I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

I use social media every day. I don't have a Twitter account, but not because I'm a dinosaur about it. I have enough of a platform here. People in my position who do it tend to use it in a promotional way or in a hamstrung way. I look at Twitter all the time as a news tool or for cultural conversation. I've used it in my reporting. It's very useful.