• Manhole Covers are the New Copper Wire
  • Cities battling theft of copper wire? Old news. The big story now is about disappearing manhole covers. Take Philadelphia, as reported in the New York ...
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  • Taking on Long-Term Care
  • Here's an exciting idea from the Commonwealth Fund: Add a longterm care benefit to Medicare. It wouldn't be a freebie. It would be financed by ...
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  • Delaware's Cloud
  • Delaware's home page has a word cloud. Also known as a category cloud or a tag cloud. You know, one of those lists of words, ...
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  • The Phishing Catch
  • When's the last time you've gone phishing at the office? New York State did an exercise in 2005, sending a fake email to 10,000 state employees in five agencies. The "scam" perpetrated by security officials, was a spot check on employee e-mail behavior.
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