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The Brainerd Dispatch welcomes letters on recent articles and current issues. Letters should include the writer's full name, city and a phone number (for verification only). Letters are limited to 300 words. Only one letter per person per week.

Letters airing a personal complaint with a private enterprise will not be considered. Letters containing personal attacks will not be considered. Letters endorsing candidates will be limited to 50 words.

Send letters to Open Forum, Brainerd Dispatch, P.O. Box 974 Brainerd, Minn., 56401 or e-mail them to openforum@brainerddispatch.com.

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The Dispatch does not review forum postings and individuals are responsible for what they post.

Sound off by phone in Vox Pop

Vox Pop, Voice of the People, is published Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Submissions are limited to 100 words. To call in a comment, dial 855-5888 and leave a message.

To e-mail a comment, write to voxpop@brainerddispatch.com. Comments, which must meet the newspaper's standards of fairness and good taste, may be edited for clarity, length and libel. Response to Open Forums will not be published in Vox Pop. Readers are encouraged to respond to Open Forum letters with an Open Forum. National political issues will not be published in Vox Pop.