The town (pueblo) therefore was governed by the principalia with the strong influence of the parish priest. Provinces, which are groups of towns or municipalities, were in turn governed by alcaldes-mayores

source It is quite astonishing how South Africa is run especially with NERSA the National Electricity Regulator South Africa having just lost another court ruling. Eskom is the SOE who supplies the electricity

A chap by the name of Eon de Koker who is a specialist electric and electronic engineer has warned the local municipalities to wake up. This is in regard to their shrinking municipal electricity sales

Here is one of those "Gee, really, why?" things that get you thinking sometime. I do not live in the District of Columbia, avoid it as much as possible, and couldn't care less about most of what