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...Monetary policy: New vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, Philip Jefferson, will speak on the economic outlook today and Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan will address a convention....
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...It boasts three acres of private beach and two clay tennis courts....
...Harris County, home to Houston and the third most populous county in the US, was 63 per cent “Anglo” in 1980, according to Klineberg....
...Mr Hawley could pull ahead if angry Trump supporters are inspired to turn out in protest at the ugly battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh....
...In the deep red state, Utah, Republican Mia Love is struggling against the popular mayor of Salt Lake County, Ben McAdams....
...We lived through Jefferson County and Alabama. It is important to know what is going on but you have to look at Puerto Rico . . . at the micro level.”...
...They went for Tuesday because it could take people a day to get to their polling place, usually a county seat, and churchgoing citizens did not want to have their Sundays disrupted....
...His other profession adds to his presidential stature, as it did with Jefferson....
...Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten Declaration of Independence and one of the original Bill of Rights are on loan to the UK for the first time....
...A related ruling in the US’s second-biggest municipal bankruptcy, in Alabama’s Jefferson County, similarly eased bondholders’ bankruptcy burden by holding that future ratepayers and future taxpayers could...
...The county hopes to exit bankruptcy by December. Jefferson county’s bankruptcy supplanted Orange County, California, as the largest municipal bankruptcy....
...But bondholders should know this by now (Jefferson County, Alabama and San Bernardino, California, have already threatened them with losses.) The bigger issue is Calpers....
...In a world of secret courts, surveillance and other abuses, the Magna Carta offers hope....
...counties, surrounding Denver — and within those counties the key demographic group is independent women....
...Jefferson County, Alabama, last year filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in terms of debt. But fears of sweeping local failures have yet to materialise....
...In court documents, Jefferson County listed Bayerische Landesbank and JPMorgan as its largest creditors, with both owed $52m in general obligation debt....
...A special tax that might have dug the county out of its hole was struck down by courts, and local politicians balked at hefty additional increases in sewer rates to cover the shortfall....
...County, Alabama....
...Jefferson County in Alabama, home to Birmingham, on Friday agreed to the framework for a settlement with creditors owed $3.14bn of debt, averting an imminent filing of the largest municipal bankruptcy in...
...Jefferson County’s troubles began during the financial crisis when costs on the sewer debt soared....
...This year, Central Falls, Rhode Island, filed for bankruptcy and Jefferson County, home to the city of Birmingham in Alabama, repeatedly threatened bankruptcy, but has agreed on a tentative settlement with...
...The filing also comes as Jefferson County, home to the city of Birmingham in Alabama, is negotiating with its bondholders to avert an imminent bankruptcy....
...The Supreme Court of the state of Alabama ruled on Friday that Jefferson County can sue JPMorgan and two former employees for fraud over debt arranged to revamp the local sewers, according to court documents...
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