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...One senior council official in a deprived northern area says that his authority’s bid to the first round of the levelling up fund in 2021 was more like a “thesis”, totalling more than 30,000 words, which...
...Instead, he was born in 1955 in Dingyuan county, in central Anhui province, to a family of lower-level local party officials....
...Daily transfers of migrants from Border Patrol to local officials have been as high as 1,800, says Mark Evans, communications director for Pima County. “December has been an exhausting month....
...Lord Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of Next and a Conservative peer, told a panel discussion in December that the planning system puts too much power “in the hands of people who already own” and that...
...In Doha in 2012, I met a senior official who had been trying to sleep on the floor of his delegation’s makeshift office by using a wad of crumpled photocopier paper as a pillow....
...Chart du jour: Packed European prisons are increasingly at capacity, according to a survey of 48 prison administrations in Council of Europe members....
...In some counties, as many as half of the students are educated privately despite higher fees....
...The warning also serves as a reality check for many in China and around the world hoping that Xi will end his hallmark zero-Covid policy....
...of the Cobb County Republicans....
...That is true not just of big wind and solar developments, which need permits from agencies ranging from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as state and county level...
...overspending on testing capacity have resulted in a shortage of resources....
...Xi made the two-day visit to Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the territory’s handover from Britain to China and to swear in John Lee as its new chief executive....
...Kitted out in company-branded hard hat and shirt, Toby Rice, chief executive of EQT, is in sales mode as he glad-hands dignitaries in the Pennsylvania sunshine....
...At the beginning of September, Jason Smith was optimistic about this autumn’s wine grape harvest at his vineyard in Monterey County, a fertile coastal region of California known for its abundant fruit and...
...In the rolling hills and mango groves of his boyhood county, he found peace. He also found a state safety net that, functioning at its best, can save lives....
...As Will Rogers presciently noted: ‘I’m not a member of any organised political party; I’m a Democrat.’” — Gail Berney, Duchess County, New York...
...chief executive of a company undertaking a lithium brine exploration project in Nevada....
...EQT, the US’s biggest producer, was in sales mode as it ferried foreign diplomats around Greene County, pitching American exports as the ideal replacement to Russian gas....
...Many state and local officials around the US have sought to balance containment of the pandemic with economic recovery, resulting in inconsistent public health policies from state to state and even county...
...He was a political activist who once stood as a candidate for the European parliament and as a Liberal Democrat for Oxfordshire county council....
...Lina Hidalgo, a Harris County judge and one of the Houston area’s top Democratic elected officials, was among the local leaders who sued over the past week to challenge Abbott’s executive order on masks....
...for the state of his country....
...US defence officials say they have capacity to fly out 5,000-9,000 people a day from the airport, but have managed only 2,000 a day....
...California raised a stay-at-home order at the end of January, and its most populous county, Los Angeles, has eased more business restrictions in recent weeks as a jump in cases has subsided....
...She saw that when the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she is executive director, recently put on a show for 60 people in its 425-seat theatre....
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