Cities and counties are preparing to sue the state government for money owed to them.
And there are recovery projects like this in cities and counties all across the country.
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Some investors already have said they are steering clear of bonds issued by Alabama cities and counties.
In Liaoning province alone, dozens of cities and counties have failed to pay teachers' salaries this year.
Meanwhile, many cities and counties have their own regulations, often banning fireworks even in states that allow them.
States, cities and counties that can barely pay their bills issued tax free and taxable munis with abandon.
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The new plan hopes to take what is working best in cities and counties and apply it nationwide.
These are separate jurisdictions from cities and counties and have their own boards whose members are elected locally.
And officials in multiple cities and counties throughout the state were reviewing information from federal authorities for possible threats.
The back story to my Black Swan event theme is the frightening headlines coming from our states, cities and counties.
With 9, 600 sales tax jurisdictions in the United States (cities and counties also impose sales taxes), this is a compliance nightmare.
Additionally, some cities and counties have sales tax on top of state sales tax and there are differences here as well.
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Some states, cities and counties have outlawed putting CFL bulbs in the trash, but in most states the practice is legal.
Drawing attention to the census is especially important in cities and counties with lots of people who are hard to count.
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Companies in cities and counties like Yuhuan are very innovative and entrepreneurial.
Americans are used to states, cities and counties pursuing completely different policies.
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Resistance from federal housing officials nearly scuttled the residential market for property assessed clean energy (PACE) financing, as cities and counties across the country shuttered programs.
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Cities and counties trying to stretch dollars from the local tax base are more likely to see speeding motorists as a new source of revenue, each study found.
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Since his last term, after voters in 1978 passed a famous anti-tax initiative called Proposition 13, money and power has shifted from schools, cities and counties to the state.
Moreover, cities and counties (which, of course, cannot overrule state law) in ten states limit prosecution activities and penalties: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, and Wisconsin.
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And the states, cities and counties that issue municipal debt sense the hunger in the market and are raising billions of dollars of cash, even as long-term solvency risks remain unresolved.
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"I think cities and counties are very open-minded about what they're willing to work out and how the system might be streamlined, " said Delna Jones, county commissioner of Washington County, Ore.
When the Oklahoma states' rights committee recently passed a bill that prohibits cities and counties from adopting any environmental recommendations in the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan, many of those in attendance burst into applause.
Just two weeks after it announced the addition of nine additional U.S. markets to its LTE coverage, the carrier said that it is expanding its high-speed 4G network to another 11 cities and counties in the coming weeks.
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Then there would be the pain in those cities and counties as they tried to dig themselves out from bankruptcy: certainly there would be an awful lot of public employee pensions that would be savaged at this point.
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According to the Boston Consulting Group (its partners reported some of their insights in Forbes here), a consumer company doing business in 70 locations (cities and counties) in China could reach 70% of consumers in the middle and affluent classes as of 2005.
There is no federal law prohibiting employment discrimination against gays, though 21 states, the District of Columbia, and at least 129 U.S. cities and counties have some form of antidiscrimination law that includes sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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The state, its cities and its counties would be able to regulate and tax it.
As it stands now, only 22 cities and two counties in California require gun dealers to buy liability insurance, according to Law Center Against Gun Violence.
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