EDITOR’S COLUMN – The arena or the peanut gallery — we get to choose

As we smooth open the shiny pages of 2025 calendars with a blend of hopeful inspiration and fretful trepidation, let’s pause for a moment and consider our position. What transpires in the days ahead will be a heady blend of things that are subject to our control through free will and personal responsibility and things over which we have no control other than the way we respond to them. This is true every year, for…