We have nearly two months to go in 2025, but taking last week off gave me time to think about 2026 and what our newsroom can do in the coming new year to further serve this community.

As I’ve written often, 2025 has been the year of artificial intelligence for us. We believe AI will revolutionize newsrooms as nothing before, so we started the year intent on getting ahead of the curve. Ten months later, we have assimilated many AI tools into our work, making for cleaner copy, richer reporting, and many more stories.

We also started 2025 knowing that we’d spend a good bit of time reporting on the impacts of Donald Trump’s second term as president. He vowed to make big changes to government, and he did, with consequences throughout our state and region. Our reporters have devoted countless

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