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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
Friday, January 1, 1999
Article
One City's Journey toward More Responsive Government: Laurinburg, North Carolina
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."
Obtaining Record Checks to Reduce Risk
Friday, January 1, 1999
Article
This article describes the various types of records available in North Carolina and the limitations on access to them.