The Editor's Desk

We’ve got a new feature in our opinion section of the main site called The Vent. It’s simple to explain: If you have something you want to get off your chest or an issue that’s important to you, feel free to just post your comments there much like you can at the bottom of our stories.

We added this feature due to the increasing interest readers are having with adding feedback to our stories. In The Vent, you don’t have to confine your comments to the stories on the site.

Our intention is to occasionally “reverse publish” comments from The Vent back into the newspaper. I experimented with this last week by reprinting a few comments on some of our stories in the newspaper on the opinion page.

The rules are a little bit looser than letters to the editor, but as a result we (and I assume readers) don’t treat them as seriously, and we’ll only run short ones, so a large screed on The Vent is not going to get you published.

In addition, the same guidelines for appropriate comments in The Vent apply as they do in other parts of the site and in the newspaper. Please report any obscene or inappropriate posts there for removal.

Head over to The Vent at let us know what’s on your mind.