Editor's note

Editor’s note

The policy of this page is to allow people to have their say in letters and guest columns but we don’t want people to attack other people personally — just their ideas. We recently ran a guest column that took aim at a frequent guest columnist, Rich Belzer, for his lack of credentials. We have never asked Belzer to provide us with a broader explanation of his background and so that was our fault. Belzer’s tagline has typically read: Rich Belzer lives in Bend. There is more to Belzer than that. Belzer served as director of federal marketing for a NYSE-listed computer company and was subsequently a senior executive with two Nasdaq-listed high-tech companies. He moved to Bend to join Columbia Aircraft where he became vice president of worldwide sales. We wanted to set the record straight.