Anne Jordan

Recent Articles

• Latest Library Loans: Laptops
• Oct 28, 2005
• Miami-Dade has joined the growing ranks of public library systems offering free wireless Internet access to their patrons. That's newsworthy on a local level, but ...

• Who Will Manage the Bird Flu?
• Oct 10, 2005
• The Bush administration is still working on the details of its preparedness plan to deal with an avian influenza pandemic. But one thing already is ...

• A History Lesson for Today
• Oct 5, 2005
• "Only a fraction of [the city's] population remained, thousands having...fled the town. Those inhabitants who had chosen to stay in the hopes of ...

• From Bureaucracy to Burger King?
• Oct 5, 2005
• The big news out of New Orleans late yesterday was, of course, Mayor Ray Nagin's announcement that the city was laying off 3,000 employees--half of its ...

• In Remembrance
• Oct 4, 2005
• Today, my friends the Kulicks should be celebrating their second daughter's first birthday. But Victoria won't be blowing out a little candle on a cake. ...

• Too Friendly at the DMV?
• Oct 3, 2005
• It's often interesting when the journalists here on the 13th Floor have occasion to interact as private citizens with the state and local governments we ...

• Lack of Evidence
• Sep 23, 2005
• Earlier this week, my colleague Ellen Perlman wrote about a plea from the CIO of Louisiana's court system asking for private-sector donations of high-tech equipment ...

• Crossing the Library Line
• Sep 19, 2005
• The branch library a half-mile from my home in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, is adequate for most of my leisure reading needs and my sons' ...
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• Zoning Takes Houston By Storm
• Sep 6, 2005
• Houston and zoning aren't often used in the same sentence. But then, Hurricane Katrina changed a lot of things. Yesterday, in Americ a's largest city ...

• A New New Orleans?
• Aug 31, 2005
• Today out the windows of the 13th Floor, I see fast-moving, billowy clouds and a fluttering American flag. They are innocuous remnants of Hurricane Katrina--and ...

• Why Did the Ostrich Cross the Road?
• Aug 30, 2005
• Officials at the Golden Gate Bridge can add a new section to their online gallery: photos of the increasingly large and exotic animals crossing the ...

• Building Outside the Box
• Aug 16, 2005
• Design matters. That's the message of two articles I read this past week: one on public works in New York City, the other on high-rise ...

• Bear Minimum
• Aug 4, 2005
• Last week, my family trekked from Washington, D.C., to Yellowstone National Park in hopes of seeing some bears (and wolves), which we did--mostly through ...

• Double Booking
• Aug 1, 2005
• A city and a university sharing a library? It's not easy, but San Jose is doing it.

• Removing Their Cap
• Jun 29, 2005
• Earlier this month, Stephen Howard, a senior vice president at Lehman Bros., told Congress it should lift the cap on tax-exempt private activity bonds as ...