1st Place: Tobacco in public places
2nd Place: Native Bay Restaurant
3rd Place: Brett Favre

To all the smokers out there, this needs no explanation. The delicious and satisfying cigarette puffs that used to accompany dinner or drinks are long gone. To everyone else who is not mourning the loss, just hang on. That cigarette-fueled bar smell that forced you to wash your clothes was an incredible boon to the laundry detergent industry, so we didn’t just lose smoke – we lost jobs. And all that nicotine that the smokers were sharing with you – that greatly improved local happiness. So there. Second, Native Bay, a restaurant out on Lake Wissota, was a painful loss. The food was outstanding, they were committed to local and organic ingredients, and they added a lot of class to an increasingly corporate local eating scene. And of course, whether you were riveted or disgusted by all the retirement charades, Brett Favre could really throw a football, and you can’t. – Eric Rasmussen