#local government

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#decisions #former #governments #i #know

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#function #governments #important #local #local governments

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#backed #court #development #economic #economic development

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#congress #court #governments #landowners #local

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them. ↗

— Charles Edison

#believers #bosses #citizens #constantly #democracy

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #colonies #counties #each #forerunner

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. ↗

— Imran Khan

#government #local #local government #needs #pakistan

State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#assistance #children #educate #employment #federal

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#children #college #designed #enrolled #enter

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#allows #block #communities #community #construct