Actual productive use...

For once, the editors get it. After the tornadoes that swept through Moore Oklahoma, the editors have decided to use its letters section to serve its proper function: to let ordinary citizens express well-reasoned opinions on important matters of the day. Thus, both Devon Smith of Oklahoma City and Steven Feisal of Yukon wrote respective letters talking about buildings in Oklahoma having tornado shelters.

The letters don't involve tired rhetorical flourishes, resort to insulting people, or go out of their way to needlessly push some theocratic or plutocratic agenda. One might disagree with the authors of these letters, but that's what they are about. Would that this paper could do the same thing about other topics.