Will Wilson

Recent Articles

• If Palin, then...
• Aug 29, 2008
• by Will Wilson I'd like to venture a couple thoughts about what Sarah Palin's selection might indicate about what we have to expect for the ...

• Bayh a nose!?
• Aug 22, 2008
• The url www.obamabayh.com now redirects to: http://www.barackobama.com/learn/meet_evan.php Update: Or seemed to a minute ago? At least ...

• Slow Leaks
• Aug 22, 2008
• For all the suspense the campaigns have pumped into their VP selections, decision markets are starting to coalesce around Joe Biden and Mitt Romney. In ...

• How McCain Could Win New York
• Aug 1, 2008
• David Paterson outlines the paths for the respective candidates to win NY.
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• So Goes Texas So Goes the World?
• Jul 29, 2008
• Maybe I'm not reading these numbers right, but the YTD change in Texas' state revenues by major tax type (second table) shows Franchise Tax down 68.5% ...

• A VP Pump Fake?
• Jul 23, 2008
• I've seen the suggestion that John McCain's campaign fed reporters rumors that, if spliced together, implied he would select his VP this week, likely offering ...

• Venture Governmentalist
• Jun 30, 2008
• Aneesh Chopra has entered the nail-biting phase of the venture capital investing cycle. He has scoured his market carefully for new uses of technology. And...

• Campaigning in an E-World
• Jun 27, 2008
• From the Department of Why Didn't I Think of That: Patchwork Nation has set up email accounts  for imaginary voters in 11 different regions of ...

• What does an electoral landslide look like?
• Jun 24, 2008
• It is hard to believe that John McCain should be worried about a 52-33 lead in a Utah poll--until one considers that that is just ...
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• Traffic Congestion Scorecard: A Reason to Hit the Snooze?
• Jun 18, 2008
• Inrix just released a national traffic scorecard, including a list of the 100 most congested metro areas. The great thing about the report is that it ...
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• Tough Crowd
• May 30, 2008
• from Governing's Managing Technology Conference in Seattle Bill Gregoricus, a senior consultant in Tennessee's Office of State Planning and Policy, had an interesting--and somewhat disheartening--explanation ...

• SeattleCAN
• May 22, 2008
• Seattle has just launched a new initiative to get drivers off the roads in the interests of meeting Mayor Greg Nickels pledge of making the ...
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• Bearers of Bad News
• May 9, 2008
• It's getting pretty hard to remain an optimist about the mortgage/foreclosure mess. This week, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke displayed a set of maps (cycle ...

• Franken Flanked
• Apr 22, 2008
• The Providence Journal looks at a challenge from unexpected quarters to Al Franken's bid for the Senate; but I think we're all more interested in ...

• Paper vs. Plastic: A Third Way
• Apr 22, 2008
• With Earth Day looming over my quick-trigger guilty conscience again, the Boston Herald raises an old debate that has never been satisfactorily settled in my ...
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