Rise and Shine is a regular morning roundup of links. Tips if you’ve got ‘em.
- Noblesville, Ind. opts to ups its licensing fee for food trucks to $1,000 “after spirited discussion.”
- Some neat maps based on New York City’s newly freed PLUTO — that is, tax lot — data.
- Designer Mikael Colville-Andersen talks about building better bike lanes.
- Newly-minted Democratic nominee Cory Booker says that if makes it to the Senate, he’ll step down from his little known yet remunerative tech start-up Waywire.
- Portland is searching for private funding to match a $2 million federal bike share grant amid concerns about where the stations will go.
- There’s an intra-food truck squabble in Raleigh, N.C. over how to go about rallying community support.
- Competing to be the go-to app for building collaborative consumption payment plans.
- Hoboken, N.J. is working on a dockless bike share program where all the technology is already on board.
- Newark, N.J. will today release the first set of data under its “Police Transparency Policy.”
- A “For Rent” sign that follows you around.
- The “sharing economy” will be catastrophic. No it won’t.
- Want to understand the sharing economy? Read Ronald Coase.
- “Bike Lanes in Cedar Rapids Still Confusing for Motorists, Cyclists.”
- The national press notices that Bill de Blasio, the new front-runner in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, isn’t a fan of congestion pricing.
- “The rise of New York as a venture capital center has been nothing short of astounding,” writes Richard Florida.
- And Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and others begin work on LakeSim, a computational framework being built around Chicago’s lakefront but meant to address the lack of science-based models for understanding complex and large development projects.
Nancy Scola is a Washington, DC-based journalist whose work tends to focus on the intersections of technology, politics, and public policy. Shortly after returning from Havana she started as a tech reporter at POLITICO.