Sentences with phrase «city and its suburbs say»

A plurality (49 percent) of upstate voters say they would prefer to vote for someone else, while majorities in New York City and its suburbs say they will vote for Cuomo.

Not exact matches

Within a few years, the company said, the suburbs will be just as connected as cities, with riders able to pay one monthly price, hop in and hop out as needed, and easily get to metro areas without ever needing to drive.

Mr. Kalanick said it was likely that soon, in big cities and even in many suburbs, most Uber rides will be pooled, meaning each Uber car will be serving more than one rider most of the time.

In the next two years, Pete's Fresh Market plans to open stores in two other suburbs: Willowbrook and Orland Park, Ill. «Suburban locations are much more diverse than our city stores, which are located in more predominately Hispanic neighborhoods,» Dremonas says.

Traditionally, St. Paul has been the less favored twin — «Before I was elected mayor of St. Paul, my mother in Brooklyn thought the Twin Cities were Minneapolis and Indianapolis,» says Norm Coleman, who is now a U.S. senator — and there were doubts that the more affluent suburbs west of the Mississippi would cross the river to support the embryonic franchise.

Although nearby suburbs like Orland Park and Calumet City continue to attract new retailers, Miller said, the politicians in Markham are more concerned about the size of their paychecks.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

Since Nov. 1, volunteers have helped package food at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, 4501 S. Tripp Ave., which distributes food to pantries and shelters in the city and suburbs, said executive director Mike Mulqueen.

«I think what these cities and suburbs are hitting upon is that cigarettes are a litter problem,» said Joel Africk, president of the Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago.

«The rash of attacks we have seen in the city and suburbs is clearly being fueled by the anti-immigration sentiment sweeping the country — particularly against immigrants of Hispanic origin — that began in Arizona with that state's discriminatory immigration laws,» said Espada, who came to New York form Puerto Rico at the age of five.

Cuomo today with reporters restated his opposition to building a casino in Manhattan, but said he would be open to placing the convention center and casino he originally wanted built in Queens in another part of the city or the nearby suburbs.

«We have a very diverse state so you have to prove if you're a New Yorker that you can carry not just a huge metropolis in New York City but the suburbs and not get blown out in the rural areas,» said Bruce Gyory, a former advisor to two governors and now at Manatt, Phelps and Phillips.

He told me that his two kids, who are now in college, played a big role in his decision to settle in the suburbs and not New York City, saying that moving from the relative calm of North Carolina to Manhattan would have been «too much» for them.

He said Republicans would be wise to find a moderate candidate with cross-over appeal to independent and Democratic voters who could carry Upstate New York and compete in New York City and its suburbs.

Legislator Lynn Dixon, Independent from Erie County's 9th District, said investments made in the city tend to focus more on cultural institutions, youth programs and libraries, whereas suburbs get more focus on infrastructure.

But the loss of the deduction will hit hard in New York City and its wealthy suburbs, including Long Island, said Alan Cole, an economist at the nonprofit Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Cuomo's plan — which calls for drivers to be automatically registered to vote when they obtain or renew a driver's license — could spur big registration numbers in the motorist - rich suburbs and upstate but do relatively little for the city, which has fewer drivers, lawmakers said.

«Let's face it: Life is different upstate and in the suburbs compared to New York City,» said Senator James Seward (R - Milford).

Allen noted the growing number of vacant properties in the city and first - rung suburbs and said assistance to redevelopment them can be justified under certain circumstances.

So in the suburbs we have good roads and are making them better, but have horrible roads in the city of Syracuse,» said Mahoney.

«This section of America has been totally left behind as cheap money has washed down on the cities and suburbs,» Heaney said.

The speaker has said strengthening the rent laws, which limit rent increases on more than one million apartments in New York City and surrounding suburbs, is the top priority of his conference.

She leads by 24 points in New York City and 32 points in the downstate suburbs, while only leading by eight points upstate,» said Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg.

Sources in the state Capitol said yesterday that talks are centered on a lower wage rate for upstate and a longer phase - in of the $ 15 rate in the New York City suburbs, including Long Island.

«Thousands more people are living, working and playing in our cities and first ring suburbs directly as a result of these two program,» he said.

The cap keeps taxes from rising as municipalities and school districts struggle with soaring pension costs, but the law doesn't cut property taxes, which Cuomo said Tuesday are «a crusher,» especially for homeowners in New York City's northern suburbs and upstate.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

He says: «The Common Core rollout and its link to high - stakes testing got everybody up in arms in the inner city, the suburbs, and rural areas.

The exemption would apply in the city and the suburbs, Zeldin said.

Democrat Steven Levy, county executive in New York City suburb Suffolk, said Friday he has switched parties and will run as a Republican.

Several members from the suburbs said they were concerned that the committee Silver is proposing contains no representation from Long Island or New York City's northern suburbs — home to between a fifth and a quarter of the conference.

«It's got to be a solution that works for the western suburbs, eastern suburbs, north and south, and the people traveling through the city,» DeFrancisco said.

Phil — New Labour in 1997 showed one way to win over the suburbs, smaller towns and cities in the South, the East and the Midlands to Labour, and did so exactly as you say: by accepting the Thatcher economic consensus but promising a «fairer» society.

If outrage about corruption is pervasive statewide, recent polling suggests it may be even more acute in the suburbs: In a recent Siena College poll, 54 percent of suburban New York voters said they were less likely to re-elect their own legislators because of recent corruption scandals, about 10 percentage points more than the share of rural and New York City voters who said the same.

«New York City teachers are paid less than their colleagues in the suburbs, often have larger classes, and work with children with the highest needs,» said the spokeswoman, Alison Gendar.

Influential backers of Ohio Gov. John Kasich's New York efforts say he's making a tactical error by spending too much time upstate and not enough time in the city and the suburbs.

Cuomo — who polls show remains popular in the city and its suburbs — last week also sent maximum $ 11,000 donations through his campaign committee to Democrats in five key races — Kaminsky, Haber, Ryan Cronin, Jim Gaughran in Nassau County and incumbent Sen. George Latimer in Westchester County, a source said.

In a phone interview, Edward F. Cox, chairman of the state Republican Party, said that, with the exception of New York City and its closest suburbs, the «bottom line is that the national blue wave is muted.»

Others said Paladino's comments reflect a deeper problem in a community consistently ranked as one of the most segregated in the nation, and that has a burgeoning immigrant population both in the city and several affluent suburbs.

He also said his experience dealing with people from all walks of life in the city and suburbs sets him apart.

«The North American suburb has gone global» «The way cities have grown since World War II is neither socially or environmentally sustainable, and the environmental cost of ongoing urban sprawl is too great to continue,» Yale University's Karen Seto said at the conference, which runs through Thursday.

«Combining measurements and modeling in this way is very valuable because it gives us a starting point to compare different cities, gradations between the city and the suburbs or changes in the city as it grows over time,» McFadden said.

The majority said de jure segregation (caused by the state or a local government) was different from de facto segregation (resulting from social and economic factors, like lower housing prices in the city and white flight to the suburbs) and that it was constitutional to address only the first through a metropolitan - wide effort.

«As an adolescent, I had never experienced a learning environment that was at once safe enough to welcome my questions, intuitions, vulnerabilities, and understanding about how the world works and yet equally challenging to push the horizons of my intellectual and personal growth,» says Nalani, who had what he calls a «modest» upbringing in Bugolobi, a suburb of Uganda's capital city, Kampala.

«Obviously in the growth suburbs you can find greenfield sites to build new schools, but it's a real challenge in the inner - city, and that's why Victoria's first vertical school will open, so with smaller parcels of land you need to go up,» he said.

A majority of 55 percent said they favored establishing a single school district to serve all of metropolitan Milwaukee, including both the city and the surrounding suburbs.

«Students are experiencing homelessness in over 75 percent of school districts across the U.S., and those are just the ones that have been identified; this is an issue that impacts all of us from rural Texas to the suburbs of LA to New York City,» said Liz Cohen, chief of staff, ICPH.

«No other automotive brand today can say that it has consistently provided owners with a sense of freedom and adventure with the right mix of vehicles to safely take them where they want to go, whether it's closer to nature and the outdoors, or maneuvering through city and suburbs.»

There is no one perfect neighbourhood that would suit every family — both the Lee - Wongs and the Fuscos say they're happy and that they wouldn't trade the city for the suburbs, or vice versa.

As I've said several times now, it doesn't get you anywhere to say that TNR doesn't work, because your preferred solution of catching and killing feral cats is not politically viable in the cities and suburbs where the great majority of feral cats actually live.