Top stories of 2020 in Washington state In the longest, shortest year in most of our lives, a lot happened. Recap the year with us and look ahead to 2021. by 2020 had no shortage of news events, from a global pandemic and an election year to another reckoning with systemic racism and wildfires across the West. (Clockwise from top left: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut) The word of the year has to be “unprecedented.” It’s maddening, overused and, unfortunately, true. Time feels simultaneously frozen and moving at least a million miles an hour. As a result, it can be difficult to remember what the heck happened these past 12 months between our bouts of reading