Daniel Walters

Nov 2, 2024 | columbian.com | Daniel Walters

Address questionsThe claim: A thread in April on X flagging suspicious entries from the Washington Voter Registration Database claimed more than 200 voters were supposedly registered at a single house in Seattle. The truth: The database had a typo. The intended address was the site for Seattle’s Compass Housing Alliance, which provides a fixed address for homeless people. The spread: By the following day, the tweet had been shared more than 2,000 times on X.

Oct 3, 2024 | medium.com | Daniel Walters

Daniel Walters·FollowPublished inFocus on outcomes·3 min read·--Estimation in software development is mainly wasted effort and should not be part of the routine development process. We know estimation is a wasted effort because, in most cases:Estimation will not add value to achieving your goal. A value-first approach changes how we think about the cost of our effort. Estimation exists mostly to serve the activity-first approach to work and as a crude attempt to prioritise based on cost.

Sep 30, 2024 | invw.org | Daniel Walters

By Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest Clark Gable — onetime King of Hollywood, dashing star of “Gone with the Wind” and “Mutiny on the Bounty” — died in 1960, depriving him of the ability to make public records requests in the city of Spokane. So when “Clark Gable” requested a list of names, salaries and job titles of “all city employees including law enforcement” officers this year, the city clerk’s office quickly realized it was a fake name.

Sep 19, 2024 | wenatcheeworld.com | Daniel Walters

From the beginning, conflict has been embedded in the Freedom Caucus brand. During the past decade, the House Freedom Caucus, made up of the most right-wing members of the U.S. House of Representatives, has repeatedly gone to war with members of its own party — showing a willingness to oust a Republican speaker of the House or shut down the government if they didn’t get their way. kAmx? =2E6 a_a`[ E96 ?2E:@?2= $E2E6 uC665@> r2F4FD }6EH@C< ?@?AC@7:E =2F?4965 H:E9 2 >:DD:@?

Sep 16, 2024 | idahocapitalsun.com | Daniel Walters

From the beginning, conflict has been embedded in the Freedom Caucus brand. During the past decade, the House Freedom Caucus, made up of the most right-wing members of the U.S. House of Representatives, has repeatedly gone to war with members of its own party — showing a willingness to oust a Republican speaker of the House or shut down the government if they didn’t get their way.