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- San Diego restauranteur Jay Porter ran one tipless restaurant and one traditional one. The former, he writes, annoyed both local competitors and some customers: “A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men) resented that we were not letting them try to exercise additional control over our team members.” And yes, the takeaway from the experience, writes Porter, was that “thoughtful cultures who value civil rights will make tipping not just optional but illegal.”
- Springfield, Missouri, is crowdfunding the revitalization of Route 66.
- Commune is a new and very pretty digital bulletin board for community events, its sleekness a reaction against other apps’ “excess of gamification, sharing of personal information, and other features not essential to realizing our ideas.” (via @noneck)
- San Francisco’s airport authorities might be making citizen’s arrests of ridesharers, but then again, maybe not.
- Either way, taxi drivers are protesting at City Hall. Signs in evidence include, “How will I feed my family when you take my money?” There’s video.
- Meanwhile, over on the other coast, Washington’s WUSA does a midnight check of cabs for rule violations. The findings: “When our investigation ended at 4:00 a.m., we had not found a single driver who was in compliance with DC Taxi Commission’s rulebook.” The most violated rule was the one on displaying ID. (via @ericwilson)
- “Why? Because she doesn’t have a brightly colored truck with an ironic name?” A plea to remember the humble food cart.
- Austin is getting bike sharing. Locals can vote on the color, as long as it’s red, gray, or blue.
- In Columbus, they’re going with red and gray — OSU colors.
- Vintage sellers wonder why they’re not grandfathered out of Etsy’s new ban on endangered animal products.
- Organizers in Miami say that they were a little surprised by the turnout for their Public Space Challenge.
- San Francisco’s Rincon Hill is getting a “privately owned public park.”
- “Coworking: What Is It And Where Is It Found In Wisconsin?”
- And in Normandy, it’s found in a castle.
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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.
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