Sentences with phrase «local citizens in»

In the 1990s, local citizens in Chaffee County began working in earnest with their Republican and Democratic lawmakers to gain a higher degree of protection for Browns Canyon.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

Even with the recent news of a local citizen in the US who launched a Kickstarter campaign to purchase her town's independent bookstore from its retiring owners, a bookstore closing due to the age and employment status of its proprietor isn't attention grabbing.

Not exact matches

Senator Johnson has been in some hot water with constituents and local media lately for failing to answer citizens» calls to hold listening sessions or meet with them, as other legislators around the country have.

Doctors told him that, to stay healthy, he needed to wear one of the ugly white filtration masks local citizens wear as long as he was in the country.

Tufekci, who has been following the use of Twitter and Facebook by people in Turkey for some time now, said that many Turkish citizens depend on social media as a news source because the local media is either censored by the government or otherwise unreliable.

Ancel Martinez, head of corporate communications at Wells Fargo, said the company is a «responsible corporate citizen and believes that it has fulfilled its obligations to federal, state, and local communities where we serve our customers» in an email.

He told The Tyee that local governments are currently the most progressive in Canada, and the ones closest to their citizens and taxpayers.

In regions like the Philippines and India, remittance service providers dominate their respective finance industries due to the lack of affordable and efficient banking systems that accommodate local residents and citizens.

If a non-US citizen wins a large prize, they will be responsible for some amount of tax, which in the end will probably be an amount similar to what a US citizen would pay, but there are so many possible variations with international tax codes that you'll need to consult with a local tax attorney if you need to know a precise amount of tax liability.

Oursay is using vConnect in Chennai to run India's first IVR based campaign to engage citizens in local governance.

Since state and local laws preventing corporate political expenditures will also likely be repealed as a result of Citizens United, small corporations may also become involved in state and local races through regional media.

In May, Beijing took steps to tighten control of local affiliates of major accounting firms by issuing a requirement for Chinese citizens to head those offices.

In fact, a group of local citizens have been working behind the scenes to try and forge an agreement for electoral cooperation to run a single progressive candidate.

And as a responsible corporate citizen, Saxo Bank contributes substantially to the Danish economy and supports a variety of local initiatives in education, entrepreneurship, sport and the arts.

The amount of federal taxes paid will go up for many, leaving less flexibility for local municipalities to raise taxes and or to sustain current rates in the face of citizens» resistance.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

New York Times columnist William Safire said that «although Big Gambling's largess is buying influence in Washington, D.C., Grey's outfit has helped local citizens» groups keep beating the casino interests in state after state.»

The Justice Department is making efforts to notify COINTELPRO victims, and under the Freedom of Information Act citizens may succeed in finding out about intelligence activity directed against them (a local ACLU office can help).

Every year the Queen marks Maundy by offering alms to senior citizens - retired pensioners recommended by clergy and ministers of all denominations - in recognition of service to the Church and to the local Community.

Local religious leaders have been invited to join local MPs and councillors at the Assembly, which is being held in partnership with CitizenLocal religious leaders have been invited to join local MPs and councillors at the Assembly, which is being held in partnership with Citizenlocal MPs and councillors at the Assembly, which is being held in partnership with Citizens UK.

A systematic effort to encourage church members to become involved in the activities of the local Mental Health Association, a citizens group which engages in educational and preventive programs on all three levels.

You get to see «regular citizens,» plus a smattering of the national elite journalists who swoop down to cover the locals, usually stopping in for an obligatory chowder or pie at some diner.

While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.

«However local sources, which remain anonymous for security reasons, said his arrest was linked to the publication of an article in which he inferred that the citizens of the CAR are being treated like slaves.»

In 1902, state and local governments spent $ 12.80 for each citizen within their confines; in 1970, they spent $ 646.20 — 50 times higheIn 1902, state and local governments spent $ 12.80 for each citizen within their confines; in 1970, they spent $ 646.20 — 50 times highein 1970, they spent $ 646.20 — 50 times higher.

In the Union of South Africa, where the government has limited the access in the black townships to FM radio (which covers a small area and can be controlled by the government), the development of small local newspapers has been one of the few ways black citizens can «talk» to one anotheIn the Union of South Africa, where the government has limited the access in the black townships to FM radio (which covers a small area and can be controlled by the government), the development of small local newspapers has been one of the few ways black citizens can «talk» to one anothein the black townships to FM radio (which covers a small area and can be controlled by the government), the development of small local newspapers has been one of the few ways black citizens can «talk» to one another.

Maria crossed the line using a «local passport,» the document issued by the INS to Mexican citizens who could prove their permanent residence in Mexico.

In overturning Colorado's prohibition of local civil rights statutes based on sexual preference, the Court in Romer v. Evans effectively branded a bigot any citizen who considers homosexuality immoraIn overturning Colorado's prohibition of local civil rights statutes based on sexual preference, the Court in Romer v. Evans effectively branded a bigot any citizen who considers homosexuality immorain Romer v. Evans effectively branded a bigot any citizen who considers homosexuality immoral.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

In Centesimus Annus 10, a 1991 letter to all local Catholic Churches, Pope John Paul II wrote «The State can not limit itself to «favoring one portion of the citizens,» namely the rich and prosperous, nor can it «neglect the other,» which clearly represents the majority of society.

When an ordinance is passed in your local state (California, in my case), do you think the legislators intend its citizens to understand the words of the regulations «in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory, free from exaggeration or distortion»?

G. Seek inclusion for local cable programmers, local public radio broadcasters, computer network operators and similar professionals operating in the public interest as members of training delegations going to developing nations in order to propagate the concept of a vigorous, involved public citizen movement.

(Citizens in a local community could use various levels of persuasion with the video store owner: consultation, letters to the local newspapers, appeals to the city council to make zoning changes, or stage actual public protests or a boycott.)

Much more needs to be done in building local and national citizen - action groups to make their presence felt in government in order to secure media that are responsive to the public interest, both locally and nationally.

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measureIn previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measurein the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

It was an open occasion, and among the local citizens and graduates who came in to hear the disputation was a young Dominican priest, destined to become Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge thirty - one years later.

A new retort pouch lets food processor FasoPro package a local protein source in the African nation of Burkina Faso so the food can be delivered throughout the year to help fight devastating malnutrition among its citizens.

Cat Green is a local community facilitator, who has been bringing The People's Food Plan to citizens all around South East Queensland in 2012 and 2013.

As with legislation at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in other words, to serve as «safety champions.»

Portage Park was created in 1913 by the Old Portage Park District, an independent park board formed by local citizens to enhance property values and improve their northwest side neighborhood.

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

She is a board member of Citizens for Midwifery and is active in local, statewide, and national birth and breastfeeding advocacy projects.

Chef Ann gives each parent and citizen a challenge: Eat lunch in your local school and be objective... is this food that your kids are eating actually GOOD?

However, recent reports suggest that thousands of EU citizens living in the UK have been mistakenly sent polling cards by local authorities.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

In my most recently published paper «Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistributioIn my most recently published paper «Post-war voters as fiscal liberals: local elections, spending, and war trauma in contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistributioin contemporary Croatia», co-authored with Professor Josip Glaurdić from the University of Luxemburg, we attempt to provide an answer to these questions in the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistributioin the context of a post-conflict society in which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistributioin which we examine how the impact of war affects citizens» preferences towards redistribution.

For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.