To the Editor of The Mountain Misinformer

Dear Sir and/or Madam,

(How did a simple thing like a salutation get so complicated? In my youth, editors were male. At the first real newspaper I ever actually worked for (1977), the editors were still consistently male. Times change, of course, but nowadays I can’t even rely on visual evidence anymore. Just because an editor ‘reads’ male doesn’t tell you a thing about what pronouns are most welcome… but I digress.)

I’m writing to applaud your April 1 issue, which included several fun April Fool’s Day spoofs. And also an article that threw me off-guard at first, titled “Kiley Tackles [Issues].” I was already a bit a-kilter after reading about hot tubs on Main Street and the Kentucky Mine as a deluxe bunker. I wondered if you were spoofing our Representative… he’s just enough askew from the rational, that everything your intrepid reporter wrote could have been fact or satire… Frankly, it was a great read about a relentlessly dull public servant. I’m only sorry there wasn’t a byline; I don’t know whom to tease about the article.

Oh well, I suppose that if I knew the actual author, I’d be right back to trying to get my pronouns right!

Congrats to all the staff on an issue that kept local fun!

Scottie Hart

Grass Valley