THE INNOVATOR.

This section offers updates related to civic affairs in the U.S. as of June 1994. There has been a civic journalism boom in the country as evidenced by an increase in the number of papers and broadcasters that have adopted community debates. A formal organization is being established by Los Angeles County, California to support money-making ventures. A decision was made by the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) to privatize its revenue-generating operation to recover lost federal reimbursement dollars.