Gambling and Iowans

Howdy! Well, its been quite a while that I had a chance to write one of these! Life's all occupied with school and work. One change here: I am back to Blogger. Update your links. I have deleted all the previous posts on this page to start afresh. Let us see if I can shed my percious lethargy and get this blog going!

This week, the preliminary results of a research project that I am involved are out. The project is for Iowa State Legislature. We studied the socio-economic impacts of gambling on Iowans. Iowa already has got about thirteen casinos and plans are afoot for planning more. There has been some discussion in the State legislature about approving these new casions. For more information, try to call/email/fax Iowa State Legislature. The preliminary presentation is available (as a PDF) here and the source page is here. The final report will also appear on this page. So if you care, keep tabs on it.

If you get a 404 or similar error, you can visit the Iowa Legislature's main page and click on "Committees" to your left, and then scroll 2/3 way down, and click on "Socio-economic Effects of Gambling on Iowans", and click on "Additional Information" halfway through.

It has been a wonderful experience working on this project along with my colleague Matt Voss. We provided the GIS part for the project and now he and I are masters of numbers (demographics and other statistics) related to Iowa. Want to know the neonatal death rate ? or K-12 dropout rate ? Sure, email me or Matt!

I will be off to Denver tomorrow for a conference. I will try to put some pictures here and make this blog look better than the dull dud it was before.
Until the next blog,
Au Revoir!