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1977

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Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration

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Residency Law Could Stabilize Local Economic Base, Chester Smolski Dec 1977

Residency Law Could Stabilize Local Economic Base, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Should city employees be required to live in the communities which employ them? This is the question which more and more cities are seriously considering as they seek ways to stem the unabated flow of their residents to the suburbs and to raise needed tax dollars."


Speaking Out: Why Exempt Veterans?, Chester Smolski Aug 1977

Speaking Out: Why Exempt Veterans?, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The city of Providence will likely incur a deficit of approximately $3 million this fiscal year. Yet, even with this deficit, tax rates will raise by $1.90, 300 municipal employees will be fired, and an additional 200 jobs will not be filled as workers retire."


Statewide Land Use Plan For R.I., Chester Smolski Mar 1977

Statewide Land Use Plan For R.I., Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"The Rhode Island section of the American Institute of Planners has called it "the most significant single item of legistlation in the history of land planning in this state," and yet there is the real possibility that this far reaching measure may not be introduced for enactment in this session of the General Assembly."


Providence Housing: A Downtown Trend That Deserves Attention, Chester Smolski Feb 1977

Providence Housing: A Downtown Trend That Deserves Attention, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"One of the major needs in Rhode Island, as it is in most of the country, is decent and safe housing in a good enviornment. This need is especially acute for the elderly population."


Make The Full Investment In Downtown Renewal, Chester Smolski Jan 1977

Make The Full Investment In Downtown Renewal, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"Just how much money is the city of Providence willing to invest in revitalizing its downtown? The answer to this question is soon to be given when the City Council acts on the recommendations of the Committee on Urban Redevelopment headed by Councilman Ralph R. Fargnoli. the committee voted Wednesday in favor of a $6-million downtown renewal project."


Final Report On The Recreation Plan For Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project, Maine : Prepared For The Corps Of Engineers, New England Division, Northern Maine Regional Planning Commission, Land Use Consultants, Inc Jan 1977

Final Report On The Recreation Plan For Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project, Maine : Prepared For The Corps Of Engineers, New England Division, Northern Maine Regional Planning Commission, Land Use Consultants, Inc

Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project

The purpose of this report is to evaluate and describe the existing recreational use and resources of the project area and the encompassing study area and to project the future use of those resources both with and without the Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project. This study develops and evaluates a concept plan for the recreation potential of the Dickey-Lincoln School project and assesses the recreational impact of this recommended concept plan.


Social Impact Summary : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project / Prepared For The Department Of The Army, Corps Of Engineers, New England Division, Edward C. Jordan Company, Inc. Jan 1977

Social Impact Summary : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project / Prepared For The Department Of The Army, Corps Of Engineers, New England Division, Edward C. Jordan Company, Inc.

Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project

The Dickey-Lincoln Hydroelectric Dam is a water resources project proposed by the Federal Government (U. S. Army Corps of Engineers). Therefore, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Corps of Engineers is required to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project. A federal plan or project such as Dickey-Lincoln should take into account its effect upon man's health, safety, welfare and economic well-being, as well as effects upon the surrounding environment. More importantly, project plans should be evaluated in a "manner calculated to encourage harmony between man and his environment." In other words, project plans or …


Development And Diversification In Administrative Rule Making, Ralph F. Fuchs Jan 1977

Development And Diversification In Administrative Rule Making, Ralph F. Fuchs

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Health Care Cost-Containment Regulation: Prospects And An Alternative, Clark C. Havighurst Jan 1977

Health Care Cost-Containment Regulation: Prospects And An Alternative, Clark C. Havighurst

Faculty Scholarship

Regulation of the health care system to achieve appropriate containment of overall costs is characterized by Professor Havighurst as requiring public officials to engage, directly or indirectly, in the rationing of medical services. This rationing function is seen by the author as peculiarly difficult for political institutions to perform, given the public's expectations and the symbolic importance of health care. An effort on the part of regulators to shift the rationing burden to providers is detected, as is a trend toward increasingly arbitrary regulation, designed to minimize regulators' confrontations with sensitive issues. Irrationality and ignorance are found to plague regulatory …


Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page Jan 1977

Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Health and safety on the job remain sources of bitter controversy in the public forums. Businessmen rail against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for its "dictatorial" enforcement of "oppressive" regulations, leading President Ford in early 1976 to demonstrate sympathy for their concerns. Labor leaders deplore the failure of industry and government to stem the toll of death and disablement from work-related disease. Members of' Congress, responsive to pressures from constituents, fill pages of the Congressional Record with reports of both employer vexations and employee tragedies.

Like ships passing in the night, advocates on both sides tend to regard …


The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology, Stephen J. Morse Jan 1977

The Twilight Of Welfare Criminology, Stephen J. Morse

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Pollution And Policy: A Case Essay On California And Federal Experience With Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975 By J. E. Krier And E. Ursin, A. Dan Tarlock Jan 1977

Book Review. Pollution And Policy: A Case Essay On California And Federal Experience With Motor Vehicle Air Pollution, 1940-1975 By J. E. Krier And E. Ursin, A. Dan Tarlock

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.