Two weeks ago I posted about VenueLabs with its storefront and local focus that revealed, with hard data, that Foursquare is quietly hitting homeruns for local and national retailers.
Some may instead choose to subscribe to The Daily, another News Corp. product, which is broadly similar to the Post but a little cheaper and without the local focus.
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EveryBlock.com pulls in government documents -- health inspections, building permits and crime reports -- as well as news articles and photos from sites such as Flickr to make news feeds with an extreme local focus.
Though buzz.com's local business focus prompts comparisons to local reviews site Yelp, it differs in a few key ways.
That means smaller, local builders who focus on service and understand the nuances of the local market can get a bigger piece of the action.
Some are local, some focus on building careers and businesses, others jealously guard lofty positions as big hitters in research or philosophy.
We have already eliminated a number of costly regulations, saving millions of dollar a year, so local officials can focus on their top priorities, such as education and police protection, during an economically difficult time.
The project is part of Mr Davies's masters in public administration, with a focus on local environment.
Under a new local policing model, safer neighbourhood teams will focus on clusters of wards, Local Police Areas.
And the few remaining strands of tabloid journalism are being cut, as slimmed-down newspapers focus on local fare.
The spokesperson added it was "vital there is a relentless focus on local arrangements for the protection of children".
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Mr Farage also stressed that UKIP councillors would focus on local issues such as keeping council tax bills down and opposing new wind farms.
Mr. Gordon said the group's focus on local elections is deliberate.
Africa shouldn't just focus on local problems but needs to aspire to be at the core of global science to stop the brain drain and make the best of its talent.
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"The current priority for individual local authorities is to focus on those manufacturers that have been supplied by businesses implicated as potential sources of contamination, " said WLGA chief executive Steve Thomas.
But most objections focus on local pollution.
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He sent a letter telling concerned civic leaders that the Los Angeles Times had enjoyed an unprecedented spurt of Pulitzer Prizes, new investment in equipment, and a stronger focus on local news since Tribune bought the paper in 2000.
Although for developers like Urban Splash or the Environment Trust, or similar private, trust or charity based organisations, there is the scope to listen to residents, for most large developers, their overriding concern is to their shareholders whose interests (profit maximisation) are opposite to those of local residents (community focus, low energy-cost housing, etc.).
The poverty in this situation is that as we switch focus from national to local we kid ourselves that these are not linked and that for as long as we focus on one the other will take care of itself.
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In contrast, local flavour is the determined focus at Steamworks on Water Street.
Contracts awarded by Liverpool council could be handed to firms with a focus on employing local people.
The advantage of a national force would be that police forces can then focus on the local issues and respond to local concerns much more.
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The French Quarter Festival, held in April, consistently showcases a good range of local music and local food, with a focus on displaying the finest of the Quarter.
Falkirk Council is to focus on housing, local infrastructure and investing in the economy after approving its "ambitious" budget for next year.
TV. (It has already fitted Carrefour's shops in Poland.) In China Focus Media, a local company, is dotting the retail landscape with giant screens.
Besides London (which chooses its leader on May 1st), a reform in 2000 enabled most towns and cities to elect mayors, creating a visible, accountable focus for hitherto faceless local government.
Its focus is on helping local sales people, by providing templates that, say, insurance agents can use to reach out to customers via their social networks in a way that helps the agents boost their revenues without spending hours working on their Facebook pages.
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Mr Johnston's commitments included reducing crime and anti-social disorder, to find solutions to local problems, place a greater focus on the needs of victims rather than offenders and ensure core policing functions continued to be carried out by police rather than the private sector.
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