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Massachusetts Ballot Questions, in haiku form

September 22, 2016 By marcus-graly

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...]

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The “Transparent Airfares Act” and comparing constituent service

April 30, 2014 By marcus-graly

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...]

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Race and Redistricting – Boston City Council edition

August 25, 2012 By marcus-graly

Current Districts

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...]

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Who voted no on the gambling bill

April 15, 2010 By marcus-graly

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, gambling, votes

Political Redistricting: Capuano goes to the Senate

September 18, 2009 By marcus-graly

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...]

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Removing Lynch in 2012

September 13, 2009 By marcus-graly

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...]

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Follow up to “On Pictures and Thousands of Words”

February 10, 2009 By marcus-graly

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...]

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New Districts for Massachusetts

December 9, 2008 By marcus-graly

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...]

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Purple 5th

October 17, 2007 By marcus-graly

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...]

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Committee Votes Revisited

April 18, 2007 By marcus-graly

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...]

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