Mule Train Mail Is Taking Your Letters

I’m initiating a new feature here on Blog For Arizona. It’s called ‘Mule Train Mail’ and it is your letters and opinions.

Too frequently, citizen’s opinions, views and experiences don’t get the space they deserve in our daily newspapers. Excellent letters to the editor or guest op-eds don’t ever get published due to space constraints. Well, no more; at least, not if you read Blog For Arizona.

I want your letters and op-eds that didn’t get an audience in the daily papers. For that matter, if you would RATHER have your carefully crafted gem mounted in a clean, modern digital setting, rather than a messy paper and ink fishwrapper, send me your thoughts and ideas before you try the dead tree merchants. For this feature I will only accept signed opinions—AZBlueMeanie has the corner on anonymity here at Blog For Arizona. Also, original writing only: no reposts. Though, if you want to submit something to me first and then also submit it to a paper, that’s fine with me.

I want to see more citizen media and citizen journalism in the blogs, even people who aren’t like me—having a seemingly endless stream of things to say—should get a chance to blog. If you just have a personal hobby-horse you need to ride, or just feel you have to speak out occasionally, or if a particular issue has gotten under your skin, you should have a place to make yourself heard to the community that matters most to you—your home state: I want Blog For Arizona to be that place.

Just send me your writing of any length (though I prefer less than 2000 words) and I, or a member of my highly paid and numerous staff (little joke), will review it. I prefer that the text be pasted directly into the email. If you have supporting documents, attach them. If you have URLS you want to link to, do so. I may request editing.

I won’t promise to publish everything, but I really haven’t a limited size to the news hole here, so I don’t need to be quite so picky. That doesn’t mean I will publish muddle-mindedness, poor prose, grotty grammar, or slanderous soliloquies, however. Only the reasonably readable will be published. I prefer items that focus on Arizona politics and policy, though I will certainly not reject thoughtful writing on broader topics. Please put MULE TRAIN MAIL in the subject line so that you don’t get overlooked, or spam-filtered.