Deadline for election letters is April 2

Metro Wire Staff

We want your opinion on the April 4 election.

Open Letters are submitted by community members who aren’t necessarily experts, but who have an opinion they feel inclined to share.

Open Letter Guidelines

Letters should contain an opinion. Letters should also be very clear, even for an “outsider” who may not be familiar with your topic, so avoid industry jargon, shorthand, and nicknames.

We do not publish “thank you” letters. These are advertisements and must be paid for.

We do not accept open letters from third parties. Letters must be original to the author, and the author must live in Portage Co., Wis., and include their city/town of residence.

Letters sent in for consideration must include the author’s real first and last name and city/town/village of residence and must disclose any office they are currently seeking or holding.

We only accept open letters from residents of Portage County, with the exception of those submitted by state leaders on a matter of local relevance.

Our open letter guidelines limit letters to 500 words. Letters may be published online within a few hours. The Metro Wire reserves the right to publish only a few letters representing a larger number of letters with the same opinion or to not publish a letter at all.

Letters containing threats, vulgarity, or inaccurate claims may not be published.

DO NOT send letters via Google Docs, PDF, Word document, or other attachments. Letters MUST be written in the body of an email. Due to limited staff time, we DO NOT rewrite letters that are sent in by U.S. Mail or scanned into a computer for emailing.

Letters that are not spell-checked will not be considered for publication.

DEADLINES

Provided your letter meets our requirements, letters are typically published online within a few hours. The deadline for letters related to the general election on April 4, 2023, is noon on Sunday, April 2.

Send your open letters to [email protected].