It's estimated that 13,000 localities will be competing for 1,200 business relocations in the next year, making the competition fierce. We believe our county is a persuasive competitor, and we want to make sure we use all of our resources to beat the competition.
Quotes about localities (16 Quotes)
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
I favor giving localities more ability to make the transportation, land-use connection than they are doing right now, My inclination is to try to help local governments.
The new secretary must move VDOT, localities, and developers to understand that the commonwealth cannot afford the transportation infrastructure required to serve increasingly spread-out and scattered development. He must address the fact that new funding won't make a difference to traffic congestion without changes in development patterns and transportation demand reduction strategies.
This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
When we see voting machine vendors spending almost a million and a half dollars to lobby in our state over the past few years, we have to wonder whether this spending impacted the Legislature's decision to avoid selecting a voting machine themselves by punting the question down to the State Board of Elections and localities.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Sometimes we only get one chance to connect with a prospective business who might be considering many different localities at the same time, we really wanted something that was memorable. Memorable hopefully in a positive way, and something that instantly tells a prospective business about the great things in our county.
Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Local government represents the cornerstone of the United States, and we fully support the critical role that localities play in protecting consumer and citizen rights. However, with 78 car rental excise taxes in 37 states, and 45 more such taxes pending or under discussion, we must speak out on behalf of our customers. These arbitrary taxes unfairly single out our customers and potentially interfere with interstate commerce by hindering free trade in the nationwide car rental industry.
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Other states across the nation have moved forward to protect their citizens. I think this is a common-sense, slow-motion step, allowing localities to take their own way.
Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.
It is hard for us to know right now whether or not the localities have over-invested or under-invested. Once we have this document and a national plan, we can see how they've been spending their money.
We believe that economic development subsidies for job creation -- if they are serious about reducing poverty -- must be better integrated with public transit. These projects demonstrate many ways that localities are making that connection.