December 7th, 2007 | by Derek Willis | published in Car Tools, DIY
Update: a comment by James Glover from Dec. 8 got caught in my spam filter and I just found it today. It’s posted below. So I did it. I signed up for the Caspio trial, despite the fact that I think the Terms of Service don’t allow me to do much with it. Anyway, onward! [...]
October 11th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in DIY, State Data
Herb Jackson of the Bergen Record used state data to show that while New Jersey Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. touts his independence, “Kean’s record as a legislator shows he may not be the independent fighter he says he is. Not only does he serve in the Republican leadership in Trenton, a database analysis by [...]
October 10th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in DIY, Fed Data
Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times, with contributions by Andrew Lehren and Donna Anderson, examined federal laws passed since 1989 to find “more than 200 special arrangements, protections or exemptions for religious groups or their adherents were tucked into Congressional legislation, covering topics ranging from pensions to immigration to land use.” The paper [...]
October 2nd, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in DIY, State Data
Adam Liptak and Janet Roberts of the New York Times used Ohio campaign finance data and state Supreme Court records from Lexis-Nexis to show that “justices routinely sat on cases after receiving campaign contributions from the parties involved or from groups that filed supporting briefs. On average, they voted in favor of contributors 70 percent [...]
September 26th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in DIY, Paper Trail, State Data
William Glaberson of the New York Times, with assistance from Jo Craven McGinty, has a three-part series on New York’s town courts, finding that “people have been sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding. In violation of the law, defendants have been refused [...]