Accountability and Transparency in Local Government BY BILL BOGAARD Left to Right: Bell’s Mayor Pro Tem Ana Maria Quintana‚ Mayor Violeta Alvarez‚ Council Member Nestor Enrique Valencia‚ Council Member Ali Saleh and Council Member Alicia Romero prepare to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremonies for La Campana‚ the city’s first-ever fixed-route bus service. Bill Bogaard is mayor of the City of Pasadena and immediate past president of the League. He can be reached at bbogaard@cityofpasadena
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The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) (Malay : Unit Pemodenan Tadbiran dan Perancangan Pengurusan Malaysia) is one of the prominent (MAMPU Portal‚ Malaysia )government agencies in Malaysia‚ that is responsible for ’modernizing and reforming’ the public sector. Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) is one of the few central agencies in Malaysia‚ responsible for ‘modernizing and reformizing’ the public sector in the areas
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tenth century Middle East. The relationship between Islam and the state needs to be rethought where state and the religion have come together‚ for example in Saudi Arabia and Iran. We need a new mechanism that separates religious authority from political power. Islam also needs to be democratize where individual Muslims must have the right to exercise their conscience‚ interpret the sacred texts of Islam themselves and the power of the religion authorities‚ the Mullah and the Ulama (religious scholar)
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POLITICAL DYNASTIES IN THE PHILIPPINES Last 2011‚ Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago introduced the Senate Bill 2649‚ also known as Anti-dynasty bill which guarantees the Article II‚ Section 26 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines which states that “The state shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.” Political dynasty can be put in effect when a person who is a spouse to an incumbent official runs for an elective
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1 Running head: BANK SECRECY Bank Secrecy Rafael Dayan 2 BANK SECRECY Bank Secrecy Bank secrecy is a legal principle in parts of the world that provides for the secrecy of a bank and its customers. Banks under the protection of secrecy are not allowed to provide information about the accounts of their customers to the authorities unless there are special circumstances‚ such as filed criminal complaints about the customers (Kingsbury‚ 2009). The main features of banks that provide
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Capitalism is the Problem: Workers’ Socialist Revolution is the Solution For decades now the whole working class has been under attack. Blacks‚ Latinos and immigrants have been hardest hit by economic and racist attacks. Outbreaks of resistance have been infrequent and limited. Overt class struggle has been pretty well contained. But even though most workers don’t recognize it today‚ big working-class fight backs are not only possible -- they are inevitable. Such massive struggles‚ which our
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Text of the poem Whenever Richard Cory went down town‚ We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown‚ Clean favored‚ and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed‚ And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said‚ "Good-morning‚" and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich – yes‚ richer than a king – And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine‚ we thought that he was everything To make us wish that
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List of International Organizations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. African Development Bank African Development Fund Asian Development Bank Border Environmental Cooperation Commission Caribbean Organization Commission for Environmental Cooperation Commission for Labor Cooperation Commission for the Study of Alternatives to the Panama Canal Customs Cooperation
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1. Federalism functions "laterally"‚ dividing power within governments between three equal branches: Legislative‚ Executive‚ and Judicial. It also functions "vertically"‚ dividing power between the upper Federal government and the lower state governments. . Marshall used his influence on other Justices and his decisions emphasized how the federal government‚ under the Constitution‚ was basically supreme over state powers. Marshall made "broad construction" of the Constitution the prevailing law of
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Ezgi Tuğçe KARATEKİN 201023001 21th cc U.S.A. – ISRAEL RELATIONS Obama’s Israel visit (20th March – 23rd March 2013) Since he took office in 2008‚ President Barack Obama is performing his first visit to Israel‚ came to Tel Aviv. Three goals will dominate President Barack Obama’s coming visit to Israel‚ his first as president: Convincing Israel and its leadership he means what he says about stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon‚ mending a deeply troubled relationship with
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