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Allowing our Cities to thrive
” Our cities offer people the biggest range of economic opportunities. They are home to the most productive parts of the economy and they are places where new ideas are generated, businesses are started and expanded, wages are higher and people’s ambitions can be fulfilled. Our 64 biggest…
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Quote of the Day
“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.” Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogata, Columbia Image Dodo from Finland, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Trafford Budget Debate – Variations on a theme of Pickles worship
Local public services have taken the biggest hit from this government. It’s the poorer areas that have taken the biggest hit. Surrey actually gets an increase in its funding. Labour called for Tory Trafford council to make representation to Government that the cuts would impact on the most…
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More Cuts for Trafford
Budget Meeting Full council meets tonight to set a budget for 2014/15. Trafford will cut its spending by £4,451,000 from £159.003m to £154.552m or 2.8%. When you take cost pressures into account it’s £17m… and it’s going to get worse.
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Floods – You don’t need a Weatherman…
When Cameron is this desperate, you know the Tories want to deflect the sunlight. Cameron’s yard-dogs have been blaming everyone during the Somerset floods. They’ve been smearing and leaking about the Environment Agency; they’ve been pointing the fingers at Councils, even Conservative run Councils; and they’ve been desperately…
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How an obese town lost a million pounds weight
Oklahoma City is a midsized town that had a big problem: It was among the most obese towns in America. Mayor Mick Cornett realized that, to make his city a great place to work and live, it had to become healthier too. Mick Cornett displays a quality not…