by Ty Davison | Jan 27, 2023 | News & Commentary
Salem-Keizer schools sees slight decline in graduation rate – Salem Reporter: Salem-Keizer Public Schools touted Thursday successes in its 2022 high school graduation rates despite a slight decline compared to the previous school year. The Oregon Department of...
by Ty Davison | Jan 6, 2023 | News & Commentary
US electric vehicle sales were 5.8% of the total in 2022, up from 3.2% in 2021. Of this, Tesla sold roughly 65% (down from 72% the year before). Ford was number two with 7.6% and Hyundai/Kia third with 7.1%. Tesla’s recent stock woes—down 65% last year,...
by Ty Davison | Jan 1, 2023 | News & Commentary
The 5% Rule: No matter how kind, warm, thoughtful, amazing, cheerful, consistent, and perfect I treated people roughly 5% of them would just be terrible (yes, I have the numbers to back this). I’m not talking about people who were having a bad day or people who...
by Ty Davison | Nov 9, 2022 | News & Commentary
My prediction of Democratic underperformance was utterly wrong. Yes, the Democrats are likely to lose the House and perhaps the Senate, but the margin of GOP success was so limited as to make these results a defacto win. The GOP had hopes of a 30-40 seat pick-up;...
by Ty Davison | Oct 12, 2022 | News & Commentary
My disappointment with the Democratic Party was once founded on ineffectiveness. With a few notable exceptions, they’re holistically terrible at politics. They’ve had an insane preference for being correct (by their own lights) and losing than for being...
