Age: 69

Warren Wilder

Sean Petersen

Stephen Sacks

Jason Roche

Linda Foster

Clyde Auston

I offer my viewpoint as a challenge against those that would use money and power against the average American, the working class, the environment, and the civil rights of all American citizens.

Richard D. Markle

I write, most likely, to satisfy my own ego.

I write to express beliefs in support of or disagreement with articles/letters/opinions in print or television media.

I write to show that Christian-based morality is the best way to live, that secularists do not have a monopoly on intelligent thought and that abandoning our God-centered foundation has put our freedom in peril.

Age: 83

I write to express my thoughts; I hope that others will take a moment and consider alternative views.

"Why do you write?" Why do I breathe?

I write to share a point of view that others may not have thought of, or to bring to light something in our community.

I write to participate in the public debate regarding important issues of our time, and to clarify important scientific issues for the general public.

I write to influence people's thinking.

I react to writers I disagree with or who got facts wrong. I also write to offer alternatives to problems.

I write mainly just to vent, but also to test the readers.

I have always had an opinion. This got me in trouble in my youth. I protested everything in the '60s. My main focus is on gender issues, racial issues, socioeconomic issues and children. I am non-violent and hold people like Gandhi, Sojourner Truth a

It write to express my God-given conservative views and opinions. To support our country's war on terrorism. To support our veterans and active duty military personnel. My grandson, Mike, is an Army Ranger and has served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I believe in rational and logical expression. Too often those concepts are missing in our written and verbal discourse. Writing forces one to more precisely formulate thought, and being permitted a paltry 200 words on complex issues is a fun and masochist

The No Child Left Behind law forced schools into a very narrow view of reading instruction. This $6 billion mandate has ... has created a multimillion-dollar testing industry that has compromised the type of classroom instruction most parents value, criti