Sentences with phrase «city governments focus»

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These government workers are focused on how to make cities, towns and economic regions prosper.

The Globe's Bill Curry used the Access to Information Act to obtain material on focus groups the government hosted in nine Canadian cities in November.

«I've just seen cities everywhere and have found that mayors and city governments are far more focused on progress in their cities here in China than I've seen elsewhere, and it makes me incredibly optimistic.»

Prior to joining City Capital, David was an Investment Banking Analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in the Aerospace, Defense & Government Services Group focusing on providing financial and strategic analysis, valuation, industry research, due diligence and preparation of comprehensive client marketing materials.

The Canadian government says it's focused on the negotiations and looks forward to the next round, which starts Friday in Mexico City.

The report — «The New York City Tech Ecosystem,» by HR&A Advisors — notes that roughly half the tech jobs are at employers with a main focus that is not technology, such as finance and media companies, or hospitals and government agencies.

Cuomo was miffed over the City of Newburgh's decision to put the state on notice of a civil lawsuit of its contaminated water in Washington Lake, saying the focus should be on the polluters, most notably, the federal government.

He also paid $ 3,000 to SCM Associates for digital ads and $ 12,000 for online ads with City and State, the publication focused on New York government.

His focus in a speech to City folk this morning was on winning over the wider public - a «hearts and minds» approach to public spending which, he said, had worked terribly well under Canada's Liberal government of the 1990s.

The first hearing will be focusing local government and government operations spending, generally the day when the state's big - city mayors come to Albany to lobby state lawmakers in person.

While several new faces in city government will help increase racial diversity, McLaughlin said that doesn't mean issues for people of color will be focused topics.

Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.

He said he viewed his new role, which is expected to be formally announced Thursday along with other Council committee assignments for the next four years, as focused on prodding a «complacent bureaucracy» to better provide city services and dig «deep into the operational failures of city government.»

«In stark contrast, under Mayor Lovely Warren's leadership our city has seen an unprecedented period of growth and progress with construction and investment, not only throughout downtown and our center city, but more importantly throughout our neighborhoods as well... Mayor Warren's careful fiscal stewardship has resulted in two bond rating upgrades for the City, she has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by the state and federal governments along with progressive policies always focused on bringing more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities to every resident of Rochester.&racity has seen an unprecedented period of growth and progress with construction and investment, not only throughout downtown and our center city, but more importantly throughout our neighborhoods as well... Mayor Warren's careful fiscal stewardship has resulted in two bond rating upgrades for the City, she has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by the state and federal governments along with progressive policies always focused on bringing more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities to every resident of Rochester.&racity, but more importantly throughout our neighborhoods as well... Mayor Warren's careful fiscal stewardship has resulted in two bond rating upgrades for the City, she has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by the state and federal governments along with progressive policies always focused on bringing more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities to every resident of Rochester.&raCity, she has brought hundreds of millions of dollars in investment by the state and federal governments along with progressive policies always focused on bringing more jobs, safer more vibrant neighborhoods and better educational opportunities to every resident of Rochester.»

«And I see it as a really important part of what we need to be focused on in city government so that we can ensure that we're great hosts.

Although often not a focus of public attention, Corporation Counsel is the city's chief legal officer and an integral part of managing city government.

But for the Government to succeed in raising prosperity across the North, it should return to the original focus of the initiative — boosting the economic performance of major Northern city - regions such as Greater Manchester and the Leeds city - region.

Outside Government, George Osborne can focus on the policies that will best promote prosperity across the North — boosting productivity in cities.

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

Displaying his true political skill, he minimized his lingering pain, defended Bill Buckner and sought to return the focus to city government and pre-K funding.

Gross was previously the city government editor at Gotham Gazette, where for four years she focused her reporting on the City Council and the Bloomberg administratcity government editor at Gotham Gazette, where for four years she focused her reporting on the City Council and the Bloomberg administratCity Council and the Bloomberg administration.

While so much of the focus in city elections falls on the Democratic ranks, which make up a whopping 73 percent of all registered voters in the city and whose members hold every elected office in city government, some of the most colorful and contentious story lines play out in the battles for the minor - party slots.

The councilman vowed to focus on issues such as homelessness, the city's struggling subway system, affordable housing, education, lack of diversity in state government and corruption in Albany.

The study recommends government agencies focus efforts on enacting policies and programs to better protect rural households during a drought, such as supporting sustainable agriculture projects in the region, increasing transportation options to access city centers and providing access to insurance and credit schemes.

Rio de Janeiro, for example, used a draft of the GPC to determine that transportation was responsible for a whopping 39 % of the city's total emissions; that led the government to focus on expanding public transit to more efficiently shrink its carbon footprint.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

The tale is set in a dystopian Japan and focuses on a group of dogs who are living on an island / garbage dump after the government banished them from the cities.

After all, most of the public intellectuals among movement conservatives are focused more on the expansive role of the federal government in civil society and the marketplace, while more populist conservative types are concerned about preserving what they consider to be traditional values such as the idea that the government that is best is the one at the local level that is, in theory, closes to the people (even if the virtual and real bankruptcies of cities such as Detroit and Vallejo, Calif., call that thinking into question).

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This collaboration will include continued support from Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Inc., and will focus resources from across the federal government and the private sector to support innovation in the cities of Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco.

This collaboration would include continued support from Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Inc., and would focus resources from across the federal government and the private sector to support innovation in the cities of Austin, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, and San Francisco.

The ZX5, a five - door take on the Focus ZX3 hatchback, is essentially an economy car, a spirited urban scooter that gets about 25 miles per gallon in the city and nearly 34 mpg on the highway, according to government ratings.

Covering the period from 1858 — 2007 in her timeline, Bausum focuses on the early 20th century investigative reporters who exposed city government corruption, Standard Oil irregularities, and meatpacking scandals as McClure magazine reporters.

Covering the period from 1858 to 2007 in her time line, Bausum focuses on a group of early - twentieth - century investigative reporters, working for Mclure magazine, who exposed city government corruption, Standard Oil irregularities, and meatpacking scandals.

The city now has a diverse economy focused on finance, government, manufacturing, transportation, services, media, real estate and tourism.

If the director is a city or county employee, then personnel decisions, budgetary choices, and setting policy may happen at a higher level of city government, where the ultimate decision - maker is not solely focused on No Kill.

Government: Helping businesses in San Diego grow and flourish is a major focus of the City of San Diego.

Government: I Helping businesses in San Diego grow and flourish is a major focus of the City of San Diego.

In 2013, Marfa Dialogues is moving from the desert to the city, where the project will continue to focus on climate change, integrating the work and voices of artists, writers, journalists, scientists and other participants from the academic, government and public interest sectors.

I think government minds will slowly gain more focus on this issue as torrential rains occur periodically and as homes and cities are buried under massive winter snowfalls over the next few years.

Second, a very simple directive that states, agencies, cities, and the federal government could do to bring the committed emissions into focus is to do that GHG life - cycle analysis along with other project assessments.

The street protests that spread from Istanbul to some 60 cities around Turkey in recent days have focused on a broad range of grievances, particularly what some see as the unresponsive nature of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

To move this leadership forward, Alberta is also hosting the Cities & Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, as part of the CitiesIPCC campaign led by C40 and ICLEI, to ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate cCities & Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, as part of the CitiesIPCC campaign led by C40 and ICLEI, to ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate ccities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate change.

The paper underlines the central role of the UNFCCC and points to a constellation of actors - multilateral institutions, governments, businesses, states, cities and citizens - whose capacities and specialized focus can contribute to climate governance, emission reductions and adaptation investment.

More specifically, the workshop focused on the government's role in incentivizing action in cities, including by highlighting the leadership role taken by cities in both developed and developing countries, and private sector and civil society efforts to support local governments and cities.

Given that Indian cities are facing climate impacts that will probably worsen, it stands to reason that a two - year - old programme like the smart city mission — the largest government driven pan-India effort on urban development — should explicitly focus on urban climate resilience.

Slaughter and May has seconded City corporate partner Mark Horton to the government's Brexit unit, amid an increasing focus on the trade law capabilities of the UK's top firms.

Prior to evolving into the technology sector, Christina was focused on public interest work with The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, DC City Government, US Treasury Department and several political campaigns.

Hugh James has a strong public sector focus to its IT practice, especially in the procurement field, and its key clients include Natural England, Cardiff City & County Council and the Welsh Government.

On July 4th, «Restore the Fourth» rallies in more than 100 US cities protested the government's surveillance programs, focusing on electronic privacy.