I was saddened to see — in an ad in last week’s CVN — the resurrection of the era of mudslinging toward Mud Bay folks. We, in Haines, have repeatedly insisted on civility in our public discourse — rejecting the use of generalized words of intolerance aimed at particular individuals and groups, as in the ad’s reference to “Mud Bay liberal types” (who are somehow bent on destroying our community).
Such name calling exceeds…