The name of Mary Cruse, director of the Wild Rivers 101 Film Festival, was misspelled in a sidebar to last week’s cover story. The Journal regrets the error.
Letters + Opinion
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Good-Bye To All That
According to the date on the bottom of this page, it has been 28 days since I last smoked a cigarette. This is one of the proudest accomplishments of my life to date, even though I’ve had a big assist from some high-powered and probably inadvisable pharmaceuticals. I feel it now, the knot twisting around […]
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Celluloid Reveries
Editor: I couldn’t help it but the cover of your Aug. 14 Journal — “In the Green Room” — reminded me a little of the movie Jurassic Park. The cover could have been modified to have two photos on the cover, the top one being the original cover with the dude on the can looking […]
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Art War!
Editor: Well, Mr. Handy, all of us artists who don’t fit your narrow definition of “Art” (“edgy” seeming to be your sole criteria) love you too (“Escape From Arcata,” Aug. 7). The art scene is doing so well here and the artists are all making such a good living that of course we have the […]
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Stuck In The Middle
Editor: [This cartoon is] in response to “Who’s Your City,” Aug. 7. — Joel Mielke, Eureka
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Gone Viral
Is State Sen. Pat Wiggins (D-Santa Rosa) our first local YouTube-era superstar? Several of our neighbors have tried to claw their way into Internet celebrity — brazen dope growers, Jackass-style pranksters, self-obsessed video diarists — but it appears that all of them have lacked some essential element. Maybe they were trying too hard. Because last […]
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See Ya, Sister
Editor: I keep thinking next time someone feels the need to demonize Arcata that I won’t be surprised … but, here I am, surprised again (“Escape from Arcata,” Aug. 7). Dennis Handy sounds suspiciously like someone who’s undergoing a bitter divorce and feels the need to prove the other guy wrong. I suspect him of […]
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Stats Geek Let Down
Editor: I was like a kid in a candy store when I saw your local statistics (“Who’s Your City,” Aug. 7). As a professional economist and entrepreneur I live and die by numbers, estimations, trends and logic. I was thrilled to see a local publication utilizing graphs and sourced numbers. I was disappointed that you […]
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Fascists!
Editor: Thank you for publishing Shane C. Brinton’s review of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Aug. 7). The most important point Brinton makes is at the very end: “Klein hasn’t discovered something new so much as she has explained how a very old strategy is manifesting itself in even more atrocious […]
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Little Bay Area
Editor: Regarding the various topics addressed in your Aug. 7 edition: First, the great Arcata v. Eureka debate sounds like a variant on the old Oakland v. Berkeley issue, since in both cases neighboring communities forming one city are differentiated by economics and class, with Eureka/Oakland having the problems/benefits of poverty and diversity, and Arcata/Berkeley […]
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Arcata Hearts Stallions
Editor: The North Coast Journal‘s little joke on the Arcata City Council was a good one (“Pretty War Horses,” July 30). While I appreciate the expectation that people ought to be able to distinguish between fact and farce, I’ve heard that the “article” on the Council’s decision to ban Arcata residents from attending the Lipizzaner […]
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Keep KHSU alternative, independent
Editor: Thanks for your article regarding the recent situation at KHSU. (“Station Identification,” July 31). While there are many disturbing aspects, the most disturbing is that a mid-level bureaucrat and the university president are wanting to make program and other policy for the community-sponsored station. The whole reason we have “alternative, independent” radio is so […]