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LOCAL GOVERNMENT has been increasingly privatized since the 1960s. I don't mean government services; I mean government itself. In 1965 less than I per...
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David Dent takes a walk through the woods behind his cabin in Government Mineral Springs, an area within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
David Dent of Portland relaxes inside his vacation home in Government Mineral Springs, an area within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. He and his wife bought the cozy home in 1991 for $31,000. That included everything - the couch, the table and even the silverware.
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- Neighborhood Development Corporation: Butchertown, Inc., Butchertown Neighborhood Government, Inc., the Old Louisville Neighborhood Council, Inc., and the Louisville Interneighborhood Coalition, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Department of Housing and Urban Development, City of Louisville, Director of City Department of Building and Housing, Oxford Properties, Inc., and William O. Bornstein, Defendants-Appellees., 632 F.2d 21 (6th Cir. 1980)
J. Phillip Griffin, Jr., Steven R. Berg, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Laurence J. Zilke, Law Department-City of Louisville, Max Simmo...
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NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Community Development; NYC Department of Buildings; NYC Department of Health; NYC Department of Environmental Protection; NYC Department of Aging; Brooklyn Queens Land Trust; Bedford Stuyvesant Legal Services; South Brooklyn Legal Services; Citizens Committee of NYC; Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation; Bridge Street Development Corporation; NHS of Bedford Stuyvesant; Community Board #16; Pratt Area Community Council; Neighbors Helping Neighbors; Habitat for Humanity; 81st Police Precinct; Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration; Brooklyn Neighborhood Improvement Association and Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project.
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More Than 3 Million Citizens Served in 2006 as Neighborhood America's Solution Drives Public Participation in e-Democracy, Citizen Journalism and the ...
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A trifecta of ill-timed displays of Mother Nature's fury during the first seven months of 2010 battered Coconino County, leaving one Flagstaff neighborhood designated a disaster area by the state and federal government.
Unfortunately for us we had a major snow event in January 2010, then in June we had the fire of 15,000 acres, then on July 20 we had a major flooding event," says Andy Bertelsen, public works director for Coconino County. "We did what we needed to do, but that was a very difficult situation to manage through.
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TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.
The incident gave supporters of Moammar Gadhafi's regime a new rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war. The foreign minister called for a "global jihad" on the West in response.
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WASHINGTON - An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA and scouting a neighborhood when he was arrested, a disclosure likely to further frustrate U.S. government efforts to free the man and strain relations between two countries partnered in a fragile alliance in the war on terror.
Raymond Allen Davis, 36, had been working as a CIA security contractor for the U.S. consulate in Lahore, according to former and current U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the incident.
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The decision on whether to keep or dismantle Southgate Trust for Improvement of Neighborhood Government will be determined at the next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Southgate Elementary School, 290 Shetlands Lane. Snow canceled the previous meeting.
Board members explained there are several benefits to being an organized community group. Southgate residents benefit from the annual Dumpster day that allows people to discard large item as well as from the annual community yard sale, which is advertised and planned by the board.
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