Walkers’ budget impacts on UW-Whitewater
PDF Version The combination of Governor Walker’s so-called Budget Repair Bill and proposed Biennial Budget will have significant impacts on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, its students, and the...
View Article‘Truth to Power’ Pilgrimage
On Thursday, March 24th, several faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater began walking from Whitewater to the Capitol in Madison to deliver a letter approved by the faculty senate raising...
View ArticleKloppenburg/Prosser Supreme Court election results
Update: the supreme court recount is complete. Data available at the GAB website. The differences aren’t large enough to warrant updating this map. I’ve pulled together a quick map of Wisconsin’s...
View ArticleSupreme Court election results and recall senate districts
As suggested by comments on yesterday’s map, here are maps showing the districts of republican and democratic senators facing recalls superimposed on the Kloppenburg/Prosser results (note the change in...
View ArticlePotential voter disenfranchisement
As the Wisconsin Senate debates the proposed voter ID bill (SB 6), which requires a valid photo ID to vote, I was interested in the spatial distribution of disenfranchisement that might occur....
View ArticleRecount as measure of voting irregularities
Update: the recount results are now complete and certified (available here). Waukesha had a total of 87 votes that were changed for Prosser and Kloppenburg resulting in a 0.07% error in the original...
View ArticlePower, parking, and the first amendment
First Amendment rights apparently don’t apply for parking. That’s what the Johnson Creek police chief told me before hanging up. My wife, Lori Compas, and I were attending a protest at Diamond...
View ArticleScott Fitzgerald’s campaign contributions – received more from out-of-state...
(Full disclosure — my wife is currently leading the recall campaign against Senator Fitzgerald; see Recall Fitz) Several weeks ago I heard Mike McCabe from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) talk...
View ArticleVisualizing recall signatures for Scott Fitzgerald
Lori, my wife, asked if there was any way to visualize the signatures she’s been collecting for the Senator Scott Fitzgerald’s recall. She was interested in both inspiring volunteers and in analyzing...
View ArticleSite moved to new home
I’ve moved my site to a new home, http://www.ericcompas.com. It’s all grown up now. Thanks to WordPress.com for their wonderful free service. Just needed a bit more room to flex some mapping muscles.
View ArticleSite moved back ;)
Okay, heading back to plain WordPress.com site. Not enough time to keep up the maintenance on a full WordPress installation. Time to let someone else handle that work. Plus, the political season is...
View Article“Demographic trends” and restructuring the UW System
Recent population projections show an increase of high school graduates in the state — not a decline — undermining the UW System’s justification for substantial restructuring. If you’ve been following...
View Article“Demographic trends” and UW-Stevens Point
To follow up on the previous post, I looked at population projections for the area served by UW-Stevens Point (UWSP). Again, demographic shifts are one of the key justification for the dramatic...
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