National Civic Review articles from June 1999

National Civic Review archives from June 1999

NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT.
June 22, 1999... What will happen when the calendar turns to January 1, 2000? Will millions, if not billions, of computer chips and programs become "confused" - unable to interpret the date change or interpreting the date as January 1, 1900? Will there be major...

What Does Y2K Mean for Local Governments?
June 22, 1999... As the countdown to the year 2000 continues, the public is being bombarded with stories of disaster and sure doom for communities. Articles focus on the loss of power, water, and other basic services that have become constant fixtures in...

Community Leadership Is the Key to Meeting the Y2K Challenge.
June 22, 1999... Many local governments and other community institutions are now racing to fix year 2000 problems in their computer systems. However, few of these organizations are taking the necessary steps to ensure the delivery of citizen-critical services....

Grassroots Organizations, Local Government, and the Effort to Prepare Communities for Y2K.
June 22, 1999... It is by now a truism that times of crisis provide both challenges and opportunities. The risk to our society's well-being posed by the year 2000 computer problem is proving to be no exception. Although the challenges posed by the Y2K bug are...

Public Participation in Local Government: Points of View.
June 22, 1999... This article considers the public participation process in the United States with respect to policy formation. My purpose is to explore various points of view on participation and to make some observations about ways to make participation at...

Public Hospital Authorities for Public Purposes?
June 22, 1999... The existence of independent public authorities has traditionally presented a unique challenge to students of government and public administration. Public authorities are essentially governments or quasi-government entities that have been...

Reclaiming and Remaking Public Space: Toward an Architecture for American Democracy.
June 22, 1999... The relationship between public space and democracy is crucial. Democracy requires places where citizens can gather together to discuss the issues of the day and work on solving problems. In the past, architects recognized this and built public...

Communities at Risk: A Community Perspective on Urban Social Problems.
June 22, 1999... Throughout America, there is an increasing disparity in income and opportunity between the haves and the have-nots. In many neighborhoods, those we will call communities at risk, that disparity manifests itself in a variety of social problems,...

Democracy Reformed: Richard Spencer Childs and His Fight for Better Government.(Review)
June 22, 1999... by Bernard Hirschorn. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. 256 pp., $59.95. Thomas E "Tip" O'Neill once said that "all politics is local," but local government is a relatively modern development. In the nineteenth century, city...