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!