Sentences with phrase «city mayor who»

TOKYO (The Japan News / ANN)- The Japan Sumo Association has announced that its chairman Hakkaku intends to thank the women who provided first aid to a city mayor who collapsed on the dohyo during a Grand Sumo spring regional tour.

Meanwhile, the election is a victory for maverick Democrat Ed Koch, the former New York City mayor who backed Turner.

A poll by his own news service indicates that Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor who reportedly is considering a run for the White House, isn't very well known by Iowans and isn't well liked by those who have heard of him.

Payment Pains: Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is now a member of President Trump's legal team, told Fox News that Trump had reimbursed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult - film actress Stormy Daniels.

Miner was the most prominent of 18 city mayors who, for whatever reason, were not included in Cuomo's release.

Not exact matches

Paradoxically, the city's latent racism hasn't affected mayor Aboutaleb's popularity among supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV)- the Dutch nationalist rightwing party led by Wilders, who, on 9 December last year, was convicted of inciting discrimination.

It's a cause that Perry, a former L.A. councilwoman who has served in leadership positions with the city for nearly 25 years and ran for mayor in 2013, has long championed.

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

Barcelona has its Mediterranean port, its Gaudí treasures, and since 2011, a mayor who is busy transforming the cultural gem of Spain's Catalonia region into the smartest «smart city» on the planet.

In New York City, the TV and film industry has a true partner, not to mention a mayor who will always be slightly in awe of the work you do.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson YaCity deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yacity for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

«The fact is, there were a lot of small contractors and vendors who got hurt, who went out of business because Trump did not pay contracts on time,» New Jersey state senator Jim Whelan, who was the mayor of Atlantic City during Trump's casino years, told Newsweek last year.

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and ex-U.S. attorney who joined Trump's legal team last month, said the president had repaid Cohen over several months, indicating the payments continued through at least the presidential transition, if not into his presidency.

What I did understand was that the mayor's request to evacuate was based on recommendations from people who understand how natural disasters can disrupt a city.

Rob Ford, a man who wants to be Toronto's mayor more than any other human being, took to the airwaves on his Sunday radio show and apologized to the city.

Edmonton's last mayor with any lengthy amount of prior elected experience was Jan Reimer, who served three - terms on City Council before being elected as mayor in 1989.

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

My 86 year old great uncle who has been with the same man happily for 40 years, a good deal of the time as mayor of a decent sized city (no, not in the backwater US) has had one of the greatest, happiest lives I know.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

These city mayors that will reject Chick Fil a values are really saying that their cities reject Biblical values and those who hold them - sounds like a war to me (a spiritual one, for sure).

There are men who have power — there are mayors over cities, police commissioners, United States marshals, governors; there are legislators, both in the Senate and Congress; there are members of various courts and cabinets.

Prophet Muhammad, a revolutionary character, who fought wars, ran a city as a mayor, had many wives and children, lived a very remarkable life as a self proclaimed Prophet.

Each year the U.S. Conference of Mayors in partnership with the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America provides grants to support mayors who are proactively working to fight childhood obesity in their cities.

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.

They act out an elaborate capture of the mayor and the chief of police, who act out an equally elaborate surrender of the city.

• The kicker for the rival Rapid City Monuments is in fact Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who played that position for three years at Washington & Jefferson College.

The Democratic convention had been held in sweltering Chicago the last week of August, and the mayor had turned his cops loose on all the hippies and Yippies who were occupying the city.

Just yesterday, Abedin — vice chairwoman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign — announced that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 and lost a bid to be mayor of New York City in 2013, both times because of sexting scandals.

Ferguson concluded that Maggie Daley's charity was benefiting from its ties to City Hall, but he stopped short of saying those developers who were awarded taxpayer subsidies were buying influence with the former mayor.

Outraged, she urged the city council to ban the event in the exclusive town, which is famous for its arts community and Clint Eastwood, who was mayor from 1986 to 1988 and still has a home in the area.

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City who recently took a lot of heat for his law that would ban the sale of soda in containers over 16 ounces, is at it again with a controversial pro-breastfeeding program.

That concern echoes the assessment of DiNapoli's New York City counterpart, Comptroller Scott Stringer, who recently called the contracts the «Achilles heel» of the de Blasio administration, and said budget chaos will ensue if the mayor doesn't reach agreements with the city's labor unions by the end of JCity counterpart, Comptroller Scott Stringer, who recently called the contracts the «Achilles heel» of the de Blasio administration, and said budget chaos will ensue if the mayor doesn't reach agreements with the city's labor unions by the end of Jcity's labor unions by the end of June.

Laura Lavine, the Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor, split with her local campaign manager, Danny Fitzpatrick, and is bringing in a consultant from New York City, Michael Lawler, who ran Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 2014 gubernatorial bid.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out 42 city mayors from around the state who support his plan to crack down on college sexual assault, but failed to win over the woman who leads the state's fifth largest city: Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

As mayor of Rochester, Duffy (who is the city's former police chief) is putting his foot down when it comes to overtime for police and firefighters.

His successor as mayor of London, Labour's Sadiq Khan, who has clashed with the US president in the past over London terror attacks and Mr Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, tweeted the president would experience a city that chose «unity over division».

Cuomo also hired two former Bloombeg administration staffers: Kevin Kelly, who had served as deputy commissioner of NYC Business under the former mayor, will be COO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and Jamal Othman, who was chief of staff in the New York City Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs will now be deputy director of the state Division of Veterans» Affairs.

The mayor did not mention the tax increase in an event with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has said he wants a statewide universal pre-K program without the tax increase for New York City.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

While it's not unusual for mayors in other New York Cities to employ full time security, it's who Warren chose to protect her that's raising eyebrows.

Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor under Giuliani at City Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.&raCity Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.&racity of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.»

The mayors of New York City, Albany, and Syracuse were among dozens of mayors from across the county who committed to adopt and honor the terms of the Paris Climate Accord.

By hiring Rudy Giuliani, a former prosecutor and New York City mayor, as his lawyer, Trump will presumably be getting what he wants — a trusted friend who can argue his side of the Russia investigation on TV and behind closed doors.

But sources say the strongest potential candidate is the one guy who has ruled it out publicly, and that is Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a former assemblyman who told Errol Louis during an «Inside City Hall» interview on Aug. 5th: «I've got no interest in running for mayor or holding any other job other than the one I have now.»

The first call for former Rep. Anthony Weiner to withdraw from the New York City mayor's race following his acknowledgement of another round of explicit on - line messages and photos comes from one of his Democratic primary opponents, Sal Albanese, who released the following statement:

There has been speculation on and off as to whether Miner's tense relationship with Cuomo has cost her city, particularly given the governor's close alliance with another local elected officials with whom the mayor must frequently work — Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse the governor's reelection bid.

At noon, Queens Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, who considered — but decided against — a run for NYC mayor, will endorse Bob Dietl's run for that office, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Ricardo Morales, a former top New York City official, sued Mayor Bill de Blasio for more than $ 5 million, saying he was illegally fired for blowing the whistle on alleged City Hall corruption and refusing to help restaurateur Harendra Singh, who admitted to bribing the mayor.

The Democratic mayor of New Jersey's second - largest city, who has had his ups - and - downs with the state's volatile governor, Chris Christie, is now threatening to stymie luxury development dreams of the family of Trump's son - in - law, Jared Kushner.