Sentences with phrase «rural residents says»

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

Not exact matches

Tamela Walhof, a regional organizer for Bread for the World, says many rural residents have to drive an hour and 15 minutes to the grocery store and bus their children two and half hours to school.

Ms. Hodge said North Country Mass Transit would act like a city bus system but serve rural residents.

While many residents at Tuesday night's Southold Town Board meeting agreed that having affordable housing for the area's workers and retired population is important, others said they feared how a proposal to increase the number of units allowed in an affordable housing development will change the North Fork's rural character.

«It is government's role to provide the services that the private sector either can't or won't do, and I am proud to say that my administration has worked to strengthen public health though the Health Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit Service.

Residents of the town of Tyre traveled Tuesday to the Onondaga County Legislature's meeting to protest, saying the casino will ruin the rural character of the town.

He says that many Port - au - Prince residents originally came to the city from rural towns in the mid-1990s in search of economic and educational opportunity.

(Unlike many developing rural areas, the region surrounding Tilwari does have capacity for running water — but, local residents said, the system breaks down regularly, and for extended periods of time.

It seems these towns are unique in that they are looking for more residents etc - in the congested north east we have too many people but not as much as say washing dc where we could argue there is a need for housing or a need for more residents as there are in the rural areas.

Salter said that only two mediation program registries are outside the Lower Mainland, making it difficult for rural residents to access the program's mediation.

Among rural residents, forty - four percent said they feel safe using a cell phone on a rural highway versus fourteen percent who feel safe using a cell phone on an urban freeway.

«North Star Mutual has grown substantially over the 90 years that we've served Midwest residents, farmers and businesses, but at the same time, we've been able to strongly adhere to our rural values,» says Terry Timm, Senior Vice President at North Star Mutual Insurance.