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...He also tended to see more support in rural counties versus large metro areas, reminiscent of his voter base in 2020....
...England and Wales have just voted for a bewildering mosaic of 10 metro-mayors, 37 police and crime commissioners and 2,636 local councillors....
...But the county is struggling to retain young people. “When another agency or government offers them $1 more to work for them they’re gone,” Turner said....
...Among other groups that announced PAFDs in local government and state media last year were Wuhan Urban Construction Investment & Development Group, PowerChina Equipment Group and Wuhan Metro, as well as...
...of Tyne metro-mayoralty, which has since expanded to the new North-East mayoralty....
...In its lawsuit, New Jersey accused New York of setting aside funds for areas affected by the scheme in its state while neglecting nearby counties....
...The county’s economic development agency was split on whether Amazon’s threat was credible. “We’ve got a metro area population of a million,” said board member Jay Popli....
...The agreement will include provision for a regional champion, who will speak on behalf of an area of 2mn people, including Newcastle, Northumberland, County Durham, Gateshead and Sunderland....
...But Dickie wants the campaign — aimed at attracting people from home counties and other areas — to be expanded....
...Elsewhere, Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic will give remarks before the Metro Atlanta Chamber....
...The justice department’s inquiry, which will also examine the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro government, is known as a “pattern or practice” investigation....
...With those conditions, Tim Oliver, chair of the County Councils Network, said the commitment to county devolution deals could be “a game-changer”....
...The first marked outcome from the white paper is expected to be further devolution in England via the creation of several directly elected “county mayors”....
...It seems likely that we will see some reorganisation: with more power given regionally, through new metro and county mayors, but not locally....
...It has taken Jefferson County in Alabama, for instance, decades to ensure equal employment opportunities and remedy past discrimination....
...Most of the large conurbations now have enhanced “Metro” authorities and a directly elected mayor, but not all. Nottingham-Derby, Southampton-Portsmouth and Yorkshire would all benefit....
...More mayors are expected — especially at county level — but there seems to be less appetite for giving the existing metro-mayors significant extra powers to shape policy for their region....
...Fifty-two per cent of all counties had smaller populations in 2020 than in 2010, with the declines concentrated in the smallest-sized counties, while growth was concentrated mainly in metro areas, notably...
...First, Cumbria is poised to undergo local government reform, with its county and district councils replaced by two unitary authorities....
...The party’s progress under Starmer will be tested across a range of elections, from city and metro mayor contests, to rural county council seats, the London assembly, police and crime commissioners, not...
...A crowd grew outside the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis ahead of the announcement....
...According to change of address forms filed with the US Postal Service, more than 7m households moved to a different county in 2020, half a million more than the previous year....
...Just one polling station was open on Tuesday in each of Kentucky’s two largest counties, Jefferson and Fayette, which have high concentrations of black voters....
...In December, Amazon was granted a request by Jefferson County officials to change the timing on the lights to allow cars to leave more quickly, a move the company said was unrelated to the union effort and...
...US founding thinker Thomas Jefferson set out the right objective for any government, writing that “the care of human life and happiness . . . is the only legitimate object of good government.”...
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