She was particularly critical of a new proposal allowing municipalities to push their pension costs into the future — the second such state plan in the last half-decade — saying that it amounted to continuing to kick the can down the road, and asking, "Isn't this what got states like Illinois in trouble?" The governor wasted little time in firing back.
Instead, the governor has proposed a task force to help cities restructure their finances and a new plan that would allow municipalities to push their pension costs into the future, the second such plan the state has produced in the last half-decade.
The good news is zebra clams only like shallow water, so municipalities can push their pipes further out into the Great Lakes to avoid them.
It is encouraging that very recently various local governments (municipalities) have pushed forward a renewed impetus to interventions addressing those specificities.
To shelter more of the state's needier residents, Mr. O'Connor and other housing advocates are hoping the court will change the state's Mount Laurel set of rules and push municipalities to aggressively seek government subsidies for low-income housing.
But this year, many cities and municipalities will be pushing for statewide rules, to avoid conflicting piecemeal regulation.
Under the plan the Republicans are pushing, municipalities would keep their higher percentage, but the state's portion would be shaved to 0.35percentt.
While Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing municipalities to cut back on water use by 25%, Nestle is still drawing water out of the ground and shipping it off to the rest of the country.
Leading on this issue is Public Citizen, with its staff working on the ground across the country organizing in municipalities and states, pushing initiatives to reign in the out-of-control influence of money in campaigns.
However, the place-based job creation program that this paper examines includes seminars on how to attract people to buy local products from the treated area, making it possible to push neighboring municipalities' consumer demand far from the neighboring municipalities' markets.
