2020 | year in Review

2020 Top Stories: COVID-19 leads to nearly 200 deaths, 20K infections

Richard Stone | Editor at Large
Posted 12/26/20

It seemed to come out of nowhere.It didn’t, of course. By the time Austin Mayor Steve Adler shut down the annual SXSW conference in mid-March, the potential devastation of the coronavirus pandemic …

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