Sentences with phrase «local citizens with»

At Goldman & Associates law firm, our legal staff members have over 25 years of experience in assisting local citizens with filing various Michigan court forms.

While no one can explain the strange appearance of the two fiends, Heather's story on the nightly news casts doubts on the crime solving abilities of the five friends and leaves the local citizens with waning confidence.

At 10 a.m., local citizens with Central New York Citizen Action and Indivisible Mohawk Valley will hold a press event and rally outside Rep. Claudia Tenney's district office.

Not exact matches

Tanner's strongest claim as a citizen of Portland may be its myriad collaborations with like - minded local businesses.

The bill, passed on March 23, prevents local governments from passing any laws to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination, precluding a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed people to use public bathrooms based on the gender they identify with rather than the one on their birth certificate.

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.

The Republican lawmaker has been feuding with local media over his seven - year efforts to repeal Indiana laws that require citizens to have a permit to carry a handgun.

But, like many other nations, it suffers from «a failure of the state» begat by «bureaucracies at local, state, and national levels» that remain either too corrupt or too incompetent to supply citizens with decent public services.

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.

The high - flying balloons will allow citizens and local governments to establish contact with the outside world.

He worked with local businesses, citizens, government, realtors, and non-profits to revitalize southeast Charlotte, including the major public art project near East Mecklenburg High School, the Embrace sculpture.

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Laws requiring that businesses be largely owned and controlled by citizens had to be abolished, along with laws of any kind favoring local business.

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.

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

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

(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.)

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 measures.

To defend this somewhat surprising claim, Mahoney looks to Solzhenitsyn's personal observations of Switzerland's Appenzell region, whose citizens impressed him with their old «fashioned character and devotion to local liberty.

This three - day charity event, with funds dedicated to Michelle's Place Breast Cancer Resource Center, features live entertainment and «fun for funds» that aim to help the lives of local citizens facing cancer.

Though more often than not these days I would rather be watching Sunday leaguers slogging it out down at the local park for little more than the joy of the game and competition, I found myself fixated, along with millions of other world citizens, at the unfolding spectacle that is, and has become, El Clasico.

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.»

Connect with the local information and referral system (ask at a church, county welfare, a senior citizen center, food bank, etc..

The Concerned Citizens for the Wellness Policy is an organization with a database containing each local wellness policy within the state of North Carolina.

We are working to assist local officials and citizens with facing these challenges and achieving their goals through sustainable development.

Frontier Days is organized and run each year by the Arlington Heights Festival Committee, a large organization of volunteer citizens, with the cooperation of the Park District, the Village and a number of local businesses.

The organization also helps students from the local elementary school with homework as well as the senior citizens.

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.

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 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.

Where the big society is doomed to successive relaunches with diminishing impact, the Localism Bill will go some way in redefining the way citizens relate to their local authorities.

The Idea Summit is a fun, celebratory event that features the work of Champions for Change, explores what it means to translate ideas into action, and provides opportunities for community members to network with local experts, citizen planners, funders and other attendees.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Petitions are also commonly used by a number of parliaments (the UK parliamentary process is unfortunately particularly poorly designed) and local governments, providing citizens with the opportunity to petition their representatives to consider a particular matter.

However, we do recommend that you get involved with the Citizens Party at the local (precinct, town or county level) for a year or two before seeking a district leader position.

Many of the polystyrene and plastic bag laws began when a concerned citizen organized their neighbors and approached their local elected officials with a plan.

The watchdog group Citizens Budget Commission says the event comes in the final days of the legislative session, when over 50 bills have emerged that enhance benefits for state and local public employees, with a price tag of $ 140 million dollars.

I am just a private citizen with many friends and family in the local communities near my home in Salisbury Mills, NY.

It can saddle citizens with public debt via bonding, grant tax abatements, and over-ride local zoning regulations.

The Electoral Reform Society has therefore teamed up with a range of universities to set up two pilot citizens» assemblies, essentially mini-conventions, which will bring representative samples of the population in the Sheffield and Southampton areas to deliberate on and decide where power should lie at a local level.

Sanders supporters — the bulk of which are senior citizens and members of the local democratic clubs — outright refused to carry the petitions with Shirley Huntley's name on them.

Rachel Fauss, policy and research manager for Citizens Union, said in her testimony that the platform «would put New York City at the forefront nationally,» with the only similar known examples on the local level being Oakland and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

However, the civic relationship between citizens and local government has been complicated by ongoing decentralisation of the governance of England over the past two years — with the North of England most affected.

The transfer of some policy making traditionally associated with local government to combined authorities means that citizens are increasingly unclear about who is responsible for what, especially in terms of public service delivery in their local communities.

The Roehampton research argues the case for opening up opportunities for more ordinary, local citizens to work with governors and senior leaders in shaping governance.

A citizen from West Devon wanted to know whether the local authority could cope with an invasion by «Napoleon and his marauding hordes».

«For good local authorities who know their area and are in tune with their citizens, it offers a lot of opportunity to really develop local services that target the needs of their communities,» Evans says.

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.

In 2016 NLGN published All Together Now: Whole systems commissioning for councils and the voluntary sector, which concludes that raising the scoring for social value in the commissioning process could have a profound effect on how local government work with its partners and on the outcomes it is able to deliver for citizens.