Ok, there's probably a joke in there about the overlap between crime and campaign finance data. I'll leave that to you, gentle reader. Feel free to offer your jokes in a comment on this entry.

In the meantime, we happily report that our Roanoke Valley and Salem crime maps are once again updated through the most recent weekend's offenses.

And our database of donations over $100 to Roanoke City Council and mayoral candidates for 2006 and the current campaign is up to date through reports filed by the 10 candidates on Monday, April 28. That's a darn quick turnaround that allows you to see who is financing these campaigns within days of when the checks were written in some cases. In all, 76 new itemized contributions were added. (Donations under $100 aren't itemized.)

Again, many thanks to our friends and colleages at the Virginia Public Access Project, who turned the paper reports filed in Roanoke into the electronic data we offer you in the DataSphere. VPAP, in case you don't know by now, offers online searching of an extensive database of statewide campaign contributions. (The non-profit also happens to be lead by a former Roanoke Times reporter, David Poole, whose name still causes a few office holders around here to grit their teeth.)

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