But in America even national elections remain local affairs, with polling places and procedures determined by individual counties.
As it declined, the Echo withdrew from its office in the middle of town and trimmed its coverage of local affairs.
As newspapers weaken and die, most people probably become less informed about local affairs, but a few motivated folk grow extremely knowledgeable.
Congress cannot get into purely local affairs, particularly where they are noncommercial.
And now, with the ceremonies over, comes the equally difficult business of cooperating in the day-to-day running of local affairs in Northern Ireland.
The campaign says it has held nearly 30, 000 events around the country in the past year, the vast majority of them small, local affairs.
Family members said Mr. Paladino would return to his life and business in Buffalo, where he is a wealthy and powerful force in local affairs and a ubiquitous presence in the community.
But again, since these elections were local affairs, I think there will be plenty of people in the Democratic Party who've been critical of Dean who will still have their same views and won't necessarily be changed by these outcomes.
Besides a central government, there are five island governments that deal with the local island affairs.
Called The Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs, its report calling for restrictions on mobile phone and WiFi usage was finalised over a week ago but is only just finding its way into the news media.
The Department of Education exerts some control over almost every aspect of the day-to-day affairs of local school districts.
The opposition hoped that having ceded finance and other key ministries, they would get energy, local government and foreign affairs.
Elsewhere, decisions about who runs the mundane affairs of local government ought not to be swayed by, say, the war in Iraq.
Shadow Secretary for Local and Devolved Government Affairs, Caroline Spelman, said the report reinforced the need for economic growth to be spread more evenly across the country.
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Eurice Rojas, the hospital's vice-president of external affairs, told local newspaper The Jersey Journal that hospital officials did not believe their employees had leaked Clooney's medical information, but some did improperly access his records.
The other offices involved are transportation, electricity and energy, local development, civil aviation and environmental affairs.
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In Trieste, for example, a right-wing council has caused controversy by interfering in the affairs of the partly floated local utility.
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Chris Brooks, whose time as regeneration manager on the local council is increasingly absorbed by Polish affairs, is helping to set up a Polish association, which he hopes will make it easier to transmit advice about housing, laws and the like.
Tom Neff, director of local government services in the Department of Community Affairs, a New Jersey state agency, says he does not foresee instances of eminent domain in the near term.
In the US, last October frustrated activists in the Indianapolis Jewish community disenfranchised by the far left agenda of the local JCRC founded JAACI, the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana to serve as a new umbrella organization for the community.
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Mrs Clinton joined a chorus of local leaders warning Iran to stay out of Arab affairs.
Caroline says she wants to see local communities having more of a say in their own affairs.
Thirty-three percent of voters tell us that local matters counted most, but 62 percent focused on national affairs.
Beaten to the nomination by Lord Archer, he joined a new contest after the peer's resignation as candidate but was controversially dumped last weekend after local party officials complained about his well-documented extra-marital affairs.
Double check with your hotel what the state of affairs is before you trundle out to the market at 0400 local time, as the rules could change.
In a forthcoming article for Urban Affairs Review, a trio of researchers took survey data on local policies from nearly 300 California municipalities and ran it against foreclosure figures, a decade later. (You can find an earlier version of the paper here (PDF).) Cities that implemented slow growth or anti-growth policies in the late 1990s saw significantly fewer foreclosures between 2008 and 2009, the torrential center of the housing crisis.
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Members of the U.N. humanitarian affairs office have deployed to Tai to coordinate relief efforts there with local authorities.
For their part Lithuanians see blatant interference in their domestic affairs, particularly in the close ties between Warsaw politicians and the local Polish leadership.
The Lords have already announced their themes: constitutional affairs, equalities, home affairs, justice and law on Thursday, business, economy, local government and transport on Monday, agriculture, culture, education, energy, health and welfare on Tuesday and defence, foreign and Commonwealth affairs, international development on Wednesday.
It is led by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and brings together 10 government departments, 34 local resilience forums, emergency responders, water companies, hospitals and schools to test responses to a range of mock flood situations over four days from Monday.
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