Letters + Opinion

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 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 […]

Editor: I would like to thank the North Coast Journal for your recent articles regarding the indigenous peoples of Humboldt and Del Norte counties. I am especially appreciative of Tony Platt’s article on the history of graverobbing that still occurs among Native American graves in our region ("Grave Matters," June 18). It is important that […]

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: Great to see a cover story on the Marine Life Protection Act (“Two If By Sea,” June 25). The more people know about it, the more people are likely to participate in the process of establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPA). As I emphasized to Heidi Walters, the hope is that through such participation, any […]

Editor: In response to the re-branding of Humboldt County away from being the pot capital of the world, the marketing folks have missed the point (“Rebranding Humboldt,” June 25). Humboldt does have a reputation as a pot-growing center, but it also has a reputation as being anti-business. Even if pot growing stopped today, most businesses […]

Editor: Insight into the motivations of the Coalition for Property Rights, discussed in “Town Holler” (June 18), is offered by their treatment of Public Health Office Dr. Ann Lindsay last September, as she offered her recommendations on the General Plan Update to the Board of Supervisors. When she commented that “the way we build the […]

Editor: As chairperson of the Eureka High School Native American Club, I wish to express our gratitude for printing the article “Grave Matters” in the North Coast Journal (June 18). The desecration of graves is as old as time itself. No civilization has been immune to the ravages of robbers who wish to profit from […]