A garbled mess of regulations doesn’t help aspiring drivers, who find themselves stifled within an industry known for bottom-up entrepreneurship.
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Geography and Economics of Aspiration
In any development scheme, you pick a star and try to replicate it in your own backyard.
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OpenGov Voices: Data.gov relaunches on open source platform CKAN
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed by the guest blogger and those providing comments are theirs alone and do not reflect the o
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Revisiting Los Angeles' Lost Cycling Highway? [VIDEO]
In 1897, Horace Dobbins bankrolled the Cycleway, an elevated wooden boardwalk, connecting Pasadena with downtown Los Angeles, and upon which cyclists would pay $0.10 one-way, or $0.15 for a roundtrip
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Hits and Misses: Bike-Sharing Initiatives in India
India has a young population and for them biking can be an ideal transport mode for the short trips which they used to take by bus, walking or auto rickshaw.
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Collapsed Bridge Outlines Other Infrastructure Woes
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2Day in #OpenGov 5/24/2013
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House's Legislative Data and Transparency Conference a Success
Yesterday, the House of Representatives hosted its 2013 Legislative Data and Transparency Conference.
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DATA Act: from OGR to HSGAC, or how I learned to love the budget (and you can too)
On Wednesday, legislation to bring federal spending information into the daylight was favorably reported by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Baker Resigns; Councilor Calls Damascus a “Hellhole”
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U.S. Aims to Strengthen WMD Interdiction Program at Warsaw Meeting
Nations increasingly are initiating interdiction operations and watching for threats, official says.
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A Project Manager’s Perspective on the Cost Impacts of the “Sequester”
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Telephones: Fostering personal relationships since 1876
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Meet the Only Company That Still Thinks a Manned Spacecraft Should Fly Back to Earth
Dream Chaser is that rare piece of technology that is both a leap forward and a throwback.
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Opting for On-Premise File Storage Over the Cloud
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Organizing for Action Says It Can’t Move Climate Change Legislation In Congress
Beleaguered on one side by pressure to take a stand on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline
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Link roundup
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GSA Business Roundtable Highlights
As you know, on Wednesday the General Services Administration and Coalition members came together at the Coalition’s GSA Business Roundtable. The roundtable featured an engaging “Myth-Busters
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Mark Russinovich: Software Whiz, Cybercrime Writer
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The Future of Brick-and-Mortar Retailers? Turning Into Datacenters
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DHS Warns Of Potential Private Data Breach
Homeland Security vendor may have exposed employees' information ranging from Social Security numbers to names and birthdays.
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Obama nominates new Census director
President Obama has nominated John H. Thompson to head the U.S. Census Bureau. Thompson, a resident of the District of Columbia, is president and CEO of NORC, a private sector research organization.
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Predicting Crime Using Analytics and Big Data
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New Program Lets Davis, Calif., Residents Monitor Water Use Online
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Must-See New Urbanism Projects in Salt Lake City
Christie Oostema, Planning Director at Envision Utah said in a recent podcast that she hopes to see Salt Lake City become an incubator for new urbanism projects.
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Open Data Could Aid Spending Transparency
Treasury is interested in integrating open data into the next generation of financial systems.
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Sanders skeptical about calls for presidential commission to investigate VA backlog
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs expressed skepticism in a television interview about proposals to create a presidential commission to examine the enormous backlog of ve
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Artist Andy Brown: A Successful Creative in Downtown Phoenix
Andy Brown moved back to Phoenix to cut his cost of living so that he can concentrate on making art rather than figuring out how to sell it – and found that the selling of it is starting to take car
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Migration Economies and Lessons from Portland
For Portland, regional planning and urban amenities comprise the economic development strategy. Build it and they (talent) will come.
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Sustainable Cities and Revising Suburbia
Times are changing, and there’s evidence that design firms and planners are changing with them.
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Top Russian Social Network VKontakte Briefly Banned "By Mistake"
The most popular social network in Russia worked its way onto a blacklist this Friday, allegedly “by mistake,”
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Can This App Find Your Next Job?
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L-3 wins $53M contract for helicopter logistics support
L-3 Communications has won a $53 million contract with the Navy for logistics services in support of the TH-57 helicopter fleet.
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SRA taps insiders as SVPs of civil, health groups
SRA International has named two new senior vice presidents of its Civil Government and Health groups.
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QinetiQ North America taps new EVP, general manager of Technology Solutions
QinetiQ North America has named Andrew Rogers executive vice president and general manager of its Technology Solutions business unit.
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OPM Launches Job Search, Operating Status Apps
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White House Announces Mobile Security Guidelines
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House Appropriators Seek 5% Pentagon Budget Increase, Steep Civilian Agency Cuts
The House Appropriations Committee unveiled a fiscal year 2014 budget plan Thursday would increase Pentagon funding by 5 percent and implement double-digit cuts for some civilian agencies, Federal Ti
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The Landscape of Municipal Zoning Data
Zoning impacts the most physical elements of communities and impacts people's daily lives.
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HHS Bets on New Model to Fund Biodefense Drug Development
The approach is more flexible than the government's traditional strategy of funding drugs.
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Mark Schaefer Nominated NOAA Head, John Thompson Census Director
President Barack Obama has made two nominations within the Commerce Department by appointing directors for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Census Bureau. Dr.
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Furloughs to end for U.S. Park Police, Park Service director says
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Code for America Launches International Partnerships in Mexico, Germany and the Caribbean
Code for America today announced the launch of its first official international partnerships in Mexico, Germany and the Caribbean.
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Fixin'
There's a descriptive term which could result in more accurate communications: fixin'.
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Recap: Securely Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape
Yesterday, GovLoop, in partnership with Symantec, hosted an online training on cyber security that highlighted key perspectives in cyber defense as well as the latest threat types that folks need t
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LTE Wireless by the Numbers (Infographic)
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Cyber getting baked into more procurements
Work is underway on increasing cybersecurity requirements on many of the IT products and services government agencies buy.
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Northrop wins $26M contract to update Airbus planes with infrared system
Northrop Grumman has won a contract with the Air Force to modify and install two Airbus planes with Large Infrared Countermeasures System.
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Contender For U.K. Smart Meter Rollout: Game On
SmartReach, a joint venture comprised of several tech and communications companies, has developed communications technology for the U.K's planned smart energy meter project.
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