Well, that was one helluva year we just experienced in 2018 ... even if we forget – but how can we? – President Donald J. Trump’s unpredictability, tweets and blustering on a border wall.

Last year was all about counting the votes, from the Academy ballots that awarded Oscars to México’s gifted director/storyteller Guillermo del Toro and to the animated Disney/Pixar gem ‘Coco,’ to the mid-term elections that saw Democrats crush it with a 40-seat gain in the House.

Locally, we also witnessed the downfall of Republican Congressional incumbents David Valadao and Jeff Denham; Fresno municipal elections that will give the seven-member city council a Latino majority for the first time in almost 20 years; and, the success of Orosi school board member Eddie Valero in gaining entry to the Tulare County Board of Supervisors.

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