Inspired by Damian Carroll's version of this for California and LA. Q1: Builds a slots parlor Exclusively Suffolk Downs Without open bid Q2: Twelve new charter schools Must be opened every year First in poor … [Read more...]
The “Transparent Airfares Act” and comparing constituent service
Last week I learned about the disgusting, Orwellian-named "Transparent Airfares Act of 2014" that reverses DOT regulations requiring airline advertisements to accurately reflect the cost of the flight. Christopher Elliot gives some good … [Read more...]
Race and Redistricting – Boston City Council edition
A recent diary covered the Boston City Council redistricting fracas, arguing that the plan the council narrowly adopted dilutes minority voting power. The data does not support this conclusion. The changes are relatively minor and do not … [Read more...]
Who voted no on the gambling bill
Here's a map of where the opponents of the bill represent: Republicans in Red. Democrats in Blue. Areas of the state heavily dependent on tourism, such as the Berkshires and Cape Cod, strongly opposed the bill. These reps are … [Read more...]
Political Redistricting: Capuano goes to the Senate
Detail of the City of Boston No towns or Cities are divided between districts, except Boston. In the difference maps that follow, dark green represents towns that are in both the old and new district. Light green is for towns … [Read more...]
Removing Lynch in 2012
Notable Changes: The 1st district (Blue) picks up Northampton and some other nearby towns, smoothing the boarder with the second. The 2nd District (Green) makes up for the loss by grabbing Franklin, Attleboro and some other towns in that … [Read more...]
Follow up to “On Pictures and Thousands of Words”
There was some justified criticism of Nancy Pelosi's job loss graph: First, that it showed absolute losses rather than relative to the size of the job market and secondly that in only included the two most recent recessions, both of which … [Read more...]
New Districts for Massachusetts
District 1 Berkshire County Hampshire County, excluding - Ware Hampden County, excluding - Palmer - Monson - Wales - Holland - Brimfield I wanted to include Franklin County in this district, but it would have made the population too large … [Read more...]
Purple 5th
In the spirit of various Purple America maps that followed the 2000 and 2004 elections I have created a Purple 5th map that shows the towns of the fifth district in various shades:Sorry the town names are hard to read. … [Read more...]
Committee Votes Revisited
I emailed my State Rep, Carl Sciortino about it at the time:...The current system may have made sense in another time, but with today's technology the cost of making this information readily available is trivial and it would greatly … [Read more...]