Elizabeth Daigneau

Recent Articles

• New Smog Rules Target Rural Counties
• Mar 1, 2010
• Thirty-one years ago this month, residents in Dauphin County, Pa., awoke to news that a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant was reportedly...

• Fighting Crime With Math
• Feb 25, 2010
• Once a week on television's "Numb3rs", a mathematical genius helps his FBI brother solve a crime using his prowess in math. In real life,...

• Grim News, But Still a Few Laughs, at Governors' Session in DC
• Feb 22, 2010
• The annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association this past weekend in D.C. began -- as all state and local meetings must nowadays ...
• 2 Comments

• Lending a 'Green' Hand
• Feb 18, 2010
• Even in eco-friendly Boulder, where voters approved the first carbon tax in the nation and where residents bike to work at 20 times the national average,...

• It's fair to say that this is one of those things that has succeeded. Not in every way we thought, but in some ways we hadn't thought about. Not as much in certain areas, but more than we expected in others.
• Feb 15, 2010
• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that his city's ambitious experiment that closed parts of Broadway to vehicles last spring will become permanent, even...

• More than 57 million
• Feb 15, 2010
• Number of Americans who have become ill from the H1N1 influenza virus, of which nearly 11,700 have died, according to estimates by the Centers for...

• Toothbrushes for Toddlers
• Feb 11, 2010
• Tooth decay is the most common, chronic childhood ailment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Massachusetts, where one in four kindergartners...

• A Census Competition
• Feb 4, 2010
• Census data determine how federal funds are distributed and influence redistricting efforts. So, it should go without saying that census participation is important, especially mail-in...
• 1 Comments

• The Controversy About Smart Meters
• Feb 1, 2010
• Utilities in California, Texas and the Northeast are spending billions of dollars outfitting homes and businesses with these meters. Not everyone thinks smart meters are so smart.
• 17 Comments

• A Ray of Sunshine for Charlie Crist?
• Jan 29, 2010
• Everyone is now gloomy about the political prospects of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. It's easy to see why. Crist was supposed to be the ...

• Rating Roads for Sustainability
• Jan 28, 2010
• Hoping to do for roads what LEED has done for buildings and Energy Star for household appliances, Greenroads has unveiled a new rating system for...

• Deputy Swap
• Jan 21, 2010
• If you've ever seen "Wife Swap", the reality television show where two wildly different women swap families for two weeks, then you'll have an idea...

• Massachusetts Senate: Whoever Wins, It's an Upset
• Jan 19, 2010
• A few thoughts on Massachusetts: -While everyone acknowledges that a victory by Republican Scott Brown would be an incredible come-from-behind win, looking back at the ...

• Politically Perilous Budget Cuts in Arizona (and Elsewhere?)
• Jan 18, 2010
• This is going to a horrible year for state budgets, with stimulus money drying up and tax revenue remaining depressed. Even if some states raise ...
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• Broadband Matchmaking
• Jan 14, 2010
• Online matchmaking has come to government. The two agencies in charge of awarding $7.2 billion in stimulus funds to broadband projects have launched a new Web...