Sentences with phrase «as the city works»

Over the past year, Syracuse tax officials have sent foreclosure notices to the owners of 900 properties, a pace that is expected to continue as the city works through a backlog of about 3,500 tax - delinquent properties eligible for seizure.

«As our city works hard to try to expand affordable housing for our working - and middle - class, it is incredibly important to ensure that we are protecting the affordable housing that already exists.

«As the city works to ensure that everyone who is suffering from Legionnaires» disease is getting proper treatment, we must also look to the source of the problem,» Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said.

The tech industry is becoming a major employer as the city works hard to move past its history of textile and tobacco.

As cities work to address decades - long issues of equity in street design (low - income people in particular have a disproportionate risk of death or injury caused by traffic crashes), effective bike share station placement and planning can help close the gap by increasing pedestrian visibility at intersections, providing pedestrian refuge areas, protecting bike lanes and pedestrian plazas, and extending the reach of transit.

As cities work hard to evolve their perspective on the role of streets as public places in smarter city - making, remember this: Good cities know that streets move people, not just cars.

There were two measures on the ballot, one (2C) that would allow the creation of a municipal utility and one (2B) that would raise taxes to help pay for the costs that will arise as the city works to establish that utility.

Not exact matches

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison at the California City Correctional Facility with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6 - month training program.

Jennifer Fix, an associate at private consultancy Dialog, was working on a large infill project for the City of Regina when she met the principals of a boutique firm known as H.B. Lanarc.

That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

As the founder of a Kansas City nonprofit she was tasked with figuring out how the homeless mothers she worked with, many with felony convictions, could make a living wage that supported their families with also retaining the flexibility they needed to care for their kids.

We know that every industry, every community, and every city grapples with safety issues and no one has an absolutely perfect record, but that's what we strive for and we'll keep working as hard as we know how to make our community safer for everyone.»

The Mash has worked with plenty of production partners, such as the Found Footage Festival, which was very popular in cities such as Chicago, London, New Orleans, and beyond.

This successful startup is regularly voted as one of the best places to work in New York City.

In so doing, Hopewell is working to change people's opinions of real estate development as home prices surge in many Canadian cities.

«We've got a lot of hard - working people with knowledge of fintech who are not costing as much as they would in other cities because of the living costs.

He rides a whale of a charter bus to work, which blocks your dinky city transit trolley as it attempts to enter its legally designated space.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

Swinburne, who worked in the City of London before becoming an MEP in 2009, said all the projections were probably the «worst case scenarios» as they don't take into account anything businesses may do to mitigate the impact of Brexit.

While she was working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers» real estate company in New York City, Corcoran's boyfriend at the time, Ray, fronted her some money and gave her a nudge to explore real estate sales.

Centro has been ranked as the city's Best Place to Work for four or five years running in the Crain's Chicago survey.

In fact, Musk has been working with Hawthorne city officials for over a year about building the tunnel, which was originally conceived as a way to get SpaceX employees across from the parking lot to the building safely.

Do not limit yourself to advertising locally, as many traveling business men and women look to co-working spaces in destination cities to have a place to work and network with other professionals.

He discovered the work of Geoffrey West, a theoretical physicist who has observed that cities, unlike animals and corporations, get more productive as they grow.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.

The new EEOC guidelines are intended to bring to bear the weight of anti-discrimination law to prevent such practices, even when the actions are based on benevolent reasons, such as assuming that a working mother wouldn't want to move to another city, even if it would mean a promotion.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

«There's lots of additional content to consider, such as everyday savings offers, general business advice and the availability of things like working capital lines of credit and installment loans,» says Richard Tambor, senior vice president and general manager at New York City - based American Express Business Finance.

Actor Steve Buscemi worked as a firefighter in New York City from 1980 to 1984, Salon reported.

To support local business owners in cities across the country, Capital One Spark Business is launching We Work as One campaign.

And city streets — which are being overcrowded by the influx of ride - hailing vehicles, according to some reports — could become less congested as a ride - sharing fleet moves commuters around en masse, rather than individuals relying on their own cars to get to work.

It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the council change its position, but the company had been asking the city for more time as it worked with regional air - quality officials on a plan to make the smell go away.

Working men were loving Levi's for 60 years before «Lady Levi's» launched in 1934 — just as women in denim became legal on New York City streets and Audrey Hepburn was popularizing pants.

«They said they knew who I was and where I lived,» said Alberto Arredondo, who got the call at work as a pump technician at an oil refinery in the central Mexican city of Salamanca.

«CloudFlare is proud to call San Francisco our home; we carefully chose this city over others as our headquarters to give our employees an innovative, diverse community to work and live,» the tech company said.

«As a homegrown British Columbian and a software engineer, I am so proud of living and working in a city that is recognized worldwide as a first - rate global tech hub.&raquAs a homegrown British Columbian and a software engineer, I am so proud of living and working in a city that is recognized worldwide as a first - rate global tech hub.&raquas a first - rate global tech hub.»

China's richest man, on a buying spree in Hollywood, urged U.S. filmmakers to work more closely with the Asian country as he unveiled a subsidy meant to lure productions to his multi-billion dollar studio in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

As the work of my Brookings colleague William Frey shows, immigrants are migrants within the U. S., too, moving on from traditional immigrant cities — New York and Los Angeles — to other towns and cities in search of a better future.

In this regard, Entrepreneur India personally interacted with Revathy Ashok who is not only associated with the Indian Angel Network but is also Chief Executive Officer and Managing Trustee at Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) which works at improving urban governance in the city by engaging both elected representatives as well as citizens.

After graduating, Soros worked at a souvenir shop before getting a job as a banker in New York City.

«While leaders on the ground in Michigan and the city's creditors understand that they must find a solution to Detroit's serious financial challenge, we remain committed to continuing our strong partnership with Detroit as it works to recover and revitalize and maintain its status as one of America's great cities.»

But for those who have lived, worked and studied in the city, as Dr. Ekzayez has, the destruction the war has left in its wake is devastating.

It wants to offer fertile ground for local entrepreneurs, particularly in the poorer parts of the city, to start businesses and help them grow, empowering the incubator infrastructure to work as effectively as possible.

Despite his success, Corrin has no previous background in food operations; in fact, before launching Freshii, Corrin worked as public relations representative for Oscar de la Renta in New York City.

«Toronto has work to do to keep its position as Canada's leading city,» the magazine said in December.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

-- Oilsands work camps were being pressed into service Tuesday to house evacuees as a raging wildfire emptied the city of Fort McMurray.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.