Autocratic regimes professing to be democracies have been known to use their judiciary systems to jail or bankrupt dissidents and intimidate resident reporters.
So it is that residents, reporters and retrofitting fans have been watching online and from afar as a swarming construction crew has slowly — oh, so slowly — worked to cut loose and replace an old 300-foot span of the bridge that connects the eastern span to a tunnel on Yerba Buena.
More Dumbledore Jeff Jarvis for you now with another AudioBoo snippet, this time from resident roving reporter Ben Robbins.
A dozen or so overworked sanitation workers stuffed bags one by one.
& 8220 Do these bags do any good?& 8221; one asked a District resident — this reporter, hoping to buttress a basement door that is prone to floodwaters.
Since I'm the resident cat reporter at TechCrunch, I've found the new hotness.
Back when Facebook began testing off-network advertising in 2012, TechCrunch's resident Facebook reporter Josh Constine wrote about the potential for an ad-free experience on the social network.
On this week's episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch's writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to Emily Calandrelli, our resident space reporter and the host of Xploration Outer Space – season 3 of which premieres this coming Saturday on FOX.
Foreign businessmen (mainly associated with the trans-Georgia pipeline project from Azerbaijan and the vast hydro-carbon riches of the Caspian Sea) are everywhere, as are foreign nongovernmental organizations and all the diverse hangers-on associated with businessmen and do-gooders the world over: embassies and consular staffs and spies and even a few resident, western reporter types (ahem).
The Observer's resident party reporter Drew Grant was at the premiere, where she spotted Adam Brody hopping about in a rather awkward manner.
"It's the previous regime that is responsible for this," one distraught resident told reporters.
