More on letters
Mr Haley, all it takes for anyone to correct a misspelling is to simply call me. Your blog entry and your email both arrived at the same time so this is the first opportunity I've had to address it. Ukiah Sativa Morrison's letter weighed in at 40 column inches, much longer than any other daily newspaper in this area - or anywhere - is likely to publish. That we made a couple of spelling errors in a 1,000-word essay is regrettable but not intentional.
As for Ukiah Morrison's diatribe in a comment posted on the "Who is this guy" chapter of this blog, he is telling some real whoppers when he says that he ever heard me say the flooding in January was only good for profits. First of all, anyone who sits at Schats Thursday mornings or talks to me regularly knows that this newspaper's profits is not a topic on my lips. It's getting stories and finding out what's going on in town that I'm after. I am very proud of the coverage we had of the floods. Our reporters and photographers did a great job of reporting to the community the devastation no one was expecting over a holiday weekend. That's our job and one we take very seriously every day. What I HAVE said in the past and will say again, is that as much as people sometimes complain that they're tired of reading about crime and "bad" news, those are the newspapers that inevitably sell out.
Why Mr. Morrison has suddenly taken against us here I think has more to do with our disagreement about the value of large pot gardens in residential neighborhoods. He is an adamant supporter of unsuppressed marijuana growing and consumption and I appreciate his fervor, but I don't have to agree with him.