Partisan affiliation is low on our list of what matters. Neither political party is always wrong or always right. Seems there's a stronger argument for accusing us of not giving a fair shake to Democrats, although we've endorsed a few of them, too. And if all we printed were those editorials and columns and letters that suited a certain segment of our audience, we'd be pretty boring, too. All articles, except those labeled 'Editorials,' reflect the personal opinions of the writers and not the Abilene Reporter-News.
Editorials are the official voice of the newspaper.
Not necessarily an equal balance of opinions, whatever that would be, but a cross- section of the multifaceted ideological mix of our community, our state and our nation. We don't promote Molly Ivins any more than we do the perspectives of conservative columnists like Cal Thomas, Linda Chavez and George Will. Like it or not, Ivins represents one of those variety of viewpoints, to which more of our readers are inclined than some of her local enemies might think. In fact, we receive more complaints about Cal Thomas than we do about Molly. And whenever she takes a vacation, we're inundated with calls from readers upset because we've left her out.