The 10 Most Tweeted San Diego Rostra Posts in 2011

 

Politics & Media Mashup: your weekend news aggregator leads off with “The 10 Most Tweeted San Diego Rostra Posts in 2011” and includes stories and editorials from across the country about the death of redevelopment in California. Also included: pieces on local, state and national politics as well as social media.

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The past year has been a busy one for San Diego Rostra and its bloggers. The political web site saw as many as 19,000 unique monthly visitors in 2011 — a big number for a 1 1/2 year-old site with no paid staff. Many of the posts that came from Rostra’s impressive bullpen of Rostrafarians spread far and fast thanks to Twitter and Facebook.

The posts that generated the most buzz this year were interesting and varied. One broke news. Another poked fun at politicians. Some were prickly. The one thing they all had in common — they were popular with the Twitter set.

Here are the 10 most tweeted Rostra posts in 2011:

• San Diego’s famous “Radio Mayor” … Roger Hedgecock … endorses Carl DeMaio for Mayor of San Diego 14 tweets

• Deep Thoughts….By People Who May Be Your Mayor Someday 15 tweets

• Really? Occupy SD holds moment of silence in solidarity with “the guy who shot at the White House” 17 tweets

• Who has more Klout? 17 tweets

• SD CityBeat: Do Journalistic Standards Include Personal Death Wishes? 18 tweets

• Breaking: UT Budget Cuts Said to Result in Dismissal of Editorial Writer Don Sevrens, Three Editors 19 tweets

• Redistricting Proposal — A Power Grab by Democrats and Labor in the City of San Diego 20 tweets

• Hall to Lynch: ‘Oh no you didn’t!’ 20 tweets

• Some Politicians Are Real Twits 25 tweets

• Stop the “Cat Tax” 25 tweets

 

Here are some of the week’s top stories:

Redevelopment

• Lawmakers seek redevelopment compromise | AP

• Court allows elimination of redevelopment agencies | NYTimes.com

• Redevelopment entities dealt a death blow | WSJ

• Officials vow to work on redevelopment reboot | latimes.com

• EDITORIAL: Court kills sacred cow of crony capitalism | The Orange County Register

• EDITORIAL: Court makes right call in dissolution of redevelopment agencies | Contra Costa Times

• EDITORIAL: Court made right decision | LA Daily News

• EDITORIAL: Revive – and repair – redevelopment | SignOnSanDiego.com

• California Supreme Court hands Gov. Brown a win on redevelopment | Sacramento Bee

• Court puts redevelopment agencies out of business | latimes.com

• Redevelopment ruling will slow affordable housing construction | SignOnSanDiego.com

• Redevelopment Dead, court says | SignOnSanDiego

• What Redevelopment’s Death Means for San Diego | voiceofsandiego.org

• Court Rules State Can Abolish Redevelopment Agencies | KPBS.org

• Local pols react to Supreme Court redevelopment agency ruling | The Daily Transcript

• Court kills redevelopment, jeopardizing many local projects | North County Times

• Sanders calls this a sad day for San Diego | SignOnSanDiego.com

• Escondido ballpark dead, says mayor | SignOnSanDiego.com

• Twitter Reacts to Redevelopment News | Storify

• State wins OK to abolish redevelopment agencies | SF Gate

• California Supreme Court allows redevelopment money grab | San Jose Mercury News

• California Supremes Rule, Redevelopment is History | KQED’s John Myers

• Read the California Supreme Court redevelopment decision | Sacramento Bee

Local

• Mayor edges DeMaio…on Twitter | Tom Blair – SignOnSanDiego.com

• Papa Doug’s Christmas Message: The Gift That Keeps Giving | Storify

• Project Labor Agreements Strike Back, Unfortunately | North County Times 

• EDITORIAL: It’s Time to Shove Occupy Out to Sea | CityBeat 

• San Diego’s Civic Organist Survives to Welcome Another Year | NYTimes.com

• DA’s office says officials took dinners, tickets, more | SignOnSanDiego.com

• EDITORIAL: DA’s probe should just be first step | SignOnSanDiego.com

• Vets confounded by dueling medical pot rules | SignOnSanDiego.com

• On Public Ownership of the Chargers, Part II | voiceofsandiego.org

• How Truthful Are the Mayoral Candidates? | voiceofsandiego.org

• The Mayor’s Last Year | voiceofsandiego.org

• Top 10 San Diego Political & Media Stories | Storify

• Making a difference: A conversation with Malin Burnham | SignOnSanDiego.com

• Jacobs on giving, SD’s economy, Balboa Park | SignOnSanDiego.com

State

• EDITORIAL: Shocker! Dirty politics played role in redistricting maps | Sacramento Bee

• EDITORIAL: Brown’s pep talk for tax hikes | The Orange County Register

• In Oakland, Mayor Struggles to Put Protest in the Past | NYTimes.com

• Californians to Watch: Jon Coupal leads Howard Jarvis group into tax war | Sacramento Bee

• Brown’s 1st Year – A Year of No Reform and Lost Credibility | Political Vanguard

• Jerry Brown: There is no there there | Calwhine.com

• Jerry Brown on triumph and tiptoes | SFGate

• Plans to ‘tax the rich’ hold risks and rewards for California | Sacramento Bee

• Will State Tax Ruin Online Shopping For Californians? | KUSI

• EDITORIAL: UC regent Crane ousted for telling hard truths | SFGate.com

• CalSTRS admits to nightmare that media long ignored | Calwhine.com

• EDITORIAL: Pension numbers need to be nailed | Sacramento Bee

• Missing Opportunities: How CalPERS focused on the wrong objectives | Barrons.com

• Jonah Goldberg: Conservative establishment divided against itself | latimes.com

• McGurn: Taxing Kim Kardashian | WSJ

• Shriver, Schwarzenegger together on Xmas | POLITICO.com

• L.A. to Vote on How Porn Is Made | The Atlantic Wire

National

• Santorum Surges in Iowa | The Washington Post

• New poll: Americans see Obama as liberal, Jon Huntsman as aligned with their views | NY Daily News

• Political Predictions for 2012 | Karl Rove

• Ron Paul’s Rise Helps Obama | The Daily Beast

• Ron Paul’s Long Record of Glorious Failures in Congress | The Atlantic Wire

• Michele Bachmann’s hard fall | POLITICO.com

• Is Newt Gingrich going bust in Iowa? | The Washington Post

• Mount Newt erupts! | POLITICO.com

• More trouble for Gingrich: He Supported Romney’s Healthcare Reform | Reuters

• Gingrich’s Spokesman Works So Hard to Explain So Much | The Atlantic Wire

• Gingrich’s Phony War | The New Yorker

• Newt Gingrich’s Glory Days | NYTimes Magazine

• In his debut in Washington’s power struggles, Gingrich threw a bomb | Bob Woodward – The Washington Post.

• Mitt Romney in striking distance of Iowa win | POLITICO.com

• How Harvard Shaped Mitt Romney | NYTimes.com

• The Houses of the G.O.P. Hopefuls | NYTimes.com

• Gallup: Obama job approval surges | POLITICO.com

• Goldwater Institute an Aggressive Conservative Watchdog | NYTimes.com

• Midlife Crisis Economics | NYTimes.com

• EDITORIAL: Keeping College Students From the Polls | NYTimes.com

Social & Traditional Media

• Sweden’s Awesome Twitter Account Run By Random Swedes | BuzzFeed.com

• NYT Twitter Ace Pulls Another Weiner | gawker.com

• The New York Times Just Spammed 8 Million People by Accident | The Atlantic Wire

• How to Leverage Your Klout Score for Fame, Fortune, Perks | Mashable

• A few cracks in my crystal ball | The Washington Post

• Follow the Ron Paul Newsletter Twitter for 140-Character Bursts of Horrific Racism | gawker.com

• SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers | POLITICO.com

• On Eve Of Net Boycott, Dump GoDaddy Exodus Begins | Fox News

• Reddit Forces Paul Ryan to Play Defense on SOPA | The Atlantic Wire

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