Sentences with phrase «about his hometown of»

Asked about his hometown of Terrace Bay, Ontario, Simmer says, «There's five feet of snow there now.»

Forgive me if I get a bit teary eyed as I think about my hometown of San Jose, California.

What Goes Up (R for teen sexuality, profanity and drug use) Slice - of - life drama, set in 1986, about a reporter (Steve Coogan) sent from New York to New Hampshire to write a story about the hometown of ill - fated, teacher - turned - astronaut Christa McAuliffe who finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a classroom of dysfunctional students, including a shameless flirt (Hilary Duff), a repressed Peeping Tom (Josh Peck) and a scheming baby mama - to - be (Olivia Thirlby).

I have not asked for every conceivable qualification nor do I care about hometowns of authors.

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She was heading to the nation's capital to hear Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testify before Congress about the water crisis in her hometown of Flint, Michigan.

When she learns some unsavory information about her family and her hometown, it stirs up old memories in what was then a region stuck in the middle of the tense civil - rights movement.

In the address, Pai gushed about his hometown Kansas City Royals» use of money - ball tactics to win the World Series, and also explained his vision to bring economic analysis to every facet of the FCC's operations.

GM launched that brand not in its own hometown, but in Spring Hill, Tenn., which is about as opposite of Detroit as you can get.

For his part, travel analyst Henry Harteveldt, founder of Atmosphere Research Group in San Francisco, did not comment on his hometown hub but did share that he has nothing good to say right now about second - place finisher LaGuardia in New York.

«You will learn a lot more about Donald Trump if he produces those income tax returns,» Buffett told the crowd in his hometown of Omaha.

«Alibaba's existed for 18 years, and we are so influential in China — but nobody in America knows about us,» says Ma, who founded the company with 17 friends and family members in 1999, in his hometown of Hangzhou.

We talked to a video game company founder who said he thought about moving to Silicon Valley, but he and his wife decided they'd rather raise their kids in their hometown of Cleveland.

At dinner in my hometown's thriving West Loop, I moderated a single - table discussion of about 25 distinguished and accomplished Chicagoans on the subject of reinvention.

Until 2016, it was known as First Trust Company of Onaga, after its hometown, about two hours northwest of Kansas City.

Hundreds of app developers requested, and in some cases required, access to information in Facebook users» profiles, tapping into mountains of information about Facebook users and their friends, including hometowns, education, careers, birthdays, photos, relationship statuses and religious and political leanings.

Victoria: My husband and I moved back to his hometown of Jacksonville, FL in 2011 and I had a tugging on my heart about Pure Barre that I couldn't shake.

One year when we read about Jesus resurrecting the little girl who died, the rector of my church in my hometown gave a stirring and memorable sermon.

We've been convinced of the lie that the truth about ourselves exists outside our hometowns, when that just isn't the case.

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

Here, Jesus has withdrawn from his ministry and his disciples after the double blow of being rejected in his hometown and learning about the execution of John the Baptist.

And there's something about the saga of my hometown mayor which attains to the level of — well, at least of the voodoo products....

For a moment or two it would appear that a warm celebration of «hometown boy makes good» is about to erupt.

I'm pretty passionate about things related to my hometown of Boston and the New England region.

«When Mike and I began dreaming of starting a brewery in our hometown back in college, there were about 300 breweries in the entire United States.

When I asked her about the recipe, she said it came from her mother's well - worn copy of The Moosewood Cookbook, from the iconic restaurant that just celebrated its fortieth anniversary in my current hometown of Ithaca, New York.

I admire his commitment to his taste, but if a beer is going to be carrying the reputation of our country's entire beer culture on its slightly tipsy back, I want it to really represent what our country's beer scene is all about: morning hikes with your grandpa, strong opinions on trivial issues, trash talk at the Super Bowl, and doing whatever it takes to snag first place at your hometown pie - eating contest.

One of the things we love about the beverage industry is its history and deep ties to hometowns across America.

Family Farmed is proud of the blossoming Good Food movement in our hometown of Chicago, so we put together a list of 10 Delicious Facts about Good Food in the Windy City (click on the photo to read the article).

We're often urged to Stick To Sports and Leave Politics Out Of This, so here's a statement about the Super Bowl that doesn't contain a word of politics: A rich bully told derogatory lies about my hometown, and now this town's NFL team has a chance to beat his buddies for a championshiOf This, so here's a statement about the Super Bowl that doesn't contain a word of politics: A rich bully told derogatory lies about my hometown, and now this town's NFL team has a chance to beat his buddies for a championshiof politics: A rich bully told derogatory lies about my hometown, and now this town's NFL team has a chance to beat his buddies for a championship.

For Jenkins, who at 80 still writes a monthly column for Golf Digest, golf is not the game it was when he started writing about it in the 1950s, when two former caddies from his hometown of Fort Worth were the world's best.

His hometown of Moscow may be the epicenter of tumult and chaos, but everything about Marat Safin suggests stability and grace, from his disposition to his strokes to his steady climb in the rankings.

There have been many Arsenal rumours this summer saying that Hector Bellerin does want to return to his hometown of Barcelona, but he has now come out and done an interview on the official Arsenal website about his early years at the club.

«My hometown is about 40 miles north of Atlanta and I grew up a Falcons fan,» Beasley said.

He can not keep eye contact when he talks about the children of his hometown.

Wale went mano - a-mano with Bayless discussing of course, Lebron, and also making a bold prediction about his hometown team the Washington Redskins.

He shuttled between his parents» hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Wichita Falls, Texas, where his father, Michael, settled right before he separated from Marcus's mother, Debra, when Marcus was about 15.

For all that separated Smith and Isner — 13 inches in height and about 2,500 miles, from Greensboro to Smith's hometown of Los Angeles — the two men weren't so different.

From about the Oregon border to Merced, small - school football teams in the east half of California have become a utopia of civic pride and hometown lore.

I am getting really excited about the upcoming screening of the documentary «The Business of Being Born» here in my hometown.

Orland Park residents may like to gripe about La Grange Road traffic, but they have few other complaints about their hometown, according to the results of a community survey conducted this year.

You can shop, watch product demonstrations and learn about a variety of services right here in our hometown.

A legislator is away from their hometown about six months a year, and for the remainder of the year they have numerous political duties.

He captured only 37 votes or just about one percent of the 3,892 cast in a Democratic primary to fill a state legislature seat to cover an area including his hometown of Manning, South Carolina.

But trust me If you have people who have made and built their own lives and gotten to some level, when you entrust them with responsibility; they care about their name, they care about the image of their family, hometown and even regions,» he told Citi News «Parliament correspondent, Richard Dela Sky.

Consequently, people from the district will be making their concerns about ACA, Planned Parenthood, the environment, immigration and jobs public in front of Faso's hometown office.

She also said she was moved to write the book, which is about a single mother who returns to her hometown in Wisconsin after her best friend dies of breast cancer, to fill time around the holiday season when her live - in boyfriend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and his three girls are otherwise occupied.

Sen. Dave Valesky issued the following statement to his hometown paper, the Syracuse Post-Standard, about why he was the lone member of the Democratic conference to abstain from voting to keep Sen. John Sampson on as leader for the next two years:

The «what about us» chorus started up almost immediately, particularly from officials in Rochester (hometown of former mayor - turned - LG Bb Duffy), who feel they've been particularly screwed by the state of late and were also reeling from the news of Kodak's likely bankruptcy filing.

In the weeks after politicians in Albany quickly passed the new gun control measures, fears in the plant's nearly 200 - year - old hometown of Ilion rose about the company closing or relocating.

Senator George Latimer reminisces about his old hometown of Mount Vernon during a late night drive