Firstly I would like to commend and congratulate the CHF Editorial Team! 
I would suggest that if you really wanted to make the CHF Newsletters more scholarly you need to make the newsletter more accessible: perhaps you may need to publish hard copies to acadeimc institutions or make it into a PDF file. I know it is painstakingly tedious but the greater the effort the greater the reward! Also you should consider using more referencing such as footnoting, this will improve its academic reputability. Otherwise keep the great effort up! 
Oops, almost missed your post.... glad I saw it ...
At last some constructive criticism and suggestions!
I am so happy that you took the time to write your thoughts.
They are all good suggestions.
Those are all things that we hope will come with time.. right now we are still in the beginning stages of development. And it must be remembered that everyone on the team are not professionals and only volunteers who are doing the best they can at this project. We have come really far in less then a years time and have many more advances to make.
We need a lot more members to volunteer their advice, time and expertise to this project if it is to succeed, as well as quality articles. I was given this job because I had the time and desire to get it started, but there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that I am a rank amateur at trying to develop an academic journal. I am stepping way out of my box to attempt this project.
It has been a wonderful learning experience. I have been treating this whole project like an independent study college class and now have been putting what I have learned into the new projects I have taken on in my real life, and would never have believed it if you had told me a year ago what I would be doing now.
It is my hope that we will eventually attract members who have the skills needed to take the HLJ to the next level.
We would love to be able to publish hard copies to academic institutions but are nowhere ready for that yet.
One of the things we are trying to figure out now is how we can keep the journal on the top of the new posts for a longer period of time without having to constantly re post an empty nothing post just to re up it to the top.
so far the best way would be if more members would post their comments right to the HLJ. That way it would be activated more frequently so if you missed it on it's publication date, you would still know the new issue was out.
Another subject we are now discussing is whether pseudo names should be allowed.
We are mostly in agreement that in order to have it accepted as an academic journal we should encourage the use of real names, but as of now we do not intend to require them.
As for a PFD document, I have no idea of how to do that, nor do I have the time for anything as time consuming as that is said to be to do.
That does not rule out doing it if someone wants to volunteer the time to do it.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Still just learning to put one foot in front of the other at this time, but soon I hope to be running.
