Much of it is owned, operated and regulated by local municipalities, which have failed to maintain it properly.
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In Michigan, six local municipalities are under direct control of an emergency manager.
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We are told that while states cannot go bankrupt but local municipalities can.
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In 1999, a land-use survey carried out for local municipalities by independent consultants found only about 9, 000 hectares of coca.
In January, when he sat down with Steve Forbes, Roubini identified states and local municipalities as potential recipients of QE3.
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Other states, including Illinois and Florida, also have looked for ways to limit the money being sent to local municipalities.
It boasts of offering a one-stop service for investors, but local municipalities have plenty of red tape of their own.
The full total of the state's workforce, from public administration and the health service to local municipalities, is some 5m people.
This will require strengthening its Reserve forces and their ability to mobilize and join regular army units, or to defend local municipalities.
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New Jersey residents tend to complain loudly about property taxes (theirs are the highest in the nation), but the state doesn't collect them--local municipalities do.
The ministry said local municipalities will be responsible for carrying out testing and that any item measuring above the set standard will not be permitted to be sold.
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Several countries will also organize a national exercise on the same day or at a later date, involving in some cases local municipalities and decision makers, civil protection and emergency units.
These days there is no shortage of state and local municipalities struggling under the weight of budget shortfalls that were aggravated by the collapse of the real estate market and ensuing recession.
The grid makes the former Yugoslavia look simple: local municipalities, the individual state utility commissions, the North America Electric Reliability Council, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other agencies all have a say.
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But certainly the level of the local government, local municipalities, local agencies and so on, you could see a significant increase in those default rates will have a negative effect on muni bonds and on spreads on them, as well.
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Given what the FCC admits is a derelict regulatory environment where spectrum has been woefully mismanaged and local municipalities resist efforts by carriers to invest in capital improvements, sometimes for years, mergers are the only way mobile providers can improve service quality.
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"One by one, the courts in New York are siding with the people over oil and gas industry interests, ruling that local municipalities have the right to decide what industrial activities are appropriate for their communities, " said Deborah Goldberg, attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice who will argue on behalf of Dryden and Middlefield in Albany on Thursday.
Housing developers want to build and bankers are anxious to finance, but local citizens and municipalities fight housing development every way they can, primarily with lawsuits and lengthy delays.
However, it can't be done without the support of the schools, municipalities, and local and state government.
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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The Serbian authorities have stepped back from trying to organise local elections for Serbs there, though two municipalities in the Serb-controlled north may still hold them.
There has been talk that opposition legislators might boycott Congress, and that the right, which is quite strong in municipalities, will try to paralyse local government.
Political trends are rarely clear-cut in Brazil, with 5, 507 municipalities whose 110m voters tend to choose local personalities and ignore party labels.
At a minimum, both seemed to agree, a new local-government law must be passed so as to give municipalities (including Albanian-dominated ones) the power to raise and spend money freely.
The Chicago area has 1, 300 units of local government, including six counties, 113 townships, 270 municipalities, 306 school districts and 558 special districts that do everything from treating waste water to fighting mosquitoes.
Wang Tao, chief economist with UBS AG in China, told China Daily on Tuesday that extensions of local-government debt already started last year amid concerns that municipalities were hurting from a sharp decline in housing development and fixed asset investments from Beijing.
Like all municipalities in New Hampshire, Lincoln funds its own school system through local property taxes.
So will we see an aggressive campaign by American local governments to persuade Chinese investors to set up U.S. shops in their municipalities?
First, if I were looking to buy a home in one of the Cook County municipalities, I would go to my site and research the financial condition of the local taxing districts and make that a big factor in determining where to buy.
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State reinforcement of federal penalties for providing false information when buying a gun, running background checks on buyers at gun shows, allowing local discretion to police when issuing concealed-carry permits, requiring purchase permits for handguns and allowing municipalities to set their own gun laws are all associated with lower gun-trafficking rates.
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