We welcome your letters to the editor
We encourage you to help formulate public opinion by presenting your views in our Newspaper but be prepared to get slapped around for it. The letters appearing from our readers are the opinions of our readers and do not represent The Laughlin Herald. They are not presented as factual information and must not be construed as such unless you really can't tear yourself away from Make Believe Land.
Rules for acceptance:
Please submit letters one week before the desired publication date, but if you don't we won't have a coronary or use it as an excuse to not print your letter. Space isn't an issue, this is the internet after all, but if you ramble on we may edit or ignore you. Letters concerning candidates or election issues will be printed right up to and including election day.
Letters must be signed with your first and last name and contain your city and state of residence; we won't be creepy and ask for your home address and telephone number, but you must have a working e-mail address where the author maybe reached. Letters submitted anonymously will be rejected and that part is no joke.
Letters must be e-mailed; we're lazy and we won't transcribe letters sent via postal mail, but maybe our Post Office will type and e-mail it for you. Seriously, if you don't have internet access, the Laughlin Public Library will provide it for you free of charge. Length will be limited to 1000 words. Letters may be edited for length or clarity, to conform with our policies for publication, and to eliminate libelous statements or profanity, or just because you're an incompetent or boring writer. Letters must not be obscene or designed to incite violence, but malicious ones are swell.
To help assure space for all, which in the case of an online newspaper means attention span, letters will be limited to one author per week, unless you write really good stuff.
We reserve the right to edit or reject any letter, but not, in most cases, to humiliate you. We'll do that in our reply to your letter.
Letters To The Editor are not an appropriate vehicle for employment or business disputes unless there is a critical and legitimate issue of public policy involved. Don't send us your spam; we're not going to promote your business. Letters castigating businesses, representatives of businesses, or collections of businesses as members of an organization will be gleefully welcomed. But please don't forget those letters castigating governments, representatives of governments, or collections of governments as members of an organization as well as letters castigating non profit organizations, representatives of non profit organizations, or collections of non profit organizations as members of an organization. We may not print them but we love the gossip. Letters To The Editor are NOT an appropriate vehicle for expressing appreciation of fellow citizens, private, corporate, organizational or governmental; there's another paper in town that's happy to print fluff. Letters excoriating the Editor as two legged pond scum however are quite appropriate.
Please be advised that the Editors wife, who is actually a very nice, very sweet and very compassionate human being, unlike the deranged mutant she's married to, neither endorses nor condones anything malicious, offensive or just plain stupid that her moronic husband may say or write in public.
