Emerald’s Gem Box…

Articles, Columns, Editorials and Letters to the Editor explained!   Below is a column that I generally (re)run about once a year. I just last ran it last September. However, because of several statements made in a current letter to the editor … I felt compelled to run it, now, to better explain the differences in the type of stories, columns and letters that we print. We, the staff at the newspaper business, sometimes catch a lot of “flack” from our readers for various thin