Exactly Who Are Our City Councillors Beholden to?; YOUR VIEWSRead the full-text online article and more details about "Exactly Who Are Our City Councillors Beholden to?; YOUR VIEWS" by Wilson, Comforted: William - Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 9, 1999By Wilson...
I believe that councillors are paid now? An extremely bad move in my opinion. The determination to secure such a sinecure is unbelievable. Fisticuffs at dawn. Really! Thus the dumbing down of local councillors. And of course backhanders re planning are now legal …so many, many underhand th...
The Councillors Who Claim to Be Two Places at the One Time; as Public Services Are Cut to the Bone, a Special MoS Investigation Reveals How Local Politicians Line Their Pockets through a System of Expense Claims That Is out of ControlThe...
Local Fianna Fáil councillors Noel Thomas and Seamus Walsh confirmed they have been interviewed by gardaí and Cllr Thomas said his phone was seized by gardaí on Saturday morning. Both were highly critical of the decision by the Government to earmark the dis...
It will show how the continual indulgence by the Courts as far as local councils go has led to the rot seeping into the core of government bodies themselves and how it is not our democratically elected councillors who are running the country but the bureaucrats with their petty grievances and...
It will show how the continual indulgence by the Courts as far as local councils go has led to the rot seeping into the core of government bodies themselves and how it is not our democratically elected councillors who are running the country but the bureaucrats with their petty grievances and...
The Mayor and his fellow councillors cannot even appoint the senior executives of their councils. Instead, these senior executives are appointed by the Local Government Board, which in turn is appointed by the Minister. The outcome is that even if the MDC Alliance might not wish to admit it ...
In busy areas, this isn't always possible, and on some roads, the lack of a bin means people see no alternative to dropping litter. In which case it's time to get your local authority involved. 2. Report the problem to your councillors ...
Peter MacMahon
In my experience it is uncommon to witness seriously informed discussion at such meetings, and all too often councillors ignore the advice of their own professional staff to suit political ends. This trend is being countered in several local government areas with the provision of design advisory ...