California Proposition 8: Field Poll Survey Results

The Field Poll just published their findings on California Proposition 8. This proposition is probably the most well known and popular on the ballot this year. Field Poll Release #2292 summaries their findings as:
In its final pre-election survey, The Field Poll shows the No-side continuing to prevail over the Yes-side but by a narrower margin  [...]

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San Diego Voter Registration By Party Changes

San Diego County is one of the top republican counties in California. However, the county is seemingly shifting more democratic and more independent and away from the republican party. The San Diego Union Tribune reports that the allocation of voters changing:
The ranks of Democrats countywide have swelled by nearly 104,000 registered voters since December, all [...]

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Sorting items using ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit ReorderList control

A common issue that I find myself falling into is how to sort things such as categories. I could sort them alphabetically or by child record counts, but most often my system owners (who I’m developing my web applications for) want to be able to reorder the categories to match either the process flow or [...]

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The Failure of Electronic Voting Systems

Rob Conery (of SubSonic and Microsoft MVC projects) wrote a very interesting article a few weeks ago titled, “Hacking Your Vote“. He summarizes the various electronic voting systems, their bugs, and their designs.
As a software engineer, I find it utterly amazing that a $50 million dollar Diebold system was designed using a Microsoft Access database [...]

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Income Distribution and Poverty in the United States

I found this report very interesting since I really wasn’t too aware of the organization or findings. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a study titled “Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries.”
Why is the gap between rich and poor growing?In most countries the gap is growing because rich households [...]

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Anthology San Diego – Nicole Henry

Last night, I attended a Nicole Henry jazz performance at a local jazz venue. It was a weekday night and the venue wasn’t nearly as crowded as the last time I was there.
Her performance and the band’s performance were both great. Nicole has a great voice and vocal range. I’m not much of a music [...]

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Presidential Election 2008

Now that I’ve finished my local (San Diego) and state (California) ballot proposition blog entries, I can move onto the presidential election debate. Hopefully, this will be one of the last political posts of the political season and I can get back to random, technology, and programming blogging…
Note: You can read my state and local [...]

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San Diego General Election 2008 Propositions

There will be 5 (if you live within the city limits) local propositions on the San Diego ballot. Since these are fairly easy to understand, I’ll summarize all of them and my opinions in a single blog entry rather than 5 separate blog entries.

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California Proposition Ballot Summary

Here’s how I’m planning on voting for the California Propositions compared with the California state parties recommendations.

 
Me
Cal Dems
Cal Reps

Prop 1A – High Speed Rail
Yes
Yes
No

Prop 2 – Treatment of Farm Animals
Yes
Yes
No

Prop 3 – Children’s Hospital Bond
No
Yes
No

Prop 4 – Waiting Period & Parental Notification
No
No
Yes

Prop 5 – Nonviolent Drug Offenses
No
Yes
No

Prop 6 – Police & Law Enforcement Funding
No
No
Yes

Prop 7 [...]

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California Proposition 12 – Veterans’ Bond Act of 2008

Overview
Official Summary

This act provides for a bond issue of nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000) to provide loans to California veterans to purchase farms and homes.
Appropriates money from the state General Fund to pay off the bonds, if loan payments from participating veterans are insufficient for that purpose.

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