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RAY BROOK Adirondack Park Agency commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved the permit for the 91 - acre Gateway to the Adirondacks at North Hudson project.

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If it sounds like Edwards still needed to apply FEC rules and limits, consider this: Scott Thomas, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission testified that he did not consider that the payments would have come under his agency's auspices — in part because they were not used directly for the campaign and did not free up any of Edwards» own money to be spent on the campaign.

An agency spokeswoman says Honorable could stay on until a new commissioner arrives or until Congress adjourns next year.

Cheryl LaFleur, the agency's other Democratic commissioner, said in an interview that the proposal was long on «generalizations» but short on «evidence.»

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wasn't resting on its laurels in 2017: The agency under new commissioner Scott Gottlieb approved 46 new medicines — i.e., completely new therapies, not just additional indications on already - approved drugs — the highest number of approvals in more than two decades.

Though the president publicly weighed in on the subject, surprising many in the industry, the FCC is an independent government agency, overseen by five commissioners — currently three Democrats, including Wheeler, and two Republicans.

Major natural gas pipeline projects along the East Coast and Midwest face uncertainty as the federal agency that oversees the work loses a commissioner and will be unable to decide on projects indefinitely under President Donald Trump.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

It's not a lot to go on but, obviously, the prospective commissioner is cognizant of the agency's potential oversight responsibilities (especially for the cryptocurrency derivatives market).

On January 28, 2014 — European Data Protection Day (yes, it's been celebrated in Europe since 2006)-- EU vice president and justice commissioner Viviane Reding said in a speech that European citizens were «in shock» over the extent of the National Security Agency snooping.

«People don't know the job, and they think we are the train guys,» said Mr. Sitton, an elected commissioner on the state's oldest regulatory agency, created in...

Under MLB commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who took the job in 1984, fear of losing out on profits combined with the players» agency to decide where they were going to sign had helped to unify the owners against the players.

De Blasio defended Ponte publicly even though he knew the commissioner was under investigation for allegedly spying on other probers looking into a travel scandal involving his agency.

A department spokesman said the agency could not comment on a specific individual's case because any related appeal of an enrollment decision would go before the education commissioner.

AIB commissioner Akin Olateru told journalists that the agency, which released a preliminary report on the crash in September 2012, spent so long on the investigation because of cash shortages.

Mayor de Blasio knew as early as last Wednesday that the city's Correction Department was under investigation for allegedly spying on other probers looking into a travel scandal involving his agency commissioner.

Robert Troiano, seen on Oct. 31, 2015, resigned as acting commissioner for the Nassau County traffic and parking violations agency.

He went on to ask for letters of resignation from all of his top staff members and state - agency commissioners.

He went on to become an acting commissioner with immigration services, and then an assistant secretary with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under former president George W. Bush.

Marc Gerstman, the department's acting commissioner, said government agencies routinely lobby the Legislature on issues they determine are in the state's interest, and NYCO's proposal to mine state land easily met that standard.

The commissioner of New York City's Correction Department, Joseph Ponte, removed his agency's head of internal affairs on Monday and placed him on modified duty, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Governor Cuomo convened a cabinet meeting of State agency commissioners in Liverpool, Onondaga County on September 30, to demonstrate the State's commitment to the people of Central New York.

The event will have commissioners and senior staff from various agencies — including the Department of Transportation, Department of Education and NYPD — on hand to field questions and hear concerns from Staten Islanders.

The commissioner further disclosed that a joint operation by the security agencies in the state was carried out on Gbishe in search of Akwaza in connection with armed robberies, kidnappings, assassinations and cattle rustlings.

De Blasio has taken a more hands - on and ideological approach than his predecessor in managing the city's 44 agencies, a style that sometimes drags out decision making and frustrates some of his commissioners.

Politicians including City Councilman Brad Lander and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz sent a letter to Seth Diamond, the commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services, on Tuesday, demanding that the agency answer community concerns regarding the plan.

Buerkle began a new job in July after she was appointed as a Republican commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal agency.

After talk of a pay hike for lawmakers fizzled last month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday proposed establishing a commission to address his salary, along with state legislators, other statewide elected officials and state - agency commissioners.

«In past lead agency disputes on energy projects, the DEC commissioner has pointed to the department's large staff of professionals with unique expertise in the many areas of potential environmental impact as favoring DEC lead agency,» town officials wrote.

Legislators also approved the nominations of Jared Kasschau as county attorney; Ken Arnold as commissioner of public works; Eileen Krieb as the head the Parks Department; Gabriella Castillo to run the Coordinated Agency for Spanish Americans and Richard Kessel to serve on the Industrial Development Agency board.

The town supervisor shared data and observations he gathered last summer at a Spotlight on Keene presentation to Adirondack Park Agency commissioners last week.

Just days before he is set to retire, police commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows, the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

Last February, just as a final report on the safety of fracking was due to be released by Martens» agency, Cuomo abruptly announced that his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, would conduct a last - minute study, which Shah promised would be completed in «weeks.»

The commissioner added that N987, 540, 000 was expended on the payment of May salary of workers in ministries, departments and agencies.

Nisha Agarwal, Mayor Bill de Blasio «s commissioner of the Department of Immigrant Affairs, revealed on Twitter that her agency had sought to lend legal support to those detained at JFK — but Customs has thus far rebuffed them.

ALBANY — State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia said that her agency and Gov. Andrew Cuomo need to be on the same page as the department and a Cuomo - created commission both push to review the Common Core standards and complete their reports before the governor's State of the State message in January.

The Bill de Blasio administration is currently reviewing capital budget requests from the different city agencies and are being evaluated on «equity, growth, resiliency, sustainability and geographic coordination,» according to the commissioner as cited by the website.

Commenting on insinuations that INEC might tamper with the wish of the people, the commissioner said that nothing like that would happen, stressing that the agency had no interest in who won or lost in the matter.

The city's homeless services commissioner is stepping down at the end of the month and a top to bottom review of the agencies that work on homelessness is beginning immediately, as NY1's Grace Rauh reports.

The state senator on Monday is sending a letter to the New York State Department of Homes and Community Renewal's commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas urging her to inform tenants if the agency suspects their apartments were illegally removed from rent stabilization under the J - 51 tax abatement program.

«Reform must start at the top, and that means with the agency's commissioner,» she said on Friday.

«Without providing us any detailed analysis, your agency recently announced that it had halted this plan and suggested that an alternate route on E. 56th Street is preferred over E. 61st Street,» wrote elected officials including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to Cas Holloway, commissioner of the DEP, in a letter.

Under the proposal, a copy of which was obtained by Politico, the governor would have the power to remove and appoint New York commissioners on the bi-state agency's board.

Honora Spillane, deputy commissioner of the city's Department of Neighborhood and Business Development, said she told Julie Cerio, the county's economic development director, the next day, Aug. 17, of the city agency's decision to postpone a vote on the county's request.

For decades, Republicans and Democrats have taken turns selecting commissioners to serve on the three - member board that governs the agency.

Speaking during a town hall meeting with representatives of political parties, religious leaders, youth / women groups and clerics, security agencies and other stakeholders on Wednesday in Abaji, the police commissioner said that enough security will be deployed across all polling units

The commissioner's response came a day after Oddo criticized the agency on Twitter for not responding to his April 7 letter, asking the DOT to consider extending the ferry service.

Chris Giunchigliani, a current Clark County commissioner who once served on the Water Authority board, sees the agency — which she called «the final arbiter» of what can and should be built — as centrally responsible for why Las Vegas» building boom continued through the drought years.

In the end, «the agency did not consider all of the publications... to be pertinent» but found other relevant studies on its own, noted William K. Hubbard, associate FDA commissioner for policy and planning, in a letter to the petitioners.

working with the Department for Education (DfE), the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and regional schools commissioners to share relevant information about schools and their governance structures and to minimise accountability burdens placed on them