Local government in New Hampshire

of Hurricane Katrina and the unsteady response associated with dealing with the historic disaster that his New Orleans gives way to thorough discussion the levels of responsibilities and role of the federal, state, and local authorities in times of disaster and emergency response to such disasters like Katrina. Under the systems or practice where more power is pushed to the federal government to spearhead and to always play the lead role is not a good idea and Katrina exposed the truth in that.…

What challenges do you face in these positions, and how do you overcome those challenges? Many issues Dr. Aaltonen faces has to do with how political HHS and public health can become. Many local decisions are based on local political beliefs rather than on what the issue at hand becomes. As long as there is a notation of who is for what party, there also seems to be a snag in different processes. There can be many different misconceptions as well surround public health that often make it more…

there is a tendency for there to be an equal balance of power between the branches. However, on a state or local level, their balance of power is towards the executive level, with mayors or city managers than in the legislature, which is more apparent on the federal level. The state and local budget process is also more vulnerable to outside lobbying influence. However, the state and local budget is harder to change because it is often embedded in the state constitution. The President, state…

issue faced by emergency management as everything revolves around money. The federal government supplies millions or billions of dollars in federal disaster relief money to disaster victims every year and this money must be available to provide this support. Also, as suggested in our reading, not all funding should be supplied by the federal government. State and local government, non-governmental organizations and local businesses also need to assist in the organizing and raising funding for…

There are 90,000 local governments in the United States and all of them are under the control of a respected state government. When there is a dispute between local and state government, judges usually follow Dillon’s Rule, which states that the local government is the creation of the state. This ideology is different from Fordham’s Rule and Cooley’s rule, which give more power to the local governments. Dillon’s rule is important because of its impact on city and other local government and how…

1. Area: The community in which I live is an urban setting located in Central New York. The City of Utica is located in Oneida County. 2. Demographics: With an estimated 61,332 people in the City of Utica according to the U.S Census Bureau, the city has seen a decrease in residency since the formal census conducted in 2010 (Census Bureau). Even with the estimated decrease in population, the city is home to a multitude of races and ethnicities immigrating to the U.S from various countries…

What are some advantages that our federal form of government has over a strong national government in a highly centralized system? What are some disadvantages of a federal system like ours? Please give at least two examples of advantages and two examples of disadvantages. Our federal form of government being a sovereign system gets its power from the state government not directly from the American people. The individual states were also sovereign, which through their power from the people in…

federal system is the form of government all United States citizens are living under today. Sense this governmental system came to form, the strengths and weaknesses of our democracy under a federal system have become clear. Two advantages to this form of government are that the smaller forms of government on state and country levels created by federalism are more equipped to make decisions on behalf of the needs of local communities then a singular central government; the second advantage is…

no coercive or direct administrative leverage is being held over Heraclea, which certainly raises the question of enforcement. If these laws are simply being coopted out of desire to conform to a rather unobtrusive outside-state, then is the local government to enforce them, or are they simply to be ignored by the populous as many of laws are for the Urbs Roma and do not even apply to Heraclea let alone the average person in the township. These are questions that could only be…

Local governments can do a better job of protecting human health and the environment than can the federal government. In classic conservative political theory, the “most significant form of government is what is closest to the people” (Veith 2012). In other words, local governments, in which the citizens select their neighbors to govern the community, are the most important forms of government. As the levels of government become more distant from the people who elected them, political…