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Editor: Normally I try to stay out of the fray of letter writing, but a letter by Gary Graham Hughes titled "Grovewashing" (July 23) needs a reality check. I’m wondering if Mr. Hughes, and the other few but vocal opponents of the Richardson Grove project, have noticed that there is a Costco and a Target […]

Editor: With regard to the recent Tea Parties ("T.E.A.’d Off," July 23), I feel the group is well intentioned, but misdirected because Corporate America is not paying its fair share of taxes. While the U.S. has some of the highest "STATED or GROSS" taxes, virtually no one pays that rate due to deductions (including multi-gazillion […]

Editor: I really appreciate and applaud Jennifer Savage’s musings on behalf of the financially beleaguered (Savage Money, July 23). She beautifully blends sympathy for fellow sufferers with practical, grounded insights and easily applied advice. Her column this week about economic profiling accomplished the near-miracle of making me feel positive and successful about my own totally […]

Editor: So sorry to read your headline article about the Snafu in Sacto ("California Renovation," July 23). Embedded in the "ideas" for a better day is the Fantasy Wish List of the Liberals: Rework Prop. 13 (something the voters want left alone!); rework the 2/3 majority vote needed (totally disenfrachising the opposition party); raise taxes […]

Editor: Heidi Walters wrote a wonderful article on reintroducing condors (“Fixing the World,” July 16). The Bucksport employee’s salient remark that a lot of hunters stockpile ammo helps explain their resistance to switching to lead-free bullets. (However, it was startling and distressing that one of the scientists working on the restoration hasn’t yet made the […]

Editor: Surprisingly, I find myself writing my first letter to an editor – not about some hot-button political issue, but regarding the biological “Field Notes” column by Barry Evans in the July 16 issue. This is a well-written article that deals with some very profound philosophies. While I would have to agree with his final […]

Editor: I write to applaud the publication of the cover story “Here, There, and Everywhere” (July 9). The issue of corporate “greenwash” and “localwash” is a relevant topic for the maintenance of community here in Humboldt County. This is not new material for the North Coast Journal, yet it does set a standard for future […]

Editor: On Tuesday, July 7, I did a short, basic piece on some of the buy-local hype on my local blog. The next day a friend called, having read my piece, and said I should check out the Journal. There are two things that weren’t really addressed in the otherwise fine article (“Here, There and […]

Editor: When I read your article about the Film Commission’s YouTube videos I was plenty sore that I hadn’t been notified there were jobs going around (“Rebranding Humboldt,” June 25). I’m a local videographer and have known Mary Cruse for years. I can tell you she is on the level. Even though they didn’t see […]

Editor: I found your article by Marcy Burstiner comical ("Media Maven," July 2). Leave it to an academic journalism professor to be absolutely clueless as to how the real world actually works. I shook my head at her lamenting can’t-we-all-come-together plea to media and suggestions for the near-dead Times-Standard. She apparently is unaware that most […]

Editor: I think Richard Grabowski’s simplified way of dividing people into those who are for good jobs and those who are against them is nonsense ("Mailbox," July 2). A more accurate characterization of the divide, if there is one, is between people who are willing to sacrifice the things we love about living in Humboldt […]

Editor: This just in — "Rebranding Humboldt" (June 25)? Yes, it’s a whiff of Ferndale dairyaire. So 19th century, to try once again to overpower the more relaxing odors of the Mateel ("South to whose north?" the poet namer wrote). Get with the program, dudes. I for one am burnt out on hearing that timber […]