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Oh what a year it was. Here are the top 10 news stories, plus honorable mentions.

Well, 2025 is upon us, and many view the coming year with trepidation. But before we forget 2024, and with apologies to Harper’s Index, here are a few other numbers for the record.

The past year was filled with many great moments and others that were not so great. Here are my thoughts on some of the best and worst of 2024.

While there was a slight glimmer of hope in December as House Republicans rejected the attempt by Trump to wheel and deal with the debt limit for his personal advantage, we know that in most cases as we move forward the spineless congressional Republicans will forget that Trump is not their king.

The benefits of an anti-SLAPP law would extend beyond newsrooms.

Wisconsin, you’ve once again put your faith in me to fight for our state, and that’s a responsibility I do not take lightly. I’ll continue showing up, listening, and working for you every day to live up to our state motto: ‘Forward.’ Now, it’s time to get to work.

These are terrible times; let’s make the most of them.

President Biden and his lieutenants provided relative stability in our governance for four years, protected our institutions, and dealt professionally with issues affecting jobs, the economy and our international alliances.

Since the beginning of this year, Wisconsin has created only 15,800 jobs, and 7,800 of these were government jobs. This is hardly good news for Wisconsinites.

Civil asset forfeiture arrests property, not people, and takes it from people often without due process or, on the federal level and in many states, even a criminal conviction. Wisconsin reformed its laws in 2018, making it a model, but that’s a low bar because many loopholes still exist for the government.

We have a candidate who is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the teacher union or a wind-up toy for the Democrat(ic) party. Her name is Brittany Kinser out of Wauwatosa.

The integration of AI into radio broadcasting is not a new phenomenon; however, the pace of its adoption is accelerating. AI chatbots and voice technologies are now capable of hosting talk shows, curating playlists, and even engaging with listeners in real time.

The conservatives are right about this one. NPR does in fact have a raging liberal bias — more so than it ever had — and taxpayers should not be forced to support it.

What led me to admire this soft-spoken prince of a man was his under-the-radar determination to give kids, especially those without a leg up, a boost in their young lives. It wasn’t necessarily in his job description, but it was something he decided was the right thing to do.