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Endorsement of Joyce Craig for Governor, 2024

Endorsement of Joyce Craig for Governor, 2024

Despite my last post, Joyce Craig is now the best candidate for Governor of New Hampshire. Joyce Craig understands the priorities of New Hampshire-ites, including the ones around limiting access to healthcare, the housing crisis, cannabis, and public transit. Kelly Ayote, the Republican candidate, would retain the current law that restricts doctors from providing medically necessary treatment for pregnant women, believes in an imaginary crisis at the northern border with Canada, and wishes to plunge public services, including Medicare, Medicaid,…

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Endorsement of Cinde Warmington for Governor, 2024

Endorsement of Cinde Warmington for Governor, 2024

Edit September 11th, 2024: The Primary is over. See my endorsement of Joyce Craig. On Tuesday September 10th 2024, New Hampshire goes to the polls for the primary elections. In the governor race for the Republicans are two extremists who would harm individual freedoms for women, LGBTQ+ people, children in need of education (so, all of them), and other minorities not yet identified by them. Both support the former president who has admitted to abusing very young women, has been…

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Google, Antitrust and Google’s terrible decisions

Google, Antitrust and Google’s terrible decisions

This post and the last are weirdly timed. Last week, I wrote about how Google make terrible business decisions that harm their long-term success. I said, interestingly, that since around 2011, Google has failed to make any new business models work. And this week, the US Department of Justice trial against Google started in earnest. The Verge has a great podcast episode about it, describing some of the arguments that are being made on each side. Although their description of…

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Vote for Will Stewart in Manchester NH Mayor election: September 19, 2023

Vote for Will Stewart in Manchester NH Mayor election: September 19, 2023

On September 19 this year, we vote for our next Mayor. I genuinely believe our best option is Will Stewart because his policies reflect the reality on the ground. There is another good candidate, but Will’s policies go that little bit further beyond what is some candidates believe will be politically tolerated, towards what is actually needed, will work, and what is supported by the evidence. For example, we know that most of the Western world has a lack of…

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