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Name: Popular Government back issue: Vol. 71, No. 3, Spring/Summer 2006 |
See links to online articles from this issue below.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER ARTICLE
Public Leadership of Asheville’s Downtown Revitalization
Leslie Anderson, Anita Brown-Graham, and Jennifer Lobenhofer
Asheville’s director of downtown development in the 1980s and 1990s joins with other School staff to tell the story of the city’s remarkable transformation and identify general lessons for leading a change initiative.
FEATURE ARTICLES
Schools’ Legal Obligations to Gay Students
Laurie L. Mesibov
Understanding a rapidly developing area of education law may help schools fulfill their responsibilities to gay students regarding peer harassment, First Amendment issues, and gay/straight student organizations.
Financing Government: Revenue Variability and the Role of Rainy-Day Funds
Gary A. Wagner
What can state governments do to enhance the long-term sufficiency and minimize the short-run volatility of their revenue sources? A School specialist in public finance discusses the composition of North Carolina’s revenue and addresses the role of rainy-day funds in mitigating recessions.
Gainsharing in Local Government
David N. Ammons, and William C. Rivenbark
Technically speaking, profit sharing is impossible in the public sector, for governments have no profits to share. But they do have budgets and balance sheets and cost-trimming actions. Meet gainsharing. Increasingly, governments in North Carolina and across the nation are experimenting with it.
DEPARTMENTS
NC Journal
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Improving Service through Innovations in Technology
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New Legal Guide Available for Pregnant and Parenting Minors
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Online Clearinghouse of Documents Open for Business
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A Treasure Chest of Practical Knowledge
At the School
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Construction Begins on Gladys Hall Coates Garden
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Millonzi, Mills, Morse Join School Faculty
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MPA Program Graduates Twenty-Six
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Stenberg to Lead MPA Program
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Municipal and County Administration Courses Graduate Ninety-Four
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Behind the Scenes at the School of Government
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Coming into the University
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