Since 2004 UNICEF has supported municipalities across Serbia to develop Local Plans of Action for children (LPA) to uphold municipal efforts in making cities across the country child friendly.
Time Warner lobbied the North Carolina senate to outlaw the service and similar municipal efforts.
Although professional fireworks displays are still a centerpiece of Independence Day celebrations here and elsewhere in California, state authorities report a growing number of municipal efforts to ban or restrict backyard celebrations.
"The chaos in Venezuela is causing turbulence for us," says Lopes, who is on the frontline of municipal efforts to cope with rising homelessness, begging, prostitution, hunger and ill health.
The Town of Riverhead emerged last week as a regional leader in municipal efforts to control outdoor lighting in order to cut glare, save electricity and make the night sky more visible.
The 57-page report, which is to be released on Thursday by the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, a research and advocacy group, highlights a broader question about who is being helped by the Bloomberg administration's ambitious plan to build or preserve 165,000 affordable housing units by 2014, one of the largest such municipal efforts in the nation.
Based on a two-year research project by the engineer Guy Nordenson, the landscape architect Catherine Seavitt and the architect Adam Yarinsky, it builds on recent municipal efforts to create a greener New York, from bike lanes to the construction of the new Brooklyn Bridge Park.
And in recent years, the NRA has been at the forefront of the push back against state and municipal efforts to enact their own minimum wage increases and paid sick day requirements.
Far more sweeping in scope than related "religious freedom" bills that emerged last year in states like Indiana and Arkansas, North Carolina's law rolls back civil rights protections across the board by effectively prohibiting any municipal efforts to curtail discrimination.
