursing for almost 30 years, I think your editorial of Feb. 17 (“Nursing Our Wounds”) expressed a hope for the continuation of a bachelor of nursing option in our area that I cannot share. During the last few years I have had a sense that support […]

Editor: Your Good Food issue (Feb. 24) was wonderful. Please continue coverage and support of our gardeners and farmers — and let’s hear it for our ranchers and dairy folk as well.   In our family, people say grace, remembering to be thankful for people who work so hard to bring good food to our […]

Editor: Whoa, big changes at the Journal. A few short months ago, our daring and oh-so-sure-of-himself editor, Hank Sims, set the community alight with a cover story depicting an unusual act of adventure involving meat-hooks and a thrill-seeking young woman.  The move sparked intense community outcry, making our typically liberal readership look like a bunch […]

Editor: I am simply amazed that Ms. Hodgson has chosen this new direction for our Journal. Having supported, read, championed and advertised in this paper, the “our” is proprietary; however, not any longer. Hank (Sims), Jennifer (Savage), I desperately miss your presence. I regret I cannot in good conscience support Mr. Abate. Not even for compost. […]

Editor: My pseudonym can be Abbey. I’m named after a Beatles song. I’m homeless. So is my partner of six years. We live in a hotel, one known to have weekly rates and low expectations. I did not speak to the Census takers (“Point-in-Time,” Feb. 3). Neither did anyone else I asked at this particular […]

Editor: With regard to the two Courthouse postcards in your recent article (“Postcard Kings,” Feb. 17): I’m certain that if there were ever a contest, our current Courthouse and jail would win hands-down as the ugliest building in Eureka. It looks to me like something a toddler on acid might have pieced together with Lego […]

Editor: We at the Clarke Museum enjoyed your article on postcard collecting. Collecting is great and we encourage it. We urge people with collections or even a single card, who may want to see the images enjoyed by the public for many generations, to donate old postcards to the Clarke Historical Museum and, by so […]

Editor: I attended the (Feb. 7) rally for keeping the highway through Richardson Grove as it is. It was peaceful and positive until the police used violence causing some in the crowd to react defensively.  When the police made their move to clear the room I heard the rapid clicking of tasers and seconds later […]

Editor, I’m an ex-freelancer for the North Coast Journal. Up until a few weeks ago, I wrote a column offering advice, comfort and what I hoped were clever observations for and about the financially challenged. In my decade of local media involvement, I’ve never received such consistent and rewarding attention for my work – writing […]

Editor: Before you get too enthusiastic about the value to our community of the “thousands” of W-2 forms submitted by the Blue Lake Casino, you might do a little investigative reporting about why that number is so high, given the number of actual employees (“The Little Casino That Could,” Feb. 10).Take a good close look […]

Editor: I thank Ryan Burns for attempting even-handed coverage of the rally to protest Caltrans proposed work at Richardson Grove (“Realignment,” Feb. 10), but found myself wishing he had said more about the reasons many people have for opposing this project.The impact on Richardson Grove will be huge. Bigger trucks equal more road damage. Cutting […]

Editor:Listening to the Tom Abate KSLG interview is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.  How could Judy Hodgson or any other person listen to this tragedy/comedy unfold and not be mortified?  Further, one of Tom’s first articles is concerning “laptop gambling” at Blue Lake Rancheria, the new “Hybrid Casino”.  Now all we need […]