Thatcher dismantled metropolitan county councils but the socialist heart continued to beat strongly for another couple of decades in Sheffield.
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It had been at the heart of the so-called "People's Republic of South Yorkshire" which was the way in which the early Thatcher government saw the metropolitan county council of the time.
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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offered free service on the Red and Purple line subways, the Orange Line busway and 25 other bus lines over the weekend, but savvy LA residents seemed to choose to stay close to home rather than risk getting caught up in the traffic, which never materialized.
Of the 34 Midlands unitary, county and metropolitan district councils required to have plans in place before the end of the month, just 11 have so far managed to do so.
Manchester, Northamptonshire and Barnet were chosen simply as being representative of a metropolitan authority, a shire county and a London borough - and were areas where there had not been objections to admissions policies.
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Convicted Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, serving time for civil contempt, was moved Tuesday night from a Los Angeles County jail to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, the U.S. Marshal's Service said.
Romney also won over veterans, late deciders, rural voters and voters in Nevada's largest metropolitan area, Las Vegas and Clark County.
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The Fortune article also described the investigation this firm conducted regarding the investment consultant of another client, the Metropolitan Employee Benefit Board of Nashville and Davidson County.
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It would be better by far to divide Britain into nominal provinces and have all of the directly elected councillors for the metropolitan areas, other urban areas and the county councils gather together and elect from within their own ranks representatives to go to the upper house.
The town received 100 of the 300 pieces of snow-removal equipment loaded to Long Island towns from the New York state Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City and Westchester County, said Vanessa Baird-Streeter, Suffolk County spokeswoman.
In our national ranking of 200 metropolitan regions for employer attractiveness, the four-county Syracuse region ranks in the bottom quintile. (See "map") Some of the factors indirectly affecting this ranking are beyond any city's control--such as climate and transportation grids--but one very big one is very much the province of politicians: taxes.
Joe Parisi, who runs Dane County, says these have spurred the county into working on new measures with the Madison metropolitan sewerage district.
It is claimed two county councils - Lancashire and North Yorkshire - and six metropolitan boroughs - Calderdale, Doncaster, Ealing, Kirklees, Rotherham and St Helens - stopped placing youngsters with the care firms in Rochdale as a result of Mr Lambert's remarks.
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