At last night’s May 4th Salem, New Hampshire Select board meeting board secretary James Keller is reportedly fed up. According to the scuttlebutt, he is tired of people not caring if he dies (from the Coronavirus) and has proposed a fine for anyone who is out in public without a mask.
Letters to the Editor, no matter what newspaper features them, are always fodder for intrigue, strange ironies and unintended humor. Other times, letters to the editor are little more than rank lies, propaganda and charlatanry for “true-believers.” But for the most part, letters to the editor provide that surface-level thumbnail viewpoint of the author…for the most part.
2012 is a political year on all levels national, state and local. One such letter that inevitably piques my interest are letters to the Editor by candidates seeking office and asking for the support of the public who might elect them. I pay particular attention to such letters because running for a seat on any town leadership platform inevitably shapes a person’s public persona for better or worse.