In dreams begin responsibilities. And so it was with The National Herald twenty-five years ago.

The staying power of The National Herald is easy to understand: Community.

To be sure the audience for any publication varies. Yet by definition a ‘community’ is a collectivity with some level of common interests. Now I should immediately note the obvious. That it is a well-established tradition since Classical Times that Greeks spend a considerable among of their time together vigorously disagreeing with each other. The staying power of the Herald is squarely based on the fact that it has served as an open forum for a wide array of readers. The initial question was ‘could any single publication serve such a chorus of diverse voices and ideas?’ Clearly, as this anniversary documents what started out as merely a dream is now a firmly established community-based reality.