Valley Voices: The 2020 High Desert Liberal Awards
And the winners are.
Special to the Victorville Daily Press
No one I know would dispute the observation that 2020 was a downer of a year, but at least one thing was encouragingly up, and I am of course referring to the number of letters printed in our local paper.
After a three-year decline, the 850 letters printed in the Daily Press in 2020 represent a 20% increase over 2019. This uptick also represents good progress toward a return to a time when the letters counted over 1,500 a year.
The majority of 2020 letters focused on just two closely connected topics: The coronavirus and Trump (his approach to the virus, his first impeachment and the election).