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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 ...

April 20, 2020 - Extra!!!! Special Pandemic Edition of PT now On line Extra!!! - JVH, Parking Today - We have been overwhelmed with stories about parking and the pandemic so we decided to prepare an ‘on line’ edition of Parking Today ...

April 20, 2020 - Unnecessary Customer Interactions - JVH, Parking Today - I read that headline on an article coming out in PT May with horror. Yes I understand social ...

April 15, 2020 - Musings on CV-19 and Parking - JVH, Parking Today - In the previous blog I posited that the populace would eventually shrug off social distancing and the rest and ...

April 14, 2020 - A Little Consistency, Please - JVH, Parking Today - Americans aren’t stupid. If our betters tell us to do one thing, then tell ...

April 10, 2020 - Happy Easter - JVH, Parking Today - Christians believe that Christ was crucified and died today, 2000 years ago and then was raised from the dead on Sunday ...

April 10, 2020 - Death by PowerPoint - JVH, Parking Today - “OMG, not another Webinar.” How often have you heard or said that, particularly at this time of social distancing? ...

April 9, 2020 - MIT has an ambitious plan to detect if you’ve been exposed to the coronavirus - There are three basic steps to stamping out the spread of a highly contagious disease such ...

April 8, 2020 - Using Zoom for job interviews right now makes an age-old problem even worse - The pandemic presents a chance for companies to try to stamp out unconscious bias by interviewing candidates on the old- ...

April 7, 2020 - It was just the Cars… - JVH, Parking Today - I can do nothing but laugh at the arrogance of some people. I just read a long article in “Wired” about the incoming head of ...

April 7, 2020 - Don Shoup and Pricing the Curb - JVH, Parking Today - My UCLA buddy Don Shoup has penned a missif for the IPMI which basically rehashes his decade old theories about ...

April 6, 2020 - Coronavirus is crushing the economy. Here’s how to bring it back to life - Much of America is under lockdown to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus. In a couple months, when this first phase of the ...

April 6, 2020 - “The Recovery of the Parking Industry May be Faster than you Think.” - JVH, Parking Today - I’m preparing the May issue of Parking Today and have come across and article we will be featuring. “The New Commute ...

April 3, 2020 - The Urban Forest, Part Deux - JVH, Parking Today - So we hardened up the kitchen, and closed off the dog door at night – to keep ...

April 2, 2020 - The Urban Forest - JVH, Parking Today - We noticed the other day that the cat was eating a lot more than usual. We feed him ...

April 2, 2020 - In times of crisis – Innovation thrives - JVH, Parking Today - I received this note from Spot Parking’s CEO Elizabeth Zealand. If you have any innovation that has emerged ...

April 1, 2020 - Hiatus - JVH, Parking Today - A temporary gap, pause, break, or absence can be called a hiatus. When your favorite TV show ...

March 31, 2020 - How businesses could emerge better after COVID-19, according to B Lab - This is an opportunity for us to focus on both how business and government play a role in building a more resilient economic system for the next ...

March 30, 2020 - I can only imagine… - JVH, Parking Today - We must stay positive in difficult times, but its difficult in the face of a Tsunami of news that even the most ‘glass if half full’ ...

March 30, 2020 - Some Small Reason for Optimism - JVH, Parking Today - I had an interesting discussion with a neighbor during my ‘Suki Walk” (dog walk) yesterday. She is an RN at a local 480 bed hospital. I asked her ...

March 28, 2020 - Walker Consultants Offers Guidelines to CV-19 Testing in Garages - JVH, Parking Today - Mary Smith over at Walker Consultants has let me know that they have posted a white paper on their web sites ...

March 27, 2020 - Working from home? Here’s how to separate the ‘work’ from the ‘home’ - Full-time remote work is the new normal—at least for now. Establishing ...

March 27, 2020 - Dispersion – What will it mean to Parking - JVH, Parking Today - So, our betters have been telling us for years that living in cities, in small apartments cheek by jowl, is ...

March 26, 2020 - A Bit of Blue Sky - JVH, Parking Today - Companies that serve the populace are hiring, in the face of the pandemic. Do they know something we don’t? We have had a ...

March 26, 2020 - I know I sound like a broken record, but I can’t help myself - JVH, Parking Today - Those of you who read this regularly know that I don’t watch television news ...

March 25, 2020 - San Diego Reels with Parking Everywhere PIE 2020 - JVH, Parking Today - San Diego lived up to its reputation as having the best weather in the US on Tuesday as blue ...