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Editor: Cristina Bauss’ basic premise in her "Roads and Redwoods" article is that EPIC has taken up the Richardson Grove defense to keep "the gateway" to the Redwood Curtain "locked" ("Roads and Redwoods," April 8 & 15). This is a serious misrepresentation, one with the poisonous power of a half-truth. EPIC has taken up the […]

Editor: Joel Mielke’s cartoons are always fun, not to mention witty, sharply focused and to-the-point. Perhaps more than anything in print anywhere else in Humboldt County, his weekly cartoons capture and/or skewer the essence of what it means to live here. But this week’s six-panel "Eureka Traffic Signs: What they really mean" (April 15) is […]

The "College in Revolt" article (April 1) could have applied to either of the institutions of higher education in Humboldt County. However, this time it is College of the Redwoods, where I am a student. The last line of this article concludes that the Board of Trustees at the College of the Redwoods recently took […]

Editor: I read the "Roads and Redwoods" article by Cristina Bauss twice (April 8). I was oh, so hoping that Bauss would write that she is a redwood tree-hugger. But no, she turned out to be a stalwart journalist — a professional reporter, which is at times lacking in that vocation. She reported the facts […]

Editor: Thank you so much for your revealing report on health care reform (HCR) in the April 1 edition ("From the Publisher"). Applying the results to your small business is right on track; I believe that it is small, family businesses that our government should be mostly supporting, in this and all instances. We have […]

Editor: It seems one person who was only “vaguely gazing” at the paintings that were showcased at the Gallegos Headquarters (321 Gallegos) on Third Street in Old Town, was your reporter Ryan Burns (“Arts Gallegos,” April 8). Had he bothered to actually look at the art he would have noted in his article that the […]

Editor: I am a College of the Redwoods student so it should be of no surprise that the cover story “College in Revolt” (April 1) caught my attention. My first issue of concern is with the direction [CR President/Superintendent Jeff] Marsee is moving our beloved community college. Although many people attend CR to then transfer […]

Editor: I want to thank Amy Stewart for her wake-up call about how the big outside world really operates in her article about the practicality of starting a cannabis-based tourist industry ("Dirt," April 1). But there is more. Maybe the Federal DEA has been told by the Obama Administration to turn a blind eye concerning […]

Editor: I must respectfully disagree with Marcy Burstiner on her point #5 ("Media Maven," April 1). Family members and pets often make for terrific columns. For example, Adair Lara, who used to write for the San Francisco Chronicle, rarely wrote a column without mentioning her twin sister, her children, her husband or her ex-husband, who […]

Editor: Thanks for Heidi Walters’ article about Orick ("Waiting for Miley," April 1). I got to know the good people of Orick well over the 20-plus years I provided bookmobile service there, working for the Humboldt County Library. I was constantly impressed by the essential irony of the place: The world’s finest lumber was removed […]

Editor: My thanks to Mr. Byrd for quoting Ms. Chowdhary’s delicious citrus pickle recipe, which brought back memories of exotic turns our family cuisine took when my father brought the book home from his Fulbright year in India, in 1956. I enjoyed, too, the happy reminders of interesting foodways using yogurt ("Table Talk," March 25). […]

Editor: When Kym Kemp warns us that "an enormous tsunami is poised to drown the economics of this area," she means her neighbors in SoHum will be between scams ("Welcome to Pot City!" March 25). "There isn’t a trade or company that doesn’t receive a goodly portion of its monthly income either directly or indirectly […]