Sentences with phrase «bad public policy decisions»

Burnam blamed «multiple bad public policy decisions over the decades» for leaving Houston and other areas vulnerable to deadly flooding.

OTTAWA — Jim Balsillie warns that provisions tucked into the Trans - Pacific Partnership could cost Canada hundreds of billions of dollars — and eventually make signing it the worst public policy decision in the country's history.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

It should be clear from their decision to exempt management / confidential employees, including political appointees, from layoffs in a move that reflects bad management and bad public policy.

Ken Girardin, an analyst with the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that advocates for lower taxes and restrained government spending, said, «These higher pay figures reflect bad decisions by both local officials, who signed off on costly deals with the PBA, and state officials, who refuse to fix the state's binding arbitration system that's rigged» to benefit unions.

«Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decisions sciences and engineering and public policy.

With our schools» focus on public policy, and on preparing all students for college, we view the Trump administration's decision to end the DACA program for undocumented youth as bad policy.

Horn blamed the current clash over classroom size on legislators» willingness to package major policy decisions like this one with the state's overall spending plan, a move that he acknowledged is made to avoid lengthy, sometimes bitter, public discussions and bad publicity for lawmakers.

«It is bad enough that more than $ 50 million in scarce public funds have been turned over to Jumoke Academy / Fuse, but unless immediate action is taken to reverse the Malloy administration's bad policy decisions, the series of no - bid contracts and State Board of Education votes will mean literally hundreds of millions more will be given to this charter school chain,» Pelto concluded.

«It's bad enough that climate alarmists have actively sought to keep those who disagree with the «dangerous manmade climate change» thesis from publishing or speaking on the subject, or having a role in public policy decisions, it's far worse when they seek to prosecute climate chaos skeptics,» says Paul Driessen.

With the CCC being responsible for informing decisions with consequences for policy decades into the future, it reflects very badly on the CCC that its Chair routinely makes such uncompromising, and unfounded claims in public, which can not be supported with evidence, apparently to defend the CCC's advice to Parliament from criticism.

... «core policy» government decisions protected from suit are decisions as to a course or principle of action that are based on public policy considerations, such as economic, social and political factors, provided they are neither irrational nor taken in bad faith.

The court clarified that «core policy» government decisions protected from suit are «decisions as to a course or principle of action that are based on public policy considerations, such as economic, social and political factors, provided they are neither irrational nor taken in bad faith.»