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David Flether's <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/">Government and Technology Weblog</a> frequently makes for great reading. Today he discusses <a href="https://www.core.gov/">CORE.GOV - Component Organization and Registration Environment</a>.<br /> <br /> CORE.gov uses the <a href="http://www.collab.net/products/enterprise_edition/index.html">CollabNet SourceCast</a> tool for sharing and tracking business and technical components available as part of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.<br /> <br /> Now I'm not sure I entirely understand this, since it is heavily buzzworded: <br /> <br /> <blockquote><img src="https://www.

June 18 - Chris Steins

The urban planning of the Burning Man Festival's "incidental metropolis," Black Rock City, shows what makes a city work and what is essential to a community.

June 18 - The San Francisco Chronicle

Under a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, artists are investigating and preserving the way in which nature reclaims abandoned industrial areas.

June 18 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Despite having been absorbed into the metropolis just two years ago, Montreal's suburbs are foiling a highly political attempt at regional planning.

June 18 - The Globe and Mail

California courts say Berkeley's zone-based selective 'living wage' is legal in a victory for fair-pay advocates.

June 18 - American City Business Journals

A sprawl dictionary describes the many types of sprawl.

June 18 - The New York Times

The median home price in the seventh largest city in the U.S. reached $500,000 last month.

June 18 - The San Diego Union-Tribune

A former Wal-Mart store becomes home to a Mexican-style market.

June 18 - The New York Times

The designer of Southern California's innovative pollution credit market is arrested for fraud.

June 18 - The Los Angeles Times

The future of Iowa State's early 20th century dairy barns is in question

June 18 - Des Moines Register

Climate experts say global warming is really, really real -- really.

June 18 - The Washington Post

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Five years ago, in an article titled "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011122182720/linuxpower.org/display.php?id=143">GRASS Is Now Greener</a>" [Linuxpower, Oct 1999] , I had written about the significance of the <a href="http://grass.itc.it/grass51/index.html">GRASS</a> GIS being released under the GPL and the potential of combining the newly "open-sourced" GIS with the open source MySQL database. A reader had commented that the open source <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a> database was more commonly used with GRASS.

June 17 - Abhijeet Chavan

A new report highlights corporations that incorporate smart growth into their business strategies.

June 17 - Smart Growth America

AlterNet offers a primer on the potentially negative impacts of Wal-Mart, using Chicago as a case study.

June 17 - AlterNet

Ralph R. Reiland argues that the Reagan administration's policies reversed the nation's economic decline, cut unemployment, and reduced poverty.

June 17 - The American Enterprise

If Boston commuter-train passenger searches are truly random, they will avoid the possibility of racial profiling.

June 17 - The Christian Science Monitor

Retiring baby boomers could be a social asset.

June 17 - USA Today

Rather than define what can and cannot be built in a zone, the APA-endorsed bill will set more general limits, allowing for mix-use neighborhoods.

June 17 - North County Times Escondido-Oceanside-Vista

The New York Times Book Review calls Jacob's new book "extremely sloppy" and "haphazard."

June 17 - The New York Times

The housing industry is well positioned for another strong decade according to the latest report from the Harvard Joint Center For Housing Studies.

June 17 - Harvard University