Isms: Views on life in rural America

To borrow a line from “Seasons of Love” from Rent, “How do measure, measure a year?”

The next verse of the song seems pretty accurate for a journalist:

“In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee (or tea in my case), in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year in the life.”

In the case of SAM, how do you measure which story or articles written throughout the year were simply the best? Should website page views be the determining factor? Should readers vote? Should it be determined by our editorial team which, in SAM’s case is me and...