Every week The Chart hosts a number of editorials or column pieces written by a variety of people, including, from time to time guest staff and faculty. 

Not sure what an editorial is? Let me explain. Many on staff also write news stories where they are not allowed to put their opinions on whatever subject they are covering into their work. Editorials are pretty much the opposite. 

Editorials allow writers to share their thoughts on either a news story, a hot topic or pretty much anything their editor will let them print. 

So why do newspapers bother with printing an editorial? The short answer is because people read them. Where news stories simply inform, editorials engage the audience. Readers will either nod in agreement or shake their fist in anger. 

While some editorials are for entertainment, the majority are sharing a view on something and hope to, at minimum, get the reader to think. 

I have seen editorials light a passion in people, laugh with the writer and, at times, cry. 

As a writer who every week has an editorial, I can say that is why I do this, to engage thought and stir emotion. 

From the editorials I have read by our other writers, I would say they are doing the same. Editorials allow writers to have some soul and not just be the keepers of information feeding the public. 

 Chances are, you may not always agree with every editorial and some may just plain piss you off. 

Keep reading; we will have something different the next week.