The Noise Control Code for Chapel Hill sets maximum permitted sound levels for certain times and days of the week. As of March 2011, the...
Santa Monica was one of the first cities to require the reduction of toxicity of janitorial products. In 1993 the city implemented a Toxics Use...
Can a land tax reduce sprawl and strengthen urban economies? The evidence is persuasive though not conclusive. Political economist Henry George first proposed a land...
Jim Keating, Executive Director of Rainforest Relief has been engaging communities to limit their use of tropical hardwoods in waterfront development. To that end the...
Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is aninter-governmental agency, representing about one-third of Utah’spopulation. UTOPIA is building a fiber-to-the-home network that willdeliver speeds of at...
Centered around Sebastopol, California, the Western Sonoma County Internet Cooperative Corporation has a membership of around 50, offering wireless Internet access main to those who...
Over 80 local governments have passed some form of campaign finance legislation. The National Civic League has compiled an Inventory of Local Reforms of those...
Proportional representation is a system for electing legislatures. In elections for a single, executive position, the winner-take-all principle still applies. However, Australian-style instant runoff voting...
On October 25, 1999 the Bangor ME (population 33,000) City Council passed a selective purchasing policy, establishing guidelines for buying clothing, footwear and other products...
Cambridge’s nine City Councillors and six School Committee members are elected at large by Proportional Representation (PR) for a two year term. Any partly or...
In Amarillo, Texas, which is is 16 percent Latino and 6 percent black, a minority had not been elected to the school board since the...
After a particularly serious chlorine dioxide leak, which could have injured thousands of workers had they been in the factory, the town selectmen instructed the...
The conduct of Marshfield’s Town Meeting is dictated by Federal and State law, the Town’s Charter and By-Laws, local tradition, and the publication entitled, "Town...
All officers of the city, as defined in section 1207, and all employees of the city and any and all agencies and instrumentalities thereof, including...
Passed by Wayne Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania by a 3-0 vote in 1998, this ordinance is primarily a "three strikes and you’re out" ordinance. It...