Usually, local government in Britain is an opaque business, and it is weird to observe the proceedings of the planning committee overseeing Britain's wealthiest locality.
At the dedication, Grant's physician, Fordyce Barker, said that cancer was "not due to misery, to poverty, or bad sanitary surroundings, or to ignorance or to bad habits, but a disease afflicting the cultured, the wealthy and the inhabitants of salubrious localities".
Another case argued before the court in November focuses on a new approach to the "fair share" calculation favored by the governor and wealthy towns that would essentially allow localities to decide for themselves how much affordable housing would be built.
Lerner, a longtime realtor, campaigned on opposing state Republicans' proposed tax cuts "for big business and the wealthy," which she argued would overburden localities and erode essential services, according to her campaign website.
— Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractable problem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison.
Third world localities, where dialysis does not exist for anyone but the very wealthy, could conduct similar programs.
Education aid to localities has been a sacred cow, including Republican legislators from wealthier suburban districts.
The working class in this prosperous locality were vulnerable to the moral judgments and actions of their wealthy neighbours who wielded authority as landlords, employers and philanthropists, to an extent that was unthinkable in the working-class-dominated industrial districts.
By the 13th century, merchant guilds in western Europe comprised the wealthiest and most influential citizens in many towns and cities, and, as many urban localities became self-governing in the 12th and 13th centuries, the guilds came to dominate their town councils.
Indiana's localities are considering user fees for things like police and fire services that would affect large, wealthy nonprofit organizations like universities and hospitals the most.
