Dear Editor: The Marina Times is widely considered the New York Times of the Marina District – thorough, relevant, timely, informative, exceptionally clear, well written, and reliably distributed to our front doors each month. And it’s been that way consistently for the 20 years I have been reading it.

So I ask: How in the world is this newspaper NOT “historically present”? I urge Grace Moore and the Department of Public Works to revisit their criteria for selecting newspapers that are worthy of being included in our soon-to-come 19 Marina neighborhood newspaper rack pedmounts.

Why, Ms. Moore, are you discounting the proven quality and relevance that our own neighborhood newspaper has demonstrated for 25 years, and denying it a fair representation in the Marina pedmounts? Out of 19 pedmounts, you claim this newspaper is NOT historically present and therefore only entitled to two pedmounts, to be joined by sleazy sex newspapers and publications from even other states, who ARE historically present, according to your criteria?

I think you need to leave your office for an afternoon, get away from process and politic, and talk to some human beings. Talk to Marina residents. You’ll then clearly learn firsthand about the “historical presence” of the Marina Times. You need to give the Marina Times credit for being only what it actually is – historically present, every day for 25 years.

Ted Hoffman