Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• Uncharted Territory: Going Digital to Keep Track of Mines
• May 1, 2006
• Four years ago, nine miners accidentally tunneled into a flooded mine in Pennsylvania that wasn't on any map. It took three days to rescue them, and the accident at Quecreek Mine was a wake-up call to the state's Bureau of Deep Mine Safety. The mining community it serves obviously needed a comprehensive, digital map that would chart the thousands of mines, active and closed, in the state.

• Gas and Go. Or not.
• May 1, 2006
• There's a gas-up game people on the East Coast play, when driving from New York to Washington, or vice versa. Can you make it to ...
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• Sex, Lies and Registries
• Apr 28, 2006
• Out of curiosity, I went to a sex offender Web site this morning to see if any such people lived near my home. (This is ...
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• You Hear This, Geena Davis?
• Apr 20, 2006
• Does Hollywood have a water cooler? If so, someone should put up this quote from Martin Sheen somewhere near it, for all the celebrity political ...
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• Nobody Home?
• Apr 13, 2006
• I have a friend Alex who, when I call or email to ask her to do something she doesn't want to do, doesn't get back ...
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• The Hidden Cost of Construction
• Apr 1, 2006
• Tempe will lighten the load for businesses on a light-rail line.

• FedEx Delivers: Tennessee Gets Tips on its DMV
• Apr 1, 2006
• Half the people in Tennessee's motor vehicle offices don't need to be there. They could be getting their services online. Tennessee learned this by getting research assistance from its native logistics expert: Federal Express.

• Helping the Overwhelmed Family
• Apr 1, 2006
• States are accentuating the positive to protect children.

• Online Via Power Line
• Apr 1, 2006
• Small towns and cities are finding high-speed Internet access is as close as their electric grid.

• Is this a reality show or are we really outside?
• Mar 24, 2006
• How do you get people into your state parks and forests? One way is to tap into their penchant for being TV-watching couch potatoes. Connecticut ...

• The Presidents will be missed
• Mar 22, 2006
• Who knew that four dead presidents - all white males, of course - would end up right in the middle of the latest abortion debate? ...

• Crime Costs
• Mar 21, 2006
• A zero-tolerance crackdown on drug- and quality-of-life crimes in Buffalo is working very well. Police arrested 500 more people in January and February of this year ...
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• Drum on Your Heart's Content
• Mar 17, 2006
• Powwows are back in Georgia state parks. For a while there, a recommended ban on powwows, which was never formally adopted but was enforced anyway (...
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• Oldster Speedsters
• Mar 9, 2006
• I can see it now: Senior citizens angling with teenagers at the video arcades to get a turn at one of those race-car games where ...

• Wine To Go, Whining To Stop
• Mar 7, 2006
• Waiters in Massachusetts' restaurants are going to have to figure out how to make those little foil swans for wrapping up leftover wine and sending ...