This is an opinion page. Most weeks you will find an editorial, under the header “Our View” about a subject the newspaper staff have agreed we should take a stand on, comment about, applaud, or all of the above.

There’s always a “Harry’s Gang” column by publisher Pete Radosevich, and usually an “On the Mark” column by board member Ann Markusen — which may land on opinion or elsewhere in the paper, depending on the subject matter. (This week it’s definitely one for the opinion page.)

An opinion page like ours is not unique among newspapers, although with shrinking staff...