U.S. investigates bidding for municipal bonds
The American authorities have been investigating what appears to be collusion in the multibillion-dollar municipal bonds market.

New Government Incentives May Be Needed to Renew Green Development
President-elect Barack Obama said yesterday that he wanted to double the production of alternative energy over the next three years, a goal that will probably require a new set of government incentives for the capital-intensive solar and wind industries.

Buy Munis, TIPs on Government Actions, Gross Says (Update3)
The recommendations build on a list of assets Gross has said will benefit from government spending aimed at curbing a global recession, after what he called a series of ?Ponzi schemes? in the economy.

Municipal employees to be paid salaries on 1st of month:Chief Minister
Hyderabad, Jan 8 : Conceding the long pending request of the Municipal Employees, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy today decided to pay the salaries and pensions of the Municipal employees other than GHMC, GVMC and VMC through treasuries on a par with panchayat raj employees with effect from April 1, 2009.

NYC Municipal Jobs Pay Well, Cost Even More
The average municipal worker in New York makes around $69,000 but costs taxpayers almost $107k.

Buy Munis, TIPs on Government Actions, Gross Says (Update1)
The recommendations build on a list of assets Gross has said will benefit from government spending aimed at curbing a global recession. Investors should anticipate which classes of assets the government may purchase, then buy them first, he wrote.

Woodland Park challenges include wrestling with new name
WOODLAND PARK â?? It's a new year, the borough has a new name and officials have made new appointments to municipal positions and boards. Mayor Pat Lepore and the Borough Council swore in dozens of appointees at the municipal government's annual reorganization Wednesday evening at Borough Hall.

One-stop lip service; and freeze government pay
Anticipating hard times for state government, some legislators are musing about abolishing minor commissions, particularly those that were created largely to placate special interests, to make cheap gestures of official concern, and to strike poses of political correctness -- namely, the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission on Aging, the African-American Affairs ...

Iringa oil dealers reduce prices
A cross section of oil dealers in Iringa Municipal Council have started responding to a government directive to lower prices of petroleum products. A survey made by this paper yesterday showed that some filling stations had lowered their pump prices.

PBAP demands cut in stamp duty, opposes ready reckoner rates,
Representatives of real estate developers in Pune on Wednesday said, the government of Maharashtra and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) were jointly responsible for the unaffordable cost of residential and commercial properties as both establishments have irrationally increased the ready reckoner rates, stamp duty registration fees and various other development charges during a slowdown time.

Woman allegedly stole, forged Tinian Municipal checks
The Attorney General's Office has charged a woman who allegedly stole and conspired with other persons to steal and forge checks belonging to the Tinian Municipal Treasurer.

U.S. House?s Frank Says TARP Funds Should Aid Muni-Bond Issuers
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Barney Frank , chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the second half of the government?s $700 billion financial rescue should include aid for municipal bond issuers hurt by the credit crisis.

Shanghai to create 500,000 jobs
Creating more jobs, providing better care services to senior citizens and improving educational facilities for migrant workers' children, are some of the "10 practical projects" the city's municipal government hopes to complete in 2009, a top government official said yesterday. "We are trying to offer more public service and social security to Shanghai's disadvantaged groups. When we were ...

Hibakusha to be checked in S. Korea
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) The Hiroshima Municipal Government will send two officials to South Korea to meet with six bedridden hibakusha and examine their applications for health books for atomic-bomb survivors, it said Wednesday. The overseas interviews to be conducted between Jan. 15 and 20 will be the first since the revision last month of a law to enable survivors living abroad to file ...

Beijing strengthens poultry exminations, disinfection
A truck carrying animals is disinfected at a checkpoint in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2009. The Beijing municipal government has ordered better monitoring of live poultry trade, strengthening poultry examinations and disinfection after a 19-year-old woman died from bird flu virus in Beijing on Monday.

Shanghai to create 500,000 jobs
SHANGHAI: Creating more jobs, providing better care services to senior citizens and improving educational facilities for migrant workers' children, are some of the "10 practical projects" the city's municipal government hopes to complete in 2009, a top government official said yesterday.

Frances Beinecke: Household Trash is Managed Better Than The TVA's Coal Ash
While your municipal government does a good job of handling your trash, the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to protect Americans from hazardous waste. Coal ash fits the bill.

RP government conducts exercise to prevent, be ready against bird flu By Penaflor Sapnu
ANGELES CITY, Jan. 08 (PNA) -? Not a single instance of bird flu or avian influenza (AI)has ever been recorded or confirmed in the Philippines but the Philippine government does not want to take a gambit just to keep the dreaded fowl disease out of the country.

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS
MONDAY, JAN. 12 Richmond City Council, begins at 3 p.m. with an informal meeting followed by a formal meeting at 6 p.m., council chambers ...

Open government
When friends gather for a cup of coffee in Fort Dodge, their talk almost always will touch on something the city government did or didn't do. City Manager David Fierke hopes to take that kind of talk to a new level today during his inaugural session of Coffee with the City Manager. That informal gathering is billed as yet another way for citizens to stay in touch with their local officials.