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Flight Colgan 3407 Air Traffic Audio.

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Last night tragedy struck as a plane crashed in Buffalo killing 50 people.  On the plane was a 9/11 widow who helped push the Government into forming the 9/11 Commision, and a woman known as the "expert" on Rwanda and the Rwanadan genocide.  Both will be missed. Investigators have recovered the black boxes and are investigated the crash.  Available on the Internet is the audio recording from the air traffic control with the flight in the moments before the crash. kbuf-feb-13-2009-0300z Flight 3407's pilot is heard around 3:50 in. LiveATC.net is the place to go to hear towers and planes worldwide. Along with live broadcasts the last thirty days are archived and easily acccessible. This is a hobbyist site, the brainchild of Dave Pascoe.
"I originally launched LiveATC.net as a small place on the web to share live air traffic communications from Boston's Logan Airport. Since then it has grown rapidly and become a popular resource for those who enjoy listening to and talking about Air Traffic Control (ATC)...aviation enthusiasts, student pilots, student air traffic controllers, flight simulation enthusiasts, FBO operators, airline operators, and just about anyone with an interest in aviation communications. It's even used by nervous flyers who want to simply get a peek into a world they don't normally get to experience (unless they're flying on United Airlines and listening to Channel 9). "

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When Privatization Goes Wrong

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When an hour of parking costs more than an hour of minimum wage work, there is a problem.  Parking meters are not meant as sources of income.  They're meant to help lower traffic, increase public transportation, and otherwise help the roadways.  Chicago is now putting forth a $6.50 / hour parking fees downtown.  This would kill downtown business traffic as well as raising rates of employees who may have to pay the parking fees for their cars while they work.
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago is trying to get "quickie" approval for a proposal to privatize the city's parking meters. Under the 75 year lease, Chicago's 36,000 parking meters would be controlled by a partnership that includes Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and LAZ Parking. This partnership will, naturally, raise prices. Critics of the proposal say that charging $6.50 an hour by 2013 to park downtown would hurt local businesses. More troubling is the potential for a conflict of interest:
Ald. William Banks (36th), one of the mayor's staunchest City Council supporters, warned that charging $6.50-an-hour to park at Loop meters and forcing drivers to feed those meters 24/7 would be a "definite deterrent to people visiting the downtown area," hurting retailers and restaurants. Parking enforcement could get tougher if the contractor exercises its right to "supplement" the city's ticket-writing efforts to "protect its revenue."
Supplement the city's ticket writing to "protect its revenue?" Well, that seems like a conflict of interest, doesn't it? Consumerist expects to receive a lot of email from angry motorists should this deal go through.
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