Sentences with phrase «citizen groups like»

Sink says his dedicated officers utilize proactive enforcement strategies and crime prevention methods to reduce crime and that the department seeks input from the community and citizen groups like Community Watch to create long - term solutions for neighborhood crime problems.

Colin and I also discuss the philosophies in Jaron Lanier's «You Are Not a Gadget» and Kurt Vonnegut's «Player Piano,» and how organizations, from advocacy non-profits to citizens groups like the Tea Party, turn their online networks into offline political influence.

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But in countries like the United States, China, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, government groups have talked about using blockchains for myriad tasks, like issuing national currency or tracking identity records for citizens and visitors.

«Nineteenth century reformers like Amor De Cosmos would be proud, I think, but a little shocked it took us this long,» said Kai Nagata, communications director at B.C. citizens» group, Dogwood.

Kind of hard to be called racist when arabs are full citizens of the nation, groups like the Druze are given special treamtment for their non-jewish beliefs and when you have arabs in their form of parliment.

This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), «Holy Name» — a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

First, the good: public - interest news outlet ProPublica is asking citizens to help track political advertising by candidates and outside groups like SuperPACs (they need assistance because the FCC has balked at making local TV stations publish online...

The clamour by politicians for more powers that follows every terrorist attack (no matter the facts of the case) is draconian and misguided and does nothing to address the underlying political and social conditions that explain why British citizens leave home to join groups like ISIS.

There is some ambivalence to that (for good reasons) in groups like London citizens.

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

Collective actions could allow approved organisations, like Citizens Advice Bureaux, (which saw an 18 per cent increase in employment discrimination enquiries in 2008/09) to bring claims on behalf of groups of people.

This is significant progress for a group who frequently feel like second class citizens - unrecognised for the contribution they make to society and left in ill - health and financial hardship as a result of caring.

There are also citizen organizations which engage in lobbying activity, like environmental or consumer rights groups.

Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, said his group had no position on it but that he liked the value of a «citizen legislature.»

Outside spending groups like Rove's American Crossroads super PAC are the progeny of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums for and against individual candidates.

Students, labor leaders, and citizens» groups are calling on the State Senate to pass the New York DREAM Act, which would give undocumented youth access to state financial aid like the Tuition Assistance Program.

Hawkins doesn't like the metropolitan government structure as proposed by the citizen group Consensus, but said consolidation of other services should be explored.

«He won't own up to the backroom deals he is making with groups like the Family Institute of Connecticut and the Connecticut Citizens Defense League that want to ban gay marriage and repeal our gun safety laws,» Connecticut Democrats said in a fundraising email.

Citizens Union, like dozens of groups that are active in state politics, exists as both a (c)(3)-- which can receive tax - deductible donations but can spend a finite amount of money on direct political activity — and a (c)(4)-- which can engage in a broader range of political activity designed to promote «social welfare» but can't get tax - exempt donations.

The citizen group Consensus released a report earlier this year urging the city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to merge governments and other services like law enforcement agencies and courts.

Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»

Good government groups like Citizens Union and NYPIRG, as well as reform - minded legislators and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, have been calling for sweeping reforms aimed at truly cleaning up Albany's corruption problem.

Esposito, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment, says while her group wants careful consideration of hydrofracking, it's taking attention away from other issues, like coping with climate change.

The govt.should quickly despatch these gallant officers to the N.eastern part of Ngr to arrest the members of the terrorist BH who have been bombing and killing the innocent citizens of this country and not harmless group like Massob.

It's a group of like - minded citizens, that's been growing organically, meeting twice a week for months.

«We'd like to believe that he is holding himself and others to the highest standard, but we don't have any independent verification of that,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

In hyper - ageing countries like Italy and Germany, where 1 in 7 people will be over 80 in 2050, it is unclear how a shrinking group of young people can generate the wealth needed to support the growing cohort of elderly citizens.

All had been searching for like - minded citizen scientists in New York City but had come up empty — at least until they logged on to the DIYbio Google group for amateur biologists.

Elderly aren't the first group of people you think of when speaking about online dating, but mature citizens crave intimacy and companionship just like anybody else.

At 16, its citizens partake in an initiation ritual, the Choosing Ceremony, in which, like Harry Potter and his wizardly kin, they choose their group for life.

«The only way you make something like this work is to fully inform parents what their options are and how to exercise their options, and school superintendents aren't doing that,» says William L. Taylor, chairman of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, a liberal advocacy group.

Henderson first began crusading to dismantle the fortressed bureaucracy of some public schools in the 1970s, at a time when groups like Common Cause and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen were pushing for government to be more responsive to citizens.

RI - CAN creates informed citizens with a commitment to closing the achievement gap through a combination of media work, electronic communications and social networking, publications and partnerships with like - minded civic and community groups and events.

I'm predicting that a group of concerned citizens will finally have a way of pushing back against data to give a more nuanced version of what data ought to look like in schools.

I am Mr Priscilla Gomez by name, i am a citizen of Texas USA, i have been looking forward for a genuine loan company for the past 5 months and all i got was group of scams who made me to trust them and at the end of the day, they duped me of $ 7000 without giving anything in return, all my hope was lost, i got confused and frustrated, i find it very difficult to feed my family, i never wanted to have anything to do with loan companies on net again, because i never trusted any loan company since i was scammed, so i went to borrow some money from a friend, i told him all that happened and he said he can help me, that he knows a loan company that can help me, that he just got a loan from them, he directed me on how to apply for the loan, i did as he told me, i applied, though i never believed but i tried and to my greatest surprise my loan was granted to me within 48 hours, i could not believe, i am happy and rich again and i am thanking God that upon this scams all over the places a genuine company like this still exist, please i advise everyone out there who are in need of loan and can be reliable, trusted and capable of paying back at the due time of funds to contact ([email protected]) and be free from scams on the internet.

These side quests range from stopping an underground drug ring that produces lethal drugs for augmented citizens, ending the reign of an ex-magician who has hypnotised a group of individual to praise him like their messiah, or hunting down a killer who is targeting augmented individuals in order to «make them whole again».

Similar to the Pikmin games it looks like you will control a group of heroes with the ability to gain temporary added strength by rescuing citizens and bolstering your numbers.

Set in 18th century alternative history England, the game follows a linear story line of The Order — a group of powerful knights — who protect the citizens of London from beast - like half breeds.

But while our politicians are, for the most part, a group of gray - haired old men, in the world of the Citizens of Earth, the Vice President of Earth hits the street with his constituency to fight evil and unravel a rash of mysterious happenings all over the world and fighting everyday evils like coffee - spewing robots and rogue stop signs.

Groups like Citizens Climate Lobby are working hard to build up grassroots support for this policy.

Stacy has also been involved with local anti-wind power groups like the Michigan - based Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition (IICC) led by Kevon Martis.

As we take bold actions by getting involved with groups like Citizens» Climate Lobby, it does change the world around us.

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

After you take out the occasional embarrassment like the citizens assembly on delaying action against climate change as long as electorally convenient, the climate achievements of those governments come down to remarkably low proposed emission reductions, increases in MRET, a series of on again off again focus group - driven programs like Green Loans and the solar feed - in tariff, and shovelling as much coal as possible out of the ground and exporting it.

I can tell you that the rewards to making a difference by lobbying, organizing, meeting with climate advocate friends, being involved with groups like Citizens» Climate Lobby and Climate Reality Project are well worth any sacrifices.

It feels like I made difference just co-founding the southern Oregon Citizens» Climate Lobby group in 2013 that meets monthly and is going strong to this day.

He also asked people to join groups like the Sierra Club, Beyond Coal and Citizens Climate Lobby.

our government, with a new tax system and control that will rival income tax, and other special interest groups, like third world dictators who kill and mane their citizen.

He said the city would like at least 40 percent renewables, and his citizens» group would like to see 50 percent renewables, which according to some initial modeling they have found to be possible in the city.

What's more, under these new laws, citizen groups will likely be shut out of environmental reviews of big projects like oil pipelines.