Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• Be Merry, But Don't Eat and Drink So Much
• Jul 15, 2007
• Mmmm. The smell of the French fries. The sight of the pizza. It's lunchtime! But before Phoenix city employees can enter their building's cafeteria, where ...
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• Warning: Evoting Ahead
• Jul 1, 2007
• From local election officials to ordinary citizens, there's angst in the air over the security of electronic ballots.

• Gimme Shelter: Boosting Florida's Turnpike Power
• Jul 1, 2007
• When a hurricane strikes Florida, the first concern of residents is to protect their homes and evacuate if necessary. The Florida Turnpike Enterprise, part of the Florida Department of Transportation, sees its job as providing a safe haven as evacuees travel the road.

• Meltdown
• Jul 1, 2007
• How a promising technology mega-project went awry.

• The Hit Record
• Jul 1, 2007
• When it comes to using technology to streamline the health care system, the biggest buzz is about digitizing individuals' health records--putting them in a standardized format and connecting them via the Web.

• The Valley of Surveillance
• Jun 30, 2007
• You can find practically anything you need along Indian School and Thomas roads in Phoenix - at the tortillerias, the pharmacies, the supermarkets, the auto...

• Hiring Help
• Jun 1, 2007
• In their search for young workers, IT departments are seeking ways to make technology jobs look more like a day at a Play Station.

• REAL Nightmare
• May 31, 2007
• For the past five years, clerks at the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles have been enforcing new rules for getting a driver's license. It hasn't...

• Digitally Dazed
• May 31, 2007
• Rhode Island's been quick off the mark. When it comes to health IT, it's got a lot going for it. The governor, Donald Carcieri, doesn't...

• Get-Off-The-Phone Laws
• Apr 16, 2007
• Here's the part I don't understand about Washington State's new law, or any other state's law, that prohibits driving while holding a cell phone to ...
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• Spitzer's Web: You Could Be on Youtube
• Apr 1, 2007
• Starting this summer, New York State meetings must be webcast for the public if they fall under the state's open meetings law. As one of his first official actions as governor, Eliot Spitzer signed an executive order requiring state agencies and public authorities to come up with plans to broadcast all such meetings on the Internet.

• Keeping Personal Data Safe
• Apr 1, 2007
• Not many know how many cybersecurity breaches occur in state and local governments.

• Topside Turnover
• Mar 31, 2007
• When Otto Doll shows up at NASCIO meetings, the South Dakota CIO is often treated with a subtle degree of deference -- the kind you...

• Get Real
• Mar 19, 2007
• States must be crying crocodile tears over woes at the State Department about delays in issuing passports. The federal government is struggling under an onslaught ...
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• Freedom vs. Keeping All Your Body Parts
• Mar 12, 2007
• Just for the record, if anyone hears me say, "I'd give my right arm" for something, I'm speaking figuratively. But prison inmates in ...