John Travolta fans may be excited to see him singing and dancing again in the remake of Hairspray, due for release next month, but not everyone is happy with his involvement in the film. Travolta is a Scientologist and because of that some in the gay community are calling for a boycott of the [...]
Continue Reading →The once red hot housing market has been cooling down over the last year and half. The Housing sector indicators such as new housing starts, unsold homes inventory, median prices of new and existing homes, all present a mixed picture. And over the last several months, the running subtext has been that [...]
Continue Reading →Issue: Should the Federal Hate Crime Law be expanded to include crimes committed based on the victim’s gender or sexual orientation?
I thought an interesting topic for the blog today would be the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007. The bill, which was passed in the House back in [...]
Continue Reading →In my last post I started making a case for maintaining a simple way of publishing simple feature data in KML and talked up the KML Schema tag quite a bit.
The key requirements I had for any such endeavor going forward were:
Simplicity Everything you need to get the basic feature data out [...]
Continue Reading →The previous post on health care had some confusing and contradictory statistics. Without getting in to details of those, one can say that there is enough evidence (anectodal or otherwise) to show that the number of immigrants without insurance is not insubstantial. And yet its a moot point to say how much of that [...]
Continue Reading →In response to the previous post, Uninsured in America – Certainly, there are many variables we could map to explore the issue of health care reform and access to insurance. Percents, levels, rates and different indicators – Each will tell a different aspect of the story and in whole, will provide a richer understanding of [...]
Continue Reading →In my opinion, percentages (in this case percentage of uninsured by county) tell a point of view that shows the non-native (immigrant) population along the U.S.-Mexico border is a major contributing factor to the problem of uninsured. In reality, nearly 45 million or so uninsured are scattered across major population centers in the U.S. When [...]
Continue Reading →Following the 2008 Presidential Election? Starting today, I will be posting a regular weekly blog on the election and the issues at the heart of the political debates. For each issue, you will be able to interact with a map to find out more about the problem, find out what the candidates are saying [...]
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