National Status
In the USA 1 in every 87 people has had a confirmed case of COVID-19, 1 in every 174 has an active case, and 1 in every 2,325 individuals have died. The USA in ranked in position 11 for per capita cases, position 2 for per capita active cases, and position 10 for per capita deaths.
I enjoyed listening to Michael Bennett. He is a lot more even keeled in his presentation than most politicians, letting his ideas do more of the talking than the way he presents them. The focus was on education and on advancing policy that is broadly supported. That’s not to say that Michael Bennet is a proponent of bipartisanship. He made…
It is already starting to get a bit difficult to remember and keep track of the candidates I’ve seen, and this is after seeing about a third of the prospective candidates. A list which seems to keep growing. Beto O’Rourke did the usual short stump speech and then town hall question thing followed by a chance to get your picture…
Based upon interest and feedback I’ve made some updates to the tax application described here. In short, I developed an application using Shiny that helps residents in my town of Nottingham, NH determine their estimated tax based on the future outcome of election results on warrant articles at town meeting. The updated version is here: https://jonathancummings.shinyapps.io/NottinghamTaxCalculator/ Layout The first thing…
Inspiration I wasn’t able to vote but, I attended town meeting last year to start getting a sense of my new community of Nottingham, NH. One of the warrant articles requested the town to provide live updates to the expected tax impacts from the passed and remaining proposed articles. It was voted down, I think mostly because it was viewed…
Does the peer review and journal acceptance process best support learning?
So I definitely didn’t know much about Pete Buttigieg before I went to see him. Just that he’s a gay mayor from South bend Indiana whose name I have no idea how to pronounce. The main thing I was interested in is what would differentiate him from other candidates. If I’m honest I can’t say there is a whole lot…
Re-post of my thoughts on Kamala Harris. It took me about a week to figure out what to say about Kamala Harris, because I’m still not really sure what they are. It was a great venue, because it was in South Church, the UU congregation that I attend. I showed up early to take advantage of the two pews of…
Re-posting of Cory Booker thoughts. I should preface this one by saying that I arrived a bit late and ended up outside the main hall in an overflow area for about have of the event. So, I didn’t see the first half, and while there was a speaker in the overflow area I wasn’t able to fully hear everything due…
I took me a little while to get past the routine – here’s my story, so here’s the issues I care about, thing – but despite that I found Elizabeth Warren to be a very powerful voice for action. I understand why she draws an eager crowd, and I was excited to be a part of her crowd. The difficultly…