Blast from the past in this week's edition

This week's edition of Outlook is like a trip down memory lane.

Several former Journal and longtime Journal reporters and editors had a role in putting together this week's edition.

Ellen Marks, as she does every other week, wrote the one-on-one profile. It's a regular feature in Outlook. We try to profile a business leader or rising star in the business community in an interview that includes an introduction and a question-and-answer report.

Marks was a longtime editor at the Journal. She was the deputy city editor when I was hired as a police reporter in April 2010. She ripped up many of my stories and made them better and easier to understand.

This week, she profiled Bill Stimmel, the entrepreneurial director at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center's new Entrepreneurial Complex. It's the first phase of a large project that opened in August, and additional phases are expected to open by the end of 2026.

The idea is that the complex will help aspiring agricultural and food entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground with a commercial kitchen, cold storage and classrooms to teach relevant skills.

Outlook readers will also notice that Kevin Robinson-Avila, an experienced Journal business reporter, penned a guest column this week.

A former Central American foreign correspondent, Robinson-Avila wrote in response to a Journal story about Mexican-style tamales and local women who have made the holiday dish a business around the holiday season.

Robinson-Avila described the nuances of the dish we know locally compared to different takes on the tamale in Nicaragua and other Central American countries.

It's a welcomed sight to see Robinson-Avila's byline in Outlook again.

And hopefully, the copy in the week's edition is clean.

Senior editor Katy Barnitz, who worked for years at the Journal as a reporter and editor, returned to the Journal this week after working elsewhere for much of last year. Barnitz gave me a hand and looked over the copy to help keep it clean.

It's great to have a reunion of sorts in our first Outlook of the year.