Sentences with phrase «civic groups called»

Last month, 18 environmental and civic groups called on the state to make the parcel a park.

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Forget the suggestion box in the front office.The Pasco County school district has sent out an online all - call to schools, cities, civic groups and other entities, asking for ideas for how it can do better.ThoughtExchange went live Monday.

Some will speak to civic groups as well as calling residents, producing informational fliers and distributing them door to door.

Reinvent Albany joined civic groups, Brooklyn Democrat Senator Dan Squadron and Manhattan Democrat Brian Kavanagh and dozens of other state legislators in calling for the closure of the infamous «LLC Loophole.»

Recommendations for Using Everyday Information Technology to Open Up Government At a news conference on Thursday, March 22 at 1 PM, leading civic and government watchdog groups will call on the Governor, Legislature, Attorney General, and Comptroller to use the explosion in affordable Information Technology to make NY State government more transparent, responsive, and accountable.

Nearly 100 civic and community groups called for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to create a blue - ribbon panel akin to the shuttered Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and clean up the «pay - to - play» culture they said rules real - estate development in New York City.

Also at 6 p.m., a large coalition of environmental and civic groups opposed to the Port Ambrose offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility will call for Cuomo to veto the project at a rally outside of a fundraiser the governor will attend at the Harvard Club, (which is not on his public schedule), 35 West 44th St., Manhattan.

Dick Dadey of the civic watchdog group Citizens Union called such donations «completely illegal,» adding, «the IRS should investigate.»

Nearly 100 civic and community groups on Wednesday called for Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara to create a blue - ribbon panel akin to the shuttered Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption and clean up the «pay - to - play» culture they said rules real - estate development in the city.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

The superintendent called the vote «nonsense» even before knowing its outcome, and a group of civic leaders rallied to Deasy's defense.

A recent report from a prominent group of business and civic leaders called the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren anticipated a possible role for the mayor.

A coalition of organizing, labor and civic groups presented an alternative «Newark Promise» plan that called for community schools and local control.

The program is called «PAWS To Learn» and is offered free to schools, libraries, scouts and other civic groups.

Also added are a self - contained laundry and sterilization room; improved laboratory facilities; a 120 - seat humane education auditorium for use by employees, school children, civic groups and animal - related organizations; and a fleet of 10 vehicles, including two animal ambulances, an investigation unit and an education vehicle called «Know Us Ark».

If your civic group or scouting troop would like to help the Humane Society of Harford County by doing a service project, please click here to send a message to our volunteer coordinator or call 410-836-1090, x104.

Since the early 1980s, he has been starting green businesses, writing books on ecological commerce (President Bill Clinton called Hawken's Natural Capitalism one of the five most important books in the world), consulting with businesses and governments, speaking to civic groups, and collecting honorary doctorates (six so far).