OUR LETTER WRITING HEROES DrugSense FOCUS Alert #463 - Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 Since the Media Awareness Project was started as an email list over a decade and a half ago a major goal has been to empower folks who write letters to the editor in support of drug policy reform. It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Robert Sharpe is our Letter Writer of the Year for 2010. Robert had 176 letters and three OPEDs published during the year, bringing the total letters published that we know of to 2, 414. He writes to newspapers all over the world from his home. Robert writes as a volunteer for Common Sense for Drug Policy. His published letters often have versions of the title "Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, Washington, D.C." and sometimes a link to their website http://www.csdp.org/ You may read his published letters at http://www.mapinc.org/writers/Robert+Sharpe Robert has provided his tips for letter writing success on this webpage http://www.mapinc.org/resource/tips.htm Links to pages listing many of our letter writing heroes include these: Our letter writers of the year http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/yearly.php Our letter writers of the month http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/monthly.php MAP's published letters silver award (100 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_silver.htm MAP's published letters gold award (500 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_gold.htm MAP's published letters platinum award (1000 LTEs) http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/lte_platinum.htm Our recognition of the best published letter each week http://www.mapinc.org/lte_awards/weekly.php MAP's graphic display of the top 100 letter writers http://www.mapinc.org/lte/topwrit.htm Prepared by: Richard Lake, Focus Alert Specialist www.mapinc.org =.

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