When I took on the job of editorial page editor four weeks ago, I thought the biggest challenge would be helping to conceive and execute the daily editorials that appear in this newspaper some 365 days a year.

Silly me. I should have given more thought to the letters to the editor that arrive each day from all over the country, be they by e-mail, fax, snail mail or personal delivery.

Now, I’m not referring to just any letters here, but those letters. And by those letters I mean the letters that arrive on a daily basis extolling either the virtues or vices of the Democratic and Republican candidates running for president of the United States.

Such is the life of an editorial page editor in the first-primary state – at least for now. 

Now that the mayoral primary election is over, I thought it would be a good time to respond to some of the questions -- and off-base rumors -- that have surfaced since we published the three-candidates-once-filed-for-bankruptcy story four days before the election.

Some have been raised in letters to the editor. Others have come in personal e-mails to the newsroom. Still others have been raised on our online forums under topics such as "Rootovich reaction to bankruptcy story," "Tuesday's election results in Nashua" and "Nashua city voters can make a difference Tuesday," among others.

But before I explain the sequence of events that led to the story, let me try to dispel one rumor that has been raised repeatedly in our forums despite the best efforts of Telegraph Managing Editor/Online Damon Kiesow to refute them:

For those of you who may have missed the announcement in last Saturday's business section, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself to you as The Telegraph's new editorial page editor.

Or maybe I should say "reintroduce" myself.

After 18 years at the paper - the last two as editor in chief - I am moving over as part of a newsroom reorganization to replace Claudette Durocher, a 44-year veteran of this paper who officially retired from this position a week ago Friday.

As a result, I thought it would be appropriate to give you an idea of what you should expect on our opinion pages going forward, whether you visit these pages in print or online each day.

Check that: Let me tell you what you shouldn't expect.