You can tell it's an election year when we start getting more, longer and more passionate letters to the editor, but individual stories, sometimes ones that we don't expect, can spike up the number of letters to the editor.
The most letters we've ever gotten about a story -- at least, since I've been here -- was in 2004, when we ran a story about a man being arrested for raising roosters for cockfighting. The pro-cockfighting people were the ones who buried us in letters, and were from all over the country, showing the power of Google News, I suppose.
This week, we've already gotten a good number of letters about Supervisor Bill Postmus' decision to remove an art book from the county library system, and again, it hasn't all been local responses.
