Denver's Rocky Mountain News and The Memphis Commercial Appeal, for instance, have opinion page staffs that are bigger than the Abilene Reporter-News' sports department. Many editorial page editors are blessed with multiple opinion pages every day, whole sections on Sunday. Those guys can put a multitude of theories into practice. Daniel Boone wanted elbow room, and I know just how he felt. At the Reporter-News, property values on the Opinion Page have gone up.
Space is at a premium.
There isn't enough room to print everything we'd like to print. Its purpose, I believe, should be to present a wide variety of opinions to help put the news in perspective. If you want to read nothing but an ideological slant you already agree with, seek other sources than our Opinion Page. This variety of commentary, ideally, should cover the whole range of issues from local to state to national to world. Some topics, of course, spread over more than one area.