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Editor: In my Aug. 31 NCJ column (“Pension Debt is Devouring Local Services”), we looked at the big picture regarding pension debt. Now, let us look at this issue regarding a much more defined issue, the issue of funding $477,000 annually for the Arcata House Partnership safe parking program (“No Safe Parking,” June 6). Transparentcalifornia.com […]

Editor: I am writing in response to the advertisement placed on page 4 of the June 6 edition stating that “Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson is doing a great job.” Really? I hope the NCJ netted a few dollars from this ad at least. I totally respect our right to speech. But … . […]

Editor: I am astonished at the total ignorance displayed by Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury in recommending a civilian oversight board be established to provide oversight of the sheriff’s office (“Grand Jury Recommends Civilian Oversight of Sheriff’s Office,” May 23). I am even more astonished that they would ask the board of supervisors to establish […]

Editor: The letter “Enabling an Anti-Semitic Moment” (May 23) opined that since the Jewish people were dispossessed from their land 3,000 years ago by successive empires, the Jewish people have the right to repossess Israel. Is this opinion based on G-d’s law, tribal law or international law? Does this opinion mean that us white folk […]

Editor: In your editorial (“Our Last Best Chance,” April 11), the North Coast Journal understated the concerns of the Yurok Tribe, and the Bear River and Trinidad rancherias. As you describe it, in their dismissal of the Monument Ridge project proposed by Terra-Gen in 2019, the nonindigenous community, sacrificing the hope of prosperity and fossil-free […]

Editor: “Document Sheds Light on Principal Perry’s Reassignment” (May 16), raises more questions about Northern Humboldt Union High School District’s (NHUHSD) decision to demote Mr. Perry than it answers, whilst placing him in an untenable position due to student confidentiality. Mr. Perry was successful principal of Six Rivers prior to appointment at Arcata High School […]

Editor, Ted Pease, a “journalist,” decries the death of participatory democracy with his letter to the editor to the NCJ. In his screed, he falsely attributes the actions of a deranged mass murder to President Trump. The details of the Baltimore Capital Gazette murders are easily obtained with an online search and the crime is […]

Editor: Nan Abrams’ letter to the editor in last week’s Journal (Mailbox, May 23) allows that «the campus protesters are likely not antisemitic,» but dismisses that as «irrelevant» because, Nan claims, «they are enabling an antisemitic moment.» That›s some really twisted logic. What she is saying, in effect, is exactly what the Israeli government has been espousing […]

Editor: Richard Engel’s criticisms of Greg King’s call for a Manhattan project for Solar rooftop (Mailbox, May 16) reflects an unfounded bias for centralized electricity generation, shared by his Schatz colleagues and Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA), that explains why RCEA has no widespread distributed solar program (WDS). Engel offers other renewables but they all […]

Editor: Many thanks to Barry Evans for his article on the mRNA vaccine and its discoverers (“mRNA Vaccines vs. the Pandemic,” May 23). It is the most cogent explanation I know of (after all this time!) on how the vaccine came to be and how it works, plus a wonderful human-interest story. I had doubts […]

Editor: An assumption at the base of the concept of participatory democracy is the basic goodness of its participants — fairness, rational thought, the understanding that “community” means living together in peace and with fairness. That idea of communal and mutually beneficial democracy has been thrown under the bus with the rise of the Hate […]

Editor: Regarding the Pro-Palestinian protests at Cal Poly, my perception is that there exists an arrogant, myopic attitude on the part of many of these protesters (“In Defense of the Occupation of Siemens Hall,” May 16). Protesting is a viable action and I fully support its value, but barricading and vandalizing the infrastructure is not […]