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Popular Government Final Issue: Vol. 75, No. 1, Fall 2009

See links to online articles from this issue below. Note: All of the content within Popular Government magazine is subject to copyright and cannot be used without permission from the UNC School of Government.

Publications

Table of Contents, Popular Government Vol. 75, No. 1
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article
toc.pdf (pdf, 159.82 KB)
Letter From Dean Michael R. Smith About Final Issue
Michael R. Smith
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article
Communicating Financial Condition to Elected Officials in Local Government
William C. Rivenbark, Dale J. Roenigk, Gregory S. Allison
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

Three of the School of Government’s financial accounting experts collaborate on an approach for administrators to use in analyzing, interpreting, and communicating their local government’s financial condition to elected officials.

article1finance.pdf (pdf, 348.30 KB)
Online Supplement: Appendix A. A Dashboard for a Hypothetical City
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article
Planning for Pedestrians and Bicyclists in North Carolina
Kelly R. Evenson, Sara B. Satinsky, Semra A. Aytur, Daniel A. Rodríguez
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

What is known about policies and plans for walking and biking in North Carolina? Public health researchers and transportation planners offer an overview of pedestrian and bicycle plans in the state.

article2.pdf (pdf, 1.28 MB)
Constitutional Limits on Officers’ Authority to Search Vehicles
Jeffrey B. Welty
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

A School of Government specialist in criminal law and procedure discusses the ramifications of a recent Supreme Court decision on searches incident to arrest.

article3.pdf (pdf, 104.88 KB)
Public Opinion on Land Use Policies
Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

In western North Carolina, a region with large parcels of underdeveloped and undeveloped land, how do residents feel about land use and zoning? Two professors surveyed a sample of residents to find out.

article4.pdf (pdf, 915.23 KB)
Legal Abandonment of Newborns: North Carolina’s Safe Surrender Law
Janet Mason
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

In 2001, North Carolina enacted a safe surrender law to provide desperate parents with an alternative to abandonment of their infants. How does the law work, and how often has it been used?

article5.pdf (pdf, 558.14 KB)
N.C. Journal, Popular Government Vol. 75, No. 1
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article
At the School, Popular Government Vol. 75, No. 1
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Article

The following issue of At the School contains four articles:

  • School Mourns Passing of Wright
  • Vinroots Support School with $1 Million Pledge
  • School Initiates Blogs for Information, Education, Conversation
  • School Offers New Online Publications
ats.pdf (pdf, 578.64 KB)