The case in Armour involves the constitutional duty of local governments to treat taxpayers equally.
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Clean water is the responsibility of local governments, while various federal agencies inspect food.
Does the state legislature have a just and reasonable cause for drastically limiting the authority of local governments.
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The policy-induced property slowdown is stressing the finances of local governments, which rely on land sales for revenue.
It thereby undercut the main funding source of local governments, especially school districts.
Sendai joined 20 other cities throughout Japan last year to become a member of Local Governments for Sustainability ( ICLEI).
The task of alleviating poverty in Mpumalanga would challenge the most able of local governments, a luxury the province has long lacked.
The Cuomo administration said the vast majority of local governments and school districts have stayed within the cap when drafting their budgets.
This month a Shanghai banking regulator disclosed that the Ministry of Finance is drafting rules to control the financing subsidiaries of local governments.
But Fitch thinks that ratio is already closer to 6%, on a less forgiving view of loans to the financing vehicles of local governments.
One is in a case about the limits of the power of local governments to condemn property when the local governments are trying to pursue a redevelopment project.
Flag Chief Executive Paul Kanavos warned him that hotel development in the Caribbean is risky, often hinging on the whims of local governments, recalls Mr. Sillerman.
Uber, mobile car service app platform, has clashed with a number of local governments, including Washington, that have tried to regulate or restrict the service.
Meanwhile, Barclays warns that Beijing will need to curb the investment enthusiasm of local governments, as two thirds of them have set 10%-plus growth targets for 2013.
In the e-mail they proposed that leaders of local governments commit to dedicating half of their street and place signs to notable women from Italy and around the world.
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The negative municipal bond narrative is based on the potential inability of local governments (mostly towns and cities) to make interest payments because of declining revenues and severe budget cuts.
And what we don't have is a clear definition of who is responsible in a time of a disaster, that reaches beyond the ability of local governments to react to.
While infrastructure lending expanded aggressively in the first quarter, Beijing has repeatedly flagged the need to bring the finances of local governments, which are largely responsible for such projects, under control.
This central state tax collector is supposed to act on behalf of all the cities and towns in its jurisdiction, sparing a business the horrors of dealing with thousands of local governments.
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Meanwhile, the National Association of Counties, which represents two-thirds of the nation's counties, passed a motion last week asserting the right of local governments to require cable companies to provide open access.
Back in the buccaneering 1970s, cable systems would twist the arms of local governments with whom they were negotiating rates by cutting all programming, and screening instead the officials' names and addresses.
The EPA's position was supported in its suit by 12 states (California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington), a number of local governments and environmental organizations.
As tax revenues have fallen over the past three years of recession, and austerity became the default policy of local governments, the public sector has been steadily hemorrhaging employees and cutting back on services.
Similar plans already in place or being proposed across the country could be in danger as a result of the ruling, which would sharply limit the power of local governments to achieve diversity using race-based criteria.
One of the most important inputs to the production of broadband networks is rights of way permission to dig up public streets and attach cables to public utility poles which in most cases are under the control of local governments.
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So, a lot of these side deals that conservatives are attaching to immigration reform, to make the immigration reform acceptable to conservatives, look like they might unravel in the next few years, as a lot of local governments find them too onerous.
Ryan's program has helped more than 80, 000 families since it started, and it has earned the trust of local governments: While some of its annual budget comes from individual and corporate donations, more than half of it comes from city and state grants.
Miner and other mayors outside New York City and around the state have been urging the Cuomo administration for months to provide relief from state-mandated costs and laws that drive up the cost of local governments to levels they say taxpayers can no longer afford.
With the help of many local governments, "A Liter of Light" and its collaborators have installed 12, 000 solar bottle bulbs, lighting 10, 000 homes in five Filipino provinces.
If the current law is amended, though, enforcement will be in the hands of the local governments, said Mario Lap, a drug policy advisor and the director of the Amsterdam-based Drugtext Foundation.
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