Animals can be attracted to the smell of food in a plastic or glass receptacle and end up suffering because they can’t free themselves.
Letters: Arcata Bottom mega-grow needs an EIR
At least meet Nordic Aquafarms’ standard – do an EIR Humboldt County appears hell bent on approving massive projects like the mega cannabis grows and the (proposed) fish factory. In every case, citizens and environmental groups have been clamoring for EIR’s. So why is it that the county is so reluctant and unresponsive to the…
Editorial: A problem we can solve
Maybe this fresh, bold new City Council can lift a finger to end the running dysfunction. They’re tackling truly weighty issues such as climate change, equity, COVID-19 and other world-class imbroglios, so there’s no reason why they can’t take a few minutes to rename the D Street Neighborhood Center and finally end this grinding civic annoyance.
Editorial: Wear a mask, now more than ever
I love mankind. It’s people I can’t stand. –Linus Van Pelt, 1959 We can all understand Linus’s feelings, and never more so after enduring a pandemic. The disease has brought out the best and worst of humanity, and continues to do so. The reason that the recent, insane D Street Neighborhood Center meeting regarding…
Letters to the Editor, June 23, 2021
A burst of sunshine
At the end of a long stalk;
A dandelion.
Letters to the Editor, May 26, 2021
Preserve Arcata Bottom (Letter sent to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors:) Senator McGuire is concerned enough about the drought to call a town hall meeting, and we hope that our Board of Supervisors will also share this concern. My husband and I live on three acres on the Arcata Bottom, land passed down from…
Sharing the beach with Western Snowy Plovers on Memorial Day
Friends of the Dunes HUMBOLDT – Memorial Day weekend is almost here! Enjoying our public lands on this holiday is a way you may choose to honor and reflect on the sacrifices that so many have made for our country. If you choose to visit our public beaches this Memorial Day, you won’t be alone.…
Letters to the Editor, May 19, 2021
Alternatives to vacuous online schlock Now that COVID is at least partly under control and I am fully vaccinated, I have ventured again to begin using public transportation. I am most thankful for this because owning a car, basically, is owning a bottomless pit. That said, while the schedules are a bear, I am managing with…
Letters to the Editor, May 12, 2021
If the members of the Pentecostal church in Eureka, and the greater religious community in general, have been waiting for a sign from God as to the need to get vaccinated and practice safe distancing and mask wearing, then, prayers answered!
Margaret Gainer: You and I can fix recycling contamination
Be sure to keep food waste out of your recycling container. Lastly, we are back at the first point. We must all calibrate our thinking and our habits to the priority order of Reduce first, Reuse second, and Recycle/Compost last.