Bringing home the 'big cup'

Thirty years is a long time in between Editorial Leadership Awards. When Gary Stevenson told me we needed to write more editorials three years ago, my response was: "We are too diverse to agree on anything." You should hear some of the arguments we have in this office.

No matter who the reporters are, we don't always agree, but we started finding ways to agree on something.

This year, we finally brought home the Editorial Leadership award for our work in 2015. The last one was in 1986, when Mike Lindsay owned the Saratoga Sun. It was for his editorials in 1985.

For our editorials, we all read...