A Year of Lament

Although this blog started in 2004, it really became active this past year. I changed my focus from a being a second rate Daily Kos to being a second rate Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. I am including some fun facts and milestones from the year:

1. Just in under the wire, we have our first blog contributor Joe. Please welcome Joe to the fray! His first post is up...
2. We ended the year with 4,297 unique visitors this year and many more page views.
3. The majority of our readers are from the Phoenix Metro area, Tucson is second and oddly enough Irvine California is third. There were visitors from 51 countries outside of the US. Canada, the UK and Spain topped the list.

Here are the top ten blog entries for the year:

1. Michael Nowakowski: No Friend to Payday Lenders
2. Michael Nowakowski wins!
3. Michael Nowakowski: Why he won
4. Phoenix City Council District 7
5. I hate people like this...
6. http://ademlament.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html
7. UFCW and Bashas: Eddie just let them vote
8. Wade Leaving State Chair Position: Good For All the Right Reasons
9. Pastor Push Poll?
10. Hepatitis at Cheesecake Factory: There is a moral to this story

Clearly it was a good year for local politics and I hear the message loud and clear, more local politics. I will spend a good part of the coming year talking about Andrew Thomas and hoping for his defeat.

Top 5 topics:

1. Andrew Thomas (32 blog entries).
2. Arizona Legislature (17).
3. Immigration (16)
4. The environment and Phoenix district 7 tied (13)
5. Economics (12)

I want to thank everyone who left comments and participated this year and thanks for reading. Please feel free to send recommendation on what you would like to hear about next year or suggestions (ademlament@gmail.com). Also, anyone interested in becoming a contributor, drop me a line. I am still looking for 1 or 2 more contributors.

Finally, I want to thank my favorite Arizona blogs for doing what they do (in no particular order):

1. Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
2. Blog for Arizona
3. AZ Congress Watch
4. Espresso Pundit
5. Democratic Diva

Sorry if I missed anyone... If you are not on the list, it does not mean I don't like you. Happy New Year everyone!

UPDATE: For some reason this is not showing up in left blogs local section, so here goes: Arizona, Janet Napolitano, Jon Kyl, John McCain, Arizona Republic, Grand Canyon. Hopefully, those are sufficient keywords to get this listed properly....