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Fowler-Finn’s other main critique of charter schools--—that they divert funding from the school district—is shared by Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who chairs the School Committee...
Athens city officials have a problem they can't bury. A dearth of open spaces in the city means that existing cemeteries are filling up, forcing bereaved relatives to delay funerals for weeks. "All three municipal cemeteries are clogged up," says Athens' Deputy Mayor Katerina Katrivanou. According to a private study, 80% of the greater Athens region's 29 cemeteries cannot take any more burials. The problem is partly a result of a macabre Greek tradition. Burial plots are rented for three years, after which the grave is dug up to check that the body has fully decomposed...
...lives. It would be impossible to enumerate the ways in which local government affects each of us. Many of the laws and issues of greatest public concern—from road construction to building permits to the police—are all overseen by local government. In fact, the mayor of Los Angeles has more direct influence over the life of an average Los Angelino than his or her representative in Congress. Given the importance of local government, which is supposed to be the level of government most in touch with the people, low participation is undoubtedly a bad thing...
Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says the appeal should not be considered a sign that town-gown relations have taken a turn for the worse...
...important European symbol," says M.E.P. Christine de Veyrac of France's center-right UMP Party. And the city itself invokes the 1997 treaty that calls for it to host 12 annual plenary meetings. "The arguments by the adversaries of Strasbourg are very ignorant of European reality," claims Mayor Fabienne Keller's office. Still, according to an internal E.U. website poll, 7 out of 10 M.E.P.s and their staff favor making Brussels Parliament's sole base. Even so, CPR chairman Alexander Alvaro likens his group's efforts to "the trickle of raindrops on a rock that eventually makes a hole...