Vol. 18 No. 1, February 2002
Index
- Sustainability and the finance officer.
- Debit card usage eclipses credit cards.
- Electronic payments catching up with checks.
- Facing secession, Los Angeles proposes $600 million debt issuance.
- Investment in public transportation linked to cleaner air.
- Online auctions reduce costs, increase demand.
- States seeking federal funding for security measures.
- Treasury discontinues 30-year bonds.
- Voters approve 84 percent of bond initiatives.
- Bush extends moratorium as states move to streamline sales tax systems.
- City of Buffalo, school district begin massive layoffs.
- City of Chicago seeks to tax Suburban purchases.
- Commerce department announces new Encryption Standard.
- Philadelphia controller calls for tax reform.
- Reform leads to first municipal debt issuance in Mexico.
- Survey says analysts not satisfied with secondary market disclosure.
- Washington municipalities adjusting to new tax limitation law.
- Portland, oregon: A case study in sustainability; The environmental shortsightedness of the past has proven costly to governments. By institutionalizing sustainable principles and practices, governments can ensure a livable future for coming generations.
- Purchasing power: The massachusetts environmental procurement program.
- Economic development and environmental protection: The Northampton County, Virginia, experience.
- Financing brownfield cleanup and redevelopment.
- Tax-exempt hotel financing: A primer for finance officers.
- Pension investment policies: The state of the art: GFOA reviewed more than 40 pension in vestment policies to identify prevailing practices and to define a best practice for governments developing or modifying such policies.
- Managing budgetary pressure during economic downturns.
- Eroding sales tax revenues: The impact of e-commerce.
- ERP's second wave: Post-implementation best practices.
- From Florida to Kabul: 2001 in review.
- GFOA, the GASB, and performance measurement.
- Financial Planning and Management in Public Organizations.
- State Tax Policy: A Political Perspective.
- Maryland's glendening becomes USA's 'smart growth' champion.