The city, he notes, has a balanced budget with conservative estimates of future revenue that are not dependent on growth in real estate taxes or land sales.
But in addition, the city manager sent a list of notes to their mayor - city manager down there - of things that we had learned and we thought might be helpful for them and provided his cell number to them so that they might call if they like.
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Half of the city's population comes from immigrant backgrounds, Solidance notes, and the city supports a "good level" of diversity acceptance.
He also notes that the city has the lowest murder rate of any major city in the country.
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But Matthew Green, head of research at CBRE, also notes that the city is vulnerable to economic shifts.
Adam notes this old City Journal piece Diane wrote back in 1999.
An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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Meanwhile, Oakland Tribune columnist Daniel Borenstein notes that his city has levied what he calls a "hidden pension tax" on property owners for decades to pay off a municipal pension fund that went bust in 1976.
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As Dodington speaks the Shanghai dialect with a Southern drawl and Lee chats in Mandarin with a Californian twist, Fu, too, has discovered the connection between his musical notes and the city that effortlessly blends East and West.
As this New York Times story from September notes, the city has been only moderately proactive in prepping itself for the long-term risk posed by ocean floods, stressing how to respond when water breaches existing barriers rather than stopping floods altogether.
Last month Nottingham City Council started demanding sick-notes for short-term absence, sparking a protest among local doctors.
He notes that New York City's lenders agreed to restructure the city's debt to resolve the crisis in the 1970s.
The EA exec notes that no other California city levies a similar tax.
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There are still over 47, 000 vacant housing units in the city, many of the uninhabitable, notes Allison Plyer, who runs the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.
Explaining the rise of Barcelona as a naval power to rival Italian city-states like Pisa and Genoa, he notes the balanced diet of Catalan sailors: more biscuit and cheese than the Venetians, less wine than the Neapolitans, but plenty of garlic, onions and spices to make hard biscuits more palatable.
"There are a lot of companies that don't match at all, " notes David Gelman, a pension consultant in New York City.
In the northern England city of Gateshead, for example, a De La Rue PLC plant prints bank notes on behalf of several euro-zone countries, according to people familiar with the matter.
Much of recent job growth has been in lower-wage industries, notes Martin Kohli, chief regional economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in New York City.
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The story notes that unless the company gets an exemption, the company will receive a fat tax bill from the city when its employees opt to exercise their stock options once the company goes public.
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