Editorial

This issue begins our third year of publishing Prairie Fire. As we celebrate our second birthday, we would like to look back for a moment to our inaugural issue and remember why we are here and consider how far we have come. That a newspaper of any type can show growth and success in these challenging times is an accomplishment, and we have experienced both in our time so far. Many readers have joined us since our July 2007 issue, in which we published our position statement. Our philosophy and our purpose have not wavered, and we feel that publishing that statement again is helpful for us and for all the new readers, advertisers and contributors who have joined us along the way.

This is the second essay in a series discussing the state of newspaper and the newspaper industry.

We are Prairie Fire newspaper. We are the progressive voice of the Great Plains. Our goal is to engage our readership with thoughtful, bipartisan discourse on public policy matters complemented by compelling analyses and critiques of the arts and humanities.