Washington, DC to Get Paperless Parking Ticket System

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 1, 2009 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION       DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO GET FIRST IN THE NATION PAPERLESS PARKING TICKET SYSTEM   Beginning today the District of Columbia will implement a 100 percent paperless...

Animal Escapes from Washington, DC's National Zoo

Soon after I posted this message about the loof lirpa that escaped from Washington, DC's National Zoo this morning, the Police Commander in the precinct where the zoo is located responded.  The orignal alert...

Breaking News...Or Not?

We're at war in Iraq and Afganistan, the US economy is sliding into recession, a campaign for President is underway, global warming threatnes the planet, health insurance still eludes most Americans, cyber crime...

Voice Report from Bill Adler in Antarctica

[Ed Note: Bill Adler is a NowPublic Guest Editor. He is currently on a voyage to Antarctica; these are his voicereports].29.11.07 Go here to listen to the voice report.This is Bill Adler calling from the...

Fring: Mobile Instant Messaging Software for Your Cell Phone that Dazzles

Every now and then there comes along software that accomplishes two things:  It makes my life easier, better, more enjoyable, even more productive -- and at the same time it threatens to tear my family apart. Fring, www.fring.com, is that software. Fring is...

Check Your Email While on Vacation: It's Okay, Almost Everyone Does It

When Americans flock to the beach, mountains, distant cities and other places over the Labor Day weekend, many will be bringing Frisbees, tennis raquets, beach blankets, and paperback novels for summer's last fling.Others will be bringing along their Blackberries, Treos and...

Historic Uptown Movie Theater in Washington, DC to Become Bible Church on Sun...

The historic Uptown Movie Theater in Washington, DC will rent space on Sunday mornings to the McLean Bible Church.  News about a relationship between the Uptown and the McLean Bible Church first appeared on...

Photography Banned in Downtown Rockville, Maryland

It's Silver Spring all over again.Several weeks ago, local Washington, DC area photographer Chip Py was taking photographs in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, when he was told by a security guard that...

July 4th First Amendment Rights March in Silver Spring, Maryland

Over one hundred people marched today, July 4th, in support of first amendment rights in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.The demonstration was prompted by a ban on photography in a quasi-public, quasi-private...

Photographers Versus Security Guards in Washington, DC

I recently wrote about photography being banned in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, where a formerly public street has been turned over to a private company.  Yesterday I was on my way to a photographers'...

Photography Banned in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland

You're going to want to read the following two paragraphs twice because you're not going to believe them. "This past Tuesday I went to downtown Silver Spring, had lunch, and then took out my camera and standing on...

Ready to Get Rid of Your Anti-Virus Software? - The Yoggie Pico Reviewed

Yesterday I uninstalled my anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall software.  My computer is now completely naked against pieces of computer code that might do it harm.  And yet my PC is probably more secure than ever.Why get rid of anti-virus and allied...

A Stream of Hate Mail -- the TSA Story Revisited

As a writer I'm accustomed to receiving letters and emails about my books. Some are good, some less so. But these letters pale in comparison to the rants, missives and simply hateful things that people have sent to me. I can only imagine what Monica Emmerson's inbox looks...

Nightmare at National Airport -- an update

When I wrote about Monica Emmerson's story (click here to read the original story) and how she said she was harassed at Washington, DC's National Airport I didn't anticipate how much attention this story would...

Nightmare at Reagan National Airport: A Security Story to End all Security S...

UPDATE: TSA has posted a video in the incident on their website. You can read more about this video, the TSA incident report, and the incident itself HERE.  If you travel enough, you've seen it all --...

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