Sentences with phrase «areas of the state already»

Other areas of the state already have casino gambling run by Indian tribes.

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Following a terrorist attack by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the already - fragile country suffered another tragedy this morning when six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed in Qush Tepa area on Wednesday by suspected Islamic State terrorists, according to reports.

As the lower Murrumbidgee River was already in a state of natural flooding, environmental water could not be used at that time to help dilute the areas of blackwater occurring in the Murrumbidgee River.

The amounts they've already spent would probably fuel the economy of several foreign states, but nevertheless the deficiencies were glaring in several areas in London.

Cuomo also pushed his plan to provide free tuition — beyond state and federal grants already received — for some public college students; he said 85 percent of families from the Buffalo area would be eligible to participate if his plan is adopted by the Legislature.

Three areas of Upstate, including Central New York, are out of the running for casinos because of agreements between the state and Indian tribes that already operate casinos.

It would link to many trails already built in areas of the state.

I already had many concerns with this proposal, including the impact of so many truck trips in an area with the highest rate of asthma in the Nation, but the totally undemocratic disrespect for the public approval process and the people of the City and the State prompts me to write to you.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Advocates for transgender rights hit back hard on Friday after the State Senate's Republican leader raised questions about the propriety of Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent announcement that New York will treat discrimination based on gender identity and expression as discrimination based on sex and disability, areas already covered by the State Human -LSB-...]

Government, your vision, the billions that have already been invested by the state of New York in this generic area, specifically, is the reason why you won that competition,» Biden said.

«DEC has already listed the area as a state superfund site and for over 8 months have been investigating the extent of the contamination and holding the polluters accountable to advance the necessary clean up, as we continue to do with other contaminated sites in Petersburgh, NY and Newburgh, NY.

Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.

The plan that the board approved today, and that Albany will now spend months deliberating on, would fund a new fare payment system to replace the already - obsolete MetroCard; put $ 2.9 billion toward finally finishing the East Side Access project that will allow Long Island Rail Road passengers to disembark in Grand Central; allocate $ 1.5 billion to begin work on the second phase of the Second Avenue Subway, extending it from 96th to 125th streets; and fund countless other nitty - gritty, state - of - good - repair needs across the system's 5,000 - square - mile service area.

The state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Amina Gwar, said the school feeding programme would create about 10,000 jobs and that about 5,000 would be cooks already engaged from the 274 wards across the 25 local government areas of the state.

Robb Smith, Executive Director of Interfaith Impact of New York State and a member of the Coalition of Gambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in other areas.

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, Rep. Joseph Crowley and state Sen. Jose Peralta gathered Monday to urge the city to reduce the density of new buildings in South Corona — saying the area's schools already are at more than 150 percent capacity and the 7 train is strained to capacity.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day When the state started creating plans in 2000 to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, many of us in Rockland County thought we would finally get the mass transit options that much of the New York metro area already enjoys.

Andrew Cuomo is already facing a potentially challenging race and both the state of the MTA and any congestion pricing plan are likely to be major factors in the NYC area.

Oluwawole said, in pursuit of the law, the state government was already working with local government authorities to allocate portions of land for grazing in their areas.

When the state started creating plans in 2000 to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge, many of us in Rockland County thought we would finally get the mass transit options that much of the New York metro area already enjoys.

A statement issued in Enugu on Sunday by the police spokesperson, DSP Ebere Amaraizu, said the Commissioner of Police in the state had already visited Ukehe in Igboetiti Local Government area of Enugu Sstate had already visited Ukehe in Igboetiti Local Government area of Enugu StateState.

Declaring his intention at the Obohia Community Primary School, in Ukwa East local government area of the state, on Thursday, Stanley said his intention to run for the Senatorial seat was born out of his love for the good people of Abia South Senatorial Zone, and the already existing equity in Abia South, which empowered an Ukwa man to run for the senatorial position in 2019 election.

Igbudu said he called the state Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Yamu, to alert him to the attacks, adding that Yamu informed him that the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area was already heading for the community.

OLCOTT, N.Y. (WBEN)- New York State set up «mobile command centers» in areas along the Lake Ontario shoreline as a result of the rising flood levels which already affected several residents and communities.

Katz has already secured the support of the Bronx Democratic Organization and several city and state officials from the area.

Potentially affected regions include large swaths of the already muggy southeastern United States, the Amazon, western and central Africa, southern areas of the Mideast and Arabian peninsula, northern India and eastern China.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Earlier in the hearing, he had explained that his opposition to the Democratic push for a rejuggling of accounts was based on his belief that the social and behavioral sciences and the geosciences «are areas for which the United States already has a wide lead among nations.»

Yet strip mining in the United States has already obliterated an area the size of Delaware.

Jeremy Firestone, director of the Center for Carbon - free Power Integration at the University of Delaware, said the Obama administration's strategy has been to make offshore wind areas already leased to developers irreversible by the Trump administration as long as the projects have state support.

Stein, of Binghamton University in New York, had been called in to assess the new fossil tree in a quarry near the small town of Gilboa in New York state, an area already famous for its enigmatic «stump» fossils.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this year is 30 percent more than in an average year, and fires have consumed more than 8.6 million acres, an area larger than the state of Maryland.

What matters most in this process, anyway, is the degree of freedom for the gamer: Kojima has stated that The Phantom Pain is sort of a dream come true because he already wanted to deliver a true open world experience in the first Metal Gear Solid, offering different approaches to a mission or an area to be infiltrated.

For history, science, and technical subjects, the standards offer 10 areas of key literacy skills to overlay onto already existing state content standards.

However, in combination the various chapters confirm what most observers of charter schools already know: that charter schools serve different demographic groups depending on where they are located, are disproportionately located in low - income and minority areas in big cities and in those places serve mostly low - income and African American families — but, in some states, also exist in suburban areas where they serve predominantly white populations.

By removing obstacles for candidates who demonstrate subject area mastery, speeding up the process for qualified out - of - state teaching candidates and allowing already - certified teachers to earn the flexibility to instruct in subject areas where there is a teaching shortage it takes an important step forward to the goal of a stronger, more diverse teaching force.

This flexibility is intended to build on and support the significant State and local reform efforts already under way in critical areas such as transitioning to college - and career - ready standards and assessments; developing systems of differentiated recognition, accountability, and support; and evaluating and supporting teacher and principal effectiveness.

When adjusting for enrollment and inflation, school funding has been cut in the following areas since leadership of the General Assembly switched hands in 2010 (a time period in which the state was already struggling to find resources as a result of the Great Recession): classroom teachers, instructional support personnel (counselors, nurses, librarians, etc.), school building administrators (principals and assistant principals), teacher assistants, transportation, low wealth schools, disadvantaged students, central office, limited English proficiency, academically gifted, small counties, driver training, and school technology.

While it does already show favoritism to urban charter schools, not non-urban, from a purely performance - based point of view, Massachusetts» balance still is off; if the state designed the policy exclusively to maximize academic gains, it would raise the cap in urban areas and lower the cap in non-urban areas.

In addition to that I am not sure on the exact state of the threads so I am not sure how well JB Weld would even grip the already small surface area.

We already had experience working in the reflective apparel area [for the United States military], and dogs and cats are such an important part of all of our lives... It was an easy decision to bring to market a line of products that could leverage our expertise and benefit our four - legged friends.»

Nobody will complain if funds come their way, but given the state - by - state laboratories we already have of differing approaches to energy efficiency, the logic of spending in this area remains to be proven (as much as we all rightly love and value and benefit from energy efficiency).

This is because areas in the state served by other utilities have already reached the 5 percent cap on total net metered generation set by the California Public Utilities Commission to trigger the enactment of the new net metering rules.

It already drains an area roughly the size of Britain or the U.S. state of Florida, accounting for around four per cent of global sea - level rise — an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.

The Sierra Club said the action would give the area over to the oil industry, while ignoring the place's importance to the Gwich «in Nation, create permanent drilling damage to one of the country's last wild places, and cause irreversible climate impacts in a state already warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country.

It already drains an area roughly the size of Britain or the US state of Florida, accounting for around 4 % of global sea - level rise, an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.

The Open Space Institute is committed to farmland protection, having already preserved nearly 2,000 acres, (including the Davenport and Misner Farms), in the area, complementing 25,000 acres of Shawangunk Ridge protection and a total of 100,000 acres across New York State.

Potentially affected regions include large swathes of the already muggy south - eastern United States; the Amazon; western and central Africa; southern areas of the Middle East, including the Arabian peninsula; northern India; and eastern China.

Again, the point is while climate change and goals for reducing impacts on climate produce a lot of talk, the United States already is seeing significant reductions in key climate and air quality areas.

For anyone who's lived here, it really doesn't take an expert to recognize that the island - state has a number of things going for it: a contained urban area (the longest east - west stretch is just over 40 km and north - south stretch about 20 km), one of the most efficient and reliable electrical grids, sophisticated IT sector, ambitions to remain at the forefront of maintaining its already world - class transportation infrastructure, and a top - down policy environment which will ensure rapid deployment of a complicated and ambitious system once there is buy - in from the top.