Letters + Opinion

Editor: Humboldt County is aging more rapidly than the U.S., which itself is steadily growing older. Apart from statistics, it’s obvious that there are a lot of us seniors around here. It follows then that we need a lot of medications. Most of them are imported. For instance, 80 percent of our antibiotics are imported from China. U.S. pharmaceutical […]

Editor: In late 2023, candidate Trump said he would be a dictator, but only for one day. Now after 80 days, President Trump’s behavior is still autocratic (NCJ Daily, April 10). Executive orders (EOs) give presidents authority to act within their purview if the actions don’t conflict with the U.S. Constitution. Trump signed 26 EOs […]

Editor: Since the tyrannical Trump regime is internationally infamous for creating truly insane public policies (specifically in this situation, foreign policy) based upon isolated incidents where an American citizen was killed by an undocumented immigrant from another country (usually Mexico), wouldn’t a turnabout by Mexico’s government be fair play? Of course it would. Mexico should […]

Editor: I attended the April 5 rally at the courthouse. I saw you there doing your journalistic duty — while I was there doing my civic duty (NCJ Daily, April 10). Although I was glad to do my part protesting the fascist, misogynist, racist, mean, greedy, grifting, narcissistic, adolescent people running this country, I was […]

Editor: Many commentators have suggested that Trump is or may become another Hitler, but I find the comparison strained (NCJ Daily, April 10). Yes, they’re both men of mediocre intellect with a noxious “charisma” that convinced large numbers of voters to support their quests for dictatorial power, but is it fair to say they’re the same just […]

Editor: Our leftist Congressmember Huffman had his town hall in Eureka on Sunday (“The Peril of this Moment,” April 3). His TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) was on full display: Trump, Trump, Trump is all he wanted to talk about. He described President Trump as a dictator and authoritarian. He added his disdain for the billionaire […]

Editor: Jared Huffman was wrong to blame the student protestors for Kamala Harris’s loss of the presidency at the Eureka Town Hall meeting on March 30 (“The Peril of this Moment,” April 3). Kamala won in California, but she lost in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. According to Michael Hirsch of […]

Editor: There have been multiple letters to the Editor here in the past weeks. Most recent letters were written resisting what is occurring in our country. A very few are negative, stating their side is now in power. I would like to address a third group that I find most disheartening, and the reason we […]

Editor: Sixty years ago, Georgetown University historian Carroll Quigley predicted the U.S. would become a neo-feudal society if privatization of the public commons continued unabated. Private intermediaries separating people from their government is a defining characteristic of feudalism, seen today in the largest industrial complexes providing essential public services, (euphemistically called “public-private partnerships”). Today’s public-private […]