Sentences with phrase «onondaga county leaders»

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has asked Madison and Dane County leaders for records of their communications with Kraft Heinz officials — the latest round in a blame game between elected officials for the planned closure of Madison's Oscar Mayer plant.

County leaders won't vote on giving Amazon tax breaks, building money or waive fees for the 855,000 - square - foot fulfillment center under construction on Boggy Creek Road, said Eric Ushkowitz, the county's economic administrator.

Napa County officials tackle tough wine industry growth questions: Napa County's growth summit ended after six hours of discussion and county leaders agreeing to launch a larger community conversation that could last for months...

For the last three years, the Sonoma County Barrel Auction has celebrated Sonoma County leaders and innovators, who have shaped the heritage and history of Sonoma County winemaking.

County leaders and district attorneys urged passage of a bill to have the state pick up the cost of a mandated pay raise for prosecutors, a standard practice for decades that Cuomo discontinued.

The state Labor Department is investigating whether Niagara County leaders broke a law when they allegedly denied sick time to a county Health Department worker last year, a move that she estimates cost her $ 12,000.

Austin Shafran, and his family has been part of the Queens Democratic Party going back to the days of the parking scandal during the Koch years the then Queens Boro President, and Queens County Leader took his own life.

I am no fan of Johnny «Ten Dollar Toupee» DeFrancisco — and agree it is time for him to disappear from the political scene but wouldn't it be nice just once to have a Pub candidate picked by registered Pubs — not their corrupt county leaders meeting in a smoke filled room?

here were a number of County leaders who were enthusiastic about doing the work necessary to establish the line.

(The mayor, of course, is now a man without a party, but managed to convince — with the help of some generous campaign contributions — the five NYC GOP county leaders to let him run on their ballot line yet again in» 09).

Dinowitz, who chairs the Bronx Democratic County Committee (not to be confused with the county leader title, which is held by Assemblyman Carl Heastie), said he had «heard a rumor several weeks ago» that someone at state party HQ might try something along these lines, but he wasn't kept in the loop.

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

Over the weekend, news broke (here on SoP) that county leaders were growing worried about a GOP primary and the possibility that the Conservatives would end up with a different candidate than the Republicans.

Long landed the support of Essex County Republican Chairman Ron Jackson, but the bulk of her backers at this point are Conservative county leaders.

Seeking to put to rest rumors that his support of Doug Hoffman might be wavering, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long sent a memo today to NY - 23 county leaders and committee members seeking to tie Hoffman's GOP primary opponent, Matt Doheny, to the woman he forced out of last year's special election, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.

Queens GOP Chairman Phil Ragusa, who is so far the most prominent county leader to flip his support from Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to the newest gubernatorial contender, M. Myers Mermel, told me the former LG candidate's business acumen is what sold him.

County leaders are unsure whether they would participate in what amounts to a pension fund borrowing plan if it passes the Senate and is signed by the governor.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy emerged from today's GOP county leader confab and insisted to reporters that he and primary rival Rick Lazio are deadlocked in their fight for the dominance in the party's weighted convention vote, Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports

Molinaro has received the backing of key county chairmen, including Erie and Suffolk county leaders Nick Langworthy and John Jay LaValle.

While Saratoga & North Creek Railway ran what the company says was its last tourist train on Saturday, Warren County leaders said they have heard from a representative of another railroad that is interested in excursion train operations on the county - owned line.

In that case, New York County leaders would likely get involved.

Moya is close with County leaders, and as someone who is already elected, could help them solve their «Julissa problem,» as some have called it.

Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing a plan that he says could cut property taxes in New York — by requiring county leaders to develop a cost - cutting plan and letting voters decide whether it's a good idea.

Stephen J. Acquario, Executive Director of the New York State Association of Counties said, «County leaders applaud Governor Cuomo for advancing this timely initiative to improve the Medicaid Program in New York.

Governor Cuomo told county leaders gathered for their annual meeting that he would meet them half way in providing mandate relief in the form of helping to defray health care and future pension costs.

At the center of the scandal is a powerful state senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, who bribed Republican GOP county leaders to grant him a waiver to run as Republican in GOP mayoral primaries.

SPIEGEL: The county leaders recognized that there was one segment of their population that would most likely embrace their improbable scheme with passion.

Governor Cuomo, in a speech to the county leaders that repeated many of the points of his budget presentation, says he's working on mandate relief that will help the counties live within the recently imposed 2 % property tax cap.

In a statement, Molinaro said he was «incredibly humbled» by the support of Colety and other county leaders.

Last weekend's rental boat accident on Lake George has prompted Warren County leaders to discuss adopting a local law that would require those who want to rent boats in the county to take a state boating safety course.

County Leaders will be prevented from unilaterally controlling the party via proxy voting and will not be able to stack the Executive Committee with human proxies to preserve their hold on power.

-LSB-...] be able to run as a Republican for Mayor since Republican county leaders chose to deny him a Wilson - Pakula certificate.

For a citywide race like this, the five Republican county leaders (each borough is also a county) come together to decide whether to let Dietl, a non-Republican, run in the Republican primary.

«For Mario, the president he always talked about was Lincoln,» says Gerald Benjamin, a former Ulster County leader.

Central New York this month won $ 500 million from the state for economic development, based in part on a promise that city and county leaders would work together to streamline and modernize local government.

Westchester County's new County Executive George Latimer made his Pattern for Progress debut Monday, April 23 as he joined Rockland County Executive Ed Day and Putnam County Executive Mary Ellen Odell for an annual Southern County Leaders discussion.

SPIEGEL: The people wanted the county government to bring in a factory, but Chase says county leaders didn't think they could convince a company to come.

These reforms represent a sea change in a borough where County Leader after County Leader has been forced to abruptly end their tenures due to challenges with the law.

Colety's endorsement pushed Molinaro over the 75 percent threshold of the weighted nominating vote, assuming Republican committee members vote with their county leaders at the party's convention in May.

The idea has been floated by some county leaders in the past, and Hochul raised it again in a statement criticizing Collins» proposal: «If the Collins amendment passed, the state would need to raise income taxes or the counties would have to forgo their share of sales tax in exchange for the state picking up the additional Medicaid costs.»

70 AD, Part C County Leader Keith Wright & co-Leader Wilma Brown Phillips are being opposed by Derrick Vidine & Ruth McDaniels.

Collins's office said county leaders from Orleans, Niagara, Monroe and Wayne Counties will participate in the discussion.

The seven GOP county leaders in NY - 26 will be pick a candidate in a weighted vote that's based on the last congressional — not gubernatorial — election, which was, of course, 2010.

Still, Trump's candidacy has been enthusiastically embraced by county leaders, including John Jay LaValle, the chairman of Flanagan's home county of Suffolk.

Their voters might like having a chance to pick candidates for themselves instead of turning decisions over to corrupt county leaders.

However, Markowitz is neither a county leader nor a state committee member, and thus has no vote at the weighted Democratic convention.

County leaders did not expect we would ever have that hypothetical controversy even if they were still in the running.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

They've managed to amass power and money without ever being elected, thanks to their connections to Rep. Joe Crowley, the County Democratic Leader, and his predecessor as both County Leader and Congressman, Tom Manton.