Letter to the editor policy regarding the election

by Sara Swanson

With the election a month away we’ve begun receiving letters to the editor about the election, so we are taking a moment to re-share our letter-to-the-editor policy in regard to elections:

• No letters or opinion pieces will be published the issue immediately before an election.
• In keeping with our hyper-local focus, we will only accept letters to the editor about village, township, school, county commissioner, or other local races, and on local and county-wide ballot issues.
• All letters must include the author’s name — no pseudo- or anonymous letters will be published. Please also include your city, village, or township; this will be included with your name (but not your full address or email address).
• All letters should be well-reasoned and grounded in fact.
• Vitriol should remain in your drafts folder, unsent, as the Mirror will not provide a forum for free-floating aggression but seeks instead to publish those letters that will educate or provoke thought.
• All submissions are subject to editing for length, grammar, accuracy, clarity, and civility.
• Publication is at the sole discretion of the editors.

The full letter-to-the-editor policy is located on our “Contact & Policies” page on our website.

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and founder of the Manchester Mirror.