FROM THE EDITOR.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha

One of the things I like about the turn of the year is that, as a culture, we essentially schedule optimism. We stay up late--during nearly the darkest time of the year--to spend time with family, eat good food, set off colorful explosives, and look forward to what may come,

At Alaska Business, we have a lot to look forward to,

For example, I'm personally excited about the challenge and opportunities presented by our newly crafted editorial calendar process. In past years, we.finalized industries and headlines for a set number of articles for an entire year all at once. This year we've pulled back slightly on the concrete planning and we're putting down flags and stakes instead. We know what our special sections will be, we've planned areas of focus, and we know what industries we're going to highlight, but some of those details are still fluid. We have guidelines, but we also have more freedom, and with that we plan to provide our readers with articles, photo essays, columns, profiles, and other features that are even more timely and informative.

This year we're not publishing a directory every month. Our lists, packed with data on Alaska's businesses across all major industries, will still be available online, in print in our annual Power List, and through an Excel spreadsheet download that's available for purchase. We're filling what was directory space in our special sections with additional stories, guest authors, and as many pictures as we can manage. We will still publish, in print, the Corporate 100...