The case in Armour involves the constitutional duty of local governments to treat taxpayers equally.
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Now Chen is saying the central government is usurping the power of local governments.
Clean water is the responsibility of local governments, while various federal agencies inspect food.
Local environmental bureaux are under the sway of local governments obsessed with economic growth.
Now in terms of local governments, what are they doing to deal with the Islamists?
And we must support the capacity of local governments and stand up to corruption that blocks progress.
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 party wants to take power away from the central bureaucracy, for example, and increase the power of local governments.
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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.
Mayors of cities and heads of local governments should be elected.
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.
It is certainly important to cope with immediate problems, but I want to see more fiscal reform - making the central government smaller, improving the accounts of local governments, reforming the tax system.
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.
Reports this week that Chinese banks have been told by their regulators to lend more to small businesses and less to the financing arms of local governments suggests that the truth is rather different.
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