The road-sign-yellow units incorporate a high-tech clock and from the First weekend since March it looks like the Just Don’t Suck tennis club will not be meeting. A steady snow has been pelting down since before dawn, and there is already an eight-inch blanket over Malden, MA. with the brunt … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gpsfone.jpg\")
First
\n weekend since March it looks like the Just Don’t Suck tennis club will
\n not be meeting. A steady snow has been pelting down since before dawn,
\n and there is already an eight-inch blanket over Malden, MA. with the
\n brunt of the storm yet to come. Just in time for what promises to be
\n a record December blizzard, and following
\n in
\n a great local tradition of public service extortions, all 1,100 snow
\n removal contractors in Massachusetts have been threatening to strike
\n this week over a new state requirement that they carry tracking devices
\n in their vehicles while working for the Commonwealth….<\/em><\/p>\n
\n a microchip that taps into the Defense Department’s global positioning
\n system satellite network. Highway officials expect to have up-to-the-minute
\n information about where the state’s 3,000-plus contracted plows are during
\n storms, so they can redeploy trucks to snow-clogged highways — and make
\n sure drivers aren’t clearing private lots or munching Dunkin’ Donuts
\n on state time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"