Forum Editorial: Resolving to keep a good thing going

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As we get older, the days and years blur together, with little to separate one from the next in hindsight. Instead, each day and each year is what we make it.

What will we make of 2026?

Like so many of you (we imagine), we start each year with a resolution to do better in one facet or another. By the dog days of August and September, those resolutions are often forgotten in favor of just holding on.

Last year, our resolution wasn’t to do new daring things, but more to make sure that we continued to do the things we strive to do every day, regardless of what year it is.

We’d like to think we, more or less, managed to get through 2025 with our resolve intact in that regard. We resolved 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.

We believe we met that goal.

But as the world around us changes, and as we do as well, a new year does not always demand new goals. Sometimes it’s achievement enough to continue meeting the goals we set for ourselves each and every day.

So for 2026, we resolve to do the same, no matter the circumstances, no matter the excuses. And we invite you to do the same.

If you met your resolution in 2025, let’s make 2026 the year it blurs together into a streak of success. And if you didn’t, then make 2026 the year you keep your resolution — even if it just means ending the year as the same person you hoped you could be in January.

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