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...Birmingham once pioneered a form of “municipal socialism” under Joseph Chamberlain in the 1870s and the city owned its own gas and water suppliers. Now, the council is deeply indebted....
...Parts of Hudson County — notably Hoboken and Jersey City, where shiny waterfront towers wink across the river at Manhattan — have been determined to flip the script....
...The costs of processing and supporting increasing volumes of people is straining municipal resources....
...Ukraine: Day of resistance to the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by Russia in 2014....
...Who Luxury Portfolio International, Windermere Real Estate Gold Beach, Oregon, $7mn Where In a clifftop location to the north of Gold Beach, a small city in Oregon’s Curry County....
...All creditor suits against Evergrande must be processed by a court in the southern city of Guangzhou, where there is already a backlog of 367 cases with claims totalling Rmb84bn....
...The Worcesters’ wreath charity shares its building with the municipal offices of Columbia Falls. In this sense, a city official from nearby tells me, “they literally own the town”....
...and county leaders....
...But somehow its posh food court, with six restaurants all vying for City custom, was quickly packed out — until, that is, the pandemic hit....
...The City of Miami is on the mainland. Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
..., won a seat on the Farmersville town board, a municipal council....
...Bolao is in Lingshan county, known as the “home of China’s snake breeders”....
...A court ruling last month named Nanchang, capital of the eastern province of Jiangxi, a defaulter after the city reneged on a payment of Rmb161m....
...Liviu Dragnea October 28 1962 Born in Gratia, Romania 1996 Enters politics as a city councillor and prefect of Teleorman county 2000-12 Head of Teleorman county council 2009 Becomes secretary-general...
...“When you go back to the professional municipal bond market, we lived through Detroit. We lived through Jefferson County and Alabama....
...Bruce McGuire, the president of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, was holding court at a cocktail reception at Greenwich harbour late last year when he spotted one of his security detail milling about...
...Last week, Illinois GO bonds traded at a record 335 basis points over the MMD index of AAA municipal bonds....
...In one of the ultimate signs of the divide between the haves and have-nots of the western US, the municipal government of East Palo Alto didn’t own the rights to draw more from the state’s water reserves...
...Many of the unions had agreed to the plans, but those which did not challenged the plans in Cook County Court, where they were first ruled unconstitutional....
...The lawsuits involve six municipal and county governments across the country....
...It also follows the resignation of municipal judge Ronald Brockmeyer, who the report said approved the creation of additional fees that were “widely considered abusive and may be unlawful”....
...a court of law if they fail to pay....
...The City also adopted through its democratic ward system and court hustings many aspects of Saxon civic practice....
...Trump warns, however, that the city’s high property taxes and bloated municipal government are strong deterrents to anyone looking to buy....
...The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has appealed the ruling, and the judge is scheduled to hear arguments on the challenge today....
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