Ellen Perlman

Recent Articles

• The ABC's of Communication
• Oct 24, 2008
• Yesterday I received an email with this subject line: MI Report: How Access to New Drugs has Slowed the Growth in America's Disability Rates It ...
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• Great Places
• Oct 20, 2008
• "State Street, that Great Street?"  It's not the only one. They also applaud that street called Broad. And toast Champagne to Annapolis' ...

• What Are the Odds That Casinos Will Ruin Some Lives?
• Oct 15, 2008
• Clinicians in Pennsylvania are getting training in a new field: gambling addiction. Casinos began opening in the state two years ago. Compulsive gamblers surely are ...

• How Many Energy-Saving Tips Do YOU Have?
• Oct 8, 2008
• Looking for more tips to offer residents on how to conserve energy? Take a look at these 50 simple tips from the Chicago Tribune. They came ...
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• Free Food! Take the Bus
• Oct 8, 2008
• What if someone told you that you could pocket more than $10,000 a year by making one change in behavior? That's quite a tidy sum. Well, ...
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• The Snake Within
• Oct 1, 2008
• There are ways to spot an employee with an eye on bringing down the network.

• Inside Information
• Sep 30, 2008
• Three students at Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington, were goofing off, chinning themselves on a water pipe. That is, until the pipe broke and...

• Does Sarah Palin read Governing?
• Sep 23, 2008
• In January, Governing ran a story on how governments should be managing e-mail. That feature included this bit of information: ...elected leaders are devising ways ...
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• Step Away From the Copier and Put Your Hands in the Air
• Sep 11, 2008
• Carl Malamud of Sebastopol, California, is a lawbreaker, a miscreant, a reprobate. Get this. He downloads and photocopies state laws and regulations! Yes, you heard ...
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• Last One Out of the Data Center, Turn Off the Lights
• Sep 10, 2008
• "Planned obsolescence" is a term coined decades ago but one I haven't heard much lately. I'm reminded of it by a recent Wall ...

• "Un-friending" a Predator
• Sep 5, 2008
• Who says attorneys general aren't cool? Or phat or dope or awesome, or whatever the current word for cool is? The office of Anne Milgram, ...

• The Plugged-In Patient
• Aug 31, 2008
• Call it the Google lift or the Microsoft bump. This spring, these tech powerhouses announced they were entering the field of personal health records, and...

• Supercompute Your Way to Economic Success
• Aug 14, 2008
• New York State has laid claim to an economic development tool like no other. A supercomputer housed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute upstate. Available to ...

• Fuel Economy
• Aug 12, 2008
• The public works department in Clemson, S.C., is saving 350 gallons of diesel each month by using GPS systems in garbage trucks, according to USA ...
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• Doctor of Technology
• Aug 6, 2008
• Why should physicians pay out of their pockets to set up electronic health records so that insurance companies can profit? That's something many docs are ...