So Long 2025! A Look Back on the Year that Was, Part 2

2025 national and local news was a wild ride of ups and downs, inside outs, and outside ins.President Donald Trump’s second term started off with a flurry of executive orders that banned any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), transgender or sexual identity, withdrew the country from the World Health Organization, and authorized Elon Musk’s drive to purge “waste, fraud, and abuse” from government agencies. These were the first in about 221 executive orders h