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Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Whenever I travel, I always make it a point to try out local delicacies rather than have fivestar food.
I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.
The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.
I wrote to the local news guy when I was 12 years old. I said, 'What do I need to do to be you one day?'
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
My sense of responsibility to the audience is to screen things that they would never see in a local theater.
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local talent show.
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.
In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.
Unless you're getting a dollar slice, there's no real money difference between a chain and your local pizzeria.
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers.
When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
I once got a Christmas card from my local Greggs. It said, 'To Scarlett, thanks for being such a loyal customer.'
Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.
When I was in my college, I remember travelling by buses to tutions, and I have travelled by local trains as well.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.
I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.
Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.