The very nature of a mature city like San Francisco, with its old buildings and layers of regulation, throws serious obstacles to 21st-century modernisation, but some city builders have addressed that problem by starting afresh and raising a state-of-the-art metropolis from the ground up.
In a ruling that police and firefighters' unions hope will win them larger pay raises, a state appeals court yesterday upheld a ruling that a state board can arbitrate contract disputes involving New York City police officers and firefighters.
Opponents, who call the initiative unnecessary and costly to consumers, raised a state record-breaking $22 million with support from agribusiness.
The water releases from these dams raised a state of alert in Tamaulipas, which was slated to receive the discharged water.
After two runs in Republican gubernatorial primaries and as the leader of successful campaigns against ballot measures to raise a state sales tax and fund stem-cell research, Lonegan was a favorite of New Jersey's relatively small right wing.
As President Obama prepared to seek support for his health care overhaul in Minnesota this weekend, the state's governor, Tim Pawlenty, raised a states' rights argument to counter his proposal.
An opportunity denotes a favourable circumstance or combination of circumstances raising a promising state of affairs within particular conditions of time and space.
Tevye the milkman and his wife Golde are scraping a living and raising a family in a state where indifference turns to hostility.
Without gathering even one signature or raising a nickel, Jeffrey Dinowitz, a state assemblyman from the Bronx, will begin his brief stint in the United States Congress tonight.
They could have a black passenger buy a ticket outside Louisiana and then travel into the state, thus raising a challenge to the law under the commerce clause.
