My Letter to the Putnam County commissioners about why I support the 4Leaf Solar Project in Cloverdale, IN. TLDR: It’s about clean air, clean water, and the freedom of property owner to make their own decisions.
Author: kevin.verhoff
Putnam County Precincts
Putnam County Precinct Map
Jobs-Housing in Indiana
Interactive Map of Job-Housing information in Indiana. Housing data is the ACS estimated houing stock as of 2022, and the jobs data is from Q4 2023. jobs per housing unit – 2024
HS Attendance Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Below, are some interactive plots for a project I worked on. They show the changes in HS GPA and Attendance after the COVID-19 pandemc for three high schools:
COVID-19 Vaccination Race
Check out this horse race Viz for state-by-state vaccination rates
Letter to the Editor: The Indiana GOP doesn’t care about you.
We’re all tired. It’s been a long year. We need our leaders to cut the crap and work on addressing the challenges Hoosiers face every day – a better economy, improved healthcare, education for our kids. The General Assembly should focus on these issues, but the GOP Supermajority has a different agenda – they would rather fight culture wars and help their wealthy friends. The republicans that we sent to represent us aren’t solving our problems; they’re creating new ones for us.
Remember Essential Workers?
Happy Labor Day, everyone! We shouldn’t forget about essential workers. A few months ago, I wrote a post about how we don’t pay essential workers enough. At the time, it was a big topic. Essential workers were some of the only folks who had to actually show up to a physical location (ie: not their…
So…It’s been a while
Howdy! So…It’s been a while. This year really threw a wrench in everyone’s plans, including mine. Sadly, trying to balance the global pandemic, a new child, and work means that I’ve had little time to dig into or write about anything. I’ve only had time to shit-post on twitter for about 4 months now (which…
A Jobs-Housing Map for the Midwest Partnership
In light of regions of the country becoming mini-nation-states including a pact of Midwestern States and in an effort to get some more data, I put together this map, which shows the jobs-housing mismatch for the five states that are definitely part of the midwest, the former Northwest Territories:
Essential Workers Aren’t Paid Like They Are Essential
If they’re essential, shouldn’t they earn more? I went to the grocery store the other day to stock up. Trying to avoid social contact as much as possible, I went very early on Saturday morning, when normally the store would be empty. I was surprised to find that the store was packed with shoppers, some…