Monthly Archive for November, 2010

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City, County Police Deploy License Plate Cameras

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 28, 2010 in Crime and Government. 4 Comments

City and county police are automatically running checks on every license plate that they see, Ted Strong writes in the Daily Progress. Each department has a single camera rig that’s attached to a police car—it detects the numbers on each and every license plate that’s within the cameras’ range and checks to see if it’s in their database of wanted vehicles. The city started using the system this summer, the county earlier this month. An electronic log of every license plate spotted by the system is retained—the city keeps the data for three months, the county for two. The system doesn’t scan for plates with expired inspections or registrations, for lack of a database to interface with.

Shuffleboard on Ice

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 27, 2010 in In Brief. 3 Comments

There’s a beginners’ curling league starting.  #

Park Downtown Too Long, Get Towed

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 26, 2010 in In Brief. 29 Comments

The open lot on First and Market is not a good place to park.  #

C’ville Mentioned in The Onion

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 25, 2010 in In Brief. Closed

The Onion mentions C’ville: “A Classic Jason Somehow Gets Mixed Into Area Man’s Anecdote Collection“  #

City Names Manager Finalists—Brown Apparently Top Pick

Published by Waldo Jaquith on November 24, 2010 in Government. 9 Comments

There are three finalists for city manager, Rachana Dixit writes in today’s Daily Progress: acting city manager Maurice Jones; Richard Brown, city manager of East Providence, RI; and Paula Hertwig Hopkins, the assistant city manager of of Columbia, MO. One of the three has been offered the job, but the city isn’t saying who. Dixit called all three: Jones and Hopkins say that they haven’t heard anything, while Brown wouldn’t talk. So, apparently, Richard Brown is the city’s top pick.

On his LinkedIn profile, Brown says that he’s held his current position since 2006 and that, previously, he spent fourteen years as manager of New London, CT and eight as manager of Petersburg, VA. He got his BA from UVA in 1974. A Rhode Island publication points out that this is the second job Brown has been a finalist for in the past year; the last time around it was for Plymouth, RI.