Sentences with phrase «state capitol last»

The Governor's speech was the culminating highlight of our 4th annual Charter Awareness Day at the Connecticut State Capitol last Thursday, which included informational tabling, lobbying activities, and the presentation of the 2018 Torchbearer Award to Governor Malloy for his tireless work on behalf of public charter school families and kids.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R - Fond du Lac) chairs the Assembly Education Committee — and his office is responsible for a bill that just started making the rounds for signatures at the State Capitol last week, titled the «Teacher Protection Act.»

Calling themselves a «grassroots movement» in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's plan to use taxpayer money to open two new charter schools while making historic cuts to Connecticut's public schools, the New York based charter school industry group known as «Families for Excellent Schools Inc. / Coalition for Every Child» paid at least $ 87,000 to rent buses to bring in charter school parents and students from as far away as New York and Boston for the pro-charter school rally that took place at the Connecticut State Capitol last week.

A coalition of budget and transparency watchdog groups are calling on the Legislature to pass, and for Governor Cuomo to sign, comprehensive «clean contracting» legislation in response to the bid - rigging scandal that rocked the state Capitol last year and continues to reverberate.

Gov. David A. Paterson and Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch in the State Capitol last July 9, the day after Mr. Ravitch was sworn in.

David Borge, then - mayor of Hoosick Falls, was among a long list of public officials, attorneys, scientists and environmental experts lined up to testify at the state Capitol last September.

That includes an «Environmental Bill of Rights» that the group and environmental advocates were pushing at the state Capitol last week.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx talks with reporters about New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's resignation at the State Capitol last week in Albany, N.Y.

Not exact matches

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

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.

US Representative Ted Deutch (D) called Marjory Stoneman Douglas students who are en route to the State Capitol in Tallahassee to advocate for gun control after the shooting that took place in their school last week.

Also at 1 p.m., the Senate majority coalition commission on regulatory reform announces the findings of its forums held last fall, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.

But state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, New York's chief bean counter, said during a CapTon interview last night that he doesn't believe state lawmakers will be forced to return to the Capitol prior to the January start of the 2018 session if Congress reaches a deal in the coming weeks on averting reductions to the Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and Children's Health Insurance Plan.

The brutal stabbing of a Western New York police dog last November has spurred a call at the state Capitol to increase the penalties for seriously injuring and killing a police animal.

We're disappointed that state lawmakers, though slapped across the face by major scandals, left the Capitol last month without doing -LSB-...]

Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

Capitol Correspondent Karen DeWitt says there was no indication that the former state Senator could be part of the #MeToo reckoning until last night.

During a CapTon interview in his Capitol office yesterday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declined to immediately sign off on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's so - called «Charlotteville provisions» that would change the state's hate crimes law in response to the violence in Virginia last weekend.

We're disappointed that state lawmakers, though slapped across the face by major scandals, left the Capitol last month without doing anything to strengthen ethics and campaign finance laws.

Silver (D - Manhattan) outlined the proposal to Gov. Paterson late last week after buckling under pressure from newly announced Democratic gubernatorial contender Andrew Cuomo and others not to support a $ 2 billion borrowing scheme proposed by Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch, insiders at the state Capitol said.

Last week a small group of Cortland High students met at the Capitol with state representatives from

Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham Law School professor who challenged Cuomo in a Democratic primary last month, knocked Cuomo's efforts on the state Senate in a Capitol Pressroom radio interview on Wednesday.

But as with so much else in the city, the last word on the subject lies with the State Capitol, where hostility to the bag bill has threatened to undo, or at least revise, the fee.

During last summer's effort to secure the Independence Party line for Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy — whose district in the Hudson Valley and Westchester is about a two - hour drive from the Capitol — 40 state Senate GOP staffers gathered signatures, his petitions show.

CIVIC CENTER — The corruption trial that rocked New York State from Albany to Lower Manhattan has some hoping a new day is dawning in the state capitol, where dozens of legislators have been convicted of corruption and abusing their office for personal gain over the last several yState from Albany to Lower Manhattan has some hoping a new day is dawning in the state capitol, where dozens of legislators have been convicted of corruption and abusing their office for personal gain over the last several ystate capitol, where dozens of legislators have been convicted of corruption and abusing their office for personal gain over the last several years.

A day or so before the state budget was passed last week, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, a Kenmore Democrat, stopped by the Capitol's press room to share with a reporter details about three recipients of his successful pork barrel requests that he said will support entrepreneurship to global trade efforts.

Silver was convicted last year of corruption and bribery charges for scamming nearly $ 4 million in kickbacks by peddling his influence in the state Capitol.

Looming large at the Capitol is U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who successfully prosecuted the state's top two legislative leaders last year.

Lawmakers — as well as Cuomo — had been under pressure to approve some form of ethics and anti-corruption legislation in Albany after a parade of corruption arrests that engulfed the Capitol in recent years, including the convictions of the two former state legislative leaders last year, Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver.

Last week was quite a week at the state Capitol.

Gambling powers — from Malaysia, Las Vegas, Yonkers and even Hamburg — are engaged in a furious and expensive last - minute campaign at the state Capitol on whether to legalize daily fantasy sports contests and online poker wagering.

The potentially hefty surplus could set of a rare battle at the Capitol in next year's budget debate: What do with money a cash - strapped state hasn't seen in years following the economic downturn of the last decade.

Heastie says despite the turmoil that's developed in the last few months here at the state capitol, lawmakers are ending on a good note.

During a Capital Tonight interview last night, Sen. Kathy Marchione spoke publicly about an open secret that has consumed the state Capitol for most of this week.

Former longtime state Senate Republican Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, who recently gave the Senate GOP campaign committee more than $ 1 million, addressed his former conference last Wednesday at the Capitol.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom radio show, Ms. Stewart - Cousins praised her former colleague Cecelia Tkaczyk — an upstate Democrat who lost her bid for re-election to the State Senate last year — and indicated she sympathized the ex-legislator's efforts to become chairwoman of the party and remove the leadership the governor helped install.

ALBANY — It was blocked from the state budget passed last month, but legislators trying to legalize mixed martial arts hope it will pass before lawmakers leave the Capitol in June.

ALBANY — After the sentencing of Sheldon Silver last week and the sentencing of Dean Skelos on Thursday, there was this sighting at the State Capitol: a lobbyist covering his mouth with a hand as he talked into his cellphone.

For the last year a siege mentality has dominated the New York state capitol.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Republican rival in last fall's election is offering his take on political dynamics at the state Capitol.

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

For the last several weeks, we legislative leaders — for the first time since I've been at the Capitol — put aside party labels, locked ourselves in a room and talked as leaders and friends about the direction of the state of Connecticut and how collectively we could orchestrate a budget that fulfilled our expectations for a new Connecticut.

(A possible tea leaf: State Capitol reporters began receiving unsolicited press statements from both Brown and Bellone within the last two weeks.)

Hanabusa argued she'd been more successful than Schatz over the last 16 years — a more apt comparison than their careers on Capitol Hill, she said — including her rise to state Senate president.

FCUA honored Jones in Tallahassee last month during the Florida Advocacy Conference, where the lawmaker addressed credit union leaders gathered to help promote the industry at the state capitol.

They were at the opening of the New York State Fair in Syracuse Thursday, but many of these protesters have seen the governor in other venues recently — in New York City earlier this week during a policy summit; in Albany last week during the yogurt summit; and they are planning a mass action in the state capitol next MoState Fair in Syracuse Thursday, but many of these protesters have seen the governor in other venues recently — in New York City earlier this week during a policy summit; in Albany last week during the yogurt summit; and they are planning a mass action in the state capitol next Mostate capitol next Monday.

ALBANY — There was an impromptu round of salsa dancing on the Assembly floor, a spirited exchange of hostilities in the Senate and an untold number of last - minute trips to the Dunkin' Donuts — the nearest purveyor of decent caffeine — on the first floor of the State Capitol.

Montana state Sen. Jon Sonju was on Capitol Hill last week meeting with GOP - aligned groups ahead of a potential House bid in 2014.

«We just want to make sure we have all the information accurate for you,» Molinaro said during a trip last week to the state Capitol.

Officials from those councils spent last week pitching state commissioners on their plans, and mingling in a windowless room in the Capitol complex in Albany.