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								  <B>February 2002</B>
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                                    <P> <B>EDITORIAL</B><BR>
                    Sustainability and the Finance Officer<BR>
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                                      <B>NEWS BRIEFS</B><BR>
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                                      <B>FORUM</B><BR>
                    Managing Budgetary Pressure during Economic Downturns<BR>
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                    <B>FISCAL AND ECONOMIC INDICATORS</B><BR>
                    Eroding Sales Tax Revenues: The Impact of e-Commerce<BR>
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                    <B>STATE OF THE ART</B><BR>
                    ERP’s Second Wave: Post-Implementation Best Practices<BR>
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                    <B>FEDERAL FOCUS</B><BR>
                    From Florida to Kabul: 2001 in Review<BR>
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                    <B>LETTER TO THE EDITOR</B><BR>
                    GFOA, the GASB, and Performance Measurement<BR>
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                    <B>BOOK REVIEWS<BR>
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                                      FROM THE LIBRARY</B><BR>
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                    <B></B><B>CALENDAR</B> <BR>
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                    <B>COMMENTARY</B><BR>
                    Maryland's Glendening Becomes USA's "Smart Growth" Champion 
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                            <TD><B><A HREF="/services/gfr/archives/2002/02/gfr0202.pdf" TARGET="_blank">Portland, Oregon: A Case Study in Sustainability</A></B><BR>
                              <I>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.</I><BR>
            Timothy Grewe, Susan Anderson, and Laurel Butman<BR>
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            <B>Purchasing Power: The Massachusetts Environmental Procurement Program</B><BR>
            <I>By purchasing recycled and other environmentally preferable products, governments can positively impact
the environment and even save money. Massachusetts’ efforts in this regard can serve as a model for implementing
a successful environmental procurement program.</I><BR>
            Eric Friedman and Marcia Deegler<BR>
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            <B>Economic Development and Environmental Protection: The Northampton County, Virginia, Experience</B><BR>
            <I>Northampton County’s Sustainable Technology Park is living proof that economic and environmental interests need not
be mutually exclusive.</I><BR>
            Lance Metzler, Mary Lechner, and Timothy Hayes</TD>
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                              <P> <B>Financing Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment</B><BR>
              <I>Lack of adequate and affordable financing is the most significant obstacle to brownfield redevelopment. Governments
can catalyze private investment in these projects by leveraging available federal, state, and local resources.</I> 
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              Charles Bartsch<BR>
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              <B><A HREF="/services/gfr/archives/2002/02/taxexempt.pdf" TARGET="_blank">Tax-Exempt Hotel Financing: A Primer for Finance Officers</A></B><BR>
              <I>Because of the limited availability of conventional financing for full-service convention center headquarters hotels,
many governments are turning to the tax-exempt bond market to finance their projects.</I> <BR>
              Thomas Hazinski and Mark Laubacher<BR>
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              <B>Pension Investment Policies: The State of the Art</B><BR>
              <I>GFOA reviewed more than 40 pension investment policies to identify prevailing practices and to define a best practice
for governments developing or modifying such policies.</I><BR>
              Nicholas Greifer
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