Sentences with phrase «city government telling»

This is essentially city government telling a private business that they can not make contracts with (sell products of) certain businesses.

Not exact matches

The city seemed almost suspiciously clean, and my driver told me the government had been working for a month to spruce it up.

Last year, officials from Moscow's government told local media that they were looking into the technology in a bid to reduce the risk of fraud when people are voting on city management issues.

Speaking at report's launch at St. Mary le - Bow church in the City of London, Dr Rowan Williams told Premier: «Government policy has actually been moving in the direction we'd like to see it moving in terms of tax transparency and better regulation.

Mike Rowley, city council board member for housing, told the Oxford Times: «Rough sleeping is a growing challenge nationally, and the Government simply doesn't provide enough funding.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

(how much before can not be told since the excavations by James Mellaart have been terminated by the Turkish government), this nascent city site is a veritable Goddess bonanza.

What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.

But that proposal is unlikely to sway the Plan Commission, which in its current incarnation does whatever City Hall (in this case the Park District or whoever in city government really is pulling the strings) tells it toCity Hall (in this case the Park District or whoever in city government really is pulling the strings) tells it tocity government really is pulling the strings) tells it to do.

Bharara said the complaint outlines what he believes is a «systemic problem» in Albany — and he was also quick to note that when he uses the term «Albany,» he means the state government that is located there, and not the city itself, which he called a «wonderful town,» as Mayor Kathy Sheehan has told him «multiple times.»

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

«Harendra Singh has proven himself to be clinically incapable of telling the truth,» said Kevin Keating of Garden City, representing Edward Mangano, adding that over the course of Singh's testimony, «he probably lied 1,000 times and he's the centerpiece of the government's case.»

«You will never find a city and state government that work better together than these two governments will wind up working together,» Mr. Cuomo told reporters.

In its report, the DOI said that despite its senior staff being made aware that NYCHA was out of compliance with city lead laws in 2015, and its Chair, Shola Olatoye, being told in 2016 of non-compliance with both city and federal rules, certifications were still submitted to the federal government.

«If you talk to small businesses in the city of New York, they'll tell you that government works against them, that government slows them down, that government in fines and fees and penalties and taxes work against them.

Cuomo told reporters after a visit to Liverpool yesterday that government consolidation is the only way a city like Syracuse can afford things like massive repairs to a crumbling sewer system.

The story of becoming sober more than eight years ago is one Mr. Johnson tells with candor, a key element in the biography of a 35 - year - old who gained national attention for coming out as gay to his Massachusetts high school football team, and who achieved the legislative pinnacle of New York City government on Wednesday, becoming the speaker of the New York City Council.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday for calling for a shutdown of the federal government, telling reporters in Long Island City the statement was «cavalier» given the disruption it could cause.

A shift in costs under the Medicaid program from the state to New York City government remains in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed $ 154 billion budget his Medicaid czar on Monday told lawmakers.

«The true test of whether or not you run an effective government in New York City is handling the things you didn't anticipate, and nobody could anticipate,» Peter Ragone, a senior advisor to Mr. de Blasio, told the Observer earlier this month, before the murders.

Brooklyn Assistant US Attorney Todd Kaminsky told the judge that Meng was an influential government and personal leader in New York City's growing Chinese - American community, but his actions undermined the public's trust.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

A highly - placed government source told Gay City that de Blasio reversed himself on the bill to court Greenfield's support as chair of the Land Use Committee for his faltering mass re-zoning plan that includes affordable housing.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

On Tuesday, however, he told reporters in Albany that he was considering a return to city government.

The mayor's spokesman told the Daily News that the mayor did not know about Offinger's hotel stay and would not have consented to it and reiterated that Offinger was not a government employee and «did not make any decisions at any level for city government.»

HCR spokeswoman Charni Sochet told the Times Union that Aiello's arrangement — grad school in New York City, and a full - time government job in Albany — was not unusual.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is telling local governments they are on their own when it comes to coping with a recently imposed property tax cap, saying it's up to county and city government leaders to make the hard choices, and to stop complaining.

On Monday, the mayor sought to make a move towards more openness, telling anchor Errol Louis on NY1's Inside City Hall that he would no longer shield communications on government matters with outside consultants.

He also told lawmakers the government should play «a more active role» in helping poor cities.

«I think it is crucially important to New York City to have leadership in the Assembly that wants to be fair to New York City, and let's be clear — we often don't get our fair share from state government,» Mr. de Blasio told the Observer while taking questions from reporters at City Hall.

«Women - owned businesses are systemically shortchanged when it comes to competing for government contracts,» Gillibrand told reporters at Data Conversation Laboratory, a Queens - based, woman - owned firm, flanked by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing), state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Flushing), Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D - Fresh Meadows) and City Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens).

According the News4New York government affairs reporter Melissa Russo, disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer told her off - camera that he has not ruled out running for city Comptroller in 2013.

Torres told Observer that journalism «is under siege» from both the federal government and City Hall, pointing to the Mayor Bill de Blasio's refusal to release emails between himself and outside advisers he has dubbed «agents of the city» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissioCity Hall, pointing to the Mayor Bill de Blasio's refusal to release emails between himself and outside advisers he has dubbed «agents of the city» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissiocity» and his alleged attempts to fire the Department of Investigation's (DOI) commissioner.

«Black Mass» tells the true story of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, who teamed up with the FBI to bring down the Italian mafia and then used the government agency as a shield to protect himself as he took over every type of illegality in the city.

«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»

As a result, Greenwood Academies has been told by the government to rebroker the City of Derby Academy and Skegness Academy.

My local stretch of U.S. Route 206 tells the tale: Driving north, you'll first pass the inner - city school district of Trenton where 90 percent of students are economically disadvantaged (i.e., meet the requirements for free or reduced - price lunch, the government's proxy for poverty),...

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post the link separately since posting a link delays the post

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post... Read More

With that much demand on a societal level (even the government pretty much tells you that you should be going to college no matter what) and loans that are subsidized so that the lender faces minimal risk in case of a default, even state and city public schools are priced at a ridiculous premium.

It's a good read for anyone in animal welfare, or city government, that may make you question what you think you know about breed stereotypes, and what science tells us.

Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2017 — Current pledges by national governments are not enough to reach the goal set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but hope remains in the leading role being taken by subnational and non-state actors like cities, companies and organizations, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón told participants on the closing day of the Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) in Mexico City.

When Passive House Plus told Prof Ürge - Vorsatz about a comment Passive House Institute director Prof Wolfgang Feist made in these pages a few years ago — that the most ambitious action on climate change was coming from city governments and the European Union, rather than from national governments — she agreed.

Instead of only those governments which are parties to the Climate Change Convention talking to each other, the dialogue includes cities, businesses, investors and regions, all engaged for the first time in interactive story - telling.

«While it would be better in the long term, from the market side, it's hard to decentralize Chinese cities because we are still in the early stages of urbanization,» Yan Song, a professor at UNC - Chapel Hill who has consulted the Beijing government, told me recently.

Here are a few ideas: tell everybody in the city when you're stuck in slow - moving traffic; warn the drivers on the freeway behind you that they should consider an alternate route; tell the people still at home that they should spend another ten minutes reading the morning news before they leave for work; tell your city government that they might want to change the timing of that traffic light at the highway on - ramp... If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that's exactly what you can do.

«When we go to the government to talk about legal business we are able to tell them that City firms contribute about 1 % of GDP.

The government's mooted tax on City law firms is just one of several options for improving the UK court system under consideration by government, senior partners in the City were told at a series of meetings with justice secretary Michael Gove earlier this week.

«Patching and vulnerability scanning are often not even considered in these environments — sometimes due to resource constraints, but more often than not due to internal politics within the bureaus and city governments,» he told the E-Commerce Times.