Editor: Last week’s “Town Dandy” (Jan. 29) was yet another example of why I shield my children from the local weekly in our town. Your verbal masturbation in place of balanced commentary created an impression of us v. them. It’s an easy out for you to quip, in your fanciful word dance, about taping shut […]
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Corrections
“For the first time in many, many years, Humboldt County’s unemployment rate had just slipped beneath the state average,” stated the Jan. 22 edition of “The Town Dandy,” referring to the Dec. 2008 figures collected by the California Employment Development Department. In point of fact, this turns out not to be the case. A review […]
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Sour Notes
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors dealt with a couple of update-worthy matters at its Tuesday meeting, and did so in such a happily kumbaya unanimous manner that you wonder if the board that took shape when Clif Clendenen and Mark Lovelace joined last month might just be the one that was always meant to […]
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Kinetic Rumblings
Editor: Most of the thick nonsense started with the HKA suit (“Hobart’s Children,” Jan. 22). Hobart was heavily medicated at that time. A mysterious Ferndale woman had a bigger picture in mind. Will it turn out in her favor in the end? ’Cause the drama is not over yet. No chance Hobart would have initiated […]
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The Question Answers Itself
Editor: Wow. It must’ve been a slow news week if you are reduced to running nearly a full page of content to a “story” about a local guy trying to sell an Obama business card for hundreds of dollars (“The Change Card,” Jan. 22). This is the sort of item that might warrant a one-sentence […]
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Not That Gravel!
Editor: I must commend Mr. Sims on his colorful wit and vivid imagination, reflected in the Town Dandy piece (Jan. 15). We love to hate that Railroad Tycoon that now “runs the NCRA,” and finally “came clean” about using the tracks that run through Supervisor Clendenen’s “domain”! (Sounds like a B western movie plot!) I […]
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Houranied
Editor: Marcy Burstiner recently made some comments that questioned the inclusion in the Times-Standard of an editorial page that was a remnant of the defunct The Eureka Reporter (“Media Maven,” Jan .1) A reader passionately disagreed with Ms. Burstiner (“Mailbox,” Jan. 8). While my own stridency sometimes disqualifies me from reasonable discourse, I must offer […]
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Necessary Stories
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 […]
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Considerate Cartooning
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 […]
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Crlenjaked
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 […]
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Weedkiller
Back in December, when we selected and wrote about Humboldt County’s “Top Ten Stories of 2008” (patent pending), reporter Ryan Burns came across a startling fact. For the first time in many, many years, Humboldt County’s unemployment rate had just slipped beneath the state average. For the first time in living memory, more Humboldt County […]
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Restodollars
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 […]