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...Councils have lost 24 per cent of their core spending power in that time, according to the Local Government Association, the representative body covering county and district councils, metropolitan and unitary...
...A rail freight bridge in the city — along with another in El Paso — was closed in mid December to free up border patrol officers for redeployment elsewhere....
...Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, said her office would this week ask the judge to set a trial date within the next six months....
...The picture that inspired Scott’s post-Katrina rethink also hangs in Walmart’s emergency operations centre, the windowless bunker from which Walmart co-ordinated its response to a shooting in El Paso, riots...
...El Paso to San Antonio....
...Violence against black women can no longer be brushed aside, says Yousra Elbagir....
...“There have been no austerity policies in our health service,” Spahn says. “Apart from a small dip in 2008-09, spending has been rising steadily every year for 15 years.”...
...The El Paso shooting on Saturday, which killed 22 people, was the third this year linked to anonymous message board 8chan....
...From 2004 to 2010, she was district attorney of the city and county of San Francisco....
...Counties sit above districts, which provide planning, street cleaning and rubbish collection....
...One of the town’s zip codes, 06831, ranked the 65th-wealthiest district in the country in 2010, had slipped 300 places by last year with the median sales price dropping from $1.1m to $895,000 over the same...
...There is no blood bank....
...Lord Smith added in a separate interview: “I will apologise for probably not having done enough to twist arms with county councils, district councils, drainage boards and others in order to come to the table...
...But there are no signs talks are under way. Ed Emmett is a Republican county judge in Harris County, which has a population of 4.2m....
...districts in the country....
...“There’s no question that the continuing lack of electrical service is jeopardising the health and safety of people living in affected areas during this cold snap,” he said....
...The county has $1.35bn in outstanding debt....
...Relæ sits in Copenhagen’s gentrifying but still colourful Nørrebro district, in the northwest of the city....
...“My answer is ‘yes’ – 1,000 times more than I would have expected.”...
...On average, 31 per cent of counties’ revenue comes from states. For school districts, which raise money with munis, that figure is 53 per cent on average, Wells Fargo research shows....
...Bryggen, Bergen’s medieval harbour district, is a miraculous survivor of the days when fortunes were made in timber, tar and cod....
...A recent article in the New Yorker, for example, showed how McAllen, Texas is spending twice as much as El Paso County – not because people in McAllen are sicker and not because they are getting better care...
...About 1,600 houses have been destroyed by the fires, which have burnt almost 700 square miles across the state, putting huge pressure on fire departments in San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles county...
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