Letter from the Editor

By Matt Lit Thirty seven years ago, in 1986, I first drove into the San Luis Valley from Northern New Mexico. Fresh out of college, on my first professional job as a cub reporter “regional editor” for the Taos News, I passed Costilla and crossed into Colorado on my way to Alamosa to visit a friend. Journalistically, under the—sometimes really tough— tutelage of Billie Blair I became a solid writer, editor and journalist. I thank her to this day for being so tough on me and what she brought into my entire professional life.  Life would land me in Summit County in 1988...