Bring on 2021! Autoweek/Toyota/Honda/Getty Images/Lexus
I know I’m not alone in being more than ready to kick 2020 outta here. Be safe and we’ll see you next year.
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
To say goodbye to a dreadful 2020, I asked a few people for their thoughts on what they loved/hated/whatever about the year. It could be a drive they took, a story we did, an experience they had, anything. What will 2020 be remembered for?
Here are a few responses.
From Los Angeles, Mark Vaughn reported that he got to “drive/ride/fly a lot of cool cars/bikes/jets.” You can check out his list.
Mark Vaughn
(Editor’s note: Below is a story featuring Autoweek’s last interview with John Paul Jr. in December of 2018. The story is an insightful look at Paul’s battle with Huntington’s disease.)
I didn’t know him personally, but I was lucky enough to be covering racing when John Paul Jr. was an active driver. Whenever he won, which was quite often, I was always glad because that meant there’d be an intelligent, considerate voice in the press room for the post-race interviews. John Paul Jr. was always one of the nicest guys in racing. If you didn’t know it, you’d never guess what he’d had to overcome. But everybody knew it. And everybody still liked John Paul Jr.
food education and educating people on how to know what to do? i think the study i referred to, just released yesterday or the day before, by the economic research service, encouraged people to look at it. because it s very compelling. they look at food costs by calorie, by volume, by portion. and obviously timeliness is another factor in all this, but they they point out fruits and vegetables among food groups are the least costly and the economist i know at the briefing i was at, compared the price, the number of calories in a doughnut versus a medium sized banana, and the banana being less expensive than that doughnut and far healthier for you. so there are a number of very practical source of messages that way, but i want to say on that access to healthy foods, we re very mindful, and bill referenced this in his remarks, we re very mindful of the access question. i know that in the food stamp or the s.n.a.p. program, about in excess of 90% of food stamp recipients h