Editor:
Among the by-lines that I always look forward to: Garrison Keillor, Paul Krugman, Leonard Pitts, John Driscoll, Amy Stewart and Hank Sims. When will Hank Sims return?
Chip Sharpe, Bayside
Editor:
With last week’s resignation of Hank Sims, the Journal lost not only a fine editor but Humboldt’s most astute political and cultural observer. His Town Dandy column had its finger on the pulse of events, and was a must-read.
As for his replacement, Tom Abate, his swipe last week against raw milk advocates and parents-of-conscience who courageously choose not to vaccinate, displayed a woeful ignorance on both topics. Worse, the attack on “leftie mothers,” [Hey, fathers are parents, too!] betrayed, at best, a subconscious gender bias. A rookie mistake the erudite Mr. Sims never would have made.
To paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen: Mr. Abate, you are no Hank Sims.
Peter Martin, Trinidad
This article appears in Post Card Kings.
goes to show that anyone can be the editor of the North Coast Journal
“Parents-of-conscience who courageously choose not to vaccinate”? You mean the irresponsible people endangering everyone’s children by compromising herd immunity? I hope you get a nice case of e coli from all that raw milk you’re swilling.