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    Eco-Labels: Making Environmental Purchasing Easier?

    Editor's note: This article was originally published in American City & County, which has merged with Smart Cities Dive to bring you expanded coverage of city innovation and local government. For the latest in smart city news, explore Smart Cities Dive or sign up for our newsletter.Defining E...

    By Scott Case • June 23, 2004
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    Argonne Licenses Anti-Jet-Lag Diet Software To Online Company

    The Anti-Jet-Lag Diet, developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, is now officially online. Argonne-developed software that computes individualized diet plans to help travellers avoid jet lag has been licensed exclusively to AntiJetLagDiet.com LLC.

    April 5, 2004
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    Smart Cities Technology and Data

    Cities are increasingly looking to technology and data to address real-world issues from traffic safety to law enforcement.

    By Smart Cities Dive staff
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    DC-NET Takes Charge of Telecommunications

    Washington, DC, is a city preoccupied with streamlining communications.

    Feb. 13, 2004
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    Constitutional Security

    The U.S. government has altered the way it protects America’s founding documents to fit the grim realities of an age of terrorism.

    By Michael Fickes • Nov. 1, 2003
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    UTILITIES/Utility automates meter-reading processes

    Clark Public Utilities (CPU) in Clark County, Wash., has automated its meter-reading processes by outfitting approximately 155,000 electric meters with

    By Misty Reagin • Oct. 1, 2002
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    Body language: Using biometric technology

    A few years ago, a dangerous criminal walked out of the Lancaster County (Pa.) Prison after fooling officials into believing that he was someone else.

    By Lindsay Isaacs • March 1, 2002
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    MAPPING/Software helps utility track miles of water pipe

    Cincinnati Water Works (CWW) is in high demand. Warren, Butler and Clermont counties have clamored to use the utility’s water, which is cleaned using a carbon filtration system.

    July 1, 2001
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    A shock to the system

    Efforts by cities to transform the way electricity is bought and sold are providing a shock to the system.

    By Will McNamara • April 1, 2001
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    Downtown revitalization creates `urban rooms’

    Brea, Calif., is nearing completion of an 11-year effort to revitalize its downtown district. The $100 million-$150 million project involves construction of eight buildings on Birch Street, to include retail stores, restaurants, entertainment venues and loft apartments, and reconfiguration of a two-block stretch of Brea Boulevard that will incorporate superstores for media and clothing retail chains.

    By Lindsay Isaacs • Sept. 1, 2000
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    Solving the problem of cell tower placement

    It is a common sight in major metropolitan areas: drivers sitting in traffic with a cellular phone in one hand and the steering wheel in the other.

    By Christina Couret • Sept. 1, 1999
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    Police and technology: The silent partnership

    When a police officer stops a driver for speeding or other unlawful activity, he usually does not know exactly what kind of situation he is getting into.

    By Christina Couret • Aug. 1, 1999
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    Online shopping offers governments ‘net’ gain

    As the commercial world turns more and more to shopping on the Internet for everything from books to computer software, local governments are beginning

    By Christina Couret • Jan. 1, 1999
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    False alarms face fines in Fremont

    The Fremont, Calif., police department responds to more than 10,000 calls from home and business security systems each year. However, 98 percent of those

    By Peggy Caylor • Nov. 1, 1998
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    Building your GIS from the ground up

    Over the last 20 years, GIS has evolved from a luxury into an inevitability.

    By Rebecca Somers • April 1, 1998
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    Central Park: If you can maintain it there …

    With public and private funding, and a small army of maintenance personnel, New York's Central Park is sprucing up its image: restoring the landscapes

    By Beth Wade • April 1, 1998
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    Ghost in the machine: Year 2000 spooks nation’s computers

    The birth of the new millennium could sound the death knell for many of the nation's computers. Barring drastic measures, experts say, many computer-controlled

    By Jeff Green • May 1, 1997
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    Bridgeport battles back from the edge

    In 1991, Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, was reeling from the notoriety of an historic bankruptcy filing and a $20 million operating deficit.

    By Ganim Joseph • July 1, 1996
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    Innovative cable-stayed bridge opens in Texas

    The Fred Hartman Bridge across the Houston Ship Channel in Texas opened this past September. With its symmetrically balanced towers and glistening arrays of cables, the facility conveys much about the art of contemporary structural engineering.

    June 1, 1996
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    Texas goes digital with new driver’s license system

    For 25 years,texas drivers have been getting their licenses the old-fashioned way: going to the local licensing bureau, filling out forms, having their

    Jan. 1, 1996
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    Digital orthophotography: the foundation of GIS

    Municipal and county governments are taking advantage of technology that helps them to better plan for and address the growing needs of residents. GIS, a method of capturing recognizable geographic details of a land area from an aerial view and displaying them for various purposes, is no longer an exclusive tool of technologically adventurous or financially well-off communities.

    By David Nale • July 1, 1995
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    East St. Louis mayor gambles and wins

    Gordon Bush is a devout, church-going man who drops God's name in normal conversation the way some people do in anger. But that doesn't stop him from

    By Janet Ward • April 30, 1995
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    USCM’s Crabb takes sister cities helm

    Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were still in the frosty stages of the Cold War when Juanita Crabb got involved with Sister Cities International.

    By Janet Ward • Feb. 1, 1995