Sentences with phrase «city control of»

The Senate GOP leader has tried to counteract Cuomo's efforts to elect Democrats, saying a vote for a Democratic candidate is a vote for New York City control of the legislature, and it's Mayor, Bill deBlasio.

We spoke with TWU Local 100 president John Samuelsen about a topic which many mayoral candidates have advocated, and which would directly impact TWU Local 100 members; mayoral or city control of the MTA.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn't appear inclined to grant Mayor Bill de Blasio's request to grant the city control of its own local minimum wage — setting the stage for another major policy disagreement between the state's leading two Democrats.

After the debate, we asked him about a frequent topic of discussion among the mayoral candidates: mayoral / city control of the MTA.

Senator Liz Krueger questioned why, after two votes in previous years to grant the mayor of New York City control of city schools for six years at a time, the final «big ugly» included only a one - year extension for de Blasio.

Not exact matches

ISIS is currently locked in battle against an array of forces for control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq and the largest city under the militant group's control.

Netflix description: «The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.»

Voom choose Mexico City because of its dedicated air traffic control and helicopter infrastructure, such as some 200 helipads, Subramanian said.

There are some predictors of growth that are outside human control — Glaeser finds that a city's average temperature in January is a pretty reliable indicator of its prospects, for example.

Bloomberg had read a draft blog post in which SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung explained that the company was letting go of 173 staff, and shutting down its offices in London and San Francisco (leaving only offices in New York City and Berlin) as part of an effort to reduce costs at the company whose losses have been spiralling out of control.

The murder rates have soared in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as the gangs have fought for control of cities and the hinterlands.

In a world with a population surpassing 7.5 billion people, with approximately 200,000 people moving into the world's cities every day, building remote teams that work from anywhere is more important than ever in order to sidestep the pollution of dysfunctional daily travel that has spun out of control in virtually every city across America.

In our ongoing coverage of innovative cities, CNBC's Louisa Bojesen gets behind the operations of a Danish company that gives total control to the eyes.

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

He later assumed control of railroads around New York City, and also opened the Grand Central Depot.

In the most recent scandal, Kushner Companies has been accused of faking documents for about 34 of its New York City properties and low - balling the number of rent - controlled tenants in these buildings, according to the Associated Press.

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

The report estimates that if hackers took control of the power grid from New York City to Washington, D.C., the damage could total $ 20 billion to $ 70 billion and cost the economy from $ 243 billion to $ 1 trillion.

Protagonist Aiden Pearce is a vigilante who can hack into the central operating system that runs near - future Chicago, and in doing so can control much of the city itself and access information on its inhabitants.

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

Dozens of companies will need to work together to make sure you can travel from one point in a city to another (safely and securely), feeding data from the stoplights, handling the commerce between apps, and even communicating your location with a future car traffic control center.

The district has about 3.6 million square feet of landmark air rights, including 1.2 million square feet linked to Grand Central Terminal and 1.1 million square feet controlled by New York's Catholic Archdiocese, tied to St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Department of City Planning said at the time of rezoning.

The wave of demonstrations, that kicked off in second city Mashhad on December 28 and quickly spread, is the biggest in the tightly controlled country since unrest over a disputed election in 2009.

Anyone who wanted to do business in the shiny new parts of cities that Alphabet controlled and built would end up paying for the privilege,» the article speculates.

Bloomberg reports that stricter capital controls have cast a shadow over the future of Forest City, a sprawling a Malaysian version of Shenzhen being developed by China's Country Garden Holdings Co..

City Hall has spiralled so out of control that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne expressed her concern and suggested provincial intervention was not out of the question.

The FDA had in 2015 had sent a warning letter expressing concerns over quality controls at three Mylan facilities in the south Indian city of Bengaluru.

«A lot of what we do in the city is fight for local liberty and local control,» Adler said.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

Netflix description: «A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.

«Stalin wanted to build in Warsaw a monument to himself and a symbol of the USSR's control of Poland,» Marta Hankiewicz, a tour guide with the city, told Business Insider.

Kurdish forces had pulled back to Syrian government - controlled areas around the city of Aleppo, or to the Kurdish - held region east of the Euphrates river, he said.

«Afrin city centre is under control as of 8:30 this morning,» Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told a rally commemorating the World War One Gallipoli campaign, adding that Turkish and Free Syrian Army flags had been raised in the town centre.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

Singapore, whose population of 5.56 million has grown nearly 40 % since 2000, tightly controls the ownership and sale of vehicles through a bidding process and an annual growth rate that caps the total number of vehicles on the city - state's roads.

Le Duc cites companies like Tesla, which made electric cars fashionable; Nest Labs, which is revolutionizing home temperature control and energy use; and Solar City, which scaled up industrial solar panels, all of which are taking revenue from companies with older business models.

For example, according to a report by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 86 percent of people arrested in Cook County in 2012 tested positive for at least one illegal narcotic — the highest percentage of any big city.

«They had control of fields around (the city of) Sirte for a while, but they have since been mostly pushed from that area, and never had control of any upstream activity.»)

But the city is also struggling with a budget deficit that may require firing hundreds of public employees to bring it under control.

MEXICO CITY Funds controlled by the family of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim are set to acquire a large chunk of an investment trust to fund Mexico City's new airport, three sources with knowledge of the deal said, as doubts hang over the project's future.

Everywhere I travel in the U.S., I see a boom as measured by the lack of open seats on airplanes, sold - out hotels and crowded restaurants, not to mention the almost out - of - control construction activity in every city.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

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David Samson, former chairman of the agency that controls New York City - area bridges, tunnels and airports, pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of soliciting a bribe for pressuring United Airlines to reinstate a money - losing flight offering convenient access to his vacation home.

Gaidar rightly feared that with the collapse of central planning and the lack of incentives for delivery of food supplies from rural to urban areas, the cities might even be without food unless price controls were quickly lifted.

During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

The California State Association of Counties, the League of California Cities and the California Police Chiefs Association registered opposition to the delivery bill, contending it intrudes on local control.

Nanjing is reported to become the first city in China to put temporary controls on the number of vehicles that can be hailed online, according to Jiemi...

Chinese government data show that prices across 70 Chinese cities were 9.7 % higher in May than a year earlier, a larger year - over-year increase than the 9.3 % last September, when the current round of housing controls were instituted.