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Karen Trout
The Roanoke Times
Editor, Letters to the Editor

E-mail us your letters on public issues. You must include your name, address and, for verification only, a phone number where you can be reached during the day.

Your letter should be 200 words or fewer. If accepted for publication, it goes in the printed Roanoke Times, where space is still an issue. Besides, brevity is the soul of wit, in any medium.

We welcome letters on public issues. When citing an article in The Roanoke Times, please give its headline and date.

All letters are edited. Because of the volume we receive, we regret we can publish only a portion of them, and cannot always acknowledge receipt.