As an enthusiastic and longtime HCN subscriber, I was perturbed to open the latest and greatest and not see Brian Calvert’s familiar opening letter, which I looked forward to as a prequel to the articles within. So I turned to page 25 (November 2020) to find a postage-stamp-size description I needed a magnifying glass to read at the bottom of the page. I am asking HCN to maintain people’s integrity, including the integrity of someone who gave six years of blood, sweat and tears to a profession, and who was a prominent face of the magazine — as editors-in-chief tend to be. I am also asking HCN to be more transparent in the struggles it encounters as it evolves, trying to keep its membership base while also becoming more inclusive and representative of the West it wants to be part of and also represent. For me, celebrating the good that Brian did for this magazine and the challenges he grappled with and asked the magazine to grapple with, more transparently, honestly and prominently, would have been more in line with the subscriber/magazine relationship you tend to promote as essential.
Andrew Cline
Bow, Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Transitions.
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