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Ellen Perlman

Ellen Perlman

Former columnist

Ellen Perlman was a GOVERNING staff writer and technology columnist.

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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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Supercompute Your Way to Economic Success
New York State has laid claim to an economic development tool like no other. A supercomputer housed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute upstate. Available to ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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"Un-friending" a Predator
Who says attorneys general aren't cool? Or phat or dope or awesome, or whatever the current word for cool is? The office of Anne Milgram, ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Last One Out of the Data Center, Turn Off the Lights
"Planned obsolescence" is a term coined decades ago but one I haven't heard much lately. I'm reminded of it by a recent Wall ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Step Away From the Copier and Put Your Hands in the Air
Carl Malamud of Sebastopol, California, is a lawbreaker, a miscreant, a reprobate. Get this. He downloads and photocopies state laws and regulations! Yes, you heard ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Does Sarah Palin read Governing?
In January, Governing ran a story on how governments should be managing e-mail. That feature included this bit of information: ...elected leaders are devising ways ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Free Food! Take the Bus
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, ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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How Many Energy-Saving Tips Do YOU Have?
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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What Are the Odds That Casinos Will Ruin Some Lives?
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 ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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Great Places
"State Street, that Great Street?"  It's not the only one. They also applaud that street called Broad. And toast Champagne to Annapolis' ...
April 08, 2010
 · Ellen Perlman
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