Mainly due to reunification-related expenditures, Berlin as a German state has accumulated more debt than any other city in Germany, with the most current estimate being € 60 ($ 84 ) bn in December 2007.

The capital city of N ' Djaména, situated at the confluence of the Chari and Logone Rivers, is cosmopolitan in nature, with a current population in excess of 700, 000 people.

The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as " Checagou " was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir written about the time.

The original city plot was around current day Ripley and 5th Streets, where Antoine LeClaire had built his house.

Predicting the rapid growth northward on Manhattan Island, Astor purchased more and more land beyond the current city limits.

Experts estimate that if current rates of increase persist, the coastal city of Atyrau, eighty-eight other population centers, and many of Kazakhstan's Caspian oil fields could be submerged by 2020.

They built the first school within the current boundaries of the city, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement was left vacant.

The relocation of Union Station to its current location in 1914 and the opening of the Liberty Memorial in 1923 gave the city two of its most identifiable landmarks.

Leipzig was a walled city in the Middle Ages and the current " ring " road around the city centre corresponds to the old city walls.

The short rainy season in March and April depends on a northerly counter current bringing moisture to the city: it has been shown clearly that weakness in the Benguela current can increase rainfall about sixfold compared with years when that current is strong.

Lansing began to grow steadily over the next two decades with the completion of the railroads through the city, a plank road, and the completion of the current capitol building in 1878.

By 1956, the city had grown to, and doubled in size over the next decade to its current size of roughly.

The city market, in existence since 1909, was approved to be sold for a multi-building mixed-use development called MarketPlace, right next to the current market on the adjacent riverfront.

* Mitt Malmö-Malmö city guide with local news, weather forecast, cinemas, TV-guide and current events.

The current mayor of the city is Osama Al-Barr.

In 2006, Gerd Leers, then mayor of the border city of Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian border, criticised the current policy as inconsistent, by recording a song with the Dutch punk rock band De Heideroosjes.

Higher concentrations of THC and drug tourism have challenged the current policy and led to a re-examination of the current approach ; for e. g. ban of all sales of cannabis to tourists in coffee shops from end of 2011 was proposed but currently only the border city of Maastricht has adopted the measure in order to test out its feasibility.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

It has been verified by now that in the current position of the city rose a terramare.

Pisa (; ) is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea-and the current location of British-Dutch football, cycling and retro Southampton shirt enthusiast Jeff Thomas.

The council boldly deposed the current popes and in 1417 elected Martin V as their successor.

Senior members of the Royal Family may also be appointed — Prince Philip is a member, the most senior at present in terms of service, and is the only present member not to be appointed by the current monarch, having been appointed to the council by her father.

Under the current circumstances, Innocent VII could not guarantee safe passage to his rival Benedict XIII in the event he came to the council in Rome.

In line with the city's history as an important convention center and the current presence of institutions such as the ICJ, The Hague's city council employs a city branding strategy that aims to establish The Hague as the Legal Capital of the World and the International City of Peace and Justice.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

The tribal council was established on December 19, 1936, and the current administration is as follows:

The current administration's seven-member council has publicly stated that the tribal nation's priorities are protecting tribal sovereignty ; focusing on the educational, emotional and physical well being of tribal members ; and working to leverage the tribe's financial and economic strengths through partnership initiatives, both locally and abroad.

The Krypton of the current continuity was at one time an expanding empire that conquered other planets for years but was dismantled after the Kryptonian high council decided that their methods were too aggressive.

In the event the current Lord President is unable to name a successor, the council can appoint a President to take his place.

It is run by an elected borough council and an elected mayor. The current Mayor of Akron is John McBeth.

The current council members are :-

The elders on the council were so well respected by the village men that no one would dare to override their nominations or overtake the vote for an individual against the advice of the current council at that time.

However with only two out of nine current county council seats.

The current seat of the regional council ( conseil régional ) of Basse-Normandie is nearby.

The current city council members ( as of December 2010 ) are:

The current council was elected in June 2009.

The current council is under no overall control but run by a Labour minority administration and its composition is:

The current county council members are:

The current council chairperson is Michaela Boyle ( Sinn Féin ).

The current members of the parish council are: Jude Bissett, Bruce Corke, Peter Floyd, Judith Gray, Jane Hale, Dorothy Jones, Sarah Morris, Calvin Stubbs, Margaret Wallace, Linda Wilson & Stuart Wilson.

Daphne ’ s current mayor is Bailey Yelding Jr. A seven member city council serves the city of Daphne.

In 1993 the Theodore Roosevelt Council ( located in Phoenix ) and the Grand Canyon Council ( located in Flagstaff ) merged with the Phoenix council assuming the current name, the Grand Canyon Council.