Posts Tagged Local Governments
How Much Local Government Business Should Go On Behind Closed Doors?
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on June 1, 2018
A legal fight over public access to local government is raising new questions about Virginia’s Freedom of Information law. Michael Pope has the story.
When It Comes to Cell Towers, Lawmakers Are Divided on Local Government Role
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on February 9, 2018
Credit: Michael Dorausch / Flickr
How much control should local governments have over where cell towers go up? Lawmakers in Richmond are divided. Michael Pope is at the Capitol with the latest.
Should Local Offices in Virginia Remain Nonpartisan?
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on December 8, 2016
Credit: NPR
Should candidates for local offices be identified as Republicans or Democrats in Virginia? That’s an issue now being considered by the courts. Michael Pope reports.
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From NPR News- Greece Emerges From International Bailout, But Will Be Closely Monitored For Years August 20, 2018After nine years of a debt crisis that spawned economic upheaval and austerity measures, Athens will regain a degree of control over its finances, but officials say it's not out of the woods yet.
- Man Who Sexually Assaulted Airline Passenger Convicted, Could Face Life In Prison August 20, 2018It took a jury less than four hours of deliberation to convict a Detroit-area man of sexually assaulting a woman who had fallen asleep in the window seat next to him during an overnight flight.
- Rain Starts To Slow After Flooding Displaces 800,000 In Southern Indian State August 19, 2018Tens of thousands of people have been rescued, but thousands more are still stranded after massive flooding and landslides in India's Kerala state.
- VIDEO: The 7 Dwarfs Whistle While They Work To Fight Malaria August 19, 2018There are two animated anti-malarial videos out there — a new one from the "Wallace and Gromit" team and a 1943 Disney cartoon that put the seven dwarfs under bed nets.
- 6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Indonesia's Lombok Island August 19, 2018Sunday's earthquake caused power outages and landslides as the island is still recovering from another quake earlier this month that killed more than 400 people.
- Greece Emerges From International Bailout, But Will Be Closely Monitored For Years August 20, 2018
- From BBC News
- Birmingham Prison taken over from G4S by government August 20, 2018There has been an "abject failure" to manage HMP Birmingham, the chief inspector of prisons says.
- Cruise ship fall: Woman rescued after 10 hours in sea off Croatia August 20, 2018The 46-year-old is found "exhausted" after falling from a cruise ship, 60 miles off the coast of Croatia.
- Greece emerges from eurozone bailout programme August 20, 2018But repaying loans will take several decades after the biggest bailout in global financial history.
- Living Wage fails to cover families' basic needs, charity finds August 20, 2018Low-paid parents working full-time do not earn enough to meet their families' needs, a charity says.
- Korea reunion: 'I'm hoping to hug my grown-up son' August 20, 2018Lee Keum-seom is one of dozens of South Koreans heading to the North to meet long-lost family.
- Birmingham Prison taken over from G4S by government August 20, 2018
