Send us your election letters by Oct. 30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR are letters submitted by community members who aren’t necessarily experts, but who have an opinion they feel inclined to share.
Open Letter Guidelines
We do not publish “thank you” letters.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 and may be included in weekly print editions but it depends largely on how much news we have each week. 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Letters containing threats, vulgarity, or inaccurate claims may not be published.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 Nov. 8, 2022, is noon on Sunday, Oct. 30. No letters pertaining to the primary election will be accepted after that date.
The Metro Wire releases a print publication every Thursday. Letters that need to be published by a specific date must be submitted no later than noon on Sunday prior to publication.
Send your open letters to [email protected].
If you’d like to write a column for the Metro Wire, send a pitch to [email protected].