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Requiring a public employee to take a drug test is considered a search under the Fourth Amendment. Certain requirements must be met to protect an individual's privacy. Jeffras discusses these requirements, when they apply, and \"suggests ways for public employers to develop policies that will withstand legal challenges.\"
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A number of immigrants have moved to North Carolina over the past ten years, requiring local municipalities to serve many individuals with limited English proficiency. In a time of tight budgets local governments seek ways to do this. Foca discusses strategies for cities to use in providing translation and interpretation services.
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Funding waste disposal programs for certain large items, such as tires and appliances, is a challenge for local governments. To deal with this problem, North Carolina introduced an innovative program, the \"advance disposal tax,\" or taxes consumers pay on certain items when they are purchased. North Carolina was one of the first states to institute this tax. Hughes discusses why the state chose this approach and the features of the program.
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There are one hundred counties in North Carolina and probably several hundred pronunciations of their names. Recognizing that there are local variations in the way the name is said, Sanders offers a list to provide a ready guide to customary county name pronunciation.
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Taxes are necessary for government to function. POPULAR GOVERNMENT posed six questions on taxation to two policy analysts - Roy Cordato from the John Locke Foundation, and Elaine Mejia, director of the North Carolina Budget and Tax Center in Raleigh. The questions included \"Should tax policy address specific economic development objectives in North Carolina?\" and \"Is North Carolina a 'high-tax state'?\"
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7071
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White examines North Carolina's changing economy and lays out a framework for thinking about economic development policies. He describes three traditional economic development polices--recruiting out-of-state industries, strengthening existing industries, and promoting entrepreneurship--and the success of each. He then surveys innovative economic policies and programs, including creating multijurisdictional institutions to work on regional economic development.
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Community strategic visioning is a planning tool that asks residents to look at their community as it exists in the present and project what they want it to be at a future date, even though the resources to accomplish the change are not currently available. The authors discuss the five-step New Oregon Model comprehensive visioning process and examine strategic visioning as developed on the Outer Banks and in Burke County.
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Globalization is defined as the exchange of people, goods, and ideas across national boundaries. Conway discusses indicators of globalization, including exports, foreign direct investment, and foreign language training, and where North Carolina stands on each of them. She then examines the role of higher education in developing North Carolina's response to current social and economic needs.
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Greene County, with a rural population under 20,000, has entered the technological age. A four-year project (2003-2007) proposed by the county school superintendent and funded by the county board of commissioners places a laptop computer with each of the 1,700 middle and high school students. The project seeks to advance the lifelong learning abilities of the county's citizens.
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President George Bush announced his administration's faith-based social services initiative on January 29, 2001. Since then the administration's moves on this initiative have included establishing offices of faith-based and community initiatives in the White House and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and initiating new federally funded faith-based programs to serve prisoners, drug addicts, and others. Objections offered by program opponents include the claim that the President's program breaches the constitutional wall separating church and state. Saxon addresses the four questions listed in the title.
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The management of human resources is an important organizational function because it directly influences the attitudes, the performance, and the behaviors of employees. There are numerous functions of human resources, including recruitment, hiring, and planning for workforce development. Olson surveyed a number of North Carolina municipalities to determine how responsibilities for the many human resource functions are distributed. She presents her findings and makes recommendations.
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The mental health court is a relatively new type of criminal court in North Carolina. The court has four defining features: (1) separate dockets for defendants having mental illnesses who volunteer for placement under the court, (2) cases handled by a designated judge, (3) a non-adversarial, team approach, and (4) a primary goal of reducing offenses by providing treatment rather than punishment. The authors discuss the state's one mental health court which is located in Orange County.
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Twelve of North Carolina's thirty-one federally licensed hydropower plants hold licenses that expire in 2008. The re-licensing process is lengthy and complex. Decisions made in the process can affect the management hydropower reservoirs for fifty years or more and can affect jobs in water-dependent industries, land values around reservoirs, and adequate river flows to sustain aquatic and land wildlife. Smutko describes how utility companies work with federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as other groups including industries, business, and nonprofit organizations to develop agreements governing hydropower facilities.
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Water and sewer revenues keep the state's utilities in business by covering the costs of daily expenses and providing funds for long-term system planning. Hughes examines fundamental principles behind water and sewer revenues and looks at high-priority decisions that water and sewer boards face. For example, in 2002, the approximately 500 government-owned water and sewer enterprises collected from their customers over $1.4 billion. Combined company assets were about $7.8 billion. However, over the next twenty years North Carolina will need over $11 billion in investments to meets infrastructure needs for water and sewer.
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Nonprofit agencies are created with specific functions or populations in mind. Such agencies tend to be either leader-dominated or community-based. In part 1 of this series, Henderson describes a series of characteristics that indicate when a nonprofit organization might be more accountable to and controlled by one person than it is to the community it was created to serve.
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