Sentences with phrase «critics say the state»

Critics say the state spent too much money for what the program has yielded so far.

Critics say the state should be steering that money — whatever the final cost — to the city's beleaguered transit system, rather than to bridges that already have un-colorful, energy efficient, LED lights.

Critics say state laws are far looser when it comes to ethical rules.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and a friend of the judge, asked Feinman about the defense of the indigent, something critics say the state has underfunded in the past.

Critics say the State Department lacks the scientific expertise and enforcement capability of the DEC, though it does have a consumer protection division.

Critics say the state Education Department's failure to provide study materials in a timely manner for new, more rigorous certification tests doomed many new teaching candidates.

Critics say the state's election system makes it difficult, if not impossible, for even the most qualified candidates to win without large sums of money and vast political connections.

Amid the prevalence of parental alienation, New York families in custody battles are at risk after critics said a state office admitted its inability to review psychologists» works, leaving kids at risk.

Not exact matches

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Critics point to her lack of a trip to Wisconsin following the party conventions as proof that she did not take the idea of potentially losing those crucial states seriously, but Clinton said that idea is without merit, saying «we didn't ignore those states.»

Critics of Clinton's campaign strategy have said her efforts (or lack thereof) in those three states — traditional Democratic strongholds that were carried by President Donald Trump — highlighted the Democratic presidential nominee's biggest problems as a candidate.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine worried the bill would harm older Americans, and shift Medicaid costs to states — something critics say a block - grant approach would only make worse.

Critics of the plan said that it shifts the burden of paying for new infrastructure projects onto the states, which have less money at their disposal.

Instead, there's a patchwork of state laws serving as the legal framework that critics say invites abuse and potential manipulation.

While supporters say the law protects small business owners» religious freedom, critics say it will allow for discrimination against gay customers and drive business out of the state.

Even though this scanning is automated — and doesn't amount to Google employees poking around emails — critics say the practice is akin to AT&T listening in on people's phone calls or the United States Postal Service reading personal letters.

Critics say it would impose heavy burdens on small online retailers, who could face compliance issues and varying tax rates in states far from their base of operations.

And media critic Anita Sarkeesian — who left her home after her criticism of the industry's depiction of women prompted violent threats this summer — said Tuesday that she would cancel a speech at Utah State University after someone threatened a shooting at the event.

«We're underwriting a net loss in jobs and pretending it's a gain,» said Dave Swenson, an economist at Iowa State University and a longtime critic of the state's development poliState University and a longtime critic of the state's development polistate's development policies.

Critics of Amazon's approach said it would set off a race to the bottom, with cities and states trying to offer the biggest subsidy packages they could muster.

EDMONTON — NDP Energy critic Brian Mason said today that Jim Prentice is wasting his time in the United States...

Critics say the park has religious conversion in mind and the state should not be giving the group tax incentives.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Critics of the regime say its another example of persecution against religious minorities in the Islamic State.

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

Critics of Missouri's current law say that the illegality of the state's flourishing midwifery industry only leads to more dangers.

Critics say it's just training the parents, but it's being done all over the world and gaining an increasing number of adherents here in the United States.

New York state will file an amicus brief in support of overturning a North Carolina law that critics say violates the civil rights of LGBT people by prohibiting municipalities from issuing ordinances that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

Critics say The Mayor can not be taken seriously by national political leaders when he can't even navigate his own state to get things done.

Taxpayers could save more than $ 2 million a year if it weren't for a group of breakaway Democrats who need their own support staff in the state Senate, critics say.

State Senator Daniel Squadron --(D) Manhattan, Brooklyn — has been a vocal critic of the State Lawmaker's failure to close the LLC loophole, which allows individuals to sidestep (some would say un) reasonable contribution limits.

The state responded in 2010 by creating the statewide Office of Indigent Legal Services, but critics — such as NYCLU — say the agency is underfunded and ineffective.

Among the vocal critics of congestion pricing is Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has said he has yet to see an equitable proposal for outer - bough drivers and is trying to gain state support for his own plan to fund the MTA subway system.

But critics, including some environmental groups, say it's an expensive bailout for the nuclear industry that will be financed by ratepayers around the state, as well as public institutions the same ratepayers use, like the MTA and New York City's public housing authority.

United States Attorney Preet Bharara's attention has been drawn away from his normal stomping grounds to Buffalo, intrigued by what critics say is a shadowy network of state authorities and state - controlled non-profits handing out large business subsidies and contracts with little to no oversight.

More than a decade after the state's highest court ordered New York lawmakers to spend billions of dollars more a year on schools, Governor Cuomo and his top aides are moving further away from ever fulfilling the order, say critics.

In a wide ranging State of the County speech last night, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney went on the defensive, saying many economic development projects, proposals and plans are often unfairly represented by critics across Central New York.

Cuomo has pledged more state money than ever before to the MTA, but some critics say it's going to the wrong place.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson last month tightened his control over the State Department by taking back powers previously held by the top career foreign service officer, an action critics said would delay major decisions and marginalize career diplomats.

«You know, it's just one more nail in the coffin,» said Johnson, a former president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents and a longtime critic of state testing poState Council of School Superintendents and a longtime critic of state testing postate testing policy.

The critics also said the state law wouldn't likely withstand a federal legal challenge.

Critics of the changes also say the state Legislature should have had a greater role in setting the value of awards.

Mahoney last night defended the economic development council program, which many of her fellow Republicans have dubbed the «Hunger Games,» because it pits regions against one another in the battle for state funds — a process critics say is inequitable and unfair.

But 77 percent of voters upstate polled said they agreed with critics of the state budget agreement that the ethics package did not go far enough.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's local budget cuts, which he says he wants to bring to the state as governor, have taken their toll on services, critics say.

Critics have said Cuomo and state leaders should have known the cut was coming, and the governor acknowledged that he did anticipate that the DSH money would end someday.

Critics, including state Sen. John DeFrancisco, pointed to what they said was a key flaw in the agreement's language: Although he promised to build as much as 3.5 million square feet, Congel could keep his tax benefits after building 800,000.

He stated he is «deeply sorry» for his action and accordingly apologised to all stakeholders who were offended by the said action that received condemnation from some Ghanaians and football critics.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins Thursday took a strong stand against President Trump's call for biometric tests at U.S. border crossings, agreeing with critics who say such a move would lead to massive delays at bridges between the United States and Canada.