Plus: Ball drop, behind the scenes | Friday, December 31, 2021
| | | | | | | Presented By Abbott | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen ·Dec 31, 2021 | | 🎊 Happy New Year's Eve, and thank you for the rush-hour conversations this year. We'd love for you to get your friends to join us. They can sign up here. - Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 464 words, a 2-min. read.
⚡ Breaking: Betty White — whose career went from unforgettable roles on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls" to becoming a cultural icon in her 80s — died at 99, just two weeks from her 100th birthday. — N.Y. Post | | | | | | 1 big thing: 2021, visualized |  | | | Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios | | | | Hats off to the genius and range of the Axios Visuals team, led by Sarah Grillo and Danielle Alberti, which dazzles us every day, every newsletter. This growing team added magic to our launch this year of Axios Local — now in 14 cities, with 11 more coming in '22. - Above is Brendan Lynch's standing illustration for the daily news roundup in the Axios Twin Cities newsletter — a strutting spin on Minneapolis' iconic "Spoonbridge and Cherry" in the Walker sculpture garden.
Axios Visuals: 2021 in review. Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios An Axios Visuals Deep Dive, surveying the pandemic's food revolution, showed the team's combined powers — data, illustration, design, development and creativity.  Data: Myers Abortion Facility Database. Map: Thomas Oide and Sara Wise/Axios One of this year's most shared pieces of Axios content was this map by Thomas Oide and Sara Wise: It shows, county by county, how coming Supreme Court rulings could change abortion access. Illustration: Aïda Amer This was Aïda Amer's illustration for Alayna Treene's Axios Sneak Peek story on "The Capitol petri dish," investigating the COVID-19 risk for lawmakers and aides. - Go deeper: "Axios Visuals: 2021 in review ... A look back on our favorite work from the year."
|     | | | | | | 2. Colorado firestorm burns hundreds of homes | | Photo: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images Above, homeowners use hoses to try to protect their property lines as wildfires encroached on Louisville, Colo. In a snap Thought Bubble for Axios Denver readers, John Frank and Alayna Alvarez write: - The wind-fueled flames dashed from house to house yesterday, torching entire neighborhoods and skipping others, indiscriminately destroying lives and capping a difficult year in Colorado.
- Gov. Jared Polis said nearly 1,000 homes and businesses were decimated in Superior, Louisville and other Denver and Boulder suburbs. Local authorities put the estimate closer to 500.
Photo: David Zalubowski/AP Above is the frame of a burned-out trampoline, in the remains of homes in Superior. | | | | | | | | A message from Abbott | | Flu vs. COVID: how to tell similar symptoms apart | | |  | | | | First things first: COVID-19 isn't the flu. And the flu isn't COVID-19. But these viruses can have the appearance of nearly being twins. Symptoms for both can include fever, cough, fatigue, sore throat, body aches, headache and even a loss of taste or smell. | | | | | | 3. 🎆 Parting shots: Ball drop, behind the scenes | | Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images With his inauguration postponed due to COVID, Eric Adams will be sworn in as New York mayor in Times Square in the wee hours, shortly after the midnight ball drop. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fun facts: The ball is actually a geodesic sphere — 12 feet in diameter, and weighs 11,875 pounds (6 tons), according to a Times Square fact sheet. - 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles are bolted to 672 LED modules, attached to the aluminum frame.
Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Tonight's schedule ... YouTube on the ball's history. - Hap-py New Year! See ya in '22 ...
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