Traffic Court booming

Our traffic court website is booming. Starting roughly September 4th, visits to the site jumped. There were over 30,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days, with over 75,000 pageviews. If recent numbers continue, we will approach 40,000 unique visitors per month and 100,000 pageviews.Busiest pages on the site are the Traffic Court home page (about 10% of the page views), the New York and New

Baseball diversion: Fewest Pitches in a complete game

I was watching a baseball game the other day and the announcers were talking about pitch count -- how many pitches the pitcher had thrown so far. This prompted two questions in my head:1. What is the fewest number of pitches thrown by a pitcher in a complete game?My friend David found the answer to that one: 58, by Red Barrett in 1944 for the Boston Braves.http://baseball-almanac.com/boxscore/

Mike Ricard and the assessment process

A quick update on our Guilderland NY town board campaign efforts:I've been researching incumbent Town Board member Michael Ricard, his assessment, and other issues.I created a page about Mike Ricard's Assessment showing what I found. It includes satellite images of his property from Google Maps, and photos of his house. One friend is now joking that I'm stalking Mike Ricard.The short story on his

NY Election Law: Update

I write with a legal update in the ongoing saga of Ricard v. Redlich. The appellate court ruled against us. We lost. And yet, I'm still on the ballot.For those who were unaware, New York Election Law is confusing. I have heard that 50% of all election law cases in the US take place in our fair state. Okay, unfair state.There were a few issues in our case. First, we filed the wrong form on July