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Posted By: Alan Ehrenhalt | January 27, 2009
Here's one of the more unusual "State of the State" stories I"ve seen in a while. A couple of weeks ...
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Follow the "Recovery" Money
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | January 27, 2009
If you want to follow the stimulus package state by state, the Center for American Progress is one place to go. CAP released a map ...
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Technology and Openness in an Obama Administration
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | January 26, 2009
President Barack Obama signed a memo last week on government transparency. Even before he has named a chief technology officer, he's directed that person ...
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Is Government Technology Intentionally Frustrating?
Posted By: Will Wilson | January 26, 2009
Apropos of the Obama staff's rude tech awakening in the White House, Megan McArdle asks, "Why is government IT so awful?" And ...
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Not on Twitter Yet?
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | January 23, 2009
I was late to Twitter. Well, relatively. Didn't think I'd like it. Didn't really see the point. Didn't think anyone cared ...
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Putting a Price on Infection
Posted By: | January 22, 2009
Pennsylvania was one of first states to require hospitals to publicly disclose infection rates and to detail data on individual hospitals. Now they are starting ...
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Pentium 386 anyone?
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | January 22, 2009
Imagine the shock. Obama's technological whiz kids arrive at the White House only to find Stone Age software in the vaunted West Wing. The ...
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No Posh DC Digs for Ted Strickland
Posted By: Zach Patton | January 21, 2009
Washington, DC, is settling back to normal after the unprecedented crowd that descended on the city over the weekend for the inauguration. Many of the ...
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The Technology Treadmill, Good or Bad? Discuss.
Posted By: Ellen Perlman | January 16, 2009
Here are some mindblowing stats for you. There are approximately one trillion unique URL's in Google and roughly two billion Google searches daily. One ...
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Mayor, True to His Team, Changes His Name
Posted By: Alan Greenblatt | January 15, 2009
The Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the Baltimore Ravens this Sunday in the AFC title game. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl found that, under the circumstances, he ...
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