The city does not usually annex property. In fact, I can't remember a time since I have been with the city that we have taken this step.
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I don't think there is anything to mediate. The law is abundantly clear that Muncie has no right to interfere with property owners asking Yorktown to annex them.
I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
We're opening the second site because we found, when we talked to citizens in the last election, (the new location) was very convenient for people on (the south) side of Greenville. It keeps them from having to go all the way across the city across to the other side of the river to the elections annex.
The school has the capacity to handle the number of students at this time. The annex has been opened to handle any overflow. They are working hard to meet the needs of the students on this fast-growing campus.
I wonder if it is in the best interest of the taxpayers to sell the annex,
That works to the benefit of our residents. It will improve our tax base, allow us to have adequate budgets and provide the money the town needs for education and for projects like making the High School Annex suitable for re-use.
I think we were perceived as the big, bad city trying to take their land. It's not as if we were trying to annex. This land is nearly worthless without it being cleaned up. And it's only worth something if we work together to clean it up.
They didn't annex them, but now the other property has been annexed and these adverse things are happening to them without any dialogue to speak of. They need to have a voice, and their voice needs to be heard.
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
A cursory phone call to DHS would have revealed that the catastrophic annex is designed for 'no-notice' or 'short-notice' events, where no personnel or supplies have been pre-positioned, which was clearly not the case in Katrina.
In 1996, when we were looking at our general plan, we decided our sphere of influence will include land we would annex within 20 years. This is in our sphere of influence. If we didn't do this the college would have no septic system or water.
There is 'no negotiating partner' only if Israel is determined to annex or retain indefinite control of significant chunks of the territory occupied in 1967.
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny''