I followed all of these stories and blogged on most of them. I didn't find any of them world-shaking. (The Sodom and Gomorrah one was region shaking.) But all of them were interesting.
I'm looking forward to another year of interesting stories in 2019, and to Ms. Borschel-Dan's coverage of them.
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