Category: Letters to the Editor/ Columns

“I can say that I may not have always been the greatest sport but, we owe it to our student-athletes to attend games with the proper attitude of supporting all of the athletes while not berating players, officials, coaches, or other fans.”

“Rex is a dangerously outdated caricature of a swashbuckler who enjoys scandalizing prim little old ladies like me.”

The tides of change are bringing in more than just the catch of the day to fisherfolk here in Humboldt County.

In a nationwide act of chronological magic, millions of Americans time-traveled today, not to the future, but to the past.

“One thing about life, about doing simple repetitive work, is you notice things over time.”

“My children and I suffered from the constant flow of strangers. They had so many loud parties, trespassed on my property, urinated on my property along with their dogs, were disruptive and disrespectful and did not care that people were trying to sleep or just enjoy life next door.”

“A campus wide email sent out cited that homeless students were to blame for “fear and frustration” felt by our fellow students…These accusations have not been backed up by any evidence as of typing this….Importantly, most students who live in vehicles on campus have received written approval to ‘camp’ overnight in our vehicles by university personnel.”

“…[W]eather scientists predict that California and other Western states will see above-average precipitation and some believe it could surpass the 1997-98 winter when floods and mudslides killed 17 Californians and caused $1 billion in property damage.”

“When we send kids to rip vegetation from coastal dunes, it is under the guise of enhancement, we tell them that it is for “biodiversity,” even though thirty years ago in the Manila Dunes we ‘experimented’ with grass removal that led to the loss of our Primary Dunes, our deflation-plane wetlands, our wildlife and our resilience.”