Listeners to the ICQ Podcast where I appear monthly as a Presenter probably heard me say that I was successfully treated for a highly aggressive prostate cancer (adenocarcinoma, Gleason 8) almost two years ago at the Mayo Clinic. While in Rochester for two weeks, I had a lot of time in bed recovering from the surgery before being released for home back in Mississippi. For me, I tried to keep my mind on things besides the cancer treatment as I had the top prostate cancer hospital in the U.S. treating me and the top robotic surgeon, Dr. Igor Frank, at the helm. So what does a ham think about in this circumstance? Let me tell you…
Read MorePresenter Opinion - A Roll Call Analysis of Recent ARRL Board Voting
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My friends in political science used to talk a lot about “roll call voting” analysis over lunch in Perry Cafeteria at Mississippi State University. I was a member of the Faculty Forum who held a reserved anteroom for lunch in this beautiful arched building. I learned a lot from experts in other disciplines that a situation to discuss them might have not presented itself otherwise. On roll call voting in Congress, unless the body excuses itself from such an explicit vote, the Clerk records how each House or Senate member voted on a piece of legislation or rule change or other formal matter before the body. The results of such studies reveal how patterns of block-voting occur, whether on all issues or on certain ones.
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