Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• Time, and Time Again
• Mar 8, 2007
• This Sunday night it's going to be nice and light an hour later than usual, thanks to the Daylight Savings Saving [Ed. note: Thanks, Scott!] ...
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• Marketing 202
• Mar 7, 2007
• It's ingenious. Pennsylvania uses marketing moxie to make money from items people must surrender at airports, according to a local story. For the past three ...

• Medical Cost Confusion
• Feb 27, 2007
• posted by Ellen Perlman All politics may be local, but often it's personal too. If someday West Virginians can understand their medical bills, it could ...
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• I (heart) the BWI Parking Garage
• Feb 9, 2007
• Okay, how weird would it be to wax poetic about a parking garage? Well, here I go. There I was, late as usual for a ...

• Smash Hit
• Feb 1, 2007
• It's not just for the young and hip. State and local IT officials are tapping into a cool Google tool to create maps with new, improved uses.

• Why Should I Travel to Your State?
• Jan 26, 2007
• Most states have lousy looking or ineffective home pages for their tourism web sites, in one cat's opinion. Smiley Cat's to be exact. Smiley Cat ...
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• BELIEVE
• Jan 12, 2007
• Baltimore wants us to believe. It's just that I'm not sure in what. In God? In country? In ourselves? In a chicken in every pot? ...
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• "Stat" Fever
• Jan 1, 2007
• The practice of collecting data to monitor and improve government performance continues to gain momentum and evolve.
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• The Guts of a New Machine: Investing in Biodigesting
• Jan 1, 2007
• Manure lagoons, bad. Manure digesters, good. That is the argument that Texas' Gulf Coast Industrial Development Authority used in floating $60 million in revenue bonds to finance four digester machines that will help keep farm runoff from polluting land, water and air.

• An Indelicate Balance
• Dec 31, 2006
• This is not your father's procurement process. When Virginia wants to overhaul its aging IT infrastructure, its information technology officials don't gather together to make...

• Ride Forever, Charlie
• Dec 4, 2006
• There's nothing better than a city with a sense of humor. The new electronic fare cards for the "T," or the transit system, ...

• Linking The Layers
• Dec 1, 2006
• The ability to share GIS data across agency and jurisdictional lines makes service delivery more efficient and effective.

• Critical Connectors
• Dec 1, 2006
• During emergencies, citizens and even some disaster workers depend on libraries for Internet connections to the world.

• Wi-Fi Visionary
• Nov 1, 2006
• Helping all of Philadelphia connect to the Web.

• Welfare Workout
• Nov 1, 2006
• The feds thought the states were gaming welfare reform. Now states have to deal with a new round of rules.