Sentences with phrase «state capitol as»

Despite being home to the state capitol as well as multiple Fortune 500 corporations, Columbus has a small - town feel to go along with its small - town living costs.

Activists hold up signs at the Florida State Capitol as they rally for gun reform legislation on February 26, 2018 in Tallahassee, Florida.

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By midafternoon, a restless atmosphere permeated the marble corridors of the State Capitol as a perfect summer day beckoned outside.

Bill Collins, a former top aide to disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is back at the state Capitol as a lobbyist.

It's Double March Madness at the state Capitol as lawmakers juggle budget negotiations with rooting for their home teams at the Big Dance.

The all - night scene at the state Capitol as lawmakers rushed to make — and eventually missed — the budget deadline was downright bizarre at times.

22 years after stepping into State Capitol as an Assemblyman, Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) finds himself as the majority leader, appointed to the position on Wednesday.

Religious and labor advocates rallied Monday at the New York state Capitol as part of a nationwide movement, known as Moral Mondays, urging state lawmakers to take more progressive stances on issues.

The group, Rebuild NY Now, will hold a rally Monday at the state Capitol as lawmakers enter the final weeks of negotiation over next year's state budget.

The advocates took turns smashing up a Lucky 7 slot machine at a park near the State Capitol as TV news cameras recorded the event.

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What not to miss: As the home of the state government, Austin boasts the Texas Capitol, a towering 19th - century building that sits atop one of the city's highest points.

Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part of a wave of teacher protests that have...

Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

As students rallied outside the Capitol, thousands of teens from across the state walked out in support.

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during -LSB-...]

October 11, 2017 — As the debate over investor protections was heating up with the start of the fourth round of NAFTA talks in Washington, D.C., US, Mexican and Canadian civil society organizations delivered over 400,000 petitions to Capitol Hill demanding that NAFTA's expansive corporate rights and protections and Investor - State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) be eliminated during renegotiations.

Hundreds of teachers returned to the Capitol on Thursday morning as lawmakers debated the rest of the state's $ 10.4 billion budget plan.

As Ronald A. Wells recounts in the Journal of Presbyterian History, i n 1966 the United Farm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workers.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

The capitol building was built on the backs of slaves, and tomorrow a black man will stand on its steps and be sworn in as president of the United States.

As a kid he looked forward to family car trips to Springfield, the state capitol, where Lincoln's house and tomb have long been maintained as popular tourist citeAs a kid he looked forward to family car trips to Springfield, the state capitol, where Lincoln's house and tomb have long been maintained as popular tourist citeas popular tourist cites.

«The United States may be the Capitol of Panem, and some may be treating The Hunger Games as just another circus, but that message of subversive living is being heard even if just subconsciously.

I've seen the changing of the guard for not only the Tomb of the Unknown, but also in the Capitol Rotunda as a soldier lie in state.

«In celebration of your victory, we would be delighted to welcome you publicly as a team or personally as families to the United States Capitol,» Pelosi and Lee wrote to Steve Kerr and the team.

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As the state capitol, Columbus also hosts many Ohio High School Athletic Association girls» state championships annually.

She said her members are concerned about bills pending in state legislatures as well as on Capitol Hill that would restrict or eliminate the use of BPA in metal cans.

Advocates, lobbyists and even some state lawmakers privately fear this could become one of the least productive legislative sessions in years as «scandal fatigue» pervades the Capitol and criminal allegations dominate the headlines and deflate the desire to get things done.

In a separate posting, he wrote of a woman who once approached him with a question as he waited for Wade at the state Capitol and that he later regretted not «crushing her windpipe» and slamming his car door into her legs for bothering him.

So dramatic has the upheaval been at the state Capitol after the Assembly transitioned from Silver to Carl Heastie that even public information brochures identifying Silver as speaker have been discarded.

In a subsequent conversation with reporters down at the state Capitol, Nolan officially announced she is dropping her challenge to Heastie, clearing the way for his election as speaker.

De Blasio's testimony this morning before a joint legislative budget committee in Albany marked the kick off of what's known as «Tin Cup Day» at the Capitol — typically a day in which mayors and other local government officials from around the state provide their reactions to the governor's budget proposal.

Cuomo announced the unveiling of an exhibit in the Capitol that honors New York's service men and women who have died in war, as well as highlighting the state's leading role in the birth of the Memorial Day holiday.

As the session winds down, the state Capitol can be a deadline driven place as laws expire or, in the parlance of Albany, sunset and become bargaining chips in broader negotiationAs the session winds down, the state Capitol can be a deadline driven place as laws expire or, in the parlance of Albany, sunset and become bargaining chips in broader negotiationas laws expire or, in the parlance of Albany, sunset and become bargaining chips in broader negotiations.

As we continue to wait for the passage of a budget bill, Democratic state Senator Tim Kennedy ripped into the process that's led to gridlock at the Capitol.

Actor Corey Feldman, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is heading to the state Capitol on Wednesday to push state Senate Republicans to pass a bill that would make it easier for survivors in New York to seek justice as adults.

Espada has repeatedly accused Cuomo of targeting him in a political «witch hunt» in order to boost his own credentials as a erformer — a reputation on which he rode to the governor's office in 2010 while pledging to clean up the infamously dysfunctional and corruption - ridden state Capitol.

In addition to her role as anchor, Liz spearheads Capital Tonight's blog, STATE of POLITICS — your one - stop resource for breaking political news from the Capitol, City Hall, and across New York SSTATE of POLITICS — your one - stop resource for breaking political news from the Capitol, City Hall, and across New York StateState.

Education reform — loosely defined as support for charter school expansion and enhanced classroom standards and evaluations — had largely subsided as a major issue in 2016 for state lawmakers, but had bitterly divided the Capitol in 2015 as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to develop new standards for public school teachers.

As opponents of a proposed trash incinerator in the Finger Lakes region rallied at the state Capitol, Cuomo announced he is not in favor of the project and is confident a state siting board will reject it.

Cuomo's administration says it will continue to monitor the progression of legislation at the North Carolina Capitol that would replace that state's controversial bathroom law seen as discriminatory toward the LGBT community.

Work on the budget continues today as more state lawmakers return to the Capitol, with an eye toward early passage, due to the looming Easter and Passover holidays.

Embattled Brooklyn state Assemblywoman Pamela Harris keeps getting paid as a lawmaker, but has been a no - show at the state Capitol ever since her indictment on federal corruption charges this year.

At noon, Albany fast food workers join nationwide protests on the anniversary of the Memphis sanitation strike and rally as part of the Fight for $ 15 movement, state Capitol, Albany.

Cuomo's announcement came as his Democratic primary opponent, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, appeared outside the state Capitol at a climate change rally and march.

At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Gov. David Paterson said earlier today that he will ask state lawmakers not to depart Albany midweek as planned and instead remain at the Capitol in hopes of hammering out a deal on the 2010 - 2011 state budget, which is now almost two full weeks late.

Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam looks on as members of the state Senate Judiciary Committee vote unanimously on April 20, 2013 to advance her nomination to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals at the Capitol in Albany.

«I think we need some help at this point, and what the future holds time will tell,» del Lago owner Tom Wilmot, a Rochester mall developer, told USA Today on Tuesday as he visited the state Capitol building hat - in - hand.