Sentences with phrase «city government who»

No one's happy about getting a parking ticket — but now there's someone in city government who's ready to take complaints.

A veteran of city government who has sought the mayor's office four times before, Nicoletti has been expected to announce his candidacy for months.

Not exact matches

«You have to stop thinking of relating metallic value to value of the medal,» said Jim Greensfelder, a one - time Proctor & Gamble executive, software entrepreneur and former elected city government official who wrote «the bible» on the history of the modern Olympic Games medals.

I know every British government pays lip service to those millions of people who, allegedly, live outside London: people who don't get to live the dream on a six - or seven - digit salary in one of the globalized world's showcase cities.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Steven Rattner, who led the auto industry restructuring in 2009, said it would be a mistake for Michigan and the federal government not to provide funds for the city.

According to photographs taken at Trump Tower in New York City and published this week, the session was attended by Ivanka Trump, who has no government security clearance and is an executive at the Trump Organization.

The national credit system planned for 2020 will be an «ecosystem» made up of schemes of various sizes and reaches, run by cities, government ministries, online payment providers, down to neighborhoods, libraries, and businesses, say Chinese researchers who are designing the national scheme.

Another early morning in Vancouver, BC and a meeting starts with a full house of equity crowdfunding industry participants including entrepreneurs, lawyers, investors, securities regulators, government, tech and finance executives who want to make sure this city keeps its crown as the entrepreneur and tech startup capital of Canada.

The B.C. government has been shut out, as have the cities of Vancouver and Abbotsford, the Pacheedaht and Tsawwassen First Nations, and many others who also want and deserve answers on these critical issues.

Joseph L. Rotman was both a city - builder and a country - builder who passionately believed in bringing business, government and academia together to solve complex issues in society.

And while Premier Alison Redford has been cold towards the idea of granting cities more financial power, saying she's «satisfied with the way things are,» her party should not forget that city voters are who they owe for their narrow re-election to government in 2012.

Exit West follows the lovers Saeed and Nadia, who flee their unnamed Middle Eastern city as a religious militant group takes it over from the ailing government.

The government have left us as captives in the hands of ISIS, who make all kinds of crimes in the city.

OR, might God choose to reveal truth through the experiences of a people who tried to be true to him, certain moral principles, failing again and trying again, people looking for universal truths and communicating them to their children generation after generation, orally and through writing things down, organizing themselves into communities and societies, aiming for justice, teaching each other, defending their families, lives, cities, and governments.

I was too grateful for the traffic lights the «system» had installed on the corners of the busy streets my son had to navigate on his way to school, and for the school crossing guards the city government had hired to make his daily journey less dangerous, and for the fire inspectors who regularly visited his school to check for hazards, and so on.

It was a social must for a rich man or a man who had attained a high rank in the government to build a mosque with a school in his home town or to leave a waqf in the city.

However, the majority of Indians, who had been left behind by recent economic growth, voted against incumbent governments, unseating, among others, many strongly pro-business ruling politicians in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (of which Bangalore is the capital city).

Just before the crusade, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders in the city issued a strong statement denouncing those «who cast doubt upon the loyalty of the state department and officials in other departments of government, and many of our proven patriots and statesmen of long standing (February 28, 1962).

They also often reject any role for governments in addressing social - economic problems, such as unemployment or the low wages earned by workers who are trapped in unskilled occupations or isolated in central cities, where financial and physical infrastructures are inadequate and social networks are weak.

A Spanish government commission has imposed fines of 3,000 euros each on four Real Madrid fans who displayed Nazi symbols at last month's La Liga match against city rivals Atletico at Real's Bernabeu stadium.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

«This morning's New York Times story regarding allegations that Walmart orchestrated a $ 24 million bribery campaign to gain favorable treatment by the Mexican government should be a wake up call for New Yorkers who have witnessed Walmart's aggressive lobbying effort and recent streak of opportunistic «philanthropy» in our city.»

Dr Bawumia's comments dovetail into those recently made by Deputy Finance Minister Abena Osei Asare who said there is «no country in the world that doesn't borrow» in defence of the Akufo - Addo government's borrowing for certain projects, including one that aims to make Ghana's capital city, Accra, the cleanest in Africa.

«When our city government hires a person who has a known history of racist tweeting, our own government is, therefore, tolerating it and validating it,» Stringer said.

«I want to thank HELP USA, SAGE, and our partners in government for their collaboration in providing desperately needed affordable housing for our seniors who helped to build this city.»

Meanwhile, City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, who represents the area, said she informed staff who work for the mayor's government relations team in December that Allure was emptying its beds.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance lwho is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance lWho Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Documents made public by the city's Department of Investigation and city comptroller, respectively, along with the results of Freedom of Information Law requests filed by POLITICO New York, shed new light on the powerful figures — inside and outside state government — who helped Allure Group to take control of the site.

Voters in the 19th Congressional district are being offered a choice between longtime resident John Faso with a proven track record of cutting budgets, lowering taxes, and working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and a radical New York City academic, with no roots in the district, who supports higher taxes, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and ever larger government in Washington.

«The advocates who were so verbal and litigious during my tenure as a spokeswoman for city government are now so completely in bed with these failing leaders, they don't dare do the same negative press or file lawsuits which cost city taxpayers millions of dollars,» she wrote.

Suburban residents who work in NYC do not have to pay city taxes, unless they're employed by the city government.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller isn't the only government prober who's job is in jeopardy from a resentful pol, according to a Bronx lawmaker who wants to protect the city's chief investigator from being fired by Mayor de Blasio.

In April 2006 Des Smith, a head teacher who helped find sponsors for the government's flagship city academies programme, was arrested and questioned.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

This construction project is in fact not being delivered by the government, but rather by the Chinese; it is behind schedule; locals who live close to the expanding road have seen their homes destroyed with no chance of compensation; and perhaps worst of all, in the eyes of many area residents, the paving is being confined to the city limits.

Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield has tapped his ally Kalman Yeger to run for his City Council seat, in a deal criticized by good government groups who say it deprives Democrats of the chance to choose a candidate in an open primary.

«I think she's an amazing judge; an amazing person,» said Garden City attorney Amy Marion, who often represents people suing the government and acknowledges Azrack hasn't always ruled in her favor.

«We deserve a city government that actually believes in our neighborhoods,» said de Blasio, who vowed to build a government «of and for and by our neighborhoods.»

The former head of the city firefighters union — who now runs the FDNY's pension fund — was arrested Wednesday for allegedly crashing his government car in Manhattan while drunk...

Cuomo is giving a boost to Onondaga County executive Joanie Mahoney — a dutiful Republican ally who is expected at Wednesday's State of the State speech in Syracuse — as she fights to revive an effort to merge her government with the City of Syracuse.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

But both leaders are likely going to have to come up with more cash — both from state and city funds, and from Washington, assuming they can find a way to work with the Republicans who run the federal government.

Page Six magazine will feature several City Hall women who make the «gritty work of government look glamorous.»

The moment was in contrast to last week's blow up when Skelos stormed out of the meeting claiming that «another branch of government» was pushing New York City issues in the budget talks (There is no doubt he was referring to Silver, who has confounded Republicans during budget negotiations for 20 years now).

Paladino, a Buffalo developer who leases miles of office space to state government agencies, was instrumental in getting the Empire Zone program expanded from Buffalo's inner city to its office tower downtown.

They would like the state to adopt New York City's system of government funded matching grants for candidates, who collect small donations for individual donors.

Cuomo says the restructuring board could also provide political cover for local government leaders who need to make unpopular decisions, like laying off workers in order to consolidate services, or reducing the number of city councilmembers or supervisory boards.

With the city's election season over, all eyes are now turned toward the race for who will replace Melissa Mark - Viverito as Speaker in what is arguably the second most powerful position in city government behind the Mayor.