Home Rule and Environmentalism: The Adoption of Green Initiatives in U.S. Municipalities

In recent years there has been a movement in academia from studying environmental policy on the national level to a much narrower examination of local municipalities and their respective green initiatives. The implications of this research reach well beyond the borders of academics and hit squarely municipalities and their corresponding local policy makers. We, as political scientists, must ask what particular characteristics of municipalities play the most significant role in green initiative adoption. Recent urban scholarship has suggested several variables that influence the adoption of environmental policies, but one specific variable, municipality home rule status, has had little to no scholarly consideration

Crisis Nursery Speech for David Jones Speech Contest

For this honors project, the student entered the David Jones Persuasive Speech Contest at Parkland College. This is the outline of the speech supporting the Crisis Nursery in Champaign, Illinois, for which she placed 2nd

Review of New Directions in American Indian History

This appropriately titled collection of essays is the first volume of a continuing bibliographic series intended to supplement earlier bibliographies and further assist American Indian historians, especially newcomers to the field, in determining the relative merit of the hundreds of new publications concerning American Indians becoming available annually