Noting a string of recent municipal feats, including the announcement of a new system for evaluating teachers and the introduction of a bike-share program, Mr. Bloomberg offered a hint of his weekend plans: a concert at the Barclays Center.
It has also experienced an unusual string of municipal bankruptcies in recent years.
The BJP has lost a string of state and municipal elections, most recently in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
The Five Star Movement in Italy has suffered a string of defeats in municipal elections, while the True Finns party in Finland has split in two after electing a new hardline leader with whom its mainstream partners in the country's coalition government were unwilling to work.
The Fed team of Jason Appleson, Eric Parsons and Andrew Haughwout said they had done the research in light of a recent unusual string of municipal bankruptcies, which has raised the question of whether a wave of municipal defaults was looming.
The political landscape is bleak indeed: both major political parties are profoundly divided and fragmented; the incumbent party has suffered a string of defeats since 2012 in municipal, European and regional elections and whoever its candidate(s) may be, he/she will most probably not qualify for the run-off in May, guaranteeing the election of Alain Juppé or Nicolas Sarkozy in the spring.
A string of failures could rattle the $2.9 trillion U.S. municipal debt market.
For Shorris, the key post in the country's largest municipal government is the latest in a string of high-profile jobs in New York City.
BACK in the 1990s a string of reforming mayors turned Bogotá into a beacon of enlightened municipal government in an otherwise troubled country, creating an extensive bus rapid-transport (BRT) network, parks and public libraries.
After nine weeks of testimony, a municipal judge today ordered Richard Ramirez, accused in a string of random, brutal slayings here, to stand trial in connection with 14 deaths and 36 other felonies.
