Let your voice be heard in Standard’s new online survey
The poll will be published in the Sunday edition of our newspaper on the editorial page and readers will be encouraged to visit our Internet site (www.southernstandard.com) to cast their vote. The Standard currently has close to 700 regular online users and anyone who has a subscription to the paper can also obtain a password to have full access to the Web site.
The survey results will then be published in the following Sunday newspaper along with the next question. Readers will also be urged to provide additional comments and excerpts from those statements may also make their way to the pages of the paper.
The goal is to make the Standard more of a community sounding board. This is regularly and effectively accomplished through letters to the editor and we would like to evoke reader response even further.
With the Internet becoming a greater and greater part of our lives, the days of sitting down and composing a letter have been replaced by e-mails and chat rooms. That’s why the Standard would like to capitalize on the convenience of our Web site, and Internet communication in general, to enhance our core product, which is the newspaper itself.
Questions will be on local topics most of the time, but state and national issues will also make their way to the online survey. The Standard used a portion of state Sen. Jerry Cooper’s annual survey, which was published in Friday’s edition, to kick off our online reader poll.
The question is especially appropriate in Warren County, which has grappled with a meth problem for a number of years. The rest of the state – and now sadly a large portion of the country – is now discovering what we have known for some time: Meth destroys homes and destroys lives.
State lawmakers are currently pondering over a dozen bills pertaining to meth regulations and it will certainly be interesting to see what restrictions, if any, are enacted after this legislative session.
If you are a Standard subscriber who has never visited our Web site, receiving a password is as easy as calling our office at 473-2191. And if you are a regular Web site patron, be sure to look for the new reader polls which will be online beginning today.
Most importantly, tell us what you think. We know how we feel on key issues. We want to know how our readers stand on important topics.
And who knows. Your opinion might just influence the way your city alderman or county commissioner votes when it comes time to shape local policy.