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Ellen Perlman

Ellen Perlman

Former columnist

Ellen Perlman was a GOVERNING staff writer and technology columnist.

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Se Habla Español?
Boston's city council is headed to Spanish class. According to the Boston Globe, Council President Michael Flaherty hired a Spanish tutor to come by City ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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The State Dirt
Here's today's assignment: turn to your neighbors at home or at work and ask them if they know what their official state dirt is. Okay, ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Grateful, Dead Bears
posted by Ellen Perlman Two bears in Richmond were killed by health officials and tested for rabies after biting a four-year-old boy who got too ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Wine To Go, Whining To Stop
Waiters in Massachusetts' restaurants are going to have to figure out how to make those little foil swans for wrapping up leftover wine and sending ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Oldster Speedsters
I can see it now: Senior citizens angling with teenagers at the video arcades to get a turn at one of those race-car games where ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Drum on Your Heart's Content
Powwows are back in Georgia state parks. For a while there, a recommended ban on powwows, which was never formally adopted but was enforced anyway (...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Crime Costs
A zero-tolerance crackdown on drug- and quality-of-life crimes in Buffalo is working very well. Police arrested 500 more people in January and February of this year ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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The Presidents will be missed
Who knew that four dead presidents - all white males, of course - would end up right in the middle of the latest abortion debate? ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Is this a reality show or are we really outside?
How do you get people into your state parks and forests? One way is to tap into their penchant for being TV-watching couch potatoes. Connecticut ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Nobody Home?
I have a friend Alex who, when I call or email to ask her to do something she doesn't want to do, doesn't get back ...
May 07, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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