The controversy over these contracts erupted a couple of months ago when the mayor began submitting, for Mr. Hevesi's approval, what turned out to be 17 welfare-to-work contracts that had been awarded without competitive bidding.
The company's other products vet cloud services, providing a Stamp of Approval — what it calls Skyhigh Enterprise-ready — to the apps deemed sufficiently safe, and it vends tools to help companies manage cloud use inside their businesses.
Marostica failed to win legislative approval what he described as his "most important" proposal — the "Taxpayer Transparency Act," which would have required that government expenditures larger than $300 be reported on a searchable government website.
The same happens when we change our main profile photo -- Facebook knows that's a moment when we're vulnerable to social approval: "what do my friends think of my new pic?" Facebook can rank this higher in the news feed, so it sticks around for longer and more friends will like or comment on it.
Like he said, laced with 100,000 watts of massive sound courtesy of Canadian-based PK Sound, along with his X-Vison visuals, Excision is bringing more power than your average dubstep show that even Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor would growl in approval (what a old Detroit reference there!).
"If we have one of the best and most experienced developers in the city come in here and have trouble," the mayor said in an interview before the approval, "what kind of message are we sending to the rest of the business world who is thinking of coming into Yonkers?
