Exhale the Bitter, Inhale the Better

As we close the chapter on 2024, I find myself in an unusual position. With our editor sidelined by an unfortunate hand injury and emergency surgery, it falls to me to pen this year-in-review editorial. And let me tell you, I’m not in the cheeriest of moods. Maybe that’s fitting, given the state of things around here, where civility seems to be as endangered as the newspapers trying to cove...