In your Sunday February 22, 2026, addition of the El Dorado News-Times you published an opinion piece letter signed by "--Anonymous". The signature was within 4 inches of your guidelines for letter acceptance, specifically: "Anonymous letters or letters signed by a pseudonym are not accepted." The subject matter of the letter written by Anonymous concerned the proposed 1/2 cent sales tax initiative to benefit South Arkansas Regional Hospital. This is an important topic for our community, so I am assuming that you violated your own standards for publication to encourage community discussion of this matter. With that in mind, please allow me to weigh in.

One of the most important community entities in El Dorado is South Arkansas Regional Hospital. I rank its importance as equivalent of that of the El Dorado Police Department, the El Dorado Fire Department, and the Union County Sheriff's Office. All of these entities work around the clock to preserve our collective health and lives. El Dorado must have a viable hospital or, I believe, our community will be diminished significantly in the upcoming years. While I am not privy to all........

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