When I got home from work on Friday, I found my daughters had brought home a rather disturbing memo. Short form -- no speech.
[...]Politicker ME has a recent article about a student privacy bill being considered in Augusta. I was hoping that it had to do with students' physical privacy, but it turned out that it had to do with collecting data to meet federal requirements. Since this is a large' [...]
Part of the stimulus act provided for a website to allow people to track where the money goes. That site, Recovery.gov, shows the various states that have their own versions. Turns out that Maine is one of them. :-) There are already posts from Susan Gendron about how [...]
I was curious as to what the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 actually said, so I went and looked it up on Thomas.loc.gov, where the Library of Congress posts legislative information from Congress. The final version is the one that was "Enrolled as Agreed to or" [...]
Obama's Executive Orders are being posted over at Whitehouse.gov. So far, we have the following:
Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch PersonnelEvery appointee ... shall sign ... the following pledge:
[...]The New York Times has a good slideshow which clearly brings out how the country swung Democratic this year.
Thanks to brownsox@Daily Kos for the pointer.
President: Barack Obama
US Senate: Tom Allen
US Rep District 2: Mike Michaud
ME Senate Dist. 31: Deborah Deane
ME Rep Dist. 21: Ruth-Marie Spellman
Question 1: Vote no to continue funding DirigoHealth
Question 2: Vote no to avoid giving one company a 10-year monopoly on casino gaming [...]
The "No on 1" people have been doing a notably poor job at getting their message out. However, in my opinion, it's vital that the DirigoHealth Program continue to be funded at a high level.
[...]My wife and mother-in-law voted today at the Brewer Auditorium. Donna said that there was somebody ahead of them, and that somebody came in behind them, so the traffic was steady, but there was no particular wait.
My mother-in-law had registered to vote at her current address last time she [...]
I tweaked the formatting a bit -- I sorted the data correctly so that I didn't have to reverse it in Excel, with the result that the trendlines actually end where they're supposed to. I also increased the moving average to 15 polls, to smooth the line out a bit [...]
