WTF has gone wrong with HCN? I understand your need to diversify, but a lot of recent issues stray too far from your roots and from many readers’ interests. The January issue is another issue on cultural diversity, but this one entirely devoted to it? I always save my HCNs, looking forward to reading them later if I don’t have time. But this issue goes straight into the recycling! I’ve never had to do this to an issue. What a waste. How about some science, rangeland and resource issues, energy development on public lands, political struggles in Western states, uranium poisoning on Native lands, etc.? This has got to stop, or I will not re-subscribe. If a rare issue captures your former great coverage of Western issues, I’ll just borrow a copy. I have friends who feel the same way — that we are being alienated by a paper, an institution, that some of us have stuck with for decades.
You’re making a big mistake!
—Mark Sterkel, via Facebook
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline An issue for the recycling bin.
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