41.   Gaidar said that many municipal governments understand that they cannot afford the subsidies, but do not want to take the political heat for reducing them.

42.   From Rio de Janeiro to Bogota, municipal governments have unveiled ambitious plans to balance budgets, rebuild dilapidated infrastructure and attract foreign investment.

43.   His constituents, he says, should cast aside their instinctive skepticism of municipal government.

44.   Here, we operate municipal government on the Peter Principle.

45.   If municipal governments earn such profits, called arbitrage, they are required to turn them over to the Treasury.

46.   If municipal governments earn those profits, called arbitrage, they are required to rebate the profits to the Treasury.

47.   In an interview, Ms. Reiter said lobbyists were helpful because they assisted clients in navigating the municipal government, saving time for administration officials.

48.   In New York City, the municipal government is about to be shaken from top to bottom.

49.   In Detroit, for example, the municipal government runs the Detroit American Indian Health Center, while the state of Michigan runs the Bureau of Urban Indian Affairs.

50.   In the smaller cities where the opposition coalition has started to run municipal governments, they have found depleted budgets and purposeful ransacking of government property by the Socialists.