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Editor: Medicare’s open enrollment period is nearly upon us and with it will come pitches from Medicare Advantage to sign up for their plan (“California Says No to Privatizing Medicare,” Sept. 7). Many attempts at getting potential enrollees to sign up are downright deceitful, including letters such as the one just received at our house […]

Editor: There is a strong case for the social and economic advantages of shopping locally (“2023 Holiday Gift Guide,” Nov. 23). The businesses remain open, cash is accepted, money spent stays in the community, friends and neighbors get paychecks, shoppers get out of the house, delivery is instantaneous, local publications get ad revenue, the tax base doesn’t shrink, […]

Editor: Let’s step up to help create a clear vision for the future of Humboldt Bay and the Samoa Peninsula and not get dragged into an “industrial quagmire,” (thank you, Kathryn Travers, Mailbox, Dec. 14). Two massive corporate project proposals with potentially huge impacts to the people who live, work and recreate here are in […]

Editor: I read Barry Evans column on light pollution (“Light Pollution,” Nov. 23), then I saw Ken Bates’ letter (Mailbox, Nov. 30) referring to that particular column and was so grateful for these illuminating (pun intended) insights. I live on a street just inside the Eureka city limits that was before 2008 free of street lights. […]

Editor: Dennis Scales’ letter (Mailbox, Nov. 30) is the first I’ve seen opposing the dam removals.  I agree with all he wrote and only wish to add that this grand experiment could have been done far more cheaply by carefully breaching the dams to let the water out and the fish up. Then, if it […]

Editor: What a beautiful and inspiring article by Linda Stansberry about surviving overwhelming grief (“Lobster Girl Finds the Beat,” Nov. 9). There is life after grief. Kathryn Tarbell, Ferndale Related Stories

Editor: I attended the Nov. 14 presentation of Measure A at the Cal Poly Humboldt emeritus faculty meeting at Baywood (NCJ Daily, Nov. 16). The presentation included proponents of Measure A, plus the executive director of the Humboldt County Growers Alliance and Planning Commissioner Noah Levy presenting views of how Measure A would affect the county. Measure […]

Editor: Dear Mr. Evans, I always enjoy your NCJ column (Field Notes), it’s one of the first things I read. Your recent piece on light pollution is timely and significant (“Light Pollution,” Nov. 23). I have lived in Humboldt County since 1970 and on Tuluwat Island (aka Gunther Island or Indian Island) since 1974, where […]

Editor: Arcata can be so much better than it thinks it is. This has been my mantra for many years now about the small, rural college town where I live. The history of Arcata in the last half of the 20th century and the early years of this current century have seen an evolution of progressive ideas […]

Editor: Perhaps a more apt title for this article would have been “Why Would Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant?” (“Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant,” Nov. 16). When I was working my way through school, I made good money waiting on tables. Even then, about 50 years ago, I viewed this job as the best one […]

Editor: Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is a real asset to the NCJ with her reviews of restaurants and film. She can be a bit profane at times, but she is funny as f***. John Dillon, Eureka

Editor: Responding to Brad Butterfield’s “A View from the Van” (Nov. 16), he states that Long Beach City College has a safe parking program that allows students to sleep in their vehicles on campus. Wow, my mother, Maxine Francis Koenig, born in 1917, was the first female student body president at the college. This is […]