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What Are the Odds That Casinos Will Ruin Some Lives?
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | October 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 ...
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When Your Former Employer Is On Life-Support...
Posted By: | October 15, 2008
Talk about rocking the health care world -- at least as it pertains to retirees. General Motors, which has 100,000 salaried retirees and their dependents on ...
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Our Economy Stinks, But at Least We Get to Be Fiscally Responsible!
Posted By: Josh Goodman | October 13, 2008
Fareed Zakaria sees a silver lining in our economic woes. Individuals, the feds, and, yes, state and local governments, will suddenly have to show some ...
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The Town That Was Saved by Food (?)
Posted By: Zach Patton | October 10, 2008
Earlier this year, I wrote about how the local-food movement is being viewed in some places as an economic development opportunity. I profiled Woodbury County, ...
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Public Officials of the Year, 2008
Posted By: Josh Goodman | October 9, 2008
Drumroll, please. Each year, we at Governing profile our Public Officials of the Year in the November issue of the magazine. We're announcing this year's ...
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How Many Energy-Saving Tips Do YOU Have?
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | October 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
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | October 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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Wait'll the Jogging Lobby Hears About This
Posted By: Zach Patton | October 7, 2008
Hey, you! How did you get to your desk this morning? Your own two feet? Well, congratulations! You just participated in the ...
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Gov. O'Malley's "Omni-partisan" Approach
Posted By: Mark Stencel | October 6, 2008
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's "intensely statistics-based approach to governance" was the subject of the latest article in Jonathan Walters's ongoing Citizens and Performance ...
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Pride and Shame at the DMV
Posted By: Josh Goodman | October 5, 2008
Could DMVs be in the process of becoming models of customer service? Don't laugh -- states such as Virginia and Indiana have already turned departments ...
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