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Lyons: We're making a list; readers checking it twice

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make lists and those who don’t.

Ironically, those who don’t end up on a list anyway. And if the do-not-make-lists list is alphabetical, I’ll be somewhere in the middle.

Yet twice this week I found myself in the middle of compiling lists by voting for The Associated Press stories of the year and again in a Northwest Herald boardroom discussing our overall and local stories of the year.

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