Twenty-three months ago, politics in the city of Eureka looked quite a bit different than they do today. Back then, the county seat appeared just about to be making some sort of leap into full-fledged cityhood. There were issues, activists, interest groups, controversies, anguish … in a word, politics. Real, modern, municipal politics of a […]
Letters + Opinion
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Forest For The Trees
Editor: Many thanks to the Journal and to writer Heidi Walters for the excellent cover story (“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). The photos, especially, showed the diversity of generations, including young treesitters, grandma, teacher and toddler, that make up the forest protection movement. These are indeed new times, when Big Timber and treesitters can sit […]
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Trust Not in MRC
Editor: Let’s hear it for all of the hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines that were crucial to the successes of Nanning Creek and Fern Gully over the past three to six years(“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). Most importantly, let’s remember the legacy of Humboldt’s Forest Defenders over the past two decades, and pay our […]
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Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Editor: First off, thanks for covering the story of the old-growth redwood being saved (“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). This is truly a reason to celebrate. I have just a few points of clarification about the article. First, I would be very surprised if any of the witnesses to the death of David “Gypsy” Chain […]
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Heil Bowles?
Editor: It is outrageous and vile that this publication would dedicate precious space to an openly racist political party candidate as if he were worthy of serious consideration (“Alt-Prez,” Aug. 28). You’re putting a candidate who desires the deportation of all non-whites and abortion of all mixed-race pregnancies on the same level as Cynthia McKinney […]
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The Other Candidates For President: Part III
Two things mark a third-party or independent candidacy for President: the desire to change politics as we know it and the inability to do so. The major minor parties are more effective at scuttling each other’s chances than rousting the two-headed troll that holds absolute power in this country. For example, you’d think that one […]
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The other candidates running for president
One fundamental fallacy dooms all Alt Prez candidates to failure. Tell someone that you’re voting for a third-party candidate and he or she will whine, “You’re just throwing your vote away.” No you’re not. You can do whatever you want with your vote. If you’re a liberal, your vote doesn’t automatically belong to the Democrats, […]
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To The Death
The chief executive of MediaNews Group, corporate parent of the Times-Standard, is a Texas-born, Denver-based media legend by the name of Dean Singleton. Singleton is a fearsome figure in the business, a man who leaves a trail of corpses in his wake wherever he wanders. He doesn’t customarily do things by half, unless that thing […]
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Smart Folks Don’t Vote
Editor: Upon seeing the cover of the Aug. 21 Journal and the article about Barack Obama following I could not help but be amused and dismayed (“Dreams of Obama,” Aug. 21). Amused because we continue to praise a politician who has already and will continue to violate the laws he is supposed to be making […]
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Mas Fascismo
Editor: I found Dave Berman’s letter in “Mailbox” (Aug. 14) very interesting, and would like to offer some further comment. It seems to me that at the beginning of the Reagan Administration, machinery was put into operation gradually to transform American society into a feudalistic society. There was something of a hiatus during the Bush […]
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On KH$U
Editor: After watching somewhat appalled from the sidelines, today’s disclosure in the KHSU saga compels me to write an open letter to the HSU administration. (See “Station Identification,” July 31). Having been a participant at KHSU-FM both while a student in the mid-’70s and for years after as a volunteer I’ve seen firsthand a progression […]
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Will She Peek?
Editor: I am sorry to have to tell you I will no longer be reading the North Coast Journal after having enjoyed it for many, many years. Ever since the change of the guard in your paper’s editorship, standards have gradually slipped to a level which today I can only call abominable. I no longer […]