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We'll miss Trib

I just wanted to tell you how very, very, very sorry my family and I are to learn that The Tribune is ending.

We have been loyal subscribers for my entire life — 36 years — and we are all absolutely despondent that there will no longer be a voice of reason for our city.

With all due respect to the Albuquerque Journal, which we also subscribe to, we feel it's vital for a city to have both conservative and liberal outlooks. One can only benefit from more than one viewpoint.

We are nothing short of devastated with the news that we are losing The Trib. Having only one newspaper for a city this size is going to severely limit our variety of news stories and opinions.

Thank you for providing us with such a thoughtful, responsible, interesting and invaluable contribution to life in Albuquerque. We will miss you dreadfully.

Maria Szasz, Ferenc M. Szasz.

Margaret Connell Szasz

and Eric Garretson

Albuquerque

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Tribute to passion

I have been saddened when picking up The Trib on my driveway — always expertly aimed: Thank Aaron for me — and seeing how thin it has become. And I have been impressed that you were still putting out such a strong paper, maintaining the high quality of your photos, writing and design with a shrinking staff.

But I was not surprised. The Trib has always been the product of people who are as passionate as they are talented.

That the paper has consistently been excellent is shown by all your awards. It has also been an outstanding service to our community: features on individuals and neighborhoods, strong voices on the opinion page, expressive photographs of people and places. . . .

I wonder if your readers realize how directly involved you have been in the community. One example is your Lighthouse Awards for student newspapers. These were invaluable when I became sponsor of a high school paper published without the support of a journalism class. The awards gave the students a target and valuable feedback. . . .

Albuquerque will be diminished without The Trib. I grew up with it — my parents were subscribers. I will miss it greatly.

Annette Chakerian

Albuquerque

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A new black hole

Please know how much we will miss The Tribune. It's as if there will be another black hole in space from here on.

We are so sorry that another source of information will be absent from Albuquerque. Heaven knows we need all the different sources we can get!

We kept hoping for a pick-up at the end — that the heart and soul put into each issue would be recognized and rewarded.

Having done work on a similar project for five years that was not renewed, I can empathize with all of you.

Please accept our sincere thanks.

Chris and Sue Clayton

Albuquerque

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Be proud

Will really really miss you guys. Be proud of what you all have done for so very long.

Paul Burt

Albuquerque

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Bon voyage

As The Tribune sails off into the sunset, I wanted to thank you all for your coverage of our schools and students and to wish you the best of luck. As a longtime resident of the Albuquerque area, I am sorry to see The Trib go.

Kim Vesely

Communications officer,

Rio Rancho Public Schools

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A voice lost

Thank you to the whole staff for doing what you've done so well for so long. I can only hope that each of you find work and that the other paper decides there are at least 75 percent of readers in Albuquerque who want to read somebody but Cal Thomas.

I don't read my paper before work in the morning. I have never understood why people want to buy a 12-hour-old paper, when they can get fresher info in an afternoon paper.

Guess we are all now expected to read the sports scores from two days ago, and never mind the op-eds.

Sad day, indeed. Thanks again to all.

Nancy Woodard

Albuquerque

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An old friend

It was inevitable, but it is sad to see an old friend, The Tribune, cease publication.

I have enjoyed reading it for the 25 years I have lived in Albuquerque. Good luck to all employees and their families.

Kurt Laffan

Albuquerque

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No joy tonight

There is no joy in Mudville tonight.

My family has subscribed to The Tribune since I was five years old. I am now 73.

As a child, I could recall seeing the ever-shining lighthouse, illuminating the news, before the quick sound bites of TV news.

JoAnn Colgan

Albuquerque

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Last bastion

Amigos, when I think of The Albuquerque Tribune, the concepts of integrity, professionalism and best practices come to mind. You truly have been a last bastion of old-school journalism, something near and dear to my heart. . . .

Floyd E. Vasquez

Public information officer,

N.M. Department of Veterans Services

Albuquerque

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A competitor

When I went to work for the Albuquerque Journal deep in the last century, the circulations of the Journal and The Trib were not that far apart. Competition at the newsroom level was real and intense.

As an example, I recall one late Sunday evening — I was covering the police beat — a despondent tourist jumped off Sandia Crest to his death. I heard about it late and was unable to get details from the investigating State Police officers, so I let it slide.

The Trib played it Page A1 on Monday afternoon. Then-Journal Managing Editor John McMillion called me into his office to learn that I had known of it but hadn't been successful in obtaining the details.

"The next time this happens, call the State Police shift commander," he said. "If that doesn't work, call the district commander at home. If that doesn't work, call the chief of State Police at home. If that doesn't work, call me, and we'll call around again."

That was competition. If it happened on my cycle, it had better be in the Journal first. . . .

The beneficiaries, of course, were the readers — and in those days the viewers of television news, as the electronic media depended on the newspapers for the news. . . .

William C. Hume

Albuquerque