Quotes About Local

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

At first graves were dug for the dead, but then they were just left where they had died. Eventually those who worked for the local administration were taken to the nearby town.

Cosgrave as Minister for Local Government may have taken a hand in inducing no less than twenty County Councils to pass resolutions of support for the Treaty proposals outside the Dail.

Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.

So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.

Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

While the primary riot shall be held in Liége (now Luik) itself (and shall be broadcast live in the Kingdom of Ireland on the Iodadh Motostream), smaller riots shall be held around the world. In Ireland the principal events shall be in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, but consult your local papers for additional events that may be organised nearer to where you live.

It's not in the interest of most mapping companies to make those changes as they occur, but if you give the power to local people, you can be sure that you're always getting the best information from the folks that actually drive those roads every day.

I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.

You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.

For too long, infrastructure needs in this state have been ignored, but by partnering with state, local and federal officials, we can make a real impact on the lives of our citizens.

So, do you live around here often?

We had a big fan base in Oklahoma City, and that was nice to know.

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

The metropolitan touch sometimes proves a trifle too exotic for the provinces.

The Primrose Way. National problems had ceased to interest the citizens. Local problems left them cold. Their minds were riveted to the exclusion of all else on the problem of how to secure seats.

Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, but in practice you will find that one corner of that eye is generally glued on the royalty returns.

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.

T]he whole human population of the world cannot live on imported food. Some people some where are going to have to grow the food. And where ever food is grown the growing of it will raise the same two questions: How do you preserve the land in use? And how do you preserve the people who use the land? The farther the food is transported, the harder it will be to answer those questions correctly.

the difference between a small local business that must share the fate of the local community and a large absentee corporation that is set up to escape the fate of the local community by ruining the local community.

Between these two programs---the industrial and the agrarian, the global and the local---the most critical difference is that of knowledge. The global economy institutionalizes a global ignorance, in which producers and consumers cannot know or care about one another, and in which the histories of all products will be lost. In such circumstances, the degradation of products and places, producers and consumers, is inevitable.

The more local and settled the culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert.