Agenda 21 & Bankruptcy

Sustainable Development & Bankrupt cities & utilities

They’re going down like bowling pins; municipalities, public utilities. The website, Governing.com promises ongoing updates of this bankruptcy map.  The media always cites government employee pension plans and I’m sure that burden is a major factor.  Rarely mentioned is the huge and unpublicized cost of  participation in U.N. Agenda 21/ICLEI/Sustainable Development schemes. 

Click on the city names below for a link to their sustainable development plan.

Stockton, CA
Status: Filed for bankruptcy
Date: 6/28/2012
Debt or Deficit Amount: $26 million

Mammoth Lakes, CA
Status: Filed for bankruptcy
Date: 7/3/2012
Debt or Deficit Amount: $43 million

San Bernardino, CA
Status: Filed for bankruptcy
Date: 8/1/2012
Debt or Deficit Amount: $46 million

 

Boise County, ID
Status: Bankruptcy filing rejected
Date: 9/8/2011
Debt or Deficit Amount:$5.4 million 

 

Jefferson County, AL
Status: Filed for bankruptcy
Date: 11/9/2011
Debt or Deficit Amount:More than $4 billion

 

Harrisburg, PA
Status: Bankruptcy filing rejected, defaulted on payments
Date: 3/10/2012
Debt or Deficit Amount: More than $300 million

 

These may be just the tip of the iceberg.   The map below is an indication of current ICLEI-affiliated municipalities.   How many more local governments will hit the wall?

ICLEI-USA Full Member List is here

 

 

 

America’s 10 Most Promiscuous Cities

Phioto credit: Peter Keusgen

According to data from the free dating site OKCupid, which The Boston Globe calls “the Google of online dating,” Portland, Oregon, has the distinction of being America’s sluttiest city.

Amy Rolph writes for the seattlepi, August 19, 2011, that OKCupid arrived at this determination by mapping where site users seeking “causal sex” are located. Those numbers were converted to percentages to determine which cities are the most promiscuous.

Here are the top 10 sluttiest cities in America:

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Seattle, Washington
3. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
4. Miami, Florida
5. San Francisco, Calif.
6. Dallas, Texas
7. San Bernardino, Calif.
8. Denver, Colorado
9. San Diego, Calif.
10. Houston, Texas