Luis Carrasco, a real estate and border trade reporter for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, has become an editorial writer for the paper.
Carrasco writes, “Hello, reasonable person. How are you today? It’s very nice to meet you. I don’t mean to be forward, but I feel as if I know you. Sometimes I think there’s so few of us left we should just start a club and meet regularly. Then I realize how unreasonable that sounds and move on.
“Anyway, my name is Luis and I am the new editorial writer at the Star.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am to be able to say that or how lucky. Not only because I’ve accomplished a career goal or because after years of being in the newsroom I finally get to have an opinion, but because it truly is an honor. At a time when many newspapers are paring back on anything that doesn’t guarantee clicks and likes and shares, it’s a privilege to be part of an expanding Editorial Department and its vital role in the community.
“These pages are important, not because we get to speak, but because we get to listen to one another. They are, ideally, a place for reasonable people to come together, share ideas and debate.”
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