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Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook Review

Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook Overview

City, county and school district elected officials annually deal with multi-million, sometime billion dollar budgets. But many have little, if any, knowledge about local government financial matters when first elected. Written in an easy to understand style, this book provides beginning and seasoned elected officials and public administrators with the fiscal awareness to confidently make good budget and financial decisions. Local government is more complex today and there are more opportunities for poor judgement, conflicts of interest, embezzlement and fraud. The best antidote is an informed constituency that insists on good government and accountability. Community members, homeowners groups, business people, unions, service organizations, public watchdogs and newspaper reporters who want to assess their local elected officials' performance will find this book invaluable. Each chapter begins with a real life story such as the city manager who used the city's credit card to go on an lavish shopping spree, the city that used debt to mask it's huge deficit or the school superintendent who sacrificed the district's solvency to create an award winning curriculum. Vignettes from over 77 different local governments across the country are used to buttress the suggested tips and techniques.

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Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community Review

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Historian G. Ward Hubbs first encountered the Confederate soldiers known as the Greensboro Guards through their Civil War diaries and letters. Later he discovered that the Guards had formed some forty years before the war, soon after the founding of the Alabama town that was their namesake. Guarding Greensboro examines how the yearning for community played itself out across decades of peace and war, prosperity and want.

Greensboro sprang up as a wide-open frontier town in Alabama's Black Belt, an exceptionally fertile part of the Deep South where people who dreamed of making it rich as cotton planters flocked. Although prewar Greensboro had its share of overlapping communities--ranging from Masons to school-improvement societies--it was the Guards who brought together the town's highly individualistic citizenry.

A typical prewar militia unit, the Guards mustered irregularly and marched in their finest regalia on patriotic holidays. Most significantly, they patrolled for hostile Indians and rebellious slaves. In protecting the entire white population against common foes, Hubbs argues, the Guards did what Greensboro's other voluntary associations could not: move citizens beyond self-interest.

As Hubbs follows the Guards through their Civil War campaigns, he keeps an eye on the home front: on how Greensborians shared a sense of purpose and sacrifice while they dealt with fears of a restive slave populace. Finally, Hubbs discusses the postwar readjustments of Greensboro's veterans as he examines the political and social upheaval in their town and throughout the South. Ultimately, Hubbs argues, the Civil War created the South of legend and its distinctive communities.

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There is no doubt that there is a war for the morality of this culture being waged and the battle ground is the homes across this nation. No where is this more acutely felt than in the breakdown of the American family. Immorality of all shapes and sizes is available, affordable and is available anonymously to every household with a TV or computer. Every family needs an action plan to protect the heart of every member. Every father, mother, brother, and sister needs to make a faith covenant to keep their hearts and lives pure. Respected and beloved Bible teacher Adrian Rogers will equip you to protect not only your home but also your heart and the hearts of your loved ones from the tidal wave of decadence descending upon our neighborhoods today.

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Check Out Just Friends: Guarding Your Heart for a Wonderful Someday

Just Friends: Guarding Your Heart for a Wonderful Someday Review

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What is this thing between guys and girls? Do we call it Dating? Attraction? Interest? We all know it’s there, but no one really knows what to call it, and for some strange reason everyone is afraid to talk about it! So what do you call it? You’ve probably said it. “We’re just friends!” Sometimes you mean it; sometimes you mean something a little stronger, but a bit harder to define. Whatever you call it, it’s time to understand a reasonable and biblical approach to guy/girl relationships. This book will help you protect your heart as you journey through the dangerous minefields of young emotions and early attractions. And it will help you understand the biblical principles that will ultimately lead you to true love and a “wonderful someday.” Includes a study guide for personal application!

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Guarding Madison Review

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Bodyguard Lucien Trace was good at his job. Damn good. Keeping away from the Hollywoodites and never getting personal were two rules that kept him sane and alive for many years. A call from his uncle would have him break both those rules and shatter the biggest rule of all. Falling in love. Hollywood darling Madison Jordan didn't want to deal with a pushy bodyguard. She had enough issues complicating her life already: A domineering mother, a weight complex? oh and a stalker who wanted to kill her. A break in and an ominous message in the form of a knife through her picture kept Trace in her home, but would she willingly let him into her heart?

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Guarding the Gospel of Grace: Contending for the Faith in the Face of Compromise (Galatians and Jude Review

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GUARDING THE GOSPEL OF GRACE: CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH IN THE FACE OF COMPROMISE—It's amazing how even the “littlest” misunderstanding about God's grace can complicate the Christian

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Out of the Crisis Review

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"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.previously published by MIT-CAES

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