Sentences with phrase «after former state»

The idea of Common Core resonated with him after former state commissioner of education Terry Holliday visited the church to promote it.

The program is named after a former state legislator who was a staunch advocate for special - needs families.

ALBANY — Republican state chairman Ed Cox is wondering if Republican Governors Association head Chris Christie forgot his roots in knocking the candidacy of Cox's endorsed standard bearer, Rob Astorino, after former state officials called on Astorino to apologize for comments he made about Christie.

The Saturday after the former state comptroller was tapped by his old political rival, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to head the SUNY board, French's campaign sent out an email invite to tonight's event with the following message:

The defense rested after a former state budget director testified Percoco didn't pressure her when he called to ask about releasing state funds that were owed to the Syracuse developers.

* Former President Bill Clinton headlines a rally for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Las Vegas tonight, hours after former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle (R) announced her mammoth third - quarter haul.

The Skelos verdict came about two weeks after former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on seven counts of corruption in his own federal trial.

Some Long Islanders want the Dean G. Skelos Sports Complex in Rockville Centre to be renamed after the former state senator was convicted of corruption charges.

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

The move came after former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, were indicted, in part for influencing the award of a $ 12 million Nassau contract.

Also Monday, the legislature agreed to advertise for an independent inspector general — a position advocated by Democrats and later Republicans after former State Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) and his son, Adam, were convicted in 2015 on corruption charges involving a Nassau contract.

Less than a month after the state's controversial, dead - of - night decision to name the Tappan Zee Bridge's $ 4 billion replacement after former state Gov. Mario Cuomo, Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner wants the new span's walking / bike path to honor Pete Seeger.

Not exact matches

The upheaval came after members of an anti-war group calling itself Code Pink approached the witness table, where former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and George P. Shultz were testifying.

A newspaper is reporting that a Florida state senator who resigned this week after using a racial slur hired a former Hooters «calendar girl» and a Playboy model with no political experience to be consultants for his political action committee last year.

Because its citizens, starting in 2006, had been covered by a comprehensive state healthcare program similar to the ACA known as Romneycare, after the state's former governor, Mitt Romney.

Hours before the US launched the missiles, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state, said the previous administration «should have been more willing to confront Assad» after previous chemical attacks killed thousands of innocent civilians.

A former York real estate agent has lost his licence and his son is facing further penalties after the State Administrative Tribunal upheld allegations they pocketed $ 6 million from deceitful and misleading land deals.

According to emails revealed in 2016 by Gawker, former State Department official Philippe Reines gossiped with reporters about Rosen's behavior, saying he was removed from the State Department bureau after he allegedly harassed another employee there.

AFTER 33 years in the steel industry and having grown the family business into one of the state's biggest names in steel retailing, former Midalia Steel managing director Geoff Midalia has taken a completely different tack with his newest business venture.

Nevada's governor, a former federal judge named Brian Sandoval, had run for office in 2010 promising to attract jobs to the state, desperate to expand beyond its casino industry after unemployment topped 14 %.

«Inside our country, but also outside, in particular in our European neighbourhood, there would be concern and a lack of understanding if politicians in the biggest and economically strongest country (in Europe) did not live up to their responsibilities,» read a statement from Steinmeier, a former foreign minister who has been thrust centre - stage after taking on the usually largely ceremonial head of state role in March.

In the film Snowden, released earlier this year, Woodley plays Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of the former National Security Agency contractor, who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia after fleeing the United States in 2013.

Trump has picked Pompeo to take over the State Department, after former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired.

Indeed, that attitude explains how, nearly seven years after their fateful game of catch, the former dorm mates — RAM not only stands for «Randy and Mike» but also is the nickname (Rams) of sports teams at Colorado State University, their alma mater — have built a $ 4.6 - million company that competes against the likes of Wilson, Spalding, and Nike.

The IOC has been re-testing all Russian athletes» samples from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for performance - enhancing drugs after Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Moscow's discredited anti-doping laboratory, revealed a state - run doping scheme in 2016.

Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer alleging sexual harassment, is also working with members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.

Nick makes a great point, in my State, a former star NFL player (Rae Carruth) is going to walk free from prison this year (October 2018) after serving roughly 17 years on charges & conviction of «murder for hire».

Since the post, the company has fired its engineering head after revelations of a serious sexual harassment investigation at his previous employer, saw its head of product leave after questionable sexual behavior was uncovered at a company event and has initiated an investigation into the entire situation with a former Attorney General of the United States at the lead.

Veteran lobbyist and former Secretary of State Jim Smith joined SSG in 2011 after splitting off from Ballard & Smith, the firm Brian Ballard and he started.»

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

Former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan once stated that it's «very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact», but he was wrong.

The comments came after a leaked internal email sent Wednesday from one of Kenney's organizers, former Edmonton MLA David Dorward, stated that Kenney is wedded to the PCs whether or not he wins the leadership race, which begins Oct. 1.

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper added to this unease after a recent trip to Washington, stating that he does not believe President Trump's threat to pull out of the deal is a bluff, and that the government needs to think about concessions to move the process forward.

Launched by former finance - types John Ballay and Matt Mueller, the New York - based Knot Standard intended to fill a dearth in bespoke suiting in the United States, after the founders noticed their American colleagues in Dubai weren't dressing up to snuff at international business meetings and didn't have the desire to seek out a traditional tailor.

Gingrich, the former presidential candidate and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that after the attacks, «We had an opportunity to stand up and say, «You know, it is true - some people in the United States might make a film that is totally whacked out.

After nearly a decade of debate, the former Hindu kingdom adopted a new constitution in September that declares the Himalayan nation to be a secular state.

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be «a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,» in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.

More than anything, the trial exposed how Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's former secretary of state, bent rules to get his retirement apartment ready after Pope Francis was elected in 2013 and named a new secretary of state.

Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth - century Japan, tells the story of a Jesuit priest, Sebastião Rodrigues, in search of a former mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira, an historical figure who apostatized after undergoing torture at the hands of the Tokugawa state.

Anderson is referring to Wednesday's firing of Penn State President Graham Spanier and head football coach Joe Paterno, days after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with abusing eight boys, including in a Penn State locker room.

Treasury, which makes Australian brands Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Wynns and has been building up its United States premium wine business after acquiring the former Diageo US wine business for $ 754 million in late 2015, made the decision to start up a French brand from scratch earlier this year.

After a failed attempt to hire Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano and near brushes with Washington State's Mike Leach and NC State's Dave Doeren, Tennessee fired Currie and replaced him with former coach Phillip Fulmer.

The former NC State and Wisconsin signal - caller was drafted in the third round after concerns about his height caused Wilson's draft stock to plummet.

After Jim Harbaugh tweeted his top five Drake songs, former Wolverine and current NFL free agent LaMarr Woodley, delivered the following shot in the direction of Ohio State's Urban Meyer.

After the NCAA ended its short moratorium on championship events in North Carolina, 166 current and former college athletes sent the NCAA's Board of Governor's a letter, obtained by Outsports, asking them to pull events from the state.

The former Liverpool defender stated that he felt sorry for Marouane Fellaini after being isolated in midfield due to Pogba's ill - discipline.

Tyvis Powell, a former Ohio State player and current Seattle Seahawk, had the following tweet after Michigan's 14 - 13 loss to...

The Oregon Ducks will wear hot pink helmets and gear on Saturday, 25 of which will be auctioned off in order to raise money for the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, a charity devoted to fighting cancer in women and named after former NC State hoops coach Kay Yow.

Moments after Kevin Durant hit the game - winner in the Warriors» pivotal Game 3 victory over the Cavaliers on Wednesday, Draymond Green said it was the high - pressure situations late in the game that Golden State needed the former league MVP for in the first place.