Sentences with phrase «far more local governments»

Rural areas have far more local governments and far more elected officials per capita than urban areas.

Not exact matches

Too often, local governments apply a bandage to problems that require more far - reaching solutions — including those involving pensions, bonds and labor issues, among others.

With the theme «PGS: securing market access of small organic farmers in the Philippines», the general assembly aimed to further strengthen the alliance and inspire more organizations and local governments to take up organic agriculture and PGS.

If there are to be future negotiations between Westminster and regional or local governments, they need to be more open, inclusive, and honest than the Scottish independence debate has been thus far.

The electorate of any constituency was to be as close as possible to a country - specific electoral quota to reduce malapportionment; where rigid adherence to the «as far as practicable» guidelines would mean a large disparity between electorates, the commissions were expressly empowered to form seats which combine parts of two (and where major disparity still remains, more) local government areas.

Challenging a Clarkson University study that revealed proximity to lands classified as Wilderness generates up to a 25 percent premium on property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between Wilderness classification and economic benefit is far more nuanced.

Further, her call for a state takeover of far more of the cost of public schools may yet resonate with New Yorkers as they begin to feel the impact of cuts in staff and services to schools and local governments, experts said.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

2.30 pm Local Government: Spare room subsidy cut is saving far more than thought as many come off benefits altogether

Political activity is far more «professional» at the local government level in urban areas where there are far fewer governments and far fewer elected officials per capita, and a far greater supply of people with higher education and high level managerial and professional work experience.

As a result, far more rural people have run for elective office or held an elective office or know someone who has done so, and rural people have far more influence in a direct democracy manner over their local governments than people in urban areas.

The former NSA further said, «We utilized some of these equipment to recover more than 22 local governments under Boko Haram terrorists and ensured that Shekau did not disrupt the 2015 election as he had threatened.

Challenging a study that ties Wilderness classification to a 25 percent increase in property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between classification and land value is far more nuanced more

Challenging a study that ties Wilderness classification to a 25 percent increase in property values, the Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board says the connection between classification and land value is far more nuanced

But hopefully there'll be further expunging of corruption in our local government until Clarkstown has leadership by honest citizens who are more concerned with the welfare of its residents than they are with themselves and their personal gain.

The government decides to close District 9 and move the alien population to a more «suitable» (read: far from the city) site where the locals don't have to look at them anymore.

NEA members alone make up more than half of union members working for local governments, by far the most unionized segment of the U.S. economy.

Last week's annual Gallup poll on education repeated a frequent finding: Comfortable majorities of Americans agree local school boards should have far more control over what schools teach than state or federal governments.

New figures have cast further doubt on the government's assertion that becoming an academy improves schools — revealing inadequate schools have more chance of improving by staying under local authority control.

That federal funding shortfall, which has persisted over the past forty years (last year, the federal government only funded 15.7 percent of the excess cost of educating students with special needs, far short of the promised 40 percent), has been passed down to states and local school districts that are required to comply with strict federal requirements related to serving students with special needs — and must shoulder more than 80 percent of the cost of doing so.

It's silly, but it's obviously far more lucrative for the reform movement to perpetuate this anger rather than turning it inward and having parents focus on their kids, their kid's schools, their local government and community.

Echoing an important point raised by the NPC Law Committee member, the local governments» debt raising should be further regulated so that the process can become more legalized and transparent.

While a state registry is far more likely to prevent past abusers from having access to animals than a local registry would be, our judgment is that a registry is best implemented by the federal government.

Unlike in Klong Prao where there is far more land available, and if the development of the island continues at the rate the government and local developers would like to see then it would Klong Prao will eventually morph into the main town on the island.

Things can get far more political at a local government level, says James Reid, a partner in the capital markets, M&A, corporate and energy practices at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.

Successive auditors general, as I've mentioned before, have observed that band councils or First Nations governments are required to do far more reporting than any local government is required to provide for continued funding.

Auditors General as far back as 1990 have pointed out that First Nations are required to do far more reporting (the major means of accountability) to the federal government than any local government is required to provide to funding branches of provincial governments.