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Oh Hell No! Villaraigosa Wants To Increase Parking Fines

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.08.2012

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Perhaps the most unpopular move a Los Angeles elected official can make is increasing parking fines. And yet, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is proposing ...

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Emanuel 'Livid' About Parking Tickets Given To Mourners Of Fallen Marine

Posted 03.12.2012

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Parking tickets issued to mourners who abandoned their cars to participate in a fallen marine's funeral procession have been voided by the city, after...

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$44,500 For A Parking Ticket?!

Posted 12.28.2011

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Everyone makes mistakes - even police officers. But one woman in Sicily was grateful for the error after receiving a parking ticket initially issu...

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City Hall Eyes Crackdown On Handicapped Parking Abuse

Posted 12.25.2011

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Chicago officials say they are preparing to take the misuse of disabled parking passes a lot more seriously going forward. Karen Tamley, commission...

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Guy Cuts Parking Meter Off With Chainsaw?

Posted 12.24.2011

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UPDATE: The NYPD has confirmed our hunch that this is not real. There is, in fact, no 16th Precinct in NYC. Who staged the video, where and how, remai...

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NJ Police Chief: Double-parking Wife Not Above Law

AP | Posted 11.29.2011

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LODI, N.J. -- A New Jersey police chief says no one is above the law – not even his wife. Lodi (LOH'-deye) Police Chief Vincent Caruso ordered an...

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Angelenos Enraged Over 'Gold Card' Services Desk

Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.20.2011

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Los Angeles residents are up in arms over the existence of the "Gold Card," a plastic parking bureau card distributed to city offices that includes a ...

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UPDATE: Denver Refuses To Refund $1.2 Million In Parking Tickets

Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE (2:30 PM): The City Attorney's office has decided NOT to refund the parking tickets issued by unauthorized officers. In a statement (via the D...

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Private Firm Hiring Parking Ticket Writers For City

The Expired Meter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Do you enjoy spreading pain and misery to your fellow Chicagoans? Is orange your favorite color? Than we have a job for you! Private Parking Enforceme...

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Colleges Get Tough On Parking Tickets

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can run, but you can't hide. In an age where every penny counts, some universities are pulling out all the stops to collect parking ticket debt...

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John Ready, Kansas Student, Fights To Pay Parking Fine In Pennies

Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

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When University of Kansas student John Ready was slapped with a $10 parking violation, he decided to suck up his pride and pay the fine. In pennies....

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New Service Reminds Residents Of Street Sweeping Schedule In Time To Beat A Ticket

The Expired Meter | Posted 05.25.2011

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If your sick and tired of getting tickets for forgetting to move your car on street cleaning day, then there's a new service just for you. A new se...

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Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

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I can't find the Christian parking clause in D.C. Official Code, so one can only conclude the Sunday parking exemption is a secret handshake that specifically benefits a particular faith.

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Man Sues Police For 'Conspiracy' With His Ex-Wife To Slam Him With Parking Tickets

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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An Orland Park man who received two dozen unwarranted parking tickets has sued the city of Chicago and two police officers in federal court. The laws...

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LA Drivers May Get 'Boot' After Just 3 Or 4 Tickets

latimes.com | My | Posted 05.25.2011

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The budget crisis facing state and local governments is becoming particularly costly to California motorists, as officials turn to parking and traffic...

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Parking Ticket While Breast-Feeding

New York Times | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've heard of being ticketed for breast-feeding while driving. What about a ticket for being parked while breast-feeding? On July 30, Enrique Velez ...

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Half Of Contested Parking Tickets Are Dismissed

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Only 10 percent of the approximately 2.8 million parking tickets issued each year in Chicago are contested. But of those contested, over half are dism...

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Cops Bury Dead Man's Van With Tickets, Miss Corpse Inside

New York Daily News | Simone Weichselbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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The daughter of a man whose badly decomposed body was found inside a minivan said Thursday traffic cops should have noticed her father over the severa...

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Tinted Glass Fine Skyrockets From $25 to $250

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Parking Ticket Geek

Is this fine about police safety? Or is it really about increasing revenue for a city that is desperate for any revenue?

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Ask The Parking Ticket Geek

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Parking Ticket Geek

Another crap ticket courtesy of the city of Chicago. If a cop wrote this ticket, they were being lazy and should have looked up where your plates were registered. Instead they took the easy way out and wrote the ticket.

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A Chicago Parking Ticket Aide Answers Your Questions

The Parking Ticket Geek | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Parking Ticket Geek

Ticketmaster is a Parking Enforcement Aide (PEA) for the city of Chicago Dept. of Revenue. Ticketmaster very graciously answers questions to give our readers insight and information to hopefully avoid tickets altogether.

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