So if you think of the seasons as a sine wave, the first day of spring represents the zero crossing point where the phase expands until it reaches its peak first day of summer at which the phase starts to collapse until it reaches the zero crossing point and starts to go negative. We call that autumn. The wave expands negatively until it reaches winter at which point it starts to collapse. The root mean square of the phase in summer is between May 21st and July 21st.
Politics
Why does New York have a Judicial Nomination Commission?
Reading between the lines of contemporary articles in the New York Times, it appears the 1973 election for chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals was one between the status quo and a status-seeker.
Charles Breitel was the status quo. A sitting associate judge on the state’s highest court, Breitel was a man described by the Times as “short, tidy, self-contained.” On election night, he wore a “black suit, gray vest, gray tie." He was a man who “spent 23 of his 64 years as a judge.”
The status seeker was Jacob Fuchsberg, a self-made attorney whose bread and butter was negligence cases and who “won a measure of fame” in an adoption case that made news headlines. He also represented newspaper reporters who sought access to a closed trial.
On election night, Fuchsberg is described by the Times as wearing “a dark blue suit and a clashing purple tie.” Fuchsberg was perceived as an upstart who spent upwards of $500,000 on advertising to win an election for chief judge – something that wasn’t done at the time.
NYS IRC Assembly District Proposal April 2023 vs NYS Assembly Districts 2022
A series of 150 maps that shows the changes in existing versus proposed Assembly Districts.
NYS IRC Assembly District Proposal April 2023 vs NYS Assembly Districts 2022 by Andy Arthur on Scribd
NPR
"Michigan's election for governor was upended last year when several Republicans were removed from the primary ballot for problems with their voter signatures.
The news highlighted instances of suspected fraud in the process, which experts say could be encouraged by higher rates signature-gathering companies are now charging for their services.
As a result, states such as Colorado and California are hoping to crack down on bad actors in the signature-gathering industry."
When you look at election-related crime in New York, petition signature forgery and residency issues usually are the common. Residency often plays in when candidates run in districts that are poor and urban, where the candidate says they live in a neighborhood when they actually have a nice home in the suburbs where they actually live. In both cases, the stakes are high, which can encourage cheating.
2020 Presidential Election
"How can that be? No one I know voted for Nixon."- Pauline Kael, 1972.
Biden got more then 70 percent of the vote in 85 counties, representing 18.8 million votes, while Trump got more then 70 percent of the vote in 1,418 counties representing 12.6 million votes.
This map would better expressed as a cartogram but it might take a lot of CPU power to make it happen.
Data Source: https://github.com/tonmcg/US_County_Level_Election_Results_08-20/
Custom home builder consider all-electric buildings future – The Capitol Pressroom
As New York policymakers debate changes to New York’s building code that would require all-electric buildings in the future, we consider how this would be implemented with Matt Whitbeck, co-owner of Whitbeck Construction.