Oct 20, 2022
Greetings, Lake Citians, present and past! We have a very bright new “star,” one likely to become more and more widely known, I am certain.
This refers to the emerging international hockey star, who originated in Lake City and graduated from Red Wing High School, which offered a high schoool...
Oct 20, 2022
The last opportunity to have a political letter to the editor printed in the Graphic before the Nov. 8 general election is the Oct. 27 issue.
The deadline for letter submissions for that issue is Monday, Oct. 24, at 10 a.m.
The Graphic doesn’t publish political letters to the editor in the last...
Sep 28, 2022
With campaigning for the general elections in full swing, several readers have asked for coverage of the races for Lake City School Board and Lake City City Council.
In the coming weeks, the Graphic will publish responses to questionnaires from candidates in both races.
First up will be the school...
Jul 27, 2022
After this issue, the Graphic will not be publishing any letters about candidates in the primary election before it is held on Aug. 9.
This is to reduce the chances of a letter raising an issue for which there is no opportunity for the candidate to respond in print before the election.
An...
Mar 10, 2021
After reading the letter to the editor from Richard Butler in last week’s Graphic I am a little upset with the application of your own opinion standards that are printed right there on the same page every week.
I know it is not a hard rule to avoid national issues but the one about avoiding insults...
Mar 10, 2021
Once again, I do not blame Richard Butler for spewing political divisive rhetoric in the previous editions of the Graphic.
My issue is with the editor who continues to insult the intelligence of the readers, subscribers and advertisers by not following the Graphic’s own guidelines and policies...
Mar 10, 2021
This week the Graphic is publishing two letters critizing the application of our published letters guidelines.
I will address both of them, but first I want to encourage you to read the criticisms from Nathan Schumacher and Troy Emerson in full in case I inadvertently mischaracterize their...
Mar 3, 2021
I write this letter in response to the one in last week’s Graphic headlined “Keep national political circus out of the paper.”
Troy Emerson, the author of that letter, claims to have been “frustrated” that the editor of the Graphic went against his own “keep it local” guidelines when he printed a...
Feb 24, 2021
I just got caught up on reading the Jan. 28 issue of the Lake City Graphic. I was frustrated to see that you went against your own guidelines of “keep it local” and printed a national issue political letter to the editor from someone who doesn’t even live in the vicinity of Lake City.
If I wanted...
Oct 21, 2020
This is the last issue where letters about the 2020 election will appear in Graphic before the Nov. 3 general election, except under very narrow circumstances where a candidate is allowed to rebut a claim made about them in a letter in this week’s issue.
To read all the election letters and other...