Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• Everyone Likes to Win!
• Aug 9, 2006
• Journalists often would prefer to think inside the box, stick with old paradigms and face fair-to-middlin' -- not perfect -- storms, rather than be caught ...

• A Material Girl
• Aug 2, 2006
• posted by Ellen Perlman When I read that Washington, D.C. had put down some rubber sidewalks I decided I just had to go test ...
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• Boot, Suits and Geeks
• Jul 28, 2006
• Many people have a vision of fire fighters that involves red trucks, ladders, hoses and a couple of dalmatians. But police and fire work also ...

• Man on the Street Q&A
• Jul 27, 2006
• Yes, we all know politics is local. Sometimes, it's also individual. Yesterday morning I was biking to work and came across about eight people spread ...

• The Pink-Blue Divide
• Jul 20, 2006
• It happens in the medical field and apparently it also happens in government. For a long time, researchers used men for studies on heart attacks ...
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• Where's the Head?
• Jul 14, 2006
• For those who think offshore oil rigs ruin the view, how about floating toilets? But the latter could be an environmental lifesaver. Virginia wants to ...

• Getting Back Taxes
• Jun 1, 2006
• Big cities go to court over online hotel-rate deals

• Where Will Sex Offenders Live?
• Jun 1, 2006
• Creating buffer zones around schools and other public places can make entire cities off-limits.
• 44 Comments

• Born Digital
• Jun 1, 2006
• A handful of states are beginning to focus on the need to preserve digital documents.

• Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Out of Sight They Go...
• May 16, 2006
• The L.A. Times says a California sex offender program was criticized by state lawmakers who complained that 23 offenders had been housed within 11 miles of ...

• Finally. Relief Is In Sight
• May 15, 2006
• Sometimes you forget the crazy assortment of details a city mayor has to attend to. That is, until you read a headline such as, "$1.4 ...

• Statehouse Blogging in Utah
• May 12, 2006
• Talk about variety. The Utah Senate has a blog that one day has pols and citizens squabbling over how to spend a $1 billion surplus, and ...
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• Be Nice or Be Anonymous
• May 11, 2006
• We really want you to share your opinions on what we write here on the 13th Floor. But we ask that you don't rant, rave ...

• Sign of the Times
• May 11, 2006
• Seems like Wisconsin has Vegas envy. The state is most likely going to allow electronic billboards that look like high-def TV screens. The only electronic ...
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• Open Sorcerer
• May 1, 2006
• A crusade for open standards in technology cost one top official his job in Massachusetts. But the issue isn't going away.