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Editor: Just a note of appreciation for the Jennifer Savage article “Get Less Poor!” (March 26) – very moving, should be posted to the politicos of our nation. Very seldom do you read such accurate, timely and beneficial advice. It’s frustrating to me not to be able to expand my comments, but I know excellence […]

Editor: I was overjoyed to see Joseph Byrd’s piece on the Jazz Festival (“Regarding Local Festivals,” April 2). The quality of our local Blues and Jazz festivals has been going downhill since Glenn Maxon has taken over the helm. He has eliminated local bands from both. Our Blues Fest was the best, with two stages […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Editor: I’d like to respond to Carolyn Coke’s letter regarding current adoption practices ("Mailbox," March 5). Coke missed my point completely. I am not surprised at all, as it is her job to sell the public on the "sunny, rainbow-filled" aspects of adoption. It’s very clear from her letter that adoptees drop off her radar […]

Editor: Heidi Walters did a good job summarizing the complex history of Headwaters Forest ("Headwaters Forest at 10", Feb. 26). However, a notable inaccuracy occurred when she wrote, "In March 1987, [Greg] King and a fellow activist walked into the Headwaters Grove for the first time." Actually, I was alone during that first foray into […]