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Editor: In her recent column (“For What It’s Worth”), media maven Marcy Burstiner laments the fact that most people “won’t pay any price” for online news (“Media Maven,” June 4). This is often given as the explanation for the dismal state of the newspaper industry. Whether Ms. Burstiner or I will or won’t pay for […]

Editor: Assuming there was a gruesome pun seems terribly convenient (see “Mailbox,” May 28). None was intended. To those offended, I do offer my apologies. Mike Sloyer, Willow Creek

Editor: Thank heavens Charlie Myers is back at “Filmland.” Now if there were only some good movies for him to review … Betty Briggs, Ferndale

Editor: It always amazes me how the timber industry learns eco-speak, renames itself, showers in greenwash and tries to make a virtue of necessity (“The McKay Tract,” May 21). As I recall, the improvements (road decommissioning, sediment control, wildlife protections) that Green Diamond chief forester Greg Templeton credits to his employer (formerly Simpson Timber Company) […]

Editor: The story by Heidi Walters in last week’s Journal does not reflect what I wanted to convey when I spoke with her on the phone (“Cult of the Pipe,” May 21). I felt pressured because of her “Tuesday deadline” admonitions and failed to reiterate that I mostly wanted to ask if we, the residents, […]

Editor: While I have been inspired to write regarding several issues in the last couple of months, particularly after your comments about legalization and the call for open discussion (“Town Dandy”, May 14) — I wanted to point out that many items need more open discussion and, while this is Humboldt County, along with most […]

Editor: Thanks for your column of May 14 (“Town Dandy”)! In some of our “community” meetings here, I’ve listened to certain of our local growers smugly and proudly romanticize themselves as “outlaws.” I get the feeling that they envision themselves as Errol Flynn clones flitting through the forest dressed in green tights as they continually […]

Editor: Although I’m not a Certified Town Dandy or licensed attorney, I feel qualified (from decades of civil rights activism) to correct a common misconception that seemed to be expressed in Hank Sims’ column last week (“Town Dandy,” May 28). There are dozens of legal rights included in marriage (regardless whether the marriage is performed […]

Editor: I enjoyed your recent well-researched and -written cover article (“The McKay Tract,” May 21). However, perhaps you should check your spelling … are you sure it isn’t The McKay Track? Ric Schlexer, McKinleyville

Editor: I just read the article on the McKay Tract, and one paragraph stood out among the rest — Trees Foundation funding for Earth First! Humboldt. In the lawsuit brought against the Trees Foundation, by a donor who attempted to make a $185,000 donation to North Coast Earth First!, the Trees Foundation stated that they […]

Editor: Finally. After presiding over countless huge Journal spreads and covers romanticizing marijuana and the Humboldt culture surrounding it, Hank Sims has actually said “enough” (“Town Dandy,” May 14). And here I was beginning to think he was the personal PR man for growers. Sorry, Hank. As Sims said, the incident involving AK-47s, bulletproof vests […]

Editor: First off, let me just say that Joseph Byrd is an excellent person and a friend of mine. Even so I can easily understand the outrage and often angry responses he sometimes gets to the articles he’s written here in the Journal. I am writing, however, to congratulate both Joseph and the North Coast […]