If you have any aspirations to be worth reading, please consider setting some standards for letters to the editor. I note from your most recent editorial about the ice hockey rink that you have your eye on potential abuses in public/private arrangements. I hope you will turn your attention to the content of letters. I believe in free speech but that does not obligate you to give room to some of the people whose submissions have no value.
You are doing a good job of reporting on matters of local interest. I ask only that your opinion space also inform.
I think by this time that you realize that I write to educate as well as advocate. I am not saying that only progressive voices must be heard; however, nonsense is not worth wasting newsprint on.
Esther Confino
New Hyde Park
