A parking spot opened on F Street — good luck, as I needed to deposit my paycheck before the weekend’s debit card purchases overdrew my account. With money so tight, those $33 overdraft fees, besides being stupid, can kill a person. Exiting the car, I noted the restaurant across the street. Regret pinged through me. […]
Letters + Opinion
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Post Mortem
You might argue that it wasn’t the most important issue that the county will face this year, and after a short but fierce bout, during which I manage to rip out one of your eyeballs before you shatter my elbow and grind my face into the pavement, I would concede the point. Nevertheless, it was […]
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Eye Popping
Editor: I know this is a distressing time for newspapers and their need to shave costs. However, some decisions made also shave readers. I’m afraid that the Journal is heading in that direction. The last edition is a case in point as more than half was mostly unreadable because of the tiny print, as well […]
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Bloody Pulp
There’s three classes of people who will be most affected by the near-certain fact that the Samoa pulp mill won’t be open for business until 2011, at bare minimum. Moving down the list, those classes are as follows. Number one: employees. Richard Marks — pulp worker, labor organizer and one-time Fourth District Supervisorial candidate — […]
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Searching
Editor: Ryan Burns wrote an article on the plane that went down, and told some info about the pilot "Lost," March 12). I am the daughter of the passenger Rick Gustafson, and wanted to thank Burns, personally, for that article. My stepmom and I just spent three days in Arcata, meeting with the Coast Guard […]
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Grovies Respond
Editor: How interesting to find you, Mr. Sims, editor of the wonderful NCJ, with the attitude of "you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all" ("Town Dandy," March 12). How else can we construe your casual description of the severing of the roots of 30 of the largest old-growth trees in Richardson Grove State Park […]
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Get Lost
Editor: Allow me to offer one minor addition to Greg King’s self-stirring narrative ("Mailbox," March 5) about his solo discovery of the Headwaters Forest (an event, along with publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, that some feel marked the beginning of the environmental movement). Greg King wrote, "The big grove was trackless with dozens of […]
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Ink By Barrel
Editor: As the writer for the competition with that feisty Independent, I’d like you to be aware that the community supports us as well, and in fact, we are more widely read than the Independent ("Media Maven," March 5). Your chauvinism is showing. Mary E. Anderson, Redway
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Rivers, Roads and Rails
Humboldt County radio listeners were assaulted last week with a series of advertisements so paranoid and goofy that they put one in mind of the failed Maxxam-led recall effort against District Attorney Paul Gallegos five years ago. From these ads, it would seem that a small, sinister cabal of shadowy individuals wants to destroy the […]
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The LA Influence
Editor: While reading Marcy Burstiner’s "Subscribe ’til It Hurts," I noticed what I consider an error in the article ("Media Maven," March 5). She used the phrase/term "The 101" — referring, of course, to our north-south highway. Now, I don’t know how this came to be, or why it is an error, but I do […]
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Hint, Hint
I was struck by your latest report concerning the embattled Humboldt Creamery; specifically, by interim CEO Len Mayer’s statement that "at least one person, and probably less than two," were involved in fraud ("Creamery in Curdle," March 5). Leaving aside grammatical quibbles, that announcement does clarify things somewhat — apparently we can eliminate all potential […]
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Remember Sabra
Editor: Charlie Myers’ review of Waltz with Bashir waltzes around an important element in the story about the 19-year old Israeli soldier’s inability to recall the events surrounding his participation in the massacre of over 1,000 Palestinians in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila ("Filmland," March 5). According to the review, what appears […]