I should have written this letter years ago.

Edgar Allen Beem rocks. Last week’s column on the future Republican presidential candidate, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, was another in a long line of outstanding, incisive works.

I like The Forecaster, and mean no insult to it by saying this, but a writer of Beem’s caliber deserves a far broader forum.

Knowing that his column is inside the paper each week, I make sure to pick up The Forecaster.

Thank you, Mr. Beem.

Steve McKelvey
Scarborough