Elizabeth Daigneau

Recent Articles

• A Toolbox for Growth
• Dec 16, 2007
• Each day between 1985 and 2002, Connecticut lost an average of 18 acres of forest and added 12 acres of development. To combat unchecked sprawl, the Office for Responsible...

• Security in the Virtual State
• Dec 12, 2007
• When the Alabama Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003, it was tasked with protecting 67 counties, several major waterways and nuclear plants, a port and 28...

• Get Me to the Court on Time
• Dec 9, 2007
• Courts across the country are experiencing increases in the numbers of defendants who fail to appear for their court dates. Jefferson County, Colo., experienced just...

• A Guide to Product Recalls
• Dec 5, 2007
• As holiday shopping enters its final stretch, it may be a good time for consumers to bone up on this year's product recalls. According to...

• Battling Blight, Block by Block
• Dec 2, 2007
• There are more than 10,000 vacant properties in Buffalo, the city estimates, and it has an ambitious plan to remove 1,000 of them every year over the...

• The Doctor Is Out: Minnesota Cracks Down on Gift Giving
• Dec 1, 2007
• Minnesota is the only state to limit gifts drug companies can give doctors, but its cap of no more than $50 a year in free food or other presents may catch on elsewhere. In September, New Jersey created a task force to examine ways to set similar limits. The freebies are seen as unduly influencing prescription-writing and raising costs.

• A Drought-Proof Water Supply
• Nov 28, 2007
• Dry conditions have persistently plagued the West since 1999, says the National Climatic Data Center. Today, 57 percent of the region is in a drought, and only...
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• Endowing Idea Incubators
• Nov 25, 2007
• Oregon's eight public universities spent a total of $582.6 million on research last year; the state ranks sixth nationally in federal research and development expenditures per...
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• The Denver Boot, Version 2.0
• Nov 18, 2007
• Invented in 1953 by a local musician, the Denver Boot--that bulky device that clamps onto the wheel of a car and renders it undriveable--has been the...
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• Click Here for Benefits
• Nov 14, 2007
• One year and 131,500 hits later, ACCESS NYC, an online eligibility screening tool for human services, has expanded its offerings. New York City has added seven...

• Drugs in the Water
• Nov 11, 2007
• Since the U.S. Geological Survey studied 139 streams around the county in 2000 and found that 80 percent of them contained residues of painkillers, hormones, antibiotics and...

• Keeping a State's Past Alive
• Nov 7, 2007
• As generations pass on and historic buildings and neighborhoods are torn down or allowed to deteriorate, our pasts mostly disappear with them. To help preserve...

• Rural Roads Ready to Rumble
• Nov 4, 2007
• About 68 percent of fatal vehicle accidents in Kansas last year were in rural areas, mainly on two-lane roadways. To make the roads safer, the Kansas...

• Senior Savvy Computer Training
• Oct 31, 2007
• Senior citizens who use computers display fewer symptoms of depression, have higher annual household incomes and report greater ease with daily tasks than seniors who...

• Blago a Go Go?
• Oct 29, 2007
• Today's Chicago Tribune has a startlingly strong op-ed, in which the paper advocates a recall vote to take Gov. Rod Blagojevich out of office. Given ...