Sentences with phrase «from rural counties»

Helman overcame the challenge through her tireless efforts, which included reaching out to solicit donations from rural counties that typically had only received donations, resulting in the United Way surpassing its fundraising goal of $ 1.8 million last year.

Thus the system does not have a great effect on the partisan composition of the Storting, but does result in more MPs coming from rural counties.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

Not exact matches

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

But, according to new data from Moody's Analytics which analyzed housing prices in over 3,000 counties across the US, housing markets in some rural areas of the country might see a small boost.

Total property taxes in Madison County range from 36.5 mills (a mill is 1 / 10th of a percent) in rural areas (those that are not a part of any municipality) to 58 mills in Huntsville.

Actual property tax rates in the county are based on assessed value (10 % of market value), with millage rates ranging from 28 in rural areas of district 1 up to 43 in the city of Fairhope.

Property tax rates range from 39 mills in rural areas in the northern part of the county up to 51.5 mills in Anniston.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

The community I call Corinth, 1 the town in which I spent my sabbatical year, has changed during the last thirty years from a rural, rather backward county seat town into a satellite community for a large metropolitan area.

However, now living in a very rural environment where county law enforcement is 40 minutes away, and we rely on officers from another county, city, or state (hopefully they are available) in an emergency, I advocate sensible firearms possession for the sake of protection of personal protection, livestock, and hunting.

Napa County may toughen code enforcement for wineries with «wall of shame»: Napa County is looking for ways to make certain the rules it painstakingly crafts, from visitation caps for individual wineries to a ban on rural short - term vacation rentals, are actually followed...

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

With the Democratic Rural Conference straw poll just three days away, AG hopeful Eric Dinallo announced he has secured yet another endorsement from an upstate county chairman, bringing his tally to 21.

My friend George in Clarence, a very pretty rural Erie County suburb a score of miles from downtown Buffalo, says his town is the kind of place where one uses a gallon of gas to go get a gallon of milk.

«I'm fairly confident when they hear from the people of Erie County, they're going to change their tune because they're going to realize the majority of people in Erie Count, y including people that live in their districts, even Republican, rural districts, support the proposal that we'll be putting forth.»

Lawmakers voted to have Rural Law Center handle appeals from people who can't afford their own lawyer at $ 2,250 per case, which is lower than what it's been costing the county to hire local lawyers

«Because you have a lot of judges... you have city court judges, county court judges, village, town judges throughout the state... many are rural and some may not want to take someone's hunting rifle away from them.»

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

The City of Buffalo and Erie County say they have received assurances from Rural Metro Services that ambulance service won't be interrupted even though the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership was recently awarded Rural Development Funds from USDA in an effort to stimulate small business growth throughout Saratoga County.

He's the top elected leader in one of New York's more affluent counties, where a mix of high - tech industries, rural charm and proximity to New York City generally have shielded it from the economic stagnation still plaguing many upstate counties.

Many of the chairs — from less populous, more rural counties — appreciated Dinallo's pledge to post an assistant attorney general in every county.

Lifestyles range from vibrant urban and suburban communities in the southern and western parts of the County to the quiet, pastoral settings of our northern and eastern rural communities.

Hoosick Falls is located about 30 miles from the state Capitol, not far from the Vermont border in rural Rensselaer County.

«In our hearing, from chiefs of police from all over Erie County, first ring suburbs to the rural about the issues that they have had tracking down stolen property, the issues they have had dealing with the problems of addiction and by passing this law today, we are not only protecting our citizenry, but we are ensuring that we are doing it in a comprehensive manner,» Savage said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told a room full of Democrats from rural Upstate counties that President Donald Trump, who «literally lives in a gold - adorned apartment,» won support from working - class voters here by mentioning two simple themes:

The area from which the cases of cardiac arrests were drawn is a collection of urban, suburban and rural counties that account for approximately a quarter of North Carolina's population but included all EMS agencies.

The growth effect from quality of life and human capital is more pronounced in rural — nonmetro — counties, the researchers said.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

In a study of how recent Chinese imports affected the U.S. labor force, the researchers found that counties with higher rates of self - employment suffered fewer negative effects, such as reduced job growth, from increased imports than counties with lower self - employment rates, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

It was mid-July, and Sam Comfort was teetering at the top of a 20 - foot ladder, desperately trying to extract a cluster of furious honeybees from a squirrel house in rural Dutchess County, New York.

The researchers report long - term outcomes from the Qidong Hepatitis B intervention Study (QHBIS), a randomized controlled trial of neonatal HBV vaccination that was conducted between 1983 and 1990 in Qidong County, a rural area in China with a high incidence of HBV - related primary liver cancer (PLC) and other liver diseases.

Using data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Multiple - Cause of Death Files (2006 - 2015), US Census Bureau, US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, the study modeled associations between county - level drug - related mortality rates and economic, social, and healthcare environments.

Thus, the study population included all out - of - hospital cardiac arrests from 11 counties in North Carolina (Camden, Catawba, Durham, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Transylvania, Wake, and Warren), covering a total population of approximately 2.7 million inhabitants (30 % of the state's total population), with demographics varying from urban to rural areas served by 11 EMS agencies.

This has to do with studies finding that 20 % of rural counties in the United States live 10 miles or more from a grocery store.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog I am from rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania where I spent the majority of my childhood drawing unicorns and being chased by my best friend's pet goats.

They have worked with local landowner Nick Lear with support from the Leader scheme and East Sussex County Council rural development funding to bring the idea to life.

Set in the fictional location of Hope County, Montana, USA, the plot follows an unknown sherrif's deputy as they attempt to wrest control of the region back from the dangerous cult that has taken over this section of rural America.

The festival will open with the acclaimed Pilgrim Hill, winner of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh, which beautifully evokes a tale of tough rural life in North Kerry, and will provide audiences throughout the county with unforgettable experiences in film, from unique musical accompaniments to an inflatable cinema!

They are also growing in inner - ring suburbs and rural areas, from Montgomery County in suburban Washington, D.C., to Broome County, N.Y., in rural upstate New York.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.

Representatives from local Kern County school districts, including Arvin and Vineland, joined the Dolores Huerta Foundation and California Rural Legal Assistance in a media briefing and roundtable.

As superintendent of Cross County School District in Cherry Valley, Ark., McClure implemented a school turnaround program focused on the whole child that transformed all the schools in his rural district from School Improvement Status to successful schools that prioritize teaching standards that are relevant to students and have a real - world connection.

Located in the rural countryside of Harford County, Dublin Elementary services approximately 260 students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grades.

His experiences range from working in rural settings to urban schools with varying socioeconomic statuses and academic performances, including the North Montgomery School Corporation in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and the Vigo County School Corporation in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Today, Catholic educators in the archdiocese serve more than 67,000 students from Pre-K to twelfth grade in rural, urban and suburban settings throughout the ten southern counties of New York State.

Year - over-year pay cuts were found across urban and rural counties and ranged from 2 percent in metropolitan counties, 3.4 percent in micropolitan counties, and 3 percent in rural counties.

By 1947, school boards from 29 counties were participating and the name was changed to Michigan Rural School Boards Association.