tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58554534051445238482024-03-13T05:26:23.146-07:00Talk to the EditorsTalk to us! Argue with us! Set us straight! <br>Tell us what you'd like to see in the paper. Or just tell us what you think we're doing wrong. <br>Send your thoughts, questions and concerns to <a href="mailto:mheditor@montereyherald.com">MHEditor@montereyherald.com</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-6845830325648966422012-03-12T13:04:00.000-07:002012-03-13T10:12:37.278-07:00A single column
l refer to your lead piece in Monday's Opinion page, "Sex and the GOP", by Aledandra Petri of the Washington Post. Is this jackass article your considered contribution to the great challenges that are facing the USA today? Where is your opinion on the sustained attacks by both Democrats and Republicans on the jobs and incomes of ordinary people? Apparently it doesn't bother you that hospitalityRoyal Calkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421285834776650152noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-33367543737131284202012-03-12T12:46:00.000-07:002012-03-13T10:12:44.816-07:00Choosing content
When the Herald opted to discontinue printing stock prices, then editor Joe Livernois justified his decision by stating that the paper's revenues were continuing to decline and that the prices were always available via the Internet.
Is it time to revisit this policy? Aren't there other items that are printed that are much less newsworthy? For example, in March 6th's edition, Royal Calkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421285834776650152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-89667522466056872732012-02-21T11:21:00.002-08:002012-03-13T10:13:10.352-07:00Duplicitous?
Well Sir, I applaud your efforts to bring the paper back in line to where it should be. Addressing local issues and creating a hometown atmosphere in our paper is a much better model than rarely hitting the streets and assuming that the wire service will provide everything, everyone on the Peninsula wants to know. We have plenty of places to find that information if we want it, and on that Royal Calkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421285834776650152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-44741840019999134412012-02-20T15:48:00.003-08:002012-02-20T15:52:56.852-08:00You found itDearest readers: This is the place to make suggestions for Herald news coverage, to ask questions, yell at us, send us love notes, whatever. I, editor Royal Calkins, will respond to most of the civil comments and you, of course, should feel invited to respond to the response. Got something to say? This is your chance.CheersRoyal CakinsRoyal Calkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421285834776650152noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-1814048761614009582011-09-06T16:54:00.000-07:002011-09-06T17:08:21.241-07:00Travels with The HeraldOur friend Marco has returned to work after watching his son play third base for the Mexicali team at the Little League World Series in Williamsport.Readers might remember the column I wrote about my family's connection with Marco. The family gathered in El Centro for my mother's memorial service during the Labor Day weekend, and we dropped by Celia's Restaurant for lunch. Marco is one of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-28338462275814931362011-08-24T15:01:00.000-07:002011-08-24T18:27:15.296-07:00Our Man in WilliamsportThe Mexicali Little League baseball team is on ESPN, slugging it out against Venezuela for a chance to advance to the finals. Little boys are mugging for the cameras and making amazing plays on the field. One of the happiest looking kids on the Mexicali team is my new favorite ballplayer, a shrimp named Vicente Bejarano. Number 3.
Vicente's father, Marco, was one of my mother's all-time Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-40214609582815370712011-07-14T14:25:00.000-07:002011-07-15T10:29:51.467-07:00KindledI've been slogging through my first Kindle novel, which means I'm getting adept at pushing buttons instead of turning pages.Kindle is one of those hand-held electronic devices created to put bookstores out of business. With a Kindle, you can upload a book in the time it takes to back out of the driveway en route to the Border's. Once your "book" is safely affixed to the memory chip on your Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-25496201982987880652011-07-06T11:42:00.000-07:002011-07-06T11:42:12.856-07:00An apple dividedFrom reporter Larry Parsons:
A few days ago, as I picked up some Gala apples at a grocery store in Salinas, I came upon one of those oddities of nature that tickle the fancy.
One of the four apples I bought appeared to be divided equally into near-perfect hemispheres of different color. One side was red, the other mostly golden. The line between them was straight, as if the creator used Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-30396705690761134552011-05-19T12:56:00.000-07:002011-05-19T13:16:49.683-07:00Random Amgen ObservationsThere they are. There they went.I've watched a lot of sporting events, but seeing the bikers at the Amgen Tour of California zoom past at 45 mph may have been the most exciting 30 seconds of sports I've ever seen. Or maybe not. I spent a half-hour at Seaside City Hall this morning, wandering around the starting gate, absorbing the festive atmosphere. One of the sponsors gave away cowbells, which Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-45748900483836064222011-05-06T10:21:00.000-07:002011-05-06T10:22:51.236-07:00Panetta: The Parochial ViewWhether the local hero is throwing TD passes on the football field or coordinating the elimination of Public Enemy No. 1, people love to root for the person they think they might have seen once on the rec trail. So the sweeping expressions of local pride for Leon Panetta are understandable. After someone has helped engineer an impressive feat on behalf of the citizens of the United States, the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-37780477700400793712011-03-02T12:34:00.000-08:002011-03-02T12:37:04.294-08:00Three guys at a tableApropos Tuesday's posting, a friend sent this joke:A Wall Street executive, a Tea Party member and a union rep were sitting around a table when someone brings them a dozen cookies. The Wall Street executive immediately takes 11 of them, turns to the Tea Party guy and says, "Hey, that union thug wants your cookie!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-74475731088045618982011-03-01T10:47:00.000-08:002011-03-01T11:44:59.586-08:00Remembering the FraudThe crash, the lost jobs and the exposure of fraud and greed on Wall Street barely rate a mention anymore. It's reached the point that Charles Ferguson, the filmmaker who won an Oscar for Best Documentary on Sunday, felt obligated to apologize when accepting his Oscar before pointing out that no executive has yet been imprisoned for the financial calamity caused by Wall Street's enormous greed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-18257933811127872572010-10-21T16:45:00.000-07:002010-10-22T18:22:36.366-07:00The Giants' ROII've frightened the dog with sudden whoops and with precipitous celebratory dances a couple of dozen times during the past two months as my San Francisco Giants pieced together a memorable and unlikely season.They could somehow blow it this weekend and they could break the hearts of fans yet again. But this is a beloved bunch of Giants enjoying one of the franchise's most inspiring seasons thanksUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-79869228717472736992010-09-27T15:01:00.000-07:002010-09-27T15:03:00.761-07:00Take This Job and Work ItIt comes as no surprise that Arturo Rodriguez can’t find many 100-percent born-and-bred Americans who are willing to take jobs in agriculture.Rodriguez is president of the United Farm Workers of America, and its latest campaign, “Take Our Jobs,” invites U.S. citizens and legal residents to fill jobs that often go to undocumented farmworkers.Rodriguez said the effort “spotlights the immigrant Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-74458745757894518432010-09-24T14:53:00.000-07:002010-09-24T15:55:18.099-07:00It's True, Of CourseI received an anonymous email today from someone wanting to know if Sam Farr is a socialist.The question was accompanied by a link to gatewaypundit.com, which announced (with no link or verification) that the Socialist Party of America has released a list of 70 Congressional Democrats who currently belong to the Socialist caucus. Rep. Farr is among those listed. Following the online posting is a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-11844068284156341732010-09-20T14:48:00.000-07:002010-09-20T17:14:17.246-07:00You Gotta Be Squidding MeLocal coverage of important issues! The seething national political climate! The General Plan Update! Whatever the last letter writer happened to say about Israel!All hot topics, to be sure. But nothing seems to arouse more passion among newspaper readers than the Comics page. The latest raging controversy centers on "Squid Row," the local strip about fictional artists drawn by Bridgett Spicer. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-11556880980037535212010-09-15T13:58:00.000-07:002010-09-15T16:00:21.942-07:00Civilized DiscourseThe Herald takes pride in the civilized discourse among its readers tucked away in the Letters to the Editor column each day. For the most part, we let the dialogue run its course. The voices are diverse and mostly wonderful. It's a place for both the thoughtful and the kooks to make public their observations.We try not to meddle much, but meddle we must at times. Unfortunately, we get letters Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-6825584482863516712010-09-10T16:08:00.000-07:002010-09-10T17:06:06.743-07:00Nine-Eleven, Went to HeavenSaturday marks the ninth anniversary of America's slow decline into insanity.The Associated Press story commemorating 9/11 this year, which The Herald will run Saturday, notes that the first eight anniversaries of the terrorist attacks were marked by somber, politics-free reflection. This year, it's quite a bit more zooey, contentious in ugly ways, with emphasis on a "Ground Zero mosque" and a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-30214865374070807512010-08-19T14:13:00.000-07:002010-08-19T14:27:06.275-07:00Fantasy Baseball TipFantasy Baseball Tip: When assessing your team for the final drive in the waning weeks of the season, rid yourself of all players wearing the orange-and-black of the San Francisco Giants. Got Lincecum? Dump him. Thought Aubrey Huff would be the answer because he had an uncharacteristic mid-season power surge that turned out to be a mirage? Dump him. If the Giants really needed a schizophrenic batUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-69502025110946896142010-08-16T08:19:00.000-07:002010-08-16T08:35:16.854-07:00The Hotel PaperIn San Francisco for the weekend, it occurred to me that there is one clear difference between quality hotels and operations that don't really care about the quality of their customer service.The best hotels will deliver the local daily newspaper to the doorstep, or at least have a stack of 'em available in the lobby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-18086994630510049992010-08-13T16:44:00.000-07:002010-08-13T16:54:49.821-07:00Larry EllisAfter 27 years at The Herald, I like to think of myself as a bona fide old-timer.But I'm just a rookie to Larry Ellis, who has been kicking around this joint for 50 years. A succession of managers, ownership groups and operating systems have come and gone, but Ellis has been a constant at The Herald.Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Ellis' hire at The Herald, and the event was celebrated a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-46295968524917315142010-08-13T12:33:00.000-07:002010-08-13T14:13:18.267-07:00Live and LivelyMe and the Pauls get together once a month to disagree about stuff.The three of us gather at the AMP studios with Catherine Bowie on the second Wednesday of each month. Our little discussion is aired live on Comcast's Public Access Channel 24.Bowie serves as host, and the Pauls are Paul Wilner, editor of the Monterey County Weekly, and Paul Miller, publisher of the Carmel Pine Cone. The one-hour Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-82838790767028801162010-08-05T16:55:00.000-07:002010-08-06T09:32:10.726-07:00hackpollonline.comAlmost all the online news sites in America run meaningless interactive polls.They are meant as an amusement, a diversion, something to generate a few more hits on the site. And they are about as scientific as the Flat Earth Society. (Discussion group on theflatearthsociety.org forum: Sometimes the Facts Don't Matter.) Did I mention that online polls are meaningless? (Thursday's Quick Question onUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-59491858698957329752010-08-03T14:03:00.000-07:002010-08-05T11:04:00.541-07:00The 'Latest News'As an experiment in counter-intuitiveness, we've tweaked The Herald's online home a bit.Or, as more than one newsroom employee has asked, has the editor gone bonkers?Now in testing mode, we've added a Twitter feed of local breaking stories from a variety of local sites, including our competitors."This is the weirdest thing yet," declared one reporter. In essence, she said, we have Twitter feeds Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855453405144523848.post-18883214920876222422010-07-16T13:55:00.000-07:002010-07-27T14:32:32.343-07:00Local AuthorsI thoroughly enjoyed my afternoon at the Barnyard Shopping Center on Saturday for Local Authors Live! By all accounts, the event was a rousing success and the organizers now expect it to be an annual deal. Local writers were able to show off their talents, books were sold and the afternoon raised much-needed funds for local libraries. Many thanks to Erin Clark of KSBW, for filling in for Dan Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0