• Watch Out, Corzine!
  • The next governor of New Jersey could come from the checkout line at the local supermarket -- at least on the TV. From Variety : Lifetime ...
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  • Fuel Economy
  • 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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  • The Dis Side of Incentives
  • A few days ago, I blogged about the link between education and health, and the ideas propounded by James Heckman of the University of Chicago ...
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  • And the Spammiest State Is...
  • A new report from MessageLabs, a spam-filter provider, lists the states that received the most spam emails in the first six months of 2008.  Here's ...
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  • Getting Real in Massachusetts
  • The knock on Massachusetts' universal health reform  package is that it does nothing to address the root cause of unaffordable health insurance: the high ...
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  • Doctor of Technology
  • 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 ...
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  • Skid Row-style Health Care
  • First, Los Angeles area hospitals were caught dumping destitute patients in Skid Row. Now, they're allegedly filling beds (and bilking Medicare) by recruiting patients from ...
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  • Holy Economic Development, Batman!
  • Spoiler Alert! Don't read ahead if you're one of the 13 people in North America who have not yet seen The Dark Knight. So there's a scene toward the end of the new Batman movie (I think it's at about the 4-hour mark) that totally had me geeking out, GOVERNING-style.
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