Editor's note

I will be out of town and offline all day today, work related, a couple thoughts:

• We have now 30 writers on this site. I have actively recruited writers from groups that are grass roots and by nature very aggressive. I will still ask all our writers to maintain some civility and watch abusive language. Check your facts, if you make a mistake, revise the post so our information herein is as accurate as possible.
  
• The Kevin Tracy endorsement of Marlin Stutzman for United States Senator created a bit of a firestorm yesterday, pitting friends against friends. Although I thoroughly enjoy the primary process, and feel it is good for our party, I want those friends to remain so on May 5th when this primary is over.
  
• We do not endorse candidates on this site, there's no way to do so with 30 writers. We disagree a whole lot. Individual writers may suggest who they are supporting of course, and if more polls are wanted this week I am glad to add them. I did add a Kevin Tracy v. Jim Biggs poll for the Porter County Council since that was talked about alot over the weekend.
  
• There have been some requests for me to monitor more closely anonymous posts, and my firm commitment since day one has been to allow anonymity, even changes of profile names, so we can have as many opinions as possible. This celebrates the early Revolutionary and Constitutional period where many of our founding fathers wrote under assumed names for fear of retaliation by the British or by employers. I will delete comments meant only to spam for SEO or worse, but even in comments you are free to use whatever profile name you choose.
  

Keep it clean and try like everything to present your views on these races without saying things you can't take back next week. I attended the #INSEN Beer Summit in Indianapolis earlier this month with bloggers from all over the state, where we agreed face to face that no matter who won that election we would all work together on May 5th. Since then the Governor has come out to ask that attacks against each other be kept to issues and not become personal Seems that we may need to hear some of this advice here in NW Indiana too.

Steve Dalton (@daltonsbriefs)
Editor, Northwest Indiana Politics

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