Forum Editorial: Resolving to keep our resolutions

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A new year is upon us again — did someone put this thing on fast-forward when we weren’t looking?? — and with it, better intentions for a clean slate.

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve opened a fresh calendar, starting over at the beginning will always be accompanied by a sense of opportunity at what a new year can bring.

…And usually that’s gone by February.

Nonetheless, we, like so many of you, still hold out hope for keeping our New Year’s Resolutions throughout the whole year in 2025. Our strategy this year is less resolving to do new, daring things, and more to make sure we continue to do the things we strive to do every day, regardless of what year it is.

This year, we at The Forum resolve to keep bringing our readers the news that gives us all a better idea of who we are as a community, from sharing the triumphs and struggles of our student athletes, to the inspiring stories of our friends and neighbors, to the investigations necessary to hold our public officials and the powerful accountable.

It’s a simple resolution, and maybe even a little bit vague. And as we said, yes, it’s something we already try our best to do.

But like anybody who has been doing something for a while, it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of the purpose behind it — and the same can be true of the journalists at your local newspaper. When we’re in the weeds of August and September, it might sometimes be a little difficult for us to get worked up over illegal censorship of highway patrol crash reports, telling the story of a good Samaritan, or getting excited about a new group of kids learning about themselves as they learn how to win and how to lose.

But we resolve to look back at our resolution and remember why we’re here and what we’re here to do — even if we’ve done it before.

We invite you to do the same, and to make 2025 the year we keep our resolutions — even if it just means ending the year as the same people we hoped we could be in January.

From all of us at The Forum and Times-Tribune, happy New Year!