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The Best California Posts of 2005
December 30, 2005
We've sorted through a huge pile of terrific entries and come up with what we find to be the top five California focused posts of the year. You people wrote a lot of great stuff! Ranking among these five was impossible so they are presented in no particular order. The envelope, please...
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Daraka Larimore-Hall on hoverbike
My Prop. 75 focus group
David on d-day
"You are my mother's dream."
Marissa Bloom at PowerPac
Logging the Sequoias : Insanity or Greed?
Tyler Suchman at OjaiBlog
Reflections on an Execution
seenos at Left-Over
I won't give myself anything more than a hopefully somewhat honorable mention, but my personal favorite this year was Pacific Edge, and everyone else's seems to have been Hope. But we've also got one other special award to (virtually) hand out...
Jen Ancona, Writing and Leadership
Jen Ancona has done battle this year with everything from broken laptops to flaky web applications to well organized and overcapitalized conservatives. She volunteered enormous quantities of time, writing on two blogs and starting the California Speaks Out network, getting the state focused progressive weblog scene moving. As her husband, I'm something less than a completely impartial observer but it would have been a terrible injustice if no one said anything! You can read the best of her work from this year - and her trademark solid research and crisp, crystal clear writing - over at PowerPac's Between the Lines.
Huzzah to all our winners, and all the other folks who have written such great stuff over the past year. Of course this was totally subjective and just for fun, so feel free to post others that you liked in the comments. Have a terrific New Year's and be ready to come out swinging in January!
Posted by Dan Ancona
Comments
Actually Prop 75 lost very narrowly, and if we weren't so lucky to have such a strong "No" message, I am not so sure it would have failed. I think the writer's insights on the role and value of unions were valuable, particularly at that time, when Prop 75 was running very much ahead in the polls and lots of liberals still were on the fence or didn't know how to talk about the issue.
Posted by: Jen Ancona at December 31, 2005 10:32 AM
Thanks for the honor - logging in the sequoias is a consequence of just one of many environmental rollbacks we are seeing from this administration.
Cheers, Tyler - Ojaiblog.com
Posted by: Tyler at December 31, 2005 06:40 PM
I don't understand what is prop 75?
Posted by: Arnold Governator at January 2, 2006 09:56 PM
Jen:
Thanks so much, wow, my first ever blog award! I am humbled. And thanks for the defense... Prop.75 did do the best out of Arnold's props, despite being the most dangerous. And I'm sure we'll see more attempts to bust unions in the future, so it's important to get the messaging down.
Posted by: dday at January 4, 2006 10:35 PM
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Why is the prop 75 comment up for best? Looking at the election returns, the writer was wrong on the effectiveness of the ads.
Posted by: Jack Folsum at December 30, 2005 01:09 PM