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Chapters: North Carolina Film Office. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The North Carolina Film Office, originally called the "North Carolina Film Commission," is a member of the Association of Film Commissioners International. Founded in 1980 by Governor James B. Hunt, the office was commissioned to help facilitate and provide a base of operation for North Carolina's burgeoning film industry. Governor Hunt appointed William "Bill" Arnold to lead the office. In 1984, producer Dino De Laurentiis created De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. He built and based a studio complex (now EUE/Screen Gems ) in Wilmington, North Carolina. The area quickly became one of the busiest production centers for film and television east of Hollywood. The North Carolina Film Office was created during a time when new technology, audience demand for location authenticity, and Hollywoods need for lower production costs were driving filmmakers to search distant sites throughout the United States for fresh places to make movies. With Bill Arnold leading, the North Carolina Film Commission witnessed a dramatic increase in production during the 1980s and the 1990s. Notable films during this time include: The Color Purple (1985) , Dirty Dancing (1987) , Bull Durham (1988) , Days of Thunder (1990) , Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) , Last of the Mohicans (1992) , The Fugitve (1993) , and The Crow (1994) . In 1998 Wilmington, NC became the home of the WB's critically acclaimed television network series Dawson's Creek. The series remained in Wilmington until 2003 when it was cancelled and replaced with One Tree Hill--a series on The CW Television Network that still calls North Carolina "home." While Wilmington, NC continued to sustain itself with television, the international film...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14332622 ... Read more

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Publisher: New York, London, The Macmillan CompanyPublication date: 1904Subjects: North Carolina -- Politics and government To 1775Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Chapters: Triangle J Council of Governments, Piedmont Triad Council of Governments, Centralina Council of Governments, Albemarle Commission, Eastern Carolina Council of Governments, Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments, High Country Council of Governments, Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments, Southwestern Commission, Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments, Cape Fear Council of Governments, Land-Of-Sky Regional Council, Lumber River Council of Governments, Mid-East Commission, Isothermal Planning and Development Commission, Western Piedmont Council of Governments, Mid-Carolina Council of Governments. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The North Carolina Councils of Government are voluntary associations of county and municipal governments, established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1972. Originally numbering 18, the 17 current regional associations handle services which are generally more economic to coordinate on a regional, rather than local level, including economic development, environmental protection, land-use planning, and services for the elderly. Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Swain, Haywood, Jackson, Macon Madison, Buncombe, Henderson, Transylvania Polk, Rutherford, McDowell, Cleveland Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes Caldwell, Burke, Alexander, Catawba Iredell, Rowan, Lincoln, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Stanly, Union, Anson Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell, Alamance Surry, Stokes, Forsyth, Yadkin, Davie Moore, Lee, Chatham, Orange, Durham, Wake, Johnston Person, Granville, Vance, Warren, Franklin Wilson, Nash, Edgecombe, Halifax, Northampton Harnett, Cumberland, Sampson Richmond, Scotland, Hoke, Robeson, Bladen Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender Onslow, Dupl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=704500 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on August 1, 1997. The length of the article is 4657 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The North Carolina Local Government Budget Assn, the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government and a number of states, cities and counties launched the North Carolina Local Government Measurement project to develop a model for assessing and measuring municipal and local performance and costs. It focuses on three general types of measures, namely, measures of service need and quantity, measures of efficiency, and measures of effectiveness. The project's progress is discussed.

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Title: Measuring the performance of local governments in North Carolina.
Author: Paula K. Few
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1997
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v13Issue: n4Page: p29(6)

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Chapters: Mayors of Raleigh, North Carolina, Clarence Lightner, Isabella Cannon, John Haywood, Joseph Gales, Sr., List of Mayors of Raleigh, North Carolina, Tom Fetzer, Calvin Jones, Charles Meeker, Joseph W. Holden, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, William G. Enloe, William White, Avery C. Upchurch, Paul Coble, Raleigh City Council. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clarence Everett Lightner (August 15, 1921 July 8, 2002) was the first popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina and the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan (defined as having a population of 50,000 or more) Southern city. Lightner, a Democrat, was also the first and to date only black mayor of Raleigh, serving in office from 1973 to 1975. His mayoral election gained national attention since only 16% of registered voters in Raleigh were black, and it was unique for a white-majority city to elect a black candidate for mayor. Even more surprising to some was the fact his race was rarely mentioned in the campaign. Lightner came of age in an era when most blacks in the South were still disfranchised, was elected to the City Council two years after passage of the Voting Rights Act, and was elected mayor six years later. Lightner was a man of "dignity and perseverance", who brought people together when he entered public political life, as he had for years in his community work. In a 1976 book on Southern politics, authors Jack Bass and Walter DeVries wrote "Perhaps no political campaign better reflected changing attitudes on race than the 1973 mayor's race in Raleigh, in which black City Councilman Clarence Lightner won support from a coalition of white suburbanites concerned about urban and suburban sprawl." Lightner was born in Raleigh to Mammie Blackmon an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16365725 ... Read more