What’s the Case FOR the Seattle “Head Tax”?

Jun 5, 20182 min read

I’ve been fairly vocal in my support of the repeal of the Head Tax on social networks like Nextdoor; the first step is to get…

Kshama Sawant Uses Taxpayer Dollars for Her Political Movements: Not OK.

Jun 5, 20181 min read

“I do not share the anti-business animus that I feel you are sponsoring…” Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, to Councilmember Kshama Sawant For some time now it’s been…

Tap-tap: Is this thing on?

Jun 5, 20182 min read

Hello, Seattle! I’ve just set up this blog. I wanted a spot to put various thoughts out there. I expect the topics to be varied.…

Seattle Citizens Speak Out In Ballard

May 3, 20183 min read

The Ballard Town Hall meeting on May 2nd 2018 may well be looked back upon as a sea-change moment for the city of Seattle. Many…

Which Seattle Restaurants Have Had the Most Closures Forced by Inspectors?

Mar 27, 20189 min read

King County’s Restaurant Inspection Grades, which is based upon the average of red-card violations in the past four inspections I’m exploring the Python stack for…

Comparing Trump and Hillary Clinton on Twitter

Mar 13, 20189 min read

I’ve been dusting off my machine learning/data-science skills by diving into Python, which has become a lingua franca (along with R) of the data analysis…