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Popular Government

Popular Government back issue: Vol. 64, No. 2, Winter 1999

See links to select online articles from this issue below.

Publications

Brownfields in a Green State
Richard B. Whisnant
Friday, January 1, 1999
Article
One City's Journey toward More Responsive Government: Laurinburg, North Carolina
Anne S. Davidson, Richard R. McMahon
Friday, January 1, 1999
Article

This article is the story of the journey of the City of Laurinburg as its management team accepted Peter Block's challenge from his 1991 book, The Empowered Manager: "If top management wants to create a vision or set of values for the organization, let them create it and live it out for themselves first—for two years or more. Then let them worry about how to engage others in the vision. Stop enrolling, start embodying."

pgw99dav.pdf (pdf, 401.26 KB)
Obtaining Record Checks to Reduce Risk
James C. Drennan
Friday, January 1, 1999
Article

This article describes the various types of records available in North Carolina and the limitations on access to them.

pgw9930.pdf (pdf, 147.36 KB)