Letters + Opinion

Editor: Thank you, Seth Zuckerman, for putting your finger right on it (“Bond Freeze,” Jan. 15). Water and park bond funds are economic stimulus, infrastructure development and training. Those dollars support local vendors and contractors, improve ecosystem health and public access, extend scientific understanding and educate the public about the world we live in. A […]

Editor: I must take issue with the letter in the Jan. 15 edition about the Journal’s Dec. 25 cover story, “Saving Sam.” The letter-writer expressed her being upset that the Journal had “decided to undress Sarah Price so publicly.” She said the article by Heidi Walters was “an intrusive move.” And she complained about the […]

Editor: This is the second cartoon you’ve published regarding the mental capacity of Winco shoppers (“Contraceptive Programs,” Jan. 15). I think it is rude and very unjournalistic. I am a Winco shopper. The employees are kind and considerate. The prices are excellent. What happened to those good cartoons by Hugh Dalton? Oh, I guess he’s […]

Editor: The battle of Measures F and J, as described in the “Town Dandy” of Jan. 8, is a battle that never had to happen. The way to defeat Dave Meserve, Jack Nounann and Amy Goodman is for every family of Bush dead-enders to make sure at least one of their children enlists in the […]

Editor: There is one value that the row of Eucalyptus trees along the 101 corridor provide us that was not mentioned in your Jan. 8.article (“O, Eucalyptus,” Jan. 8). Viewed from across the bay they create a beautiful scenic vista. Please refer to the attached photographs that I recently took from Arcata’s marsh. Removing 50 […]

Editor: Many thanks to Dave Silverbrand for his article on Nancy Huntzinger and her murdered son Curtis (“Nancy’s Day,” Jan. 9).  As a father, community member and human being, I read his account of a mother who for 18 years refused to give up searching for answers about her son’s disappearance and was moved to […]

Editor: Kyana Taillon’s antiseptic images of the “upsides” [sic] of marijuana only serve to perpetuate the false notion that there are few negative effects from its cultivation and use (“New Year’s Eve,” Jan. 1). Perhaps her promise to explore “some of the darker aspects” in the future might include a close-up of the thin, tear-stained […]

Editor: I was incredibly saddened and very upset that you decided to undress Sarah Price so publicly, as she was a very private person (“Saving Sam,” Dec. 25). Simply going by your descriptions of Sarah, it was an intrusive move to publish her pain and her ending of her life. I also found the timing […]

Editor: I want to thank you again for last week’s article about Sam Price (“Saving Sam,” Dec. 25). I agree with Jessie Brownlee’s comment that we all could have done more. We are all in some ways responsible, but I also want to say that I think that she did find support and safety here […]

Editor: While I wouldn’t have used the term “fed-up,” I am extremely disappointed by the conduct of the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph Hospital (“Medical Chief Grief,” Jan. 1).  During the 12 years that I have been a member of the medical staff, the St. Joseph’s board has rarely played a significant role in […]

Editor: I seriously don’t think I have ever read anything in this paper as wild as “Zombies of the ER,” by Marcy Burstiner (Jan. 1). Having an apparent meltdown over the columnists from the Reporter now appearing twice weekly in the Times-Standard, she uses scads of loaded pejoratives to communicate her liberal hissy fit over […]