Feb 23, 2008
The Legend of the Golem
Ivana Pecháčková, The Legend of the Golem , trans. Klára Tvarůžková, Second, The Legends of Prague (Prague, ČR: Meander, 2004). Pecháčková retells the story of the Golem of Prague from the perspective…
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Feb 22, 2008
The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI
Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI (New York: Random House, 1993). The authors are Time magazine reporters who followed and broke…
Feb 15, 2008
On the Mobile Internet
Interesting People links to an Apple Insider article on the iPhone and Google. The summary is, Google is receiving a large number of search queries from iPhones and the question is whether…
Feb 14, 2008
New University of Maryland Website
The University of Maryland, College Park has deployed their new website, updated a style used for about five years. It doesn't deliver the types of Web 2.0 features you might like to…
Feb 13, 2008
Columbia Association Budget Committee Minutes (January 30, 2008)
Budget Advisory Committee Minutes January 30, 2008 Meeting In Attendance: Committee - Mary Chiu, James Howard, Roger Hultgren, Dan Woodruff Others - Patricia Laidig, Anne Brinker, Sarah Uphouse, Jackie Felker The meeting…
Feb 12, 2008
Municipal Creditworthiness
Tonight, I'll be talking to the Public Financial Management class at the University of Baltimore about municipal creditworthiness. Here are the slides: Municipal Creditworthiness from James Howard
Feb 10, 2008
Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority
Jameson W. Doig, Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). Doig presents a history of the Port…
Feb 9, 2008
Engaging the Public Through Technology
As I mentioned before, William Erskine has created a blog for the Public Engagement in Land Use Planning Task Force. This blog posts the comments of Task Force members but also allows…
Feb 8, 2008
A Brief Note on Feeds
As you may have noticed, there are a number of feeds available on the right hand sidebar of this page. These feeds come from several sources. The Blog feed is generated internally…
Feb 7, 2008
2008 Budget Committee Final Reports
The final reports for the Budget Committee were presented to the CA at a budget work session last night: The Capital and Operating Budget Format Village Share Allocations