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- Capital New York’s Dana Rubinstein reports that participatory budgeting is trending toward being the norm in New York City.
- California’s Public Utilities Commission has pushed back its vote on ride sharing.
- Portland, Maine, is considering loosening its food truck rules to allow for clustering.
- A Pittsburgh officials explains that logistics dictate that city administrators select station locations for its coming bike share system: “It’s very technically driven. We couldn’t go to the public first and say, ‘Where do you want stations?’”
- Pittsburgh’s jitney system is judged “illegal, but thriving.”
- Tutorspree, the “Airbnb for tutoring” ends its run, with the founders saying, ”we could not make it the company we wanted.”
- PBS’s Judy Woodruff reports on BerkShares.
- The Atlantic Cities’ Emily Badger digs into Parking Mobility, the app for reporting undeserving handicap space takers.
- Brett Goldstein, former chief data and information officer for Chicago, says that data-driven governments must be sure to avoid the “creepy factor.”
- Asheville, North Carolina, is training volunteers to help figure out who’s using its bike lanes and pedestrian paths.
- And the New Yorker’s James Surowiecki concludes that “sharing, it turns out, is often a hell of a lot of work.”
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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