Letter to the editor

I’m responding to your request to let you know what I think about color photos (HCN, 8/8/05: Dear Friends). I appreciate HCN for in-depth journalism on natural environmental issues in the West. I think you’re spending money unwisely on color photos when it could be better spent on content. Black-and-white photos illustrate people, tattoos and […]

The Aug. 8 issue is, in my opinion, a quantum leap for you guys, and not just graphically. The brighter newsprint and the full-color pix are super, but the “Gangs of Zion” story is world-class. Tim Sullivan is to be congratulated for solid reporting; HCN is to be congratulated for running an exceptional and unusual […]

A recent issue of HCN included a letter from Ms. Kathy Crooks suggesting that the sole appropriate topic for the paper is environmental news of the West (HCN, 8/22/05: Leave sociology coverage to National Geographic). Thought I’d let you know that this subscriber at least considers your brief to be “the West.” Not just the […]

I think it would be a better service to your readers to tell about the Superfund sites left at military bases rather than the socioeconomic effects on towns with their closure (HCN, 8/22/05: Leavin’ on a Jet Plane). I read HCN for environmental, not social, topics. Cheryl ChipmanBishop, California THE EDITOR RESPONDS The West’s environment […]

Clovis, N.M., won its battle to keep nearby Cannon Air Force Base open (HCN, 8/22/05: Leavin’ on a Jet Plane). This demonstrates that we are, indeed, a nation with an economy on an eternal war footing, where peace is just bad for business. The Air Force wanted to close Cannon to save money. Now we […]

There should have been a box around the article about Jeremy Parriott’s fun-hog playground with the words “Unpaid Advertisement” at the top (HCN, 8/22/05: His playground pulls fun hogs off the public lands). Does your newspaper really believe that 320 acres will keep hundreds of off-road vehicle owners happily contained and off the thousands of […]

Jeremy Parriott’s idea of having private parks instead of relatively pristine public land for mechanized road-rippers represents a fair solution for tree-huggers and trail-trashers alike (HCN, 8/22/05: His playground pulls fun hogs off the public lands). Such a scheme would help save fragile plants and animals, prevent erosion, and give off-roaders a place to frolic. […]

As a retired Utah history teacher and long-time LDS history buff, I found “The Gangs of Zion” most interesting! Thanks for taking the time to research this material and then presenting it so well. You filled in my knowledge base with material I wouldn’t have even had enough information to ask questions about. I hope […]

As the mother and grandmother of Hawaiian, Tongan and Samoan children, my heart breaks as I read these stories. The Polynesians are loving and giving, and family is important to them. They come here to better their children, and find they have to work too many jobs to spend as much time with the children […]

I am a young Polynesian adult and grew up with many of the same influences (both good and bad). I cried while reading this article. So many of my friends have made terrible choices, bringing pain and suffering to the families of the victims of their crimes, their own families, and themselves, all for the […]

And people ask why I pack heat in Utah. Duh! “Guest”Provo Daily Herald Web site This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Self-defense?.

The article was an unfair generalization of an entire group of people, devoid of any substantial mention of the culture’s many redeeming qualities. Yes, there are gang issues associated with the culture in Utah. No, that is not the “norm” for Polynesian families, here or elsewhere. The truth is, most Polynesian families in Utah live […]

They were savages there, and as a group, they are savages here. “Guest”Provo Daily Herald Web site This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Racism is alive and well….

I am saddened that this event not only affected the gangster’s family, but it is affecting all of us Tongans. Maybe we have not taken enough time with our children, but spent more time working and making money. These are the side effects of living overseas. There is no easy way out, but I hope […]

I am a 25-year-old Tongan living in Australia, and I can sort of relate to this article. Growing up was very hard (financially and emotionally). By the time they were 16, my brothers were selling drugs, and most probably doing drugs as well. My brothers have been stabbed and beaten and who knows what else. […]

I read most of your article on “Gangs of Zion” in the Logan Herald Journal and was very disappointed by the lack of research that went into it. Granted, you did do some historical research on the history of Polynesians and their migration to Utah, but you would think you would have taken the time […]

I was dismayed to read HCN’s profile of John Morgart, the man at least partially responsible for crafting the proposed one-year moratorium on Mexican gray wolf releases in the Blue Range, and other changes to the reintroduction standard operating procedures — because it did not mention the dubious circumstances leading up to the release of […]

D.J. Waldie writes of something which many of us have tried to warn of, that “smart growth” isn’t necessarily smart (HCN, 8/8/05: In the suburbs of Los Angeles, your future awaits). Portland, hailed as the icon of smart growth, will in a generation or so be as high-density as Los Angeles. It will have, in […]

I have subscribed to HCN on and off since I met my husband 20 years ago (he introduced me to the paper) because of its coverage of environmental news. When I read in the notes on the board meeting a month ago that someone from Washington state thinks HCN should cover news other than environmental […]

Good idea, good color, good printing. And it’s about time! I don’t think any of us would be averse to a suitable increase in subscription cost to 1) keep that up and 2) keep the ads down. You have one hell of a good publication. Be very careful with it; change nothing except to make […]