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873
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Citizens, local government officials, and state agency employees can use the services of the State Library to find answers to many informational or statistical questions.
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874
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Municipalities are experiencing difficulty enforcing storm-water requirements under the Clean Water Act.
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875
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John Sanders was director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1962 to 1973 and again from 1979 to 1992.
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876
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Mike Smith, former faculty member of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has succeeded John Sanders as the new director of the institute.
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926
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Weiss discusses year-round, multi-track school programs, their successes and problems, and the experiences of five programs in operation in North Carolina.
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927
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North Carolina legislation limits the growth of prison populations; the issue is whether or not this population cap has increased crime within the state.
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928
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Mecklenburg County is implementing Total Quality Management, an innovative business and management strategy.
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929
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New North Carolina statutes will alter the procedures for levying and collecting property taxes on motor vehicles in North Carolina.
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930
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Reservation techniques are used by local governments and the North Carolina Board of Transportation to protect the right-of-way for state and local streets and highways.
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1170
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Local governments deal with two types of zoning decisions when considering rezoning: legislative zoning decisions, which affect the entire community by setting general policies applicable through the ordinance; and quasi-judicial decisions, which apply established ordinance policies to individual situations.
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1171
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The basic system governing the sale of alcoholic beverages in North Carolina is the local option system. Local option allows the voters of each county and town to decide what alcoholic beverages legally may be sold there. This system has been modified through the years, and today faces stiff challenges.
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1172
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Government workplaces in North Carolina have instituted \"family-supportive\" policies, innovative personnel policies that help employees fulfill the dual responsibilities of work and family.
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1173
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Some 16,000 North Carolinians below age six are estimated to have dangerously high lead concentration in their blood. North Carolina has created a lead poisoning prevention program and other programs in an effort to improve this problem.
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1239
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North Carolina law makes counties largely responsible for the medical care of their prisoners. In recent years the cost of these obligations has been staggering.
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1240
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The total population of the county jails in North Carolina has quadrupled in the last seventeen years due to the growth of the state's population, increased criminal arrests, and increased pretrial length of stay.
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