A little project that I started a year ago now has been eating up a lot of my time, especially in the past eight months or so. I decided that, as Richmond Sunlight improves the display of legislation, I should create a new site to improve the display of the state code. It could hardly […]
Category Archives: Politics
Creating an API for the commonwealth.
In perhaps a misguided effort, I started work a few months ago to create a site to round up all of the APIs for government data in Virginia. That inglorious website is Open Virginia. It’s easy to catalog all of them, because right now, I know of exactly two: Richmond Sunlight’s legislative API and my […]
I got an award from the White House.
Yesterday I went to the White House and got a nice award from them. They have an award called “Champions of Change” that they give out to a few people every week. The White House describes it as “a weekly initiative to highlight Americans who are making an impact in their communities and helping our […]
97° of global warming.
The Republican Party of Virginia, February 2010: If it’s cold, there’s no such thing as global climate change. It’s very hot, therefore global climate change is real. Just a reminder of the logic brought to you by the Republican Party of Virginia.
Jeff Frederick running for senate.
My favoritest RPV chair ever, Jeff Frederick, is running for state senate! (Or, apparently, he and some friends will be sharing the seat, because in his e-mail to supporters, he wrote that “we’ve decided to run.“) This is for the 36th district, Toddy Puller’s open seat. I don’t know the dynamics of the district well […]
Claudia Tucker, Wilkins’ eavesdropper, is running for senate.
Claudia Tucker is running for state senate. Does that name ring a bell? RPV executive director Ed Matricardi fingered Tucker in the Republican eavesdropping scandal, back in 2003, rolling over on her and four other Republican leaders as having orchestrated and participated in the illegal monitoring of DPVA phone calls. (After serving prison time, Matricardi […]
Most Virginians support gay marriage.
Just over five years ago I wrote this about the Virginia constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage: So we’re going to spend a lot of time and effort into passing a constitutional amendment to ban something that’s already illegal, only to have the state collectively slap itself on the forehead in 5-10 years when everybody […]
Hurt is “on the same page” as the Tea Party.
Rep. Robert Hurt on the Tea Party: We’re all on the same page. We’re singing off the same sheet of music. Let’s just get that on the record.
Federal employees as a percentage of the population.
Because I was curious. That’s all civilian, non-USPS employees of the executive branch. Data from the Office of Personnel Management and the U.S. Census Bureau.
State Government Finances in the U.S.
That’s from Google’s Public Data Explorer.