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...Baltimore, which gets 60,000 calls to 311 each month, the innovation has helped crack systemic problems ranging from potholes to graffiti to snow removal to floodwater. When 2003's Hurricane Isabel hit and calls about submerged streets cascaded into the downtown Baltimore call center, the water department mapped the calls' origins down to the address and then applied maps of the city's storm-water system. Department officials determined which storm drains were clogged and sent crews to clear them. "311 is genius in its simplicity," says Ted O'Keefe, director of Chicago's 311 City Services Center...
...skies cleared over the Golden State last week, many wondered whether a vengeful god had unleashed the rain and snowstorms that killed 28 Californians and caused more than $100 million in damage, mostly in the southern part of the state. Downtown Los Angeles logged a record 17 in. of rain over a 15-day stretch (bringing precipitation for the season to a record 22.51 in.), while a mudslide in nearby La Conchita killed 10 residents and swallowed 15 houses. To the north, around Lake Tahoe, roads and cars all but disappeared beneath as much as 19 ft. of newly fallen...
...Under Barry?s successor, Anthony Williams, Washington has vastly improved: a balanced budget, lower crime rates, and a reversal of the flight to the suburbs of the 1980?s.The former murder capital of the nation is undergoing a revitalization, with retailers like Anne Taylor moving downtown and a housing boom that has sent rents skyrocketing to $1500 a month for one-bedroom apartments in previously undeveloped areas. Barry, while blaming others for the city?s budget problems under his leadership, takes credit for the business boom, handing anyone who questions his work a 17-page list of his achievements...
National security agencies descended upon Boston Wednesday in response to an anonymous tip the FBI received suggesting that four Chinese nationals may be connected to a “dirty bomb” possibly located in the downtown area...
...Boston Police Department also positioned extra officers, trained to pinpoint and respond to radiological detonation, in the downtown area yesterday...