The Road to 2016: Hillary on UFOs; Bernie on Marijuana; Christie on a Roll
It’s 3am, your children are asleep, a phone rings in the White House. Who do you want to answer it? Well if the call is coming from aliens, Hillary Clinton is more than prepared. Sort of. I’m fairly sure this article about Hillary’s thoughts on aliens and UFOs isn’t satire – it’s from the Huffington…
Data Glitches and Immigration Disputes on The Road to 2016
DEMOCRATS The Democratic Presidential race got interesting this week thanks to a quirk in a software used by campaigns. I’ve worked with this software before and can try to explain what went down. Many campaigns use a service called NGP VAN. It tracks data about volunteering from at least as far back as ‘04. It is…
Is Ted Cruz the new top dog? Did Paris Accords go far enough?
Every week in 2016, HeadCount will throw a short update your way on the Presidential campaign named “The Road to 2016.” Here’s the second installment: Republicans: Ted Cruz has had a week most of us would envy. Despite the release of this awkward piece about Cruz and his family, the Texas Senator has thoroughly overtaken Donald Trump…
The Road to 2016
Every week in 2016, HeadCount will throw a short update your way on the Presidential campaign named “The Road to 2016.” Here’s the first installment: Republicans The race for the GOP nomination continues to center around the lightning rod that is Donald Trump. The RealClearPolitics polling averages show the real estate magnate in first with…
2015 HeadCount Holiday Auction
I don’t know about you, but 2015 seems to have flown by, far faster than I ever could have imagined, and now it’s almost 2016. But before we switch out the calendars we have Hannukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa and Christmas to celebrate, and I have totally forgotten to buy any items for my loved ones. Thankfully…
Announcing the HeadCount Board Member Lunch Series
I eat lunch almost every day of the week. Generally I have one of two types of lunches. The first type involves me eating a sandwich alone while hunched over my computer, checking emails and hoping no mayo falls onto my keyboard. The second type of lunch is drastically different. The second type of lunch…
Battle in Seattle Over Campaign Finance Reform
We’re not sending anyone new to Washington DC in 2015, but there are important local elections tomorrow, including a unique initiative on Seattle ballots. This initiative would drastically change the Emerald City’s campaign finance laws in an effort to stem the growth of big money in politics. The initiative, known as I-122, would enact a…
Dead & Co Tix + Signed Poster
Gas is less than $2 a gallon, the Mets played the Dodgers in the playoffs, and the Grateful Dead are about to criss-cross the nation on a fall tour: did I just have a dream and wake up in 1988? No, I am still in 2015 and this is reality! If you are as pumped…
Think You Traveled The Furthest To Attend Lockn’?
Well if you came all the way from Australia to Lockn’, you’d be right! If you recall, the North Branch School’s Participation Row action was to place a pin on a map indicating where you travelled from. After Lockn’ they brought the pin-filled “Tell Us Where You Are From” map to their campus in Afton,…
Dylan Goes Electric: An Interview With Elijah Wald
Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as “world music” writer for the Boston Globe. In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the…