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Editor: The mandates article was well done and makes it clear that California is not on track to meet the challenges of handling the destructive and massively expensive consequences of the extreme weather (NCJ Daily, March 21). The challenges relate to keeping our state from burning up, overheating and being washed away and flooded by […]

Editor: Anyway, to address the current mess regarding bird names … . I’ve been shining on the current PC about names and personas until an article in the North Coast Journal about renaming birds, which had someone’s name as part of theirs, on grounds that many of these people “weren’t very nice” (“Bird Names for […]

Editor: Dogs … the only love money can buy. My heart goes out to Setlist reporter Collin Yeo on the recent loss of his dog. As someone who has had to carry out several times that final act of love that Yeo details, his recent column “He Was a Friend of Mine” (March 21) is […]

Editor: It seems Humboldt County District Attorney Stacey Eads has sent a clear message to all of our superior court judges: Rule favorably for my prosecutors or you, too, could be given a blanket disqualification. And be taken off of all criminal cases to boot. (“Court Challenge,” March 14.) While this may be a novel […]

Editor: I appreciate the vehemence with which George Clark bemoans what he calls the “biggest threat to democracy” — low turnout rates in mid-term elections. (Mailbox, March 21.) I mean, it sure sounds bad, what with “shuttered storefronts,” a “collapsed demand for production” and a “collapsing economy,” etc.  But I’m confused; if the 30 percent […]

Editor: Yes, California is not close to meeting climate change mandates, just like CalMatters reported (NCJ Daily, March 21). Nonetheless, there are a few solutions to many of the problems which we seem deliberately blind to.  More than a decade ago, before electric cars were the big deal they are now, there was quite a […]

Editor: Thanks to Jennifer Fumiko Cahill for putting this grumpy old man in touch with his inner “raccoon self.” (“Wishful Weed for 2024,” March 14.) I always enjoy her writing, but this time she spoke to me directly. I wonder how many of us there are out there? Robert Argenbright, McKinleyville Related Stories

Editor: According to the NCJ’s feature coverage, (“After A,” March 14): “Humboldt County voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure A … [with] … just 27 percent … in support.” In fact, as of March 14, the overwhelming voice among Humboldt County’s estimated 110,903 voting age population was the 82 percent that abstained. The final post-election report will […]

Editor: Thank you so much for your very informative collection of election results on the day following the election (NCJ Daily, March 7). It is very well done and so important for all of us to have quick and thorough results of the election. I had spent decades working all night on election results with […]

Editor: You can say what you want about the folks behind the mysterious company that made the strangely high bid to buy the Jacobs campus property from the Eureka City Schools district, about whom all we know is that Rob Arkley is definitely not one of them, and/or about former district Superintendent Van Vleck, who […]

Editor: It is true that Six Rivers National Forest Service, for the first 20 years after designating the Horse Mountain Botanical Area, let unmanaged target shooting continue. They have been unable to protect the botanical resource (“Trouble on the Mountain,” Jan. 11). That is changing, at governmental pace, as protocol allows for public input. This […]

Editor: While thumbing through page after page of paid political ads in the NCJ this morning (Feb. 29, 2024), I spied this little notice wedged in there tightly: “As of Feb. 12 the Journal is no longer accepting letters endorsing specific candidates or measures in the March 5 primary.» Alas, R.I.P. Free Speech. P.S. You screwed up the […]