Does the Church pay local council tax?

With tax revenues collapsing due to falling home prices and incomes, dozens of US municipalities could well go into receivership, as New York City did in the 1970 s.

State and municipal finances are in even worse shape.

Much of the anger at the consequences of gentrification is aimed at local councils.

Why did Ortega decide to steal the municipal elections, despite the risks this fraud has imposed on his government?

Even the Mexican municipal authorities of Tlahuitoltepec would be subject to paying a required royalty to the French government, according to the coverage

The White Building was originally called the Municipal Apartments and was inaugurated in 1963 as a low cost housing complex.

Moreover, the recent municipal elections in Iran have shown that betting on diplomacy and a transformation of Iran from within is a realistic option.

All the same, this municipal election should be looked upon as a giant first step in the arduous journey toward Saudi democracy.

Some areas of the Tarlabasi neighbourhood in Istanbul are undergoing aggressive redevelopment, while others are being being deliberately neglected by municipal officials.

The threat to family assets that follows in the wake of the motorway, they say, has been ignored by the municipality's authorities.

The Bush administration praised Saudi Arabia s municipal elections, but what about the rights of women including their voting rights?

By the standards of Western, and even emerging Third World democracies, the Saudi municipal elections are an extremely modest affair.

US municipal bonds are already trading at huge risk premia, and the first big government default hasn t even hit yet.

After a complain has been filed, the system gives several days for the authorities to react (corresponding municipality departments are registered as users in the system).

Renamo, which has been pushing for electoral reforms, had already said that it would boycott municipal elections due in November.

As an example he cited the law that makes regional and municipal authorities responsible for interethnic peace on their territory.

One such community is the Zoque people of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca state, who took to their online blog to reject the municipal authorities and political parties present in the region and announce the creation of a Community Committee with the aim of defending shared territory and natural resources Our Committee has been created as a result of the alarm and concern we have experienced given the way in which our own local and municipal authorities have sold out to the government of Oaxaca.

Municipal councils in Bayda, Darna, and Tobruk have pledged their support for the TNC, and fighters who battled American forces in Iraq have lined up behind the body s military leaders.

Japanese youth achieve the age of majority at age 20, and are feted each January across the country at ceremonies hosted by municipal governments.

Hundreds of Israeli peace supporters, along with some international activists, have joined evicted Palestinians to protest the actions of these radical settlers, which have been supported by municipal and government officials.

In Japan, municipalities play an important role in overseeing and administering family law, which includes marriage, domestic partnership, adoption and fostering.

In November of the same year, in response to the community's explicit request, the Superior Court of Mexico's Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary cancelled municipal elections in Cherán, which opened the doors to autonomous consultation within the community.

As of September 16, 2013, the Transit, Public Services and Citizenship Municipal Authority, known in Portuguese by its acronym AMC, will begin the implementation of a bike lane on Ana Bilhar street, a few blocks from the beach in the Meireles district.

In a rare move, the country's veteran President Emomali Rakhmon began his morning with a phone call to Dilshod to congratulate him, while municipal officials in several cities hung up huge banners bearing an image of Dilshod s smiling face with the country s flag wrapped around his neck.

And in the absence of any mechanism for rent controls, there is little that councillors can do when an area becomes desirable and private renting costs start to spiral.

33. Welcomes the recent holding of peaceful municipal elections in Kosovo, which is a landmark in the democratic development of Kosovo and in the implementation of Council resolution 1244 (1999), and commends in this regard the support by all parties of the efforts of the Mission