Would you cough up (say) 50p to read what your local politician is up to?
"They tried to invade our country, " said Israr Ahmed Khan, a local politician leading protest chants.
Local politician Suresh Handsa says rice production has fallen because padi are contaminated .
Otis Hensley, a local politician, saw two girls with their grandmother at a grocery store in Harlan county.
After all, it is a local politician's dream: a way of raising money whilst letting a multinational company from Paris take the blame.
Mike Torode, a local politician with more than 25 years of experience, said the election speech he made was a political risk that backfired.
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His father, Amir Ismagulov, is the chairman of the board of directors at an industrial company and a local politician, according to Kazakh media reports.
Every local politician wants a TIF in his district, and developers are eager to contribute to campaigns in the hope of securing support for their projects.
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Dickie Pillager, the grammatically challenged local politician running for governor of Colorado in 2004's "Silver City, " bears more than a passing resemblance to the 43rd U.S. president.
Mr Danczuk said he was concerned about political interference as one of the suspects is a local politician who is "very well connected to the Sri Lankan president".
"You come here to see and be seen, " said Paul Polson, vice president of a local construction firm, before spotting a local politician and darting into the crowd.
Mr. Rana, a local politician, couldn't be reached for comment.
Given the rewards on offer for a successful local politician free money from the centre and the power to raise local taxes perhaps it is not surprising that local electoral politics has become mired in corruption.
After Tuesday's alleged immolation, an irate crowd of more than 100 people, including Buddhist monks, gathered outside a police station demanding that the alleged attacker be handed over, said a local politician, Sai Myint Maung.
The owner of Rana Plaza, local politician Sohel Rana, didn't obtain mandatory permits from the municipal agency that oversees building safety in the greater Dhaka area, said Sheikh Abdul Mannan, a senior official with the agency.
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Police also arrested three officers of the municipal agency that clears construction projects in the area, one police official, a building-material supplier, a local politician and a mediator who worked for the builders, Mr. Ballal said.
The attacks may also be part of an orchestrated flurry of activity, which has included the unusual kidnapping of two Italian tour guides, plus a local politician, in the eastern state of Orissa in recent days.
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Furthermore, the central government continues to try to undermine the provincial administrations and destabilise their security: for instance, it plans to carve up West Papua (formerly called Irian Jaya) into three parts, and recently sent the army's special forces back to the province, even though they had been implicated in the murder of a local separatist politician.
This cause found a natural champion in Congress (what politician loves his local paper?).
The Bennetts say they have not been contacted by either their local MP or any other politician since the incident.
The seat was held by local Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) politician Raza Haider, who was murdered in August.
Betsy Stockard, a local councilwoman who was the first black politician to ask the school district to lighten up, changed her mind after seeing the video.
Lastly, many a politician is on the board of the local mutual and finds it an obvious way to dispense patronage.
Today, Europe's Islamising towns lie somewhere between those two poles and every politician in Europe, whether national or local, should think about how to discourage restriction and encourage freedom.
Proposed increases to benefits in Guernsey are not enough to meet the needs of local people in the long term, according to one politician.
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She was neither a professional politician nor associated with the all-powerful local Labour party that had chosen the disgraced MacShane and packs the local council with its members.
Earlier this month U.S President Barack Obama imposed economic sanctions on seven suspected foreign drug lords, including two Kenyans-John Harun Mwau, a prominent politician, and Naima Mohamed Nyakiniywa, a local businesswoman.
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Local anger was most famously mobilised in the Ogoni area by opposition politician Ken Saro-Wiwa, but in all parts of the Delta protesters have blocked access roads, occupied production platforms and-on occasion-sabotaged pipelines.
Like Mr Taylor, they wanted to make it easier for, say, a pro-choice group to run an ad attacking a pro-life politician, or for a gun club to buy a local radio spot supporting a congressman who shoots things.
ML-Nawaz politician in Peshawar, offered another example of the importance of local politics.
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