Sentences with phrase «as a city government»

I have been watching with growing alarm as our City government continues to flounder, making little if any headway on issues such as police and community relations, rampant violence, decaying relationships with neighborhood organizations and the lack of progress on jobs, poverty and education.

The concept is simple: CitéGreen has partnered with companies that operate services like car and bike shares, electronics recycling, and renewable energy production, as well as some city governments.

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The attacks, a week after 60 people were killed as they waited at a voter registration centre in the city, underlined mounting insecurity despite repeated government pledges to tighten defenses.

Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

Following gigs as the business manager at the University of Alberta's student newspaper and a government relations director at the students» union, Iveson beat an incumbent for a seat on city council.

As of February, the federal government had reimbursed New York City for $ 7 million of these costs, according to the Times.

The City of Cockburn has continued its attack on the interim report by the state government's Major Stadia Taskforce, flagging the possibility of legal action as part of its next move.

It's very common to see public education, private education, city government, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits come together to solve a problem as a group.

As digital minister, Vaizey had responsibility for overseeing government quangos Tech City UK and Tech North, as well as rolling broadband out across the countrAs digital minister, Vaizey had responsibility for overseeing government quangos Tech City UK and Tech North, as well as rolling broadband out across the countras well as rolling broadband out across the countras rolling broadband out across the country.

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.

While an opinion poll on Saturday gave Fine Gael a one - point lead over Fianna Fail and suggested another minority government as the most likely outcome, Dublin City University politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley said Monday's events would also hurt them.

For civic governments trying to stay on top of all of this, it can mean overload: As more and more government departments — many of them already prodigious producers of data — start moving their data to the Internet, cities are faced with the question of what to do with it all.

As part of the Islamic kingdom's drive to diversify its economy away from oil, the government has unveiled plans for a massive «entertainment city».

As Uber petitions municipal governments and battles angry taxi drivers in cities across Canada, at least one person in Parliament will be paying close attention.

In 2011 she launched Uncharted Play in New York City and began selling the product to businesses as part of their corporate social responsibility and marketing efforts, as well as to schools and governments.

As we've made our great leaps from tribes to cities to nations, we have always had to build social infrastructure like communities, media and governments for us to thrive and reach the next level.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

But our governments need to make the case, as the Dutch and the Swiss recently did by sending delegations to Asian capitals to promote their cities as European hubs.

Cities such as Surrey, Canada, are using a mobile app to answer citizens» questions about government services.

City of Swan spokesman Charlie Gregorini said that, while the Rothgard proposal sounded impressive, the State Government's plan was just as big or bigger in terms of employment and investment opportunities as the Rothgard proposal, and had been strongly supported by the community through public consultation.

The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.

As businesses and governments have struggled to understand the so - called millennials — born between roughly 1980 and 2000 — one frequent conclusion has been that they have a unique love of cities.

Patent trolls now threaten a variety of targets: city governments, hotels, banks and many other entities that happen to use software as a routine part of their business.

A week after Amazon sent cities across North America scrambling to compete for the e-commerce giant's second headquarters, Philadelphia government leaders are beginning to settle on three locations to pitch most forcefully as the nucleus of a vast regional presence for the Seattle company: The Schuylkill Yards and uCity Square sites in West Philadelphia and South Philadelphia's Navy Yard.

Local governments, especially those outside mega cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, spent at least 8.6 billion yuan ($ 1.3 billion) subsidizing airlines in 2016, mostly for them to start direct services to far - flung places such as New York and Paris, according to data compiled by Civil Aviation Data Analysis.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

It's taxes collected by governments that provide us with the wide array of social services and infrastructure, such as schools, medical services, libraries and parks, safe streets and livable cities.

Not only will city and state governments add more penalties the longer you ignore your tickets, but they could decide to report them to the credit bureaus as debts.

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive environmental, industrial and emergency response services to all areas of Regional, City and Town government through established contracts, or on an as needed basis.

With Crypto Valley's track record of attracting companies that seek to take advantage of minimal government invasion of corporate coffers and share an overall love of innovation, it's no wonder that the city of Zug (the capital of the canton of Zug) has been hailed as «Silicon Valley 2.0.»

The budget dedicates $ 11.2 billion to cities and provinces for affordable housing over 10 years as part of the second wave of the government's infrastructure program, $ 5 billion of which is to encourage housing providers to pool their resources with private partners to pay for new projects.

News from a prominent Chinese newspaper help lift precious metals prices, as the paper inferred that the Chinese government is planning on offering stimulus to numerous cities and provinces.

Clean Harbors provides comprehensive environmental, industrial and emergency response services to all areas of County, City and Town government through established contracts, or on an as needed basis.

Some 6,000 Baltimore youths started work Monday as part of the city's YouthWorks summer program.The five - week employment program gives people ages 14 to 21 opportunities to work in industries such as finance, law, government, health care and tourism...

The Springfield, Missouri - based hunting, fishing, camping and outdoor recreation retailer provided more than 80 Tracker boats to local, state and federal government agencies and rescue organizations in the widely flooded city, as well as in other impacted communities in Texas.

The report — «The New York City Tech Ecosystem,» by HR&A Advisors — notes that roughly half the tech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agencies.

The move marks yet another notable effort taken by the Singapore government to promote the application of blockchain tech as part of its wider push for the city - state's fintech development.

The B.C. government has been shut out, as have the cities of Vancouver and Abbotsford, the Pacheedaht and Tsawwassen First Nations, and many others who also want and deserve answers on these critical issues.

According to a report from Sohu, while the fund has been launched by Hangzhou - based venture capital firm Tunlan Investment, it will see over $ 400 million coming from the Hangzhou city government as a guided fund that will be used to invest in promising blockchain projects.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

And as far as spending by big cities growing too fast, their operating spending has increased at a slower pace than overall municipal government spending while their responsibilities have arguably grown at a faster pace.

While this move could easily be seen as a demotion, Mr. Hughes, a trusted confident of Ms. Redford's, will have an important role in repairing the provincial government's strained relationship with its municipal leaders — both in the large cities and rural municipalities.

As Mr. Prentice's capital city commodore, Mr. Mandel is responsible for the most politically dangerous government department, Health.

«As a company we're committed to working with government on issues that affect riders, drivers and the cities where we operate,» Uber said in that statement.

As the number of cities banning them has grown in recent weeks, Broward County government is the latest considering...

At launch events in Toronto, Quebec City, Charlottetown and Clarington, the Government of Canada rolled out funding as part of its initiative to create 10,000 paid student work placements over the next four...

Singapore is a global city with a government supportive of new ventures, and it's also chock - full of amazing cafes, meetups and events, as well as gorgeous coworking spaces.

Exit West follows the lovers Saeed and Nadia, who flee their unnamed Middle Eastern city as a religious militant group takes it over from the ailing government.

Victoria Prentis, Conservative MP for Oxford North, was speaking as the war reaches a climax, with reports up to 100,000 people remain trapped in the city of Aleppo after the Syrian government, backed by Russia, virtually recaptured it on Tuesday.