Our Top 10s issue is on stands this week, so we assembled the Chronicle news staff to riff on their own list of the biggest stories of the year.
"We lived through an attempt to overthrow the government, and then the power went out and people froze to death in their beds, and then the district attorney indicted a cop for murder and thousands of Austinites were living in the streets and the Legislature finally and fully annexed itself to Fox News Nation and the governor gave up trying to keep his constituents alive during a pandemic, and it was still only March."
That's how News Editor Mike Clark-Madison prefaced in print the news staff's roundup of 2021's highs and lows (mostly lows!), which also included the gutting of abortion rights, the resurrection of the camping ban, and the state's tiny moves toward legal weed. The group covered so much ground we had to run an abbreviated version on-air this week, but we've included the whole conversation in this streaming rebroadcast.
Mike was kind enough to take over hosting duties for me, but I'll be back next week with the music staff and their picks for their favorite artists and albums of the year.