Under the new law, drivers will still receive tickets for violating alternate side parking laws, but stickers won’t be affixed to the cars. According to Quinn, this measure will save the city money as they don’t have to pay for the stickers or send city workers to paste them to cars
— I think this is what Brisbane was talking about in his much mocked truthiness column. This would be a good place for a reporter to challenge Quinn on the idea that sending someone out to write tickets is somehow significantly cheaper than sending them out with a stack of stickers.