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municipality

[myoo-nis-uh-pal-i-tee] / mjuˌnɪs əˈpæl ɪ ti /


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“We know very well that Batanes is ours,” said Joseph Cultura, the mayor of Itbayat, the island chain’s northernmost municipality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Officials in the Avannaata municipality on the island nation’s west coast approved the plan, offering fishers 300 Danish kroner, or about $45, per shark heart.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

When he tried to obtain a death certificate last week, officials at the local municipality office turned him away.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Pitkanen said he was so far "fairly positive" about the project, as it will bring "large-scale business activity" and "life" to the rural municipality with a population of only around 8,800 people.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Every municipality has a suicide hotline, and they’re listed right in the government services section of the yellow pages,” it says.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

During the 1980s, it ranked among Israel's more affluent municipalities and hosted the country's largest music festival.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Last month, he introduced the “Protection From Mass Surveillance Ordinance,” which doesn’t mention Flock by name but would pull funding from municipalities that continue to use the company’s cameras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The economics for building data centers in the U.S. have gotten worse as tax incentives go away and are replaced by local municipalities demanding concessions from data center operators,” D.A.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

It begins with shock, followed by rage—because cruising ahead of her is a water supply truck owned by one of the various underperforming water municipalities.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman


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