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Editor: The comic strip by Mielke from your Sept. 16 issue is perfect. How innocently the two scenarios are juxtaposed … just like in real life! Every time I have a cynical thought about the inherent denials in so many of our beliefs — how about abortion foes who set mouse traps? — I realize […]

Editor: NCJ has crossed the line (“Hooked,” Sept. 9). Freedom of speech is our public right, but common-sense censorship is also. My children are 5 and 7 years old and the NCJ is at eye level to them as we walk past the newspaper rack on the way to Kids Corner at Healthsport in Arcata, […]

Editor: History professor Lawrence Wittner’s estimate of 23,000 nuclear weapons worldwide in Heidi Walters’ elegiac tribute to the Golden Rule anti-nuclear demonstration ketch omits key facts (“Broken Arrow,” Sept. 9). Nearly 8,200 are estimated to be operational — usable — and some 2,200 U.S and Russian nuclear warheads remain on high alert. “High alert” means […]

Editor: Hank, your skills as a political analyst of all things Humboldt are sometimes spot-on … but not this time (“Town Dandy,” Sept. 9). In your zeal to tie this package up with a neat, glib little bow, I’d say you overlooked quite a bit of the obvious. Here’s the real reason people don’t seem […]

Editor: I’m sure the meat dept at the Sunnybrae Murphy’s is a helpful and friendly place — possibly even deserved of the title bestowed upon them (“Best Purveyor of Rattlesnake” — “Best of Humboldt, Staff Picks,” Sept. 2). One inaccuracy I felt compelled to correct, however: Mr. Byrd suggested this was the only place in […]

Editor: I’m a Christian who attends a local church and I have never attended the Catalyst Church (“Beer Me, Jesus,” Aug. 19). I realize your article was written by Deric Mendes, a self-described atheist and that newspapers articles can, without meaning to, misquote or distort. Dan Davis, being one of four co-pastors of the committee-run […]

Editor: Browsing through your wonderful Journal, my eye is regularly caught by the ubiquitous marijuana leaf gracing many of your ads, as well as the number of (wink wink, nudge nudge) horticultural supply stores. One of these ads this week is particularly clever. Under the heading “Welcome Back Students!” a young man in a backwards […]

Editor: Thank you, Heidi Walters! There it is in black and white print. Thank you to Miles Slattery of the City of Eureka for clearly stating the issues regarding the clean-up of the Balloon Track (“Sympathy for the Brownfield,” Aug. 26). The state Water Quality Control Board approved the interim plan for remediation of the […]

Editor: In her thought-provoking cover story last week about brownfield cleanup around the Humboldt Bay, I’m curious why Heidi Walters didn’t probe Caryn Woodhouse of the Regional Water Quality Board deeper about how they screwed up, big time, with authorizing a cleanup plan for Simpson Plywood that left levels of dioxin 50,000 times the allowable […]

Editor: About the new Eureka City ordinance prohibiting smoking in outdoor spaces, or rather the complaints about it: It’s hard to feel sympathy for those crying economic hardship when they continue to hand over thousands of dollars a year to the fat cat murderers who are profiting by selling slow death (“Outdoor Inhale,” Aug. 26). […]

Editor: Thumbs up to the Town Dandy’s suggestion of “Get Old Town a Taco Truck” (“Town Dandy,” Aug. 26). But why stop at a taco truck? When I worked in Philadelphia my favorite lunch options were the taco trucks, the fast-food Chinese trucks and the classic East Coast hot-dog/soft pretzel trucks. Thanks for bringing back […]

Editor: A few years ago you had a food columnist named Joseph Byrd who had such an elevated palette that he condemned all the top restaurants in Northern Humboldt, saying that none of them would make it if they were down in the Bay Area. It is an amazing coincidence that you now have a […]