As a former resident of Lake City and as a subscriber to The Lake City Graphic, I’d like to challenge your policy about letters to the editor admonishing writers to “Keep it Local.” Don’t get me wrong. Local issues are important. But there are other non-local issues that are important, too. If, as the saying goes, all politics are local, then state and national issues—even global concerns—deserve attention, discussion, and debate just as much as whether Lakeshore Drive should be three-lane or four-lane. The place for that debate is the newspaper.