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“Almost Home,” Kristin Pazulski, November 6
Home Run
About ten years ago the federal government set out to end homelessness, but offering mortgages on the cheap without proper vetting. Remember how that worked out?
Sean McManus
Denver
I appreciate your in-depth look at our homeless issues here in the metro area. Your article is well researched, well written and very timely! My wife and I were just discussing homelessness in the region.
I was hoping that you might comment on one question: Are homeless people being “exported” from surrounding states? We heard a rumor, and I was hoping that your research may have turned up something on this topic.
Thank you for your time, research and the quality of writing.
Tom Tobiassen
RTD Director, Aurora
Editor’s note: For many more comments on “Almost Home,” read the online version at westword.com — where we’ll also be addressing the rumor about exporting the homeless.
“Word Without End,” Kyle Harris, October 30
War of the Words
Hey, Westword, I want to thank and commend you for the profile of Mary DeForest. Weekly newspapers often fail at highlighting local people and culture in favor of falling into the rabbit hole of city council meetings. Learning that fundamentalists are actually calling themselves assholes is much more valuable information…and made me laugh out loud. (I would, however, be happy to marry a “sexual freak who can’t keep a house clean.”)
Intelligent, interesting people are worth celebrating regardless of financial or political influence. As DeForest has worked so hard to champion, language patterns betray class, education and intention in ways that affect daily interactions big and small. May we be brave enough to create the linguistic resonance (and, when necessary, dissonance) to help shape a vibrant Colorado worth study in the millennia to come.
Philip Armour
Boulder County
What an inspiring discovery it was for me to read about the truly classic epic journey of Mary DeForest that led her to the creation of her brilliant Latinometer. What a clever way to put her love of classics and language into a very practical tool to counteract endemic deceptive communication.
Like her, I have a passion for literary classics and mythology, and taught them for 33 years at Regis University until my retirement, in 2000. I miss teaching (especially my Myth and Culture in Literature course), but not the politics of the academy. I may have unknowingly run into Dr. Deforest at the University of Colorado at Boulder back in the ’70s, when I was in the Ph.D. program in literature there. We must be contemporaries, but my life was never as colorful as hers, though I share some of her academic battles with that system.
Loved the article and wish Dr. DeForest the very best.
Carmen A. Casis
Professor Emerita, Regis University