Ellen Perlman

Ellen Perlman was a GOVERNING staff writer and technology columnist.


Recent Articles

  • Up to Snuff?
  • Winston Churchill and state chief information officers. Not usually grouped in the same category as examples of great leadership. Unless Churchill's granddaughter is speaking to ...
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  • Lifting the IT Curtain
  • "I smiled politely but I had no idea what you were saying." So said a non-techie National Parks Service employee, referring to the ...
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  • Rx For a Headache
  • States are experiencing a lot of pain in switching seniors out of state programs and into the Medicare Part D drug plan.

  • A Very Long Haul
  • It's taken a dozen years and may take a few more as states struggle to put IT into their child welfare systems.

  • Tasty. But Necessary?
  • I'm pretty certain that people who are sensitive to the needs of strangers on public transit don't do their good deeds with the hope of ...
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  • PR FUBAR
  • How's this for a gripping item? It's from a media advisory sent to reporters with the hope they would jump all over the story: At ...
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  • Yes, I Voted
  • Thank goodness it's primary election day in the District of Columbia. Maybe now I'll stop hearing from a lot of my new "friends." ...
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  • Otherwise, Have a Nice Day
  • Counties - this question's for you. Since returning from the National Association of Counties meeting in Chicago three weeks ago, what steps have you taken ...
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  • Ride, Sally, Ride
  • We bicyclists here on the 13th Floor are lucky because our building offers a shower. That allows the seven or so of us who commute ...

  • Counties Need Stuff. Lots of stuff
  • All sorts of educational sessions were taking place at the National Association of Counties meeting in Chicago from August 4th to 8th. But for a ...

  • Jumping Jacks are So 20th Century
  • The windy, second, gritty city of big shoulders, tool maker, wheat stacker and hog butcher to the world. Yes Chicago, with all its epithets given ...


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