Sentences with phrase «by city officials about»

I learn about the lieutenant governor coming to town to continue the charade of Cuomo - driven improvements to the Peace Bridge; Mark Poloncarz's endorsement of Byron Brown, a mayor he has little use for; the latest shenanigans at the Erie County Water Authority; and the compelled testimony by city officials about how they play the patronage game.

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A group of cabbies, led by Kattoua, commandeered Wu's grey minivan and prevented him from leaving the scene until city officials arrived, issued him a fine (reports put the amount at about $ 350) and towed his vehicle.

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

The Paris crisis talks involved police as well as officials from City Hall and the company that runs the tower which was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution in 1789 and is visited by an average of about 19,000 people per day.

He was moved to the Downtown construction zone and the Learning Village, where his friends told me he was asked to mislead city officials about the nature of the project, skirting zoning codes and the permit process by claiming a permanent structure was temporary.

Early in the process, Amazon had approached the City of Orlando about possibly annexing the site, according to emails to city officials obtained by the Orlando SentiCity of Orlando about possibly annexing the site, according to emails to city officials obtained by the Orlando Senticity officials obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

The drug lords need to have their drug income reduced by about 95 percent so they can no longer bribe local and national officials, and can no longer finance government and local police forces to protect their drug traffic, and spread terror throughout all those Mexican cities on the border, and then have the terror cross the border into our American cities.

Arsene Wenger did not go the whole hog and blame the fact that Arsenal were held to a draw by Hull City today on the referee Mike Dean, probably because he was worried about being punished by the football authorities for criticism of their seemingly untouchable officials.

Barring unforeseen problems with needed approvals, construction could begin next spring on two city harbors that would expand the number of mooring spaces for recreational boaters by about 20 percent and bring in more tourism dollars, Chicago Park District officials say.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the MTA as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delcity's contribution to the MTA as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.

«She's talking about it,» a former city Democratic elected official admitted to Newsmax over the weekend, saying the idea has not been dismissed by the former first lady's inner circle.

About His Support:... has been endorsed by a host of LGBT organizations and elected officials including all four major LGBT democratic clubs in New York City, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...

Lynn Schulman, a Queens Democrat who ran for the City Council in 2009, has been approached by Queens County officials about a potential run, according to the New York political blog & ldquo; Capitol Tonight.

He periodically visited cities around the state to give speeches about his agenda, but in between, days could pass without a single public appearance by the state's top elected official.

The meeting will feature a presentation by New York City Department of Education (DOE) officials for parents about how to navigate the high schools admissions process, as well an overview -LSB-...]

BP Katz: «Fair to All Applicants, Allows City to Establish Official Policy, Criteria and Process for Community Input» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation's denial of all current applications by for - profit companies to hold paid - admission music festivals -LSB-...]

One of the things that struck me about the impressive ongoing series of lectures on Kingston's Hidden Treasures — the 14th will be presented on Sept. 20 — has been the almost total lack of attendance by city officials.

A day after two children were injured in a drive - by shooting, Mayor Bloomberg said city officials are «worried» about an upswing in gun violence.

New memos debunk the de Blasio's administration's claim that its top officials knew nothing about deed restrictions lifted by a city agency on a nursing home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, learning of it only in late February, after the building was sold to luxury condominium developers for $ 116 million.

NYC city was able to reduce the number of suspensions for school kids by 17 % over the last academic year — about 9,000 fewer suspensions than the year before, education officials said.

A senior New York City budget official said that officials hadn't discussed with their state counterparts how to avoid about $ 1.5 billion in potential cuts to the city initially proposed by Gov. Andrew CuCity budget official said that officials hadn't discussed with their state counterparts how to avoid about $ 1.5 billion in potential cuts to the city initially proposed by Gov. Andrew Cucity initially proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Two months to the day before Dan Loeb accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of doing more harm to people of color than the KKK, the billionaire hedge fund manager was scolding Richard Buery, one of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's most senior black officials, about his apparent ignorance of the obstacles faced by black children in the city.

Despite a precipitous drop in scores — a drop experienced by pretty much every school in the state officials in the Kingston City School District remain optimistic about the future as the adoption of new tougher Common Core standards are implemented this September.

For months, the de Blasio administration has insisted that its top officials knew nothing about deed restrictions that were lifted by a city agency on a nursing home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan — learning of it only in late February, after the building was sold to luxury condominium developers for $ 116 million.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delcity's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.

Police officials were not commenting about a recent report by Investigative Post which suggests the city's Strike Force, formed by the mayor to crack down on gangs and drugs, have conducted some searches without proper cause.

New York City's own bid — which included four possible business districts — was backed by about 70 elected officials, but not Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, or Council members Corey Johnson and Donovan Richards, both contenders to become the next Council speaker.

Four months after Cuomo announced a state of emergency on the New York City subways, transit officials said they have reduced the average 45 - minute response time to an emergency by about half, as part of new data to be released this week.

At 12:30 p.m., Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams will be joined by local elected officials to talk about moving the city forward and what is at stake in this election, Delaware Elementary School, 900 S. Geddes St., Syracuse.

By 2020, officials in that western New York city expect gun violence to decrease by about 50 percent, in part due to the gun court program, Perez Williams saiBy 2020, officials in that western New York city expect gun violence to decrease by about 50 percent, in part due to the gun court program, Perez Williams saiby about 50 percent, in part due to the gun court program, Perez Williams said.

A study to examine the economic viability of a living wage requirement was approved by the city's Industrial Development Agency board today, but city officials, including Comptroller John Liu, are already raising questions about whether it will be truly independent.

Syracuse officials complained about DiTullio in late September, after he left a voice mail for Miner's chief of staff to say that city officials had erred by denying a building permit to Cor Development Co..

City officials in Henderson, Nev., recently questioned a licensed marijuana grower about his relationship with President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal and the grower himself.

When prodded by City Hall, local elected officials will still say plenty of nice things about the mayor, and bolster his record with the kinds of words that should, if heard by enough ears, improve Mr. de Blasio's standing.

Officials admitted then that the contractor was regularly exceeding the city noise codes by about 10 decibels, in spite of attempts to make the work quieter.

In the months since his comment about Stewart - Cousins, Loeb has been excoriated by prominent black politicians and educators, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Bloomberg schools chancellor Dennis Walcott and many of the city's black elected officials.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

By Adam Wise Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said Monday officials will prioritize about $ 40 million worth of building projects for 2011 - 12, moving only on those deemed high priority as a way to quell the city's budget deficit.

The comptroller's report comes on the heels of a separate probe by the city's Department of Investigation, which concluded that top city officials knew or should have known about the shady land deal — and worked to stop it.

While some officials, like Mr. Johnson and Ms. James, say they are concerned about the costs the city may have to bear, others stood by the executive order, saying it provided the accountability Nycha urgently needed.

De Blasio spokesperson Karen Hinton responded to a Gotham Gazette inquiry about the relationship between the mayor and Borough President Diaz Jr., by stating that «Mayor de Blasio works with elected officials from across the City to address urgent issues, as he does with Bronx President Diaz.

Two recent developments appear to signal that Buffalo officials are getting more serious about recycling after a series of reports by Investigative Post documenting serious shortcomings in the city's efforts.

Keep an eye out for those poll numbers and related stories, along with more analysis of the results released last week by Quinnipiac about Mayor de Blasio and other city officials and issues.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

Responding to recent violent incidents and concerns about student - discipline problems raised by a high - school headmaster and others in the Boston Public Schools, Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston late last week called a meeting of top city and school officials to try to reach agreement on how to address the problem.

The city failed to meet its obligation, the court wrote, «by providing nothing more than boilerplate information about seat availability,» and officials abused the discretion allowed in the law by «limiting the information they provided to the obvious.»

Earlier this week despite the cancelling of Google's official event in New York City due to Hurricane Sandy, the tech giant went ahead and announced several new devices anyways, two of the biggest being the introduction of 3G in the Nexus 7 and the much buzzed about Nexus 4 made by LG.

Following an 11:30 am talk about the mural by art historian Isabel Rojas - Williams, and an official re-dedication ceremony by the City of Los Angeles, enjoy live music, art activities, and great food at Olvera Street restaurants.

After saying the city needs more robust barriers to protect cyclists, he prefaced a July interview by saying any questions about cycling infrastructure had to be referred to city officials.

About 700 sheep have now been employed by Turin officials to keep the grass verges and lawns in city parks neatly trimmed.