Greektown Casino-Hotel clears another hurdle in its restructuring (Detroit Free Press) (Thursday 25th of February 2010 01:40:00 PM)
Years of flare-up between the City of Detroit and Greektown Casino-Hotel are now settled. The
bankruptcy judge overseeing Greektown Casino's Chapter 11 case signed off this week on a
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(more)"Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb (Monday 24th of August 2009 12:15:01 PM)
Theodp writes "The jury's still out on whether Chicago taxpayers were taken to the cleaners by
a rushed 75-year lease of the city's metered parking to a Morgan Stanley consortium. But most
would perchance agree that the new shared Pay Boxes that replaced ...
(more)Casino funds save jobs for firefighters, police (Post-Tribune) (Tuesday 28th of July 2009 10:09:18 AM)
HAMMOND -- The city won't be laying off firefighters or police legislature to close a
multimillion-dollar budget gap, Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. announced Monday. McDermott said
the city's casino funds will angel* the public safety budget, while attrition ...
(more)Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit (Sunday 19th of July 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Tiger4 writes "A group of black shrewd shyster police cabinet have filed a lawsuit against the
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(more)Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled (Monday 01st of June 2009 01:30:02 AM)
An nameless reader sends in a story at CNN about how our predictions for the future tend to be
somewhat right (whether or not we can do a thing) yet often too optimistic (whether or not it's
practical). Obvious example: jetpacks. Quoting: "Joseph Corn, ...
(more)The Tech Building Blocks of City 2.0 (Sunday 17th of May 2009 08:00:02 AM)
CWmike writes "Sci-Fi writers call it Utopia, the resplendent City of the Future. But short of
downtown atriums being guarded by invisible walls and flying cars, City 2.0 is not as far off
as you may think, writes John Brandon. 1995 by houghton mifflin ...
(more)Bill may block land for casino in Mulvane (The Wichita Eagle) (Saturday 14th of March 2009 06:05:45 AM)
The House gave initial
...
(more)Houston Courts Shut Down By Malware (Sunday 08th of February 2009 02:00:02 AM)
Conficker is still at it: dstates writes "The municipal courts of Houston were shut down yore
after a personal computer virus spread through the courts' mini* systems. The shutdown canceled
hearings and suspended arrests for minor offenses and is scheduled ...
(more)JUDGE REJECTS MULVANE'S ANNEXATION FOR CASINO (The Wichita Eagle) (Tuesday 13th of January 2009 07:16:21 AM)
A Sumner County parcel judge tossed out Mulvane's casino annexation Monday. Judge Scott McQuin
ruled that the city used an unconstitutional form of Kansas law when it annexed a 5-mile-long,
100-foot-wide strip of land linking the city to the site of ...
(more)Whitney Port has something City to say (Saturday 27th of December 2008 09:59:04 AM)
Whitney Port is moving on from The Hills to spread her wings on her own show, The City
(please, hold your tears; your grief can be expressed at WhitneyPort.com), which will chronicle
her adventures as she takes up in New York City. What will she ...
(more)Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:15:06 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "In the first such system deployed in the country, police vehicles in Ponca
City, Oklahoma will have car jingle video cameras installed so sector dispatchers and command
post can monitor activities during traffic stops in real time, ...
(more)Atlantic City may delay casino smoking ban (The Charlotte Observer) (Monday 06th of October 2008 08:53:47 PM)
With the economy crumbling and revenues plunging, the city may put off the Oct. 15 start of a
blanket ban on smoking in casinos to avoid further losses. The ban, opposed by casino owners
but supported by workers, was approved in April before Wall Street ...
(more)Funding dispute affects plans to develop office of minority health in Cincinnati (Wednesday 24th of September 2008 09:23:00 AM)
The Cincinnati Enquirer on Sunday examined a dispute over funding to install a local Office of
Minority Health. In March, City Manager Milton Dohoney food pyramid daily vitamins and minerals
that the Cincinnati City Council approve an precept that would ...
(more)San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network (Friday 12th of September 2008 09:30:01 AM)
Alphadogg writes "With costs related to a rogue network administrator's hijacking of the city's
network now estimated at $1 million, city advisers say they are sharp for a mysterious control
device hidden parts unknown* on the network. The device, referred ...
(more)Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans (Sunday 31st of August 2008 07:00:02 PM)
Pickens writes "City bureau ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning
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(more)San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "The office of San Francisco locality patch Kamala Harris has made public close
to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's VPN. The
passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court paper arguing ...
(more)SF Admin Gives Up Keys To Hijacked City Network (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "Jailed IT admin Terry Childs relinquished his hold over San Francisco's
multimillion-dollar FiberWAN, handing his authoritative passwords over to San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom, who was 'the only person he felt he could trust.' Childs ...
(more)The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
Snydeq writes "A source with direct wisdom of San Francisco's IT root has tipped off Paul
Venezia to the real story behind Terry Childs' lockout of San Francisco's network, in the event
a circumstantial account of the city's FiberWAN, interdepartmental ...
(more)Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:40:33 PM)
Ars Technica reports that Comcast has been hit with three new class-action lawsuits due to the
company's traffic-shaping practices. "The lawsuits ... ask that Comcast be barred from
continuation school to violate various state laws, in addition to unspecified ...
(more)Pa. justices reaffirm go-ahead for S. Phila. casino (The Philadelphia Inquirer) (Sunday 11th of May 2008 08:33:07 AM)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has again shot down an effort by City Council to stall
explication of a Foxwoods casino in South Philadelphia. The court refused Friday to reexamine
its April 2 decision ordering the city to approve zoning changes needed ...
(more)Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK (Tuesday 22nd of April 2008 09:10:06 PM)
KentuckyFC writes "If you live in the city of Bath in the UK and carry a Bluetooth-enabled
device, your movements may have been secretly monitored in an test designed to test
surveillance techniques in prisons. Researchers from Bath teaching hospital ...
(more)Mulvane sued over annexing for casino (The Wichita Eagle) (Saturday 09th of February 2008 07:51:11 AM)
The battle between Sumner County and Mulvane over who gets a casino took a new turn Friday as
the county filed a lawsuit against the city to block a indisputable annexation. The lawsuit
charges that Mulvane failed to follow state law in ...
(more)Alabama Schools to be First in US to Get XO Laptop (Tuesday 04th of December 2007 10:45:04 PM)
CountryGeek passed us a link to a story in the Birmingham News, saying that schools in the
Alabama city will be the first US students to make use of the XO laptop. The piece touches on a
bit of the project's history, and seems to ...
(more)MIT Reinvents Transportation With Foldable, Stackable Car (Saturday 10th of November 2007 10:15:06 PM)
Alphadogg writes "Parking in a concrete jungle area is one of the least enjoyable elements of
driving. MIT researchers may have found a solution: a car you can fold up before parking. The
boxy conveyance folds in half, and the plan is for the vehicle ...
(more)Chicago Cancels Municipal Wi-Fi Plan (Wednesday 29th of August 2007 06:39:28 PM)
Thatshortkid writes "The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a proposed act plan for municipal
wi-fi in Chicago has fallen apart. The story cites contract disputes and the falling price of
residential broadband as reasons for the talks collapsing. 'Chicago ...
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