DISQUS

I think it important to hear from all the candidates, is there a way you could suspend the regular Sunday columns for a while, and run candidate's columns? It would be good if you could limit the length of their submissions, perhaps running two short ones each Sunday?

This is, as they all are, a very important election, and it's vital to the democratic process that we make up our own minds about the candidates. Hearing from them directly would further this aim.

There are so many candidates running, and there are so many people wanting to push a certain candidate, that unless the letter is a constructive analysis of a problem, rather than a puff piece, I would either not publish it at all or relegate it to the Sunday B3 page. Letters that seems to be generated by campaigns should not be published at all.

I really am not swayed by what my neighbors feel about a candidate, living here in NH, I have wonderful opportunities to meet them personally and make up my own mind.

However, a letter that deals with genuine problems, offers non-canned solutions and in passing, mentions a candidate, would be acceptable to put on the week-day Letters page. A reasoned, informative letter can change opinions, provided it is grounded in fact. An "I'm for X too" will not.

I tried to use the word :"you know what": in the title of my comment, it was blocked by your filter!

In any case, I think any child old enough to read the paper has certainly heard that word before, and if not, well, time to learn that a whole vocabulary of grown-up words exists. I don't advocate wholesale use of profanity, but a choice epithet now and then is perfectly fine with me.