Editorial: Bring on the new year!

First of all, I’d like to apologize for how sparse this issue might seem. Christmas fell on a really bad day—a Tuesday—for our newspaper this year, the day where I usually sit down and spend most of the day putting the newspaper together on InDesign.

I was back home in Goldendale from Dec. 22 through Christmas, and arrived back in Ritzville very early Wednesday (Dec. 26) morning. So the paper you are reading now was mostly put together on Dec. 20 and 21, believe it or not.

Second, I figured that it might be appropriate for another editorial to reflect personally on 2018 and look ahead a little...