When you are in the business of producing a fresh newspaper every day, it is easy to lose track of everything that made headlines over the course of a year. Sure, some issues and events stand out in your memory, but other significant occurrences are not as readily recalled.
At this time of year, we tend to take an accounting of what happened over the previous 12 months. Newsrooms across the country do this, and in every one of them, someone invariably says, “That happened this year? That seems so long ago.”
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