local governments

Asphault is a petrolium-based substance, so the price of repairing roads is skyrocketing for local governments.

The nation's foreclosure crisis is causing property values to drop across the nation, and California is one state that is taking it hard.

It is bad not only for homeowners, but also for local governments — like Stockton, Calif. — that depend on property taxes.

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Government officials urged credit rating agencies Wednesday to rethink the way they rate municipal bonds, arguing that it the current system saddles local governments and taxpayers with unnecessary costs.

As Frank Sinatra's 1955 hit song affirmed: Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. But federal and local governments across the nation have begun to believe that things like education, wealth and physical well-being go with - and are even actually caused by - marriage, and lawmakers continuously implement policy to reflect this erroneous association.

Spiritual facts I think Garret Mize would be well-served to actually read the First Amendment he so adores ("YCT misses the mark," Firing Line, Dec. 10).

It starts with "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." I think the ACLU is clearly out of hand when they argue that clause actually means: "Local governments shall take no action concerning religion or spirituality that could conceivably offend the most sensitive atheist.