But change is constant, even sneaky, and often surprises us. Peering around corners doesn’t protect us from the future; it only steals the present.

We are hiring staff. We are publishing once a week instead of twice. We will continue to use the U.S. Postal Service for delivery. We print the papers on Tuesday, deliver them to stores and the post office on Wednesday and you should get them on Thursday.

If you’re reading this the first week in January, you’re probably wondering why my column is here. I’m not new to the area or to the newspaper industry. You might even recognize my name, or at least the first part of it. For more than two decades, I worked and wrote a weekly column for […]