Journalism Matters: Letters can make for the toughest calls

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Journalism Matters: Letters can make for the toughest calls

I think I made a mistake with this one, a little letter to the editor, often the most troublesome part of the paper. But let me lay out what I was thinking — yes, I was thinking — when I made the call on deadline, as usual, to run it. Nothing to do with the content itself, though I knew it would irk city leaders. Of course it would. They had worked so hard for affordable housing opportunities that complaints from people they had worked so hard t…