Do you ever wonder why some letters to the editor are published and others are not? Or which ones end up jumping to the front of the line? Or why some have about as much chance of being published as your weekly grocery list?

Well, if you do, I don’t blame you.

Before I started this job, I wondered about that, too.

Now that I’ve been making these decisions on a daily basis for the last seven months, I thought it might be helpful to offer some insight into why some letters get published and others don’t.