Doll is in a unique position to talk about the relative merits of different broadcast media: He's the only state CIO who has full control of the public broadcast system.

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Why should it be held to be any different from other government-owned transport modes like public roads, the waterways system, public airports and air-traffic control?

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Vallas got the job three years ago after the Republican-controlled Illinois state legislature in Springfield passed a sweeping reform bill that gave Mayor Daley effective control of the Chicago public school system.

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But he was working on similar systems several years before that: His first gig was in 2003 to develop an inventory control system for KCD Public Relations that would help track designer samples sent to magazines, stylists, models and celebrities.

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Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, a staunch advocate of gun control and public infrastructure and a champion of the Amtrak railroad system, announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in 2014.

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ECOtality will utilize the Sprint Command Center, across its nationwide system of residential, commercial, and public charging stations to control Machine-to-Machine (M2M) provisioning, billing, device, service management, and to run the Blink Network.

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The MPs said the use of statistics system had improved, but more control needed to be given to the UK Statistics Authority to boost public confidence.

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