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...Hunt is also likely to set out how other metro mayors, such as those for West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Tees Valley, could take on greater powers in areas such as education, housing and transport through...
...In May, voters across England will elect 10 metro mayors, the most to date. By May 3 roughly 26mn people, or 44 per cent of the English population, will be presided over by a mayor....
...Travers said the new fund marked a departure from previous strategies, like the Cities Growth Commission, which focused on creating city region — or “metro” — centres as drivers of economic growth....
...“If metro mayors were given a genuine choice between HS2 and say half its cost — let’s say £50bn, to be spent on their priorities, such as trams, subways maybe even some roads, it is very hard to imagine...
...Local leadership was crucial to any longer-term regeneration, he added, with the addition of metro mayors to some regions, including South Yorkshire, “of huge benefit”....
Greater Manchester and the West Midlands take control of transport, housing and skills in Budget move
...Other metro mayors instead oversee smaller combined authorities comprising the leaders of their local councils....
...In 2017, Street and Burnham became the first directly elected “metro” mayors of England’s two biggest cities outside London....
...While I welcome the principle of devolution to metro mayors the model introduced after 2015 did not include robust local audit plans....
...The new oversight mechanism placates two groups, as Jennifer explains in greater detail in this Twitter thread....
...Jennifer Ezring has returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner in its banking practice, based in New York. She joins from Cahill....
...Research published in June by the Institute for Government into the impact of metro mayors, who during the past five years have been elected to represent nine city regions in England, formed a similar conclusion...
...In London, where Sadiq Khan is probably the most vulnerable Labour incumbent among the metro-mayors, the party had failed to attract a big name candidate even before the enforced exit of one of their number...
...Elsewhere, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic will give remarks before the Metro Atlanta Chamber....
...Metro mayors outside London, where services are deregulated almost everywhere, had raised concerns about a “cliff edge” looming for services in October, particularly in rural and deprived areas, should subsidy...
...The suburbs around the big metro areas of Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio have soaked up most of the new arrivals and that is where the fight for the future of the state is playing out....
...Hawksbee at Onward says that “the green economy is not going to generate the same level of medium-level and technical jobs that industry did a century ago,” meaning many people will still need to get on the Metro...
...Oiled by free-flowing pints and performances from Liverpudlian, Mancunian and Irish singers, metro mayors Andy Burnham of Greater Manchester and Steve Rotheram of Liverpool headed England’s first-ever mayoral-led...
...Companies due to report include Petrobras, Danone, Heathrow airport, Metro Bank, Rio Tinto, Aston Martin Lagonda and eBay....
...Metro mayors in England and local authorities have been reluctant to greatly inconvenience motorists....
...His Grameen Bank has foreign supporters ranging from Hillary Clinton to Jennifer Lopez....
...The accident happened on Line 12, the newest metro line, in the south of the capital....
...(FT) Earnings round-up Booking, Lowe’s Companies, Royal Bank of Canada, Lloyds, Metro Bank, Nvidia Corp, William Hill and Petrofac are set to report....
...Jennifer Granholm: A former governor of Michigan who advised both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on energy policy, Ms Granholm has been repeatedly tipped as a possible candidate for energy secretary....
...(FT) You get what you pay for Intuit’s $7.1bn bet on Credit Karma, the fintech company that gives consumers their credit scores for free, says a lot about debt-laden Americans, writes the FT’s Jennifer...
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