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'An Existential Threat'

(June 27, 2024) Editor: Trump is an existential threat to life on earth (Mailbox, June 6). As I write today, on Summer Solstice, 2024, there is a severe heat wave in much of the...

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'The Absolute Joy'

(June 27, 2024) Editor: I am so happy the North Coast Journal publishes local poems and this week I was stunned by Garrett Snedaker's poem "Graduation" (June 20). I loved the wording, the...

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Countering Myths

(June 20, 2024) Editor: First, I want to thank Barry Evans for his periodic Field Notes, which serve to enlighten us on an eclectic variety of topics. In his last column on "The...

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'This Downward Spiral'

(June 20, 2024) Editor: In my Aug. 31 NCJ column ("Pension Debt is Devouring Local Services"), we looked at the big picture regarding pension debt. Now, let us look at this issue regarding...

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Great Job?

(June 13, 2024) Editor: I am writing in response to the advertisement placed on page 4 of the June 6 edition stating that "Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson is doing a great...

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(June 6, 2024) Editor: I am astonished at the total ignorance displayed by Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury in recommending a civilian oversight board be established to provide oversight of the sheriff's office...

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Re: 'Enabling'

(June 6, 2024) Editor: The letter "Enabling an Anti-Semitic Moment" (May 23) opined that since the Jewish people were dispossessed from their land 3,000 years ago by successive empires, the Jewish people have...

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'Get Serious'

(June 6, 2024) Editor: In your editorial ("Our Last Best Chance," April 11), the North Coast Journal understated the concerns of the Yurok Tribe, and the Bear River and Trinidad rancherias. As you...

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Trump and Democracy

(June 6, 2024) Editor, Ted Pease, a "journalist," decries the death of participatory democracy with his letter to the editor to the NCJ. In his screed, he falsely attributes the actions of a...

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Re: Gaza, CPH and Zionism

(May 30, 2024) Editor: Nan Abrams' letter to the editor in last week's Journal (Mailbox, May 23) allows that «the campus protesters are likely not antisemitic,» but dismisses that as «irrelevant» because, Nan claims, «they...

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'An Unfounded Bias'

(May 30, 2024) Editor: Richard Engel's criticisms of Greg King's call for a Manhattan project for Solar rooftop (Mailbox, May 16) reflects an unfounded bias for centralized electricity generation, shared by his Schatz...

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'The Most Cogent Explanation'

(May 30, 2024) Editor: Many thanks to Barry Evans for his article on the mRNA vaccine and its discoverers ("mRNA Vaccines vs. the Pandemic," May 23). It is the most cogent explanation I...

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The Death of Participatory Democracy

(May 30, 2024) Editor: An assumption at the base of the concept of participatory democracy is the basic goodness of its participants — fairness, rational thought, the understanding that "community" means living together...

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'Such a Relief'

(May 23, 2024) Editor: Such a relief it was to read Thadeus Greenson's interview with CPH's Chief of Staff Mark Johnson ("False Narratives," May 16). Given the administration's behavior in the last month...

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'Not Protesting'

(May 23, 2024) Editor: Regarding the Pro-Palestinian protests at Cal Poly, my perception is that there exists an arrogant, myopic attitude on the part of many of these protesters ("In Defense of the...

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