Found this in the letters e-mail inbox today, sent by a “John Albert” that reads as follows:

Greeting, Am Interested to place an advert in your Newspapers It may also be in any of your radio or TV Station as well as magazine ,So let me know if this sound good and also the mode of [...]

We received the following letter today, printed below in its entirety, with the writer’s name and hometown removed:
I have lived in (town) all my life and I am very angry over what has happened to our community. I have lived in the same house in (town) for over 60 years. I never really cared much [...]

There’s a lot of outrage over Wall Street continuing to pay out hefty bonuses in the midst of a deep recession. (See Noreen O’Donnell’s Saturday column.)  Our letter-writers haven’t been shy about casting blame, as seen in the excerpts below:
In Saturday’s Journal News, “Wall St. workers defend bonuses,” the last paragraph of the article reads: [...]

We published a letter Saturday regarding a Don Wright editorial cartoon that appeared earlier last week, that stated, in part: “Your offensive, Catholic-bashing cartoon . . . depicts a map of the United States of America in which our nation has been renamed ‘ROME’ with a caricature of President Bush saying, ‘Let history be my [...]

Shortly before a vote last month on a bond proposition for artificial turf field installation in the Irvington school district, we published a letter from Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., of Mamaroneck, professor of pediatrics and director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, citing health concerns over [...]

Just as the winter brings snow, it also brings a flurry of letters complaining about inadequate snow/ice removal by the writer’s municipality or by neighbors and businesses. Icy sidewalks have been the bane of pedestrians this week, judging by letters we’ve received. One writer wants to know, “Why isn’t any snow or ice ever cleared [...]

As the fighting in Gaza heats up, so, too, does criticism of the media by backers of each side in the conflict. A letter received Jan. 7 takes us to task because “… you relegated the news of the 30 men, women and children killed by Israeli shells at the UN Gaza school to the [...]

I’ve had “Monty Python” on the brain this week – perhaps not too unusual considering my morning check of the letters e-mail (“Spam, spam, spam, real letter, spam, press release, spam and spam!”) and the fact that this week’s Letters pages are reminiscent of the “Argument” sketch (“Israel started it!” “No it didn’t!” “Yes it [...]

Readers will sometimes point out disparities between the time that letters are submitted and the time they are published in the paper – they’ll notice a letter responding to an article that ran two days earlier alongside another one responding to a letter from two weeks ago, and want to know why we don’t run [...]

Every so often I’m asked, “What is the most controversial issue you have to deal with from letter-writers?” The answer always seems to surprise people: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” And with the situation in Gaza deteriorating, I’m bracing myself for the expected escalation of hostilities among some of our readers.

More so than any other issue, the [...]