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Restaurant Inspections *and* Results of Hearings Should be Published Online
The New York Times has an excellent story today about food health inspection processes and scoring systems throughout the country: "A Stir Over Plan to Grade New York City’s Restaurants". The news peg is that next year the City of New York is moving from a number score to a letter-scoring system, and they are…
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Chicago City Clerk publishes search tool for legislation and other items going back decades
Here’s some news from our friends at the Chicago City Clerk’s Office. Here’s the complete text of their PDF press release: Unprecedented Transparency Arrives at City Hall City Clerk del Valle Posts City Council Legislation Online Dating Back to the Byrne Administration The old days of crawling around the basement of City Flall searching for…
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What is an API?
A friend of mine asked me if I knew of a good definition of the term "API". I didn’t have one, but I know that I’ve explained it a number of times in presentations I’ve made to non-technical people. I never wrote down exactly how I’ve explained it in meeting rooms inside large downtown hotels,…
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Mexico’s Virtual Kidnappings
Now that’s a telephone threat. Exploiting Real Fears With ‘Virtual Kidnappings’ – New York Times. The twist is that little Pablo or Teresa is safe and sound at school, not duct-taped to a chair in a rundown flophouse somewhere or stuffed in the back of a pirate taxi. But when the cellphone call comes in,…