Let's stick to the issues

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Editor's Notebook

Each week Windspeaker publishes one or two letters. And indeed we are pleased to receive comments from our readers on the news and events that shape their lives.

We make every effort possible to produce these letters, with only minor change due to libel or space. All we ask is that they are legible, clear as to what is being said, and suitable for a general audience.

And there is one more thing they must be ? free of personal attacks.

In our news coverage Windspeaker makes every effort to deal with issues, not the personalities involved. And this also applies to our letters page.

We often receive letters from people who are mad over an issue, but so often they lose sight of the issue and vent their rage and frustration on the person who they feel is "to blame."

These letters often contain long-winded attacks on the people in the news and we just can't print that.

In most cases we edit out the personal attacks and character assassination, but often the letter only contains these attacks without commenting on the actual problem so we are unable to print these letters at all.

This is a shame because real issues are involved.

The Windspeaker team vows to look only at issues in controversial stories and present them so people can perhaps find solutions to improve their lives rather than attack one another.

And we will continue to report on people doing something for a reason, not just political name calling because the opposing parties "don't like each other."

Instead of wasting effort on defaming our opposition ? let's all begin to look for answers.