Paul Reich

Dear Editor, Before ballots arrive in early October, I want to say why I am running for county commissioner and what I would do. Christine and I raised our five children here, all graduates of Telluride High School. Like many young people, they are finding it harder than it should be to move back to their hometown. As a community, we have not lost our way. But we have lost ground. I want San Miguel County to be a place people can come home to, not just visit. We ran two retail...

Thank you, and happy belated Fourth of July. Thank you to the San Miguel Democratic Party for all your work to organize this. There is something fitting about gathering the day after Independence Day, because what we celebrate is not just freedom in the abstract. It is self‑governance. People coming together to make tough decisions and shape the future they want to live in. That is what this race is about. I have lived in San Miguel County for more than twenty‑five years. I owned two Main...

I am running for County Commissioner because of one question I keep coming back to. Will San Miguel County remain a place where the people who work here can afford to live here, and have a real voice in the decisions that shape our future? I have spent more than twenty-five years here, raising five children who went through Telluride schools, running two Main Street businesses, working in rural healthcare, and leading both our school board and our hospital board. That time taught me one thing...