Elizabeth Daigneau

Recent Articles

• A Bellyful of Trash
• Aug 3, 2008
• With innovations in green technology arriving every day, it should come as no surprise that even street trash receptacles are going green. Philadelphia's Department of...

• Tackling Foreclosure: A Guide
• Jul 30, 2008
• Foreclosures are at their highest level in at least three decades, and until recently, only state and local governments were acting to ease the crisis...

• Health Records a Click Away
• Jul 27, 2008
• Only about 13 percent of physicians have a basic electronic medical records system, according to a new study by the New England Journal of Medicine. In...

• The Stat Approach to Recidivism
• Jul 23, 2008
• CompStat famously cut New York City's crime rate in the 1990s by allowing police officers to map crime and create crime-intervention strategies. Using CompStat as...

• Planning Your Sustainable Future
• Jul 20, 2008
• Today's development practices consume enormous amounts of land and natural resources. To help communities plan for sustainable development, the American Institute of Architects created the...

• Going The Opposite of Green
• Jul 17, 2008
• Here at Governing, we get random promotional stuff sent to the office all the time. (If you need a copy of a new book about ...

• The Virtual Speed Bump
• Jul 16, 2008
• To reduce excessive speeding and agressive driving in its residential neighborhoods, Philadelphia has resorted to tricking drivers. As part of its "Drive CarePhilly" campaign, the...

• Up Next: Ban on Murder Forces Rewrite of 'Hamlet'
• Jul 15, 2008
• Whether you agree with city-enforced smoking bans or not, you can probably at least see the arguments for them -- people shouldn't be subjected to ...

• Reclaiming Abandoned Housing
• Jul 13, 2008
• The last time Indianapolis surveyed abandoned properties under its jurisdiction, the number came to 7,913. That was in 2003, before recent job losses, bankruptcies and foreclosures worsened...

• NYC Explores Bike-Sharing
• Jul 11, 2008
• Washington, D.C. is well on its way toward implementing the nation's first large-scale bike-sharing program (although the launch has been delayed a bit). Looks ...

• Avoiding the Emergency Room
• Jul 9, 2008
• At $355 a run, dispatching an ambulance in Richmond, Va., unnecessarily can be pricey, not to mention dangerous should a true emergency arise and no other...
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• Remastering Financial Functions
• Jul 6, 2008
• Whether it's rising entitlement, health care, pension or infrastructure costs, governments are under pressure to make resources go further. Unfortunately, 48 percent of government leaders don't...

• Four Days on the Job
• Jun 29, 2008
• With gas prices soaring, air pollution growing and traffic congestion worsening, a lot of state and local governments are considering four-day work weeks. Starting in...

• Fresh Off the Farm
• Jun 25, 2008
• A movement to bring locally grown food into schools is gaining popularity -- more than 8,000 schools in 39 states participate in some sort of farm-to-school program....

• A Big-Time Boost for Volunteerism
• Jun 22, 2008
• At a value of more than $17 billion to the local economy, California volunteers donated 858 million hours of service in 2006. To add another $1 billion to its...