National Civic Review articles from September 1994

National Civic Review archives from September 1994

National renewal. (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... The possibility of social, economic, political, and institutional reform on a nationwide scale is ever present, and in fact realized sporadically, with occasional releases of civic energy. But national renewal can not occur in uncoordinated fits...

Renewing the bonds of community. (reform in the grass-roots level) (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... Programs that treat citizens as passive consumers of services rather than engaged co-producers of solutions merely perpetuate dependency, as well as disillusionment and hopelessness. During its first 100 years, the National Civic League has...

A conversation about our public priorities. (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... Government lacks the resources and reach to address all the innumerable public crises, social ills and worthy causes that concern mobilized Americans. Even so, the nation is moving in too many directions at once. If we fail to set priorities, the...

Community change through true public action. (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... Communities are stronger when they have an active, engaged citizenry - a public. The challenge to putting the public back into community - and finding a responsible public voice - is changing private individuals into responsible public citizens....

Investing in youth in urban America. (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... The fundamental challenge of a renewed American community is attention to the needs of youth, particularly the large and growing proportion living in disenfranchised, urban circumstances. Fortunately, communities across the nation have...

Bringing democracy to life: what works and why: an informal dialogue. (Conversations on Renewal)
September 22, 1994... Millions of Americans are learning that for democracy to work it must become an aspect of the way we live - in our schools, work places, organizations, communities - as well as the force defining our relationships with governing institutions and...

Inventing regionalism: a two-phase approach.
September 22, 1994... Today, we are engaged in a new wave of efforts to achieve regional governance. Drawing lessons from these attempts, a two-phase approach to regional governance is developed here. The first phase employs consensus-based processes to develop a...

Citizen leagues: free spaces of deliberative democracy.
September 22, 1994... The effectiveness of regional civic organizations depends on their capacity to mobilize their constituencies around issues that cross jurisdictional boundaries, which in turn is a function of their perceived legitimacy as a force in regional...

The responsible executive: municipal, county and state.
September 22, 1994... The establishment of clear lines of responsibility and accountability - whether in the legislative or executive branches - encourages the efficient and sound conduct of the public's business. It also constitutes a standard against which citizens...

1993 N.Y.C. school board elections cited for fraud, corruption and mismanagement. (New York City School District)
September 22, 1994... Edward Stancik, Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District, has released a report, From Chaos to Corruption: An Investigation into the 1993 Community School Board Election, presenting the results of a ten-month...

Census bureau reports detail race and ethnicity in America. (Bureau of the Census)
September 22, 1994... A fresh look at race and ethnicity in America is supplied in three reports issued by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The reports may debunk many commonly held racial and ethnic stereotypes. The reports are Asians and Pacific Islanders in the...

D.C.-area cog: region's elderly at high risk of poverty. (Washington, DC)
September 22, 1994... A significant proportion of Metropolitan Washington's elderly population have incomes that fall below the amount of money they need to pay for basic services, according to a new report, Assessing the Adequacy of Elderly Household Incomes in the...

Cumulative voting in Worcester County, Maryland. (Proportional Representation)
September 22, 1994... On the night of April 5, 1994, in her home on Maryland's rural Eastern Shore, 65-year-old Grace Purnell whooped with joy when she heard the news. Across the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, federal judge Joseph H. Young had ordered the Worcester...

Computerizing a Cambridge tradition. (counting ballots through computers in Cambridge, Massachusetts) (Proportional Representation)
September 22, 1994... For over 50 years, the City of Cambridge has counted ballots in its municipal elections by hand. The proportional representation system used for city council and school board elections - called the single transferable vote, or STV - requires...

Barn-raising the healthy cities commons: humanizing an existing commercial space. (Healthy Communities)
September 22, 1994... For centuries the "commons" exercised an integrating role in the community life of human settlements, providing a place where people could congregate for a wide variety of activities, an arena in which the most diverse people cold enjoy each...

Collaborative Leadership: How Citizens and Civic Leaders Can Make A Difference.
September 22, 1994... The composition of this new book was prompted by the authors' observation that, upon undertaking the evaluation of a nonprofit organization engaged in leadership development, training and consultation, there existed no objective, scholarly and/or...

County and City Data Book 1994.
September 22, 1994... The County and City Data Book 1994, a supplement to the Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States, is now available from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents. The Superintendent of Documents is the official seller of published...