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Dec 1, 2020 - “The law of the instrument” – ParkNews.biz week of Nov 24th- 30th, 2020 - As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a ...

Nov 30, 2020 - Blind Spot - JVH, Parking Today - When I began this post I was thinking about the ‘Blind Spot’ of which every single driver ...

Nov 26, 2020 - Sometimes Its Hard to be Thankful - JVH, Parking Today - Looking back on 2020 its hard to be thankful. We are faced with a pandemic, economic disruption, a chaotic ...

Nov 24, 2020 - Fly, Eat out, Park: ParkNews.biz Nov 17th- 23rd, 2020 - Kudos to the Miami Parking Authority and PayByPhone for ...

Nov 23, 2020 - Don’t pay the Ransom, I’ve Escaped - JVH, Parking Today - I know, its been a while since I have blogged. We all get down a bit. But this past week has been an eyeopener ...

Nov 17, 2020 - The future of work, independence, parking and transportation – ParkNews.biz Nov 10th-16th, 2020 - Since the pandemic begun, have you been working from home or your office? What do you prefer? ...

Nov 10, 2020 - What will the future bring and when can we leave zoom behind – ParkNews.biz Nov 3rd- 9th, 2020 - Prop 22 passed in California this past week. Are Uber and Lyft ...

Nov 5, 2020 - People are just Tired, But Annie has it right! - JVH, Parking Today - Astrid pointed out this morning that as she walked to the post office yesterday, her neighborhood seemed ...

Nov 3, 2020 - The freedom of driving your car to work – ParkNews.biz week of Oct 27th-Nov 2nd, 2020 - Voting for good news! This week on ParkNews.biz, there is an article from ...

Oct 27, 2020 - Why Have Vacations? - JVH, Parking Today - ParkMobile has done a survey on people taking vacations and where, how long ...

Oct 27, 2020 - LPR – A Hot Topic - JVH, Parking Today - The post I wrote a few days ago on License Plate Recognition has exploded on ...

Oct 27, 2020 - The boomerang affect – when it all returns to you – ParkNews.biz notes Oct 20-26, 2020 - “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” –Isaac Newton. Next week ..

Oct 26, 2020 - A Solution for the Divisive Crisis in which We Find Ourselves - JVH, Parking Today - There is no question that the election season 2020 is divisive; brother against sister, husband against wife, neighbor against ...

Oct 23, 2020 - The Act of Voting - JVH, Parking Today - I have had to incidents in the past week that have turned me against voting by mail ...

Oct 23, 2020 - Better to punt than be wrong - JVH, Parking Today - Michelle over at the IPMI has penned a very good piece on voting. She ...

Oct 22, 2020 - Does your PARCS system really work? - JVH, Parking Today - To answer that question one has to understand what ‘work’ means to the questioner. In dealing with ...

Oct 20, 2020 - The Great Barrington Declaration and Focused Protection: Full Parking Lots, Churches, Airports – ParkNews.biz Oct 13 – 19, 2020 - Dreaming of a world where parking lots, airports, shopping centers, churches and other ...

Oct 19, 2020 - Can LPR Accurately Identify 100% of the Cars Scanned? - JVH, Parking Today - This is one of those situations where you have to know the answers before you ask the ...

Oct 16, 2020 - Monk, Love Boat, and the rest - JVH, Parking Today - I have become so disheartened with the news and other programs on television that I simply cannot continue ...

Oct 12, 2020 - Negative!!! - JVH, Parking Today - I was feeling rather punk this past week. Nothing serious but a little achy and kinda ...

Oct 5, 2020 - I am bored out of my mind - JVH, Parking Today - I have been sitting here trying to figure out why. Normally I am bubbling over with ideas to put down on paper, or planning ...

Oct 1, 2020 - “Never Let a Serious Crisis go to Waste…” - JVH, Parking Today - Over on the IPMI Forum, Casey Jones is holding forth on the ...

Oct 1, 2020 - Deadlines - JVH, Parking Today - Have you ever noticed how having a deadline focuses your thinking. We are an organization ...

Sep 28, 2020 - Back in the Day ... - JVH, Parking Today - Back in the day, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, to get something past an editor and into a newspaper or on a news program ...

Sep 24, 2020 - Why Not Just Leave Well Enough Alone? - JVH, Parking Today - Governor Newsom of California has announced that he is ruling that by 2035 there will be no passenger cars ...

Sep 21, 2020 - What if? - JVH, Parking Today - We hear daily from those writing about the pandemic that we are entering a “new normal.” This new life means that the typical business ...

Sep 16, 2020 - The Virtual World…A Few Questions - JVH, Parking Today - I have been trolling around the NPA PMX LIVE Event this morning and find it technically amazing ...

Sep 16, 2020 - I Wander Virtually Around PMX - JVH, Parking Today - I’ve spent the last couple of hours visiting exhibitors at the NPA PMX Virtual event. I attempted to ask questions that would ...

Sep 14, 2020 - NPA’s PMX Live is On the Air – Join JVH There - The NPA’s Virtual Trade Event is up and running. You can link to it here. I have ...

Sep 11, 2020 - 9/11 - JVH, Parking Today - Where were you when the twin towers were attacked? If you are more than 25 years old I bet you ...

Sep 11, 2020 - On the Road, Well at least the Internet, Again - JVH, Parking Today - Willie Nelson would be proud. We are on the road again to attend the National Parking ...

Sep 2, 2020 - If You are Going Through Hell, Keep Going - JVH, Parking Today - That line is from Winston Churchill. He knew what he was talking about. His time as leader of the UK ...

Sep 2, 2020 - The Most Important Key - JVH, Parking Today - If I asked you what is the most important button on your phone or computer ...

Aug 31, 2020 - If You Can’t Stop the Praying, Stop the Parking - JVH, Parking Today - You have probably read about Grace Community Church in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles ...

Aug 25, 2020 - Welcome to car ownership, my friend. You are gonna love it! - JVH, Parking Today - Over on Parknews.biz, Astrid has posted an article from the The Atlantic Magazine. The article posits that millennials are buying cars ...

Aug 24, 2020 - Fight or Flight - JVH, Parking Today - "Facing fear has its challenges. It often pits us against things we’d rather not do. Stand on the roof of a ... "

Aug 19, 2020 - Resilience, It Comes from Within - JVH, Parking Today - I’m glad Casey over on the IPMI Forum is commenting on The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larsen’s portrayal of the Brits ...

Aug 18, 2020 - Yes, Friend, you are full of it… - JVH, Parking Today - I just received a piece written by a dear friend who shall remain ...

Aug 17, 2020 - That’s a Pretty Tough Policy - JVH, Parking Today - According to Chicago Sun Times Reporter Mary Mitchell: Under the current policy, “Vehicles are eligible for a boot if a registered ...

Aug 12, 2020 - Marcy Sparrow Named PT Director of Sales and Operations - Parking Today Media announced today that Marcy Sparrow has been promoted to the position of National ...

Aug 11, 2020 - What if they are Wrong? - JVH, Parking Today - We are barraged almost daily from those in ivory towers, mostly from universities and civic planners, telling us ...

Aug 10, 2020 - Finding the joy and glory of this climb! - ParkNews.biz – Aug 4-10, 2020 - This past week on ParkNews.biz, once again we see that albeit faced with obstacles and ...

Aug 10, 2020 - The Joy and Glory of the Climb - JVH, Parking Today - “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there ..."

Aug 10, 2020 - What to do when you’re stuck in a career rut - What song do you hear in your head when you wake up in the morning? Is it something uplifting that gets you ready for ...

Aug 5, 2020 - Ryan Reynolds on ‘Deadpool,’ diversity, and the secrets of successful marketing - Over the past year, especially, he has been pioneering a new style of vertically integrated marketing. Not only does he hold a financial ...

Aug 4, 2020 - The Masque – Part Deux - JVH, Parking Today - Astrid reports over at Parknews.biz that the Dutch have determined that wearing a mask is of no particular value ...

Aug 4, 2020 - Perfect for Us, But Not for Them - JVH, Parking Today - I have been perusing a piece on Streetsblog over on Parknews.biz about the need to ‘fix’ New York City’s transportation ...

Aug 3, 2020 - Progress: The reasonable and the unreasonable of ParkNews.biz 07/28-08/03/2020 - Astrid Ambroziak, PT - “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying ...

Aug 3, 2020 - This Looks Good - JVH, Parking Today - I was out taking a cover shot for my favorite magazine and parked in the ...

July 27, 2020 - Not Mission Statements, but Mission Questions - Astrid Ambroziak, Parking Today - “Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” – Louis D. Brandeis - Parking ...

July 27, 2020 - We are Veterans - JVH, Parking Today - From Correspondent Joe: We left home as teenagers or in our early twenties for an unknown adventure. We loved our country ...

July 23, 2020 - COVID-19 has opened the floodgates for smart cities—whether we like it or not - The COVID-19 pandemic will be “a lubricant for the smart city,” according to one urban planning expert. From banal city ...

July 22, 2020 - Further to: Race - JVH, Parking Today - I received the following via email from a parking planner in Virginia: A thought in ...

July 21, 2020 - Is Parking Racist? Part 2 - JVH, Parking Today - I wrote last month that I was going to host a discussion on racism in parking. I had read a number of articles about the topic ...

July 21, 2020 - Yep… We Changed the Dates for PIE 2021 — It’s Now Set for April 12-15 - JVH, Parking Today - We are announcing new dates for PIE 2021. Our venue has offered us new dates and we grabbed them up. PIE 2021 will ...

July 14, 2020 - Is Parking Back? - JVH, Parking Today - Is parking back? Will the recovery be a “V” or a lopsided “S”? The answers to these ...

July 7, 2020 - Some Good News – Looking out the Window - JVH, Parking Today - I have noticed that the number of cars in the garage under ...

July 6, 2020 - Little Things - JVH, Parking Today - Have you ever noticed that sometimes it’s the ‘little things’ that really get under your skin ...

July 2, 2020 - It's About Independence and Opportunity - JVH, Parking Today - Celebrations like Independence Day, Memorial Day, and ...

June 30, 2020 - Don't Panic -- Third Quarter Begins Tomorrow - JVH, Parking Today - My industry sources tell me that many of the ...

June 26, 2020 - Is the Parking Industry racist? - JVH I have been thinking about the maelstrom in which we find ourselves. Is everything truly about race.

June 22, 2020 - The Masque - JVH, Parking Today - OK, I’ll admit it, I am not comfortable wearing a mask. Its hot, its smelly, it fogs ...

June 22, 2020 - Looking out the Window – This Rebound is a good thing - JVH, Parking Today - As I drove around Southern California on Friday there was a sense that we were ...

June 15, 2020 - AV has come up against a brick wall, its AI - JVH, Parking Today - Have you noticed that we don’t see so many articles these days about how autonomous vehicles will be ...

June 9, 2020 - Las Vegas Opens – Parking Keeps up - JVH, Parking Today - The City of Las Vegas is opening up and the Parking Department is right in step. Read about it on parknews.biz ...

June 8, 2020 - Shields up — Gun Ports Open - JVH, Parking Today - We are getting a lot of reaction on Astrid’s first person post. You ...

June 3, 2020 - First Person – Like the Windows, My Heart is Shattered… - Astrid Ambroziak, Parking Today - This past Saturday May 30th looked like it was going to be a beautiful day. I started it with a prayer. A prayer of gratitude ...

May 27, 2020 - The Upcoming Months will be A Disaster NOT!! - JVH, Parking Today - Even in California, which has become the epicenter for the “lockdown” we are seeing more activity ...

May 27, 2020 - Six experts reveal the post-COVID truth about the advertising business - We’ve talked about the death of irony before, but I think this could be the death of bullshit ...

May 22, 2020 - "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world!" - from Barbara to Kacey: "I miss parking conferences.” - JVH, Parking Today - Kacey Siskind, a senior VP at Honk Mobile, believes in telling it like it is, as ...

May 18, 2020 - How to Improve your Office Parking - JVH, Parking Today - There is a reason those who work in our industry are considered experts in parking. It is a complex business ...

May 18, 2020 - Haircut and a Car Wash - JVH, Parking Today - I admit it, I couldn’t take it any longer and got a bootleg haircut. I got a ...

May 14, 2020 - The Splendid and the Vile - JVH, Parking Today - Author Erik Larson writes historical nonfiction based on tremendous in depth research about his subject. He quotes ...

May 11, 2020 - The Car Is Staging a Comeback, Spurring Oil’s Recovery - JVH, Parking Today - That headline was from Bloomberg, and if you read the article, it reflects what you ...

May 11, 2020 - Klaus Gindl - JVH, Parking Today - I received word this morning that Klaus Gindl passed away last week after a month ...

May 7, 2020 - Touch you, and hug you, and shake hands with you soon - JVH, Parking Today - There is a reason people of all ages hold hands, sometimes when they walk, sometimes ...

May 5, 2020 - “I thought about the recession and decided not to participate.” - JVH, Parking Today - That quote by Sam Walton pretty much sums up an article last year in Forbes Magazine where author Brad Adgate stressed that the ...

May 5, 2020 - Observations - JVH, Parking Today - About half the people on the street in LA are not wearing masks. Ralphs Grocery in LA ...

May 4, 2020 - Parking Lot Radio - JVH, Parking Today - The Pandemic has inspired innovation. Churches particularly want to hold services and keep social distancing. An outfit in Oregon ...

April 29, 2020 - The World Will Never Be the Same - JVH, Parking Today - How many times have we read this over the past six weeks? How may ‘futurists’ or even just journalistic wags ...

April 29, 2020 - ‘We literally couldn’t fundraise’: Why wealthy VCs won’t save struggling startups - Criticism of venture-backed startups that took coronavirus loans has exploded since the ...

April 28, 2020 - Just Where Does the Money Come From? Plus a New Normal — Not! - JVH, Parking Today - I was always curious about people who work for a company and assume the money comes from the CEO, or the Board of ...

April 27, 2020 - “Fear does us more harm than the things of which we’re afraid” - JVH, Parking Today - Roman Emperor and Stoic Marcus Aurelius was prescient by 2000 years when he included in his writings that “fear does us ...

April 27, 2020 - Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help - The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how ...

April 24, 2020 - Here’s a blog that PROBABLY is about SUGGESTING a change that MIGHT be coming and COULD affect the industry… - JVH, Parking Today - I have been reading headlines from the MSM lately and find certain words ...

April 24, 2020 - OMG A Blog That’s Actually About Parking - JVH, Parking Today - The City of Anchorage, AK is ‘moving ahead’ with charging hotels for the loading zones in front of their ...

April 23, 2020 - Mark Cuban Speaks Out - JVH, Parking Today - This is a time of confusion for many. What to do, What to do? I read quotes from many CEO’s and they seem locked into ...

April 22, 2020 - Will we settle for just beating the virus, or will we build a better world? - Carefully constructed, this will bring many derivative benefits, including more long-term stable employment, clean air and healthier ...

April 21, 2020 - Some Good News in a time of Crisis - JVH, Parking Today - I received the following from Ellis Dumont, CEO of Advanced Parking Concepts. Congratulations to him and ...

April 21, 2020 - Are the Pandemic Changes Permanent? - JVH, Parking Today - Adam Benzion, writing in Fast Company, posits that moving online is the way to go and that ...