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Did 2022 shake up American priorities? In some ways, yes. A new big-city
mayor arrived on the scene set to battle with shibboleths. Voters
stepped up to slap down "expert" assumptions about abortion rights,
inflation, threats to democracy, and more. Midterm contests like the
Maine governor's race were blowouts. But the look back is also grim.
The Georgia Senate race was too close for comfort, a dismal commentary
on race relations. More kids died in preventable school shootings as
Congress ferreted out incremental gun control and called it progress.
People everywhere played down drought, stronger storms, and receding
waterways. The challenges pile up with few satisfying resolutions in
sight as we turn the page to another year.

Here are some of my favorite pieces from 2022:* Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
means to tear down
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the old ways of doing business in the Hub's troubled housing sector.

* Drought is the climate
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scourge that most Southerners ignore.

* Congress serves up the legislative equivalent of thoughts and prayers
on school shootings
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* Saving democracy is a work in progress
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shuts down
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Trumpism; Georgia barely does
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* African Americans are
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enough.

~ GABRIELLE GURLEY

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