Sentences with phrase «regional efforts around»

And regional efforts around the country are helping to boost the electric car market, which saw an increase in sales for 2017 over 2016.

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In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

Troopers in the 10 regional barracks around the state issued 21,864 traffic tickets statewide — 9,456 of them for speeding — during the «Speed Week» enforcement effort from June 7 through June 13, the governor said in a news release.

Building upon an established record of collaboration by the community organizations and higher education institutions serving within ACAN, the goal of this effort was to use the forum of ACAN to identify regional priorities around college student persistence and success and select strategies and activities that could promote that success.

Given the inherently local nature of grow - your - own efforts, it would be a game - changer if governors, state legislatures, local and regional businesses, and chambers of commerce were to rally around this approach and make it a priority.

CAN has regional network hubs that coordinate these efforts around the world.

She touted such regional efforts, she said, because focusing on regional rather than national solutions makes it «a lot easier to get your arms around a good way to approach that from a policy point of view.»