To the Editor: My name is Caylx. I live with my sister, Corolla, in the home of Donna and Jim Clark in Eureka. My sister and I have serious objections to the last paragraph of “Pet Advice” [August Senior News, page 6]. I go out with Jim to get the paper every morning. While I don’t actually pick up the paper,...

To the Editor: Music has been in my life for as long as I can remember. My mother told me that I was humming tunes before I could talk. I participated in music camps in grammar school, high school and college. A childhood friend and I formed a band that performed at various venues in the area. I’m proud to sa...

To the Editor: As a person who makes every effort to avoid using Artificial Intelligence, I was surprised to discover the AI issue so interesting that I read it front to back. Many contributors successfully use the technology to address specific questions, such as translating medical jargon into layman- speak...

To the Editor: Thank you for the great information about artificial intelligence in the October issue of Senior News. I have to admit that I resist the whole topic, and the technology seems to become scarier every day. Just the other day, an AI researcher quit and said AI will kill us all, and the heads of th...

To the Editor: I’m so happy that Julie Fulkerson’s “Learning to Say No” ran in the AI issue [September Senior News, page 6]. My first reaction to Peter Pennekamp’s “Cooking with Frankenstein” [page 4] was something like this: “I first dipped my toe into heroin a couple of years ago and now I shoot up every da...

To The Editor: Decades ago — how many? four or five? — we learned to avoid certain things in our environment because they were toxic to our biology. Artificial flavors, artificial colors, artificial sweeteners, artificial preservatives. And manufactured concentrated poisons for around the house to keep the “b...

To the Editor: Thank you, Ted Pease, for your reminder of the lack of recognition in the U.S. for health care as a human right [“Health Care a Human Right,” September Senior News, page 10]. This is an issue worthy of debate, but even those who deny such a “right” exists surely must agree that providing for th...

To the Editor: I really enjoyed the article in the August Senior News regarding the “PETS Program [Ashley Gouthier, “PETS Keeps Seniors and Their Beloved Pets Together,” page 11]. It really touched me.

In the 12th century, the peasants of England grazed their animals on common land — fields held collectively, managed by custom, open to all who belonged to the community.

To the Editor: Dr. Jennifer Heidmann noted in her July column (“The Last Straw,” page 5) that pollution from factories and cars was estimated to cause about 42 million excess deaths worldwide in 2019. She then stated, “Here in Humboldt County, we have some of the cleanest air in the world, scrubbed by the Pac...

To the Editor: In 1983, psychiatrist M. Scott Peck published a book titled “People of the Lie,” a psychological examination of human evil. Peck’s central premise is that evil comes from deep-seated narcissism, which is a refusal to take accountability, and a chronic state of self-deception.

To the Editor: Thank you so much for the wonderful stories and photos in the August 2026 edition, “Animals Are People, Too!” Senior News is always a treat.

From the Editor: The August issue of Senior News, “Animals Are People, Too,” included a listing of Humboldt County animal rescues and shelters (“Help for Humboldt Animals,” page 21), reminding us that most of our local animal support organizations are honest and caring. Because of space limitations, the follo...

To the Editor: The influence that personal experiences have on public opinion, public policy and allocation of public resources cannot be overemphasized. Voices of courageous individuals and media describing personal challenges, struggles and suffering are what form the foundation on which progressive legisla...

To the Editor: I read the article on Parental Stress, kids, etc. [Brenda Cooper, “Parental Stress, Kids & the Rolling Stones,” June Senior News, page 1] and thought to myself, “I see so many stories centered on mostly loving parents and their offspring. Nobody talks about those of us who grew up with abusive,...

To the Editor: John Heckel invites other elders to join him in apologizing to young and future generations for allowing continued degradation of our planet and ruinous changes to our climate. Here’s my confession: In 1970, when I first saw a call to mass participation in teach-ins and other actions to challen...

To the Editor: I always get something good from Senior News, but thank you especially for the expansive examination of health care in the May issue [“Health in Humbioldt 2026”]. It is such an important topic, and I commend all your writers. Then I came across this quote from Groucho Marx that I wanted to shar...

The majestic old pine near our house that I first thought was being trimmed was being cut down. Sad to see its life ending while it was still so vibrant and enjoying life. I’ve been reading about how much we never knew about the plant world, that trees and other growing things are connected through their root...

It’s America’s birthday, and although it is quite old, my friends and I have been around for about one-third of its entire existence! Which makes us older in human years than the country is in nation-state years. Born at the conclusion of World War II, we experienced the best that America had to offer in her ...

To the Editor: Many of us seniors, especially in this rural area that is so prone to power outages, depend on our landlines. In some areas that is the only reliable form of telephonic communication. As you probably remember, AT& T made an effort a couple of years ago to get rid of its landlines, but had to pu...