The Scoreboard took a couple weeks off to drink eggnog, hang out under the mistletoe and watch C-SPAN on New Year’s Eve (just kidding!). But don’t worry: It’s back with a vengeance in 2013.

Just as we did last year, we’ll deliver a list each Friday of the winners and losers in Vermont news and politics. As always, we’ve consulted with a wide range of people as clueless as we are — and totally arbitrarily aggregated the results below.

So, without further ado, here’s The Scoreboard for the week of Friday, Jan. 4 (oh, and all those weeks we missed):

Paul Heintz was part of the Seven Days news team from 2012 to 2020. He served as political editor and wrote the "Fair Game" political column before becoming a staff writer.