Arizona biz reporter Carrasco becomes editorial writer

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.

“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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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.