Sentences with phrase «local debates about»

There has also been a lot of local debate about whether global activist funds will increasingly eye entering the Australian market.

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«As Nextdoor has become one of the places where neighbors talk about how to make their local communities better, it is natural for the issue of race to be discussed and debated,» Tolia writes in the post.

Generally there are a number of larger issues that will shape the larger debate, like (hopefully an end to the never ending debate about) the closure of the City Centre Airport or the financing of Daryl Katz «s downtown arena — but so much about municipal politics falls under the old adage «all politics is local.»

yea, we have been having a lot of debate about this at our local Atheist Association.

There is room for debate about how comprehensive the safety net should be, and whether it is best funded and managed by local or national governments or by private voluntary agencies.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

At the same time, a debate is heating up about possible health risks, with more state and local governments getting involved.

a debate is heating up about possible health risks, with more state and local governments getting involved.

Directly as people talk about what they have seen and indirectly as each community holds its own debates between local candidates.

Furthermore, his performance in debates on local issues is embarrassing as he knows nothing about the local towns and communities in the district.

«This is a debate that won't go away and I believe that the BBC has to think carefully about its presence locally and the impact that has on local democracy,» she added.

We wish to give space here to the emerging debates about the connections between violence and security, the economy, politics, conflict - resolution, gender dynamics, and local governance.

These shrines are venerated by local Muslims, although there has always been a debate within Islam in west Africa about the place of shrines and saints in religious observance.

And so, some of the debates about local councils were ones that I had as a boy, believe it or not.»

She has frequently backed various local business interests in parliamentary debates, including solar panel businesses concerned about cuts to subsidies for domestic solar panels, [12] and wood panelling businesses [13] which employ many people in her Clwyd South constituency.

Given the public debate about «facility time» and «pilgrims» in local government, it's vital that conflicts of interest are avoided.

Mr Kutluoglu described the ongoing debate as «just noise» and «local tremors... for politicos to talk about».

However, local social media immediately blew up with heated debate about my decision.

Jim Fitzpatrick, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse, dismissed an ongoing debate in his local party about selecting candidates as the «same old worst of Bengali politics» -LSB-...]

Local government has been at the forefront of many of the issues I shall be talking about today and Sarah Mulley at the IPPR has done a vital job in informing the debate on the centre left of British politics.

Finally, Hein could go point - by - point against Astorino in a debate about how state programs and mandates play out on the local level.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about Hurricane Harvey relief, a local basketball team's return, and an Albany mayoral debate this evening hosted by the Times Union.

If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

Meanwhile, top local Democrats came together to denounce Trump, who said in a debate a day earlier that he would «keep you in suspense» about whether he would accept the election results.

Since only a tiny fraction of Americans has lived through a state constitutional convention in their adult lifetimes, and since Americans are not taught about state constitutional conventions (as opposed to the federal constitutional convention of 1787) during their formal schooling (even those such as myself who received a Ph.D. in American government), Americans approach these referendums starting with a huge knowledge deficit, making local opinion leaders that much more influential in public debates.

After reviewing many debates leading to constitutional convention defeats, I concluded that the debate discourse was often ill - informed, partly because of a lack of local experts on whom the press could rely for historical and comparative information about state constitutional conventions.

Yesterday being a quiet day — the Commons does little when local elections are taking place — the House held a general May Adjournment debate which allowed MPs to talk about pretty much anything that grabbed their fancy.

The group debated about the best ways to fight for affordable healthcare, the right to get a safe abortion, and the importance of women, especially women of color, voicing their opinions loudly and proudly, to both family and local elected officials.

«There has been a lot of debate for a very long time, but especially in the past couple of decades, about whether information representation in the brain is distributed or local,» Barbour said.

Kuntz entered the public debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in France after observing what he calls a growing tendency by French public authorities to distort scientific findings for political ends and after reading an alarmist article in his local newspaper, he says.

It's the game of seeing Brandt uncover the truth about Mieke and, eventually, debating whether or not to cover it up from his superiors, including a local SS inspector (played by Mark Dexter) and, later, Heinrich Himmler (Eddie Marsan), the head of the SS, who is planning a top - secret visit to the old Kaiser.

Two weeks after the New York City Board of Education adopted a controversial plan to distribute condoms in all of the district's high schools, local and national debate about the plan's merits, and its possible influence on other districts, continues unabated.

Yet we know very little about these local leaders, and we seldom hear their voices in debates about the role that their organizations do and should play in public education and school reform.

Hill Fight on No Child Left Behind Looms Politico, 1/21/15» «It's not a debate about what education policy should be in place at the state and local level,» said Martin West, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Now, amid debate about illegal immigration, some complain about undocumented Mexican men who often gather in a local parking lot for day labor.

Anne Bryant, Gene Maeroff, Christopher Barclay and Chester Finn square off in a debate / discussion hosted by the Fordham Institute about the role of local school boards in the 21st century.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

It's no longer a focused national debate about high standards; it's hundreds of local debates, about everything from student privacy rights to cursive handwriting to computerized testing to the value of Shakespeare.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Here are helpful resources to learn more about Eagle County as well as the local debate in his district.

While the debate rages on about whether or not North Carolina's General Assembly actually dealt public education a financial punch in the gut with the 2013 - 15 budget, NC Policy Watch is keeping a running tally of education funding cuts that local school districts are coping with as they open up for the 2013 - 14 academic year.

Local newspapers carry stories and editorials about the bill, while parents, teachers and schoolchildren on both sides of the debate have contacted legislators with their views.

AROS is working to unite those local efforts to impact the national debate about the future of public education.

Amid this debate, we can not forget to consider the obvious goal for local fair funding — making local school decisions about how to invest in local school goals.

And the debate continues to boil as legislative leaders talk about rewriting the state's 16 - year - old charter school law to add protections for charters and local communities.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Ongoing public debate about whether the United States, specific states, and local communities spend too much or too little on education and whether those dollars are spent correctly can be traced through the case law history associated with various school finance law suits.

Suddenly in local newspapers all across America, one of the most traditional comic strips ever was launching a detailed debate about the pros and cons of reading ebooks on a digital reader.

The buying - versus - renting debate has gone on forever because the answer depends on assumptions you make about the future, your local housing conditions, interest rates, your income tax rate, future tax rates, inflation, future interest rates etc..

Last week I wandered through the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts's American art galleries with two art - world debates in the back of my mind — one a local one about the dearth of work by Houston artists in Houston museums» permanent - collection galleries, the other about the startling lack of diversity at this year's Whitney Biennial.