This blog contains thoughts, ideas, and links to various projects and media that I create. I've also carried over relevant content from years of blogging and continue to provide content relative to Sociology.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Bookmarks: Global Stratification/Development
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Live electronica improv: 2020 Halloween Spooktacular
Here's a snippet from a Halloween live stream music event from a few weeks back. Allow me to apologize for having so much fun exploring strange sonic edges https://t.co/79hJKjohr7
— Chad Gesser (@profgesser) November 14, 2020
Bookmarks: Population and Urbanization
U.S. Fertility Rates - Pew Research Center - Posts | Facebook
Bookmarks: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
- FinalNeedsAssessmentReport.pdf - Google Drive
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) |
- Welcome to the MTF Website
- SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Trends & Statistics | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Bookmarks: Memes, etc
Memes, GIFs, Vines - Google Slides
Bookmarks: Crime
An Animated Visualization of the U.S. Mass Incarceration Crisis - CityLab
Bookmarks: Data Sources
Pew Research Center | Nonpartisan, non-advocacy public opinion polling and demographic research
Bookmarks: Race
White Privilege, Quantified - The Atlantic
Sunday, November 1, 2020
15 day pre election financial data
It's required by law for candidates for office to report financial data.
Here's a look at campaign finances for pertinent upcoming elections.
Here are some key points and observations:
* most campaign dollars for local elections come from the candidate and the candidate's family funds.
* you need at least $5,000 to run a respectable city commission campaign. That doesn't mean you can't win on less.
* only 8 of the 16 city commission candidates have reported finance data. This could mean they have raised and/or spent less than $3,000. Local candidates only have to provide financial data if they raise or spend more than $3,000.
* the likely winning mayoral candidate will have raised and spent nearly $10,000. Per this report Conder has spent over $30,000 and Watson over $43,000. They both have more to spend.
* be mindful that a lot of campaign money usually is spent between the 15 day report and the post election report. The post election financial data usually indicates a jump in expenditures in the 15 days leading up to an election.
* there were no financial reports for any of the Board of Education candidates.
I provide the U.S. Senate race data for comparison. Keep in mind the Senate race in Kentucky is hotly contested.
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All of the state and local data above is found at the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance: https://kref.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx
The data for the U.S. Senate race is found at the Federal Election Commission: https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/senate/KY/2020/
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