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Prop 8 draws interest and money nationwide |
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Written by Darin Boville
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 09:58 |
Although Proposition 8--the citizen's proposal to change the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriage--was voted upon by residents of California and passed last week, it drew the attention of individuals and organizations outside of California.
One of those groups that supported the ban was the Morman church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Today the New York Times printed an interesting article on a protest outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. There's been some discussion on the coast about the support the bill received from local churches.
It also might be interesting to look at the top donors, both for and against, nation-wide. SFGate has an set of databases that are fun and often insightful to toy with. Here are the top twenty contributors (for and against) to the Proposition 8 campaign--note how many are out-of-state.
You should note that in the charts each contribution is listed separately. Thus a person that gave $550,000 twice would rank below a person that gave $1,000,000 once. The SFGate database on Proposition 8 can be found here.
Top twenty contributions supporting same sex-ban
Top twenty contributions opposing same-sex ban
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Coastside Homes Underwater |
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Written by Darin Boville
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 11:10 |
This chart shows two things: The percentage of coastside homes which have sold in the last twelve months (October 2007 to September 2008) which sold for less than the purchase price. It also shows the percentage of current homeowners that are estimated to be "underwater" (who owe more than their original mortgage).
Note that the data that the chart is based upon does not appear to include home equity lines of credit which, if that is the case, would suggest that the numbers of homes underwater is understated on this chart.
Also note that in the case of very small communities (such as La Honda) the data may be especially unreliable given the few houses which were sold in those communities.
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Chart by Darin Boville, data provided by Zillow.com and SFGate.com |
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How we voted (Election 2008 by community) |
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Written by Darin Boville
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 16:26 |
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Charts by Darin Boville, data provided by shapethefuture.org, New York Times, and State of California |
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Beachwood Workshop, Nov. 3, 2008 |
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Written by Darin Boville
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 10:48 |
The Half Moon bay City Council held a Beachwood workshop for the public on Monday, November 3rd. This is the second such workshop they have held to inform the public about the status of the Beachwood Affair and their plans for moving forward.
The earlier workshop was held in January of 2007 and you can see the video from that event here.
There's a lot of interesting aspects to the presentations, often not obvious at first. For this post I will simply present the videos, divided into broad sections. In later posts I will highlight some of the points I found interesting and will offer the relevant clips in that context.
Video by Darin Boville
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Coastal Commission approves Pacific Ridge development |
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Monday, 20 October 2008 14:24 |
The Coastal Commission approved plans for the Pacific Ridge development this past Wednesday. The Pacific Ridge development, also know locally as the Alianto development, is located on the land at the end of Terrace Ave, East of Highway One, north of downtown Half Moon Bay.
The approved modifications to the development reduces the number of houses from one hundred and twenty-six to sixty-three, sets aside approximately eighty-two of the one hundred fourteen acres as open space, and provides for $2.8 million in lot-retirement-in-lieu traffic mitigation fees plus $2.5 million for Highway One improvements.
Note that the video's sound is slightly out-of-sync.
Video by Cal-Span |
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