Sentences with phrase «city effort aimed»

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Home certainly hasn't been where the heart is for Blackpool, who are now aiming to seal their first Premier League victory on home soil at their fourth attempt following failed efforts against Fulham (2 - 2), Blackburn Rovers (1 - 2) and Manchester City (2 - 3).

Funding included in the recently passed state budget will allow New York City subway cars to be repaired more quickly, Cuomo said while unveiling an effort aimed at improving service for a transit system notorious for frequent breakdowns.

The city's teachers union this week failed yet again in its effort to stop a lawsuit that aims to prove that the state's tenure laws and «last in, first out»...

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his promises to preserve New York City's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants in the face of an imminent executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at punishing so - called «sanctuary cities» that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

The new commissioner of the city's child welfare agency expressed «significant concerns» about a NYC Council legislation package aimed at tightening scrutiny over his embattled department — saying it could «inhibit our efforts toward reform.»

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neaCity Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neacity's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

ALBANY — A state university president who has been a linchpin in the Cuomo administration's efforts to stimulate economic growth has resigned from the boards of two nonprofits that manage major real estate developments aimed at building tech hubs in faded upstate cities.

Kallos, along with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, will be speaking this weekend at the start of #CodeAcrossNYC2014, a betaNYC hackathon effort aimed at creating tools for use by community board and City Council members.

Mayor de Blasio has also invested in numerous initiatives to support our DAs» essential efforts — including an additional $ 2 million per year to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and $ 10 million to the Anti-Violence Innovation challenge — and launched expansive initiatives aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose deaths across the City, in close partnership with local elected officials.»

According to the Assembly, the move is part of efforts aimed at ensuring cleanliness in Accra, in line with President Akufo - Addo's vision of making the capital, the cleanest city in Africa by 2020.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

BROOKLYN — The city's plan to rezone East New York in an effort to bring thousands of affordable units to the neighborhood is «not the trigger for displacement» but is instead aimed at preventing locals from leaving, according to the head of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- As Hurricane Irma takes aim and bears down on Florida, the relief effort for Hurricane Harvey is still going strong in Buffalo City Hall.

The planned «Census of Marine Life,» a 10 - year, billion - dollar effort, aims to answer three questions, says co-developer Jesse Ausubel of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City: «What did, what does, and what will live in the ocean?»

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

D.C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser's (D) administration has launched an effort it says is aimed at fostering collaboration between the city's traditional and charter public schools.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

TULSA — City of Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett announced a new collaborative effort among the City, the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) and other partners with the aim of reducing the number of adoptable cats and dogs put down at the Tulsa Animal Shelter.

Efforts undertaken by the SFSPCA were part of a spate of citywide initiatives aimed at ending euthanasia of healthy or otherwise treatable animals, and were so successful that some began to call it the first «no - kill» city in America.

It also aims to contribute to the wider efforts being made to revitalise the city and inspire the daily lives of its citizens.

The result of that effort is a 180 - page report released today called «CREATENYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers,» which aims to reorient the city's cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through their doors.

As part of its efforts to cut total greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent by 2030, the city is aiming for 30 percent of electricity to be produced from renewable sources and 70 percent from ultra-efficient trigeneration (combined cooling heat and power).

The one - hour workout aims to raise money for the nonprofit Food Tank through ticket sales and donations to promote efforts in New York City to reduce and / or eliminate food waste.

More recent efforts are aimed at protecting Americans against extreme weather - related impacts and at transforming our cities and towns into more secure, healthier and safer places to live.

NYT reports on the efforts in the maritime city of Annapolis, Maryland to pass a bill aimed at protecting marine life and would ban plastic bags from all retail stores, not just from larger groceries and drugstores as is the case with the measure recently passed in San Francisco.