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Highlights from the April Issue

COVER STORY/Economic Development
The Retail Chase: the great chain-store hunt
    Plus: extended interviews with the experts

Technology
Topside Turnover: the CIO revolving door

Management
Polling the Populace: using citizen surveys to improve government
    Plus: comprehensive resources
   on citizens and performance

COLUMNS
· Assessments: Alan Ehrenhalt on Robert Moses and the revisionists
· Tech Talk: Ellen Perlman on securing public-sector data
· Potomac Chronicle: Donald F. Kettl on governors and foreign policy
· Transportation: Alex Marshall on transportation and communication
· Economic Development: William Fulton on cities as bankers
· Environment: Tom Arrandale on wasting the oceans