Local governments are particularly desperate. They have huge debts, which they amortize by rezoning and selling land.

Local governments are particularly desperate.

At the local elections held in June, the PRM did poorly.

Highly leveraged local governments could not tolerate higher interest rates or an appreciating currency, and they were adamant about continuing land sales and opposing property taxes.

The Ahmadinejad government s popularity has plummeted, as evidenced by recent local election results.

China s large state sector (which accounts for more than 30 of GDP) is usually careless about losses, owing to the soft budget constraints under which they operate.

Local governments are equally careless, often failing to service their debts.

This type of occurrence where local channels of law and order enact repression against bloggers is fairly commonplace.

But the pressures on local government officials to deliver economic growth and jobs will be enormous. They will be sorely tempted to argue that if America cannot afford to produce in a way that preserves our planet, how can we?

But the pressures on local government officials to deliver economic growth and jobs will be enormous.

Additionally, local elections are usually held on the first Thursday in May.

China's modest experiments with local elections have been supplemented by exercises in deliberative democracy.

Marrickville Council has a strong commitment to combating climate change, with programs aimed at cutting emissions.

Others argue that China s government is simply losing its grip over local authorities.

For example, as their tax revenues plummet, state and local governments are in the process of cutting back their expenditures.

Bloggers in Saudi Arabia have also been vociferous in condemning the local government, as we hear in this post.

On January 27, the Marrickville Council, a city in New South Wales, voted to offload its investments in fossil fuels.

We have 81 units of local government.

It has been exploring new ways of delivering aid, sometimes using state and local governments where that appears more effective.

Gradually, local elections spread to nearly every village and a simple decentralized system of checks and balances between the village committee chief and the village assembly was established.

In addition to ordinary citizens, the platform is also being using by local authorities, who can use it to monitor the work of their contractors and to react to serious reports efficiently and directly.

Several major cities and many local governments around the world do not permit circuses with wild animals. Last year, Bolivia became the first country to ban all animals, wild or domestic, from circuses.

In the last six months, there have been national elections in Lebanon and local elections in Saudi Arabia.

Several major cities and many local governments around the world do not permit circuses with wild animals.

Specialized authorities

Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.

The central government is in charge of national or systemic interests, deploying legal, regulatory, and broad monetary and fiscal policies to achieve its ends. But the state interacts with private enterprises, individuals, and civil society mainly through local governments and local offices of national regulatory agencies.

Some Romanian refugees were already candidates for the local elections, praised for their hard work and honesty.

Local authorities came up with the creative approach of deploying snow plows around the area, which coincidentally blocked the view from the street.

Are you from around here?

Practice shows that local levels of government provide the most efficient water management, even if regulations must necessarily be national in scope.

MANAGUA Like thousands of Nicaraguans, I voted for Managua s mayor in local elections last November.

But the stolen local elections that took place last autumn have set the country back 50 years, to the time of the Somoza dictatorship.

2015 is a year in which Mexicans go to the polls in local and federal elections, and political pressure and interests have already begun to manifest themselves.

Residents are appealing for the support of the public to pressure authorities to allow the shipment of the rest of the wood into their community.

Are the East Midlands really an appropriate unit of self government?

These zones have no form of local government.

Local Crowdsourcing Initiatives

They don't belong here.

We're not from around here.

The natives are very hospitable.

Aren't you from here?

The blog says that the local security services should investigate this possibility and hopes that the tragedy in Norway has alerted everyone to the danger of right wing extremism.

It's called sheep's organs.

While the Bush Administration remains skeptical about the science behind such projections, some state and local governments are enacting measures to cut CO2 emissions.