Sentences with phrase «critics say cities»

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

Critics say the city could have found great tenants and buyers without giving up $ 145 million in incentives.

Critics say the city law shields undocumented aliens who commit serious offenses, including sexual abuse, prescription drug sales, bribery, money laundering, harassment, grand larceny and drunk driving, from federal detention and deportation.

In the end, critics said the city's plans for the Upper West Side will barely have an impact when they start taking effect when school begins on Sept. 7.

Critics say the city's payments to restore Reliant workers are a giveaway of taxpayer funds and possibly illegal.

Not exact matches

A year after the terror attacks that struck Paris in November 2015, Jeff Koons said he would give the city a monumental sculpture meant to honour the victims but critics of the project are saying «no thanks».

Tim Maleeny, Chief Strategy Officer for the Havas Worldwide advertising agency in New York City, said that the ire of the critics is not just par for the course, but an essential component of what keeps the Miley train running.

Some critics say Denver's booming economy is leaving behind the city's most vulnerable residents, a trend they predict would accelerate if the city was chosen as the site of a new Amazon headquarters.

Critics of Amazon's approach said it would set off a race to the bottom, with cities and states trying to offer the biggest subsidy packages they could muster.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

As more people head to cities and see their incomes increase, they're more prone to eating convenient packaged foods that critics say have fueled obesity rates in developed nations.

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Gary Neville has torn into those criticising Chelsea's football this season as «boring»; instead the former Manchester United captain says critics should be slamming Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool for their dismal efforts at trying to keep up with the title leaders.

Joe Hart says Manchester City must now go on and win their final nine league games to silence the critics after their miserable Champions League exit at the hands of Barcelona.

Giroud must score against Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man United before anyone can start saying he's silenced critics, he lacks big game temperament until he sorts that out only then will we talk of Giroud as a great striker!

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But critics, including some environmental groups, say it's an expensive bailout for the nuclear industry that will be financed by ratepayers around the state, as well as public institutions the same ratepayers use, like the MTA and New York City's public housing authority.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday proposed a tax increase on the city's wealthiest residents to fund an upgrade of the city's beleaguered subway system, a plan that critics say won't bring in the needed funding soon enough.

Critics say the state should be steering that money — whatever the final cost — to the city's beleaguered transit system, rather than to bridges that already have un-colorful, energy efficient, LED lights.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest attempt to quell a boiler system meltdown at New York City Housing Authority buildings is not sitting well with some critics who say the city's $ 200 million investment is too little, too lCity Housing Authority buildings is not sitting well with some critics who say the city's $ 200 million investment is too little, too lcity's $ 200 million investment is too little, too late.

Mr. Adams is a longtime critic of mayoral control of schools in New York City — and at times a mayoral foe — but he said his worries about Ms. Mirrer are unrelated to those objections.

Stringer, a frequent critic of de Blasio and a potential Democratic primary challenger in this year's mayoral election, said the city should be seeing better results based on the drastic increase in spending on homeless - related services.

Not helping the cause of Niagara Falls, USA was a road system which, critics say, severed the waterfront from the city.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been an outspoken critic of the the 328 - bed facility for the homeless and substance abuse patients, said in a letter to constituents that she and other City Council members were presenting a resolution to the City Council's Committee on General Welfare at a public hearing at 10:30 a.m Wednesday.

Though the city currently requires landlords to keep buildings in good condition, critics say that landlords have been getting away with stopgap fixes, instead of tackling the underlying structural problems at their properties.

On Friday even some past critics of congestion pricing said the ideas hold promise for addressing gridlock while raising funds for the city's beleaguered subway system.

Klein says he hopes they pass bills to reform New York City's «stop and frisk» law, which critics say unfairly burdens young African Americans, and the immigration bill known as the Dream Act.

At a City Hall press conference, critics held up signs saying, «Spitzer: Women won't forget,» and «Can't trust a john with our dough.»

The Empire State Plaza in New York's capital city may not be a museum, but critics say that it still houses one of the most significant modern art collections available for public viewing in the area.

The 2020 Census will ask respondents if they are U.S. citizens, a move that critics say risks undercounting populations in areas such as New York City.

City Council Speaker Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — an outspoken critic of Donald Trump and avid supporter of Hilary Clinton — is expected to release a report Wednesday that says a Trump presidency would clobber New York City.

Critics of the elevated highway, including Cuomo, say the viaduct splits the city in half, separating University Hill from downtown Syracuse.

Critics have said that the city grants the controversial job protections too easily, but schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the practice.

City Council Speaker Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito — an outspoken critic of Donald Trump and avid supporter of Hilary Clinton — is expected to release a report Wednesday that says...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended his record of spending on capital projects for the New York City subways, saying critics who question the use of funds for other transportation efforts are «full of baloney.»

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said that critics of the city's plans to convert a maintenance building into stables in Central Park should just accept that the city has the power to do it.

Critics say the tax bill looms like a «dagger» over New York City — particularly the real estate industry — reducing breaks that many in the region heavily lean on, despite cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

The move infuriated Miner and other critics who said Congel promised far more than he delivered in exchange for a deal that will save him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on the single most valuable property in the city.

When the mayor pitched the idea to develop the sprawling rail yard during his second State of the City address in early 2015, critics said it would be too costly to make affordable housing work.

But critics of Mr. de Blasio, many of them in agreement with Mr. Lynch's Saturday decree that «blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall, in the office of the mayor,» say the city is quite divided under Mr. de Blasio, an observation that polling and anecdotal evidence suppoCity Hall, in the office of the mayor,» say the city is quite divided under Mr. de Blasio, an observation that polling and anecdotal evidence suppocity is quite divided under Mr. de Blasio, an observation that polling and anecdotal evidence supports.

«I will respect the decision of Commissioner [Bill] Bratton,» said Ms. James, who in the past has been a staunch critic of the city's police department.

Still, the reason why critics are right to say Trump should release his taxes — that voters should be able to gauge his tax bill and charitable donations, and that the returns might expose financial conflicts of interest — apply as much to City Hall as to the White House.

Eldridge's involvement in the Hudson Valley dates to 2011 when he moved from New York City to Garrison (and, critics say, positioned himself for a run at the 18th Congressional District then held by Nan Hayworth) and started Hudson River Ventures.

Under the current system, the city spends millions to send kids to far - away facilities, many of which are located upstate and which critics say are half - empty and poorly run.

De Blasio says New York City is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increCity is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increcity in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increase.

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On the other hand, Silver is believed to have wielded influence over New York City's special court for asbestos cases — a setup critics say slanted the process against businesses facing off against Weitz & Luxenberg.

Critics though, said the city's poorer areas, like the east side, have been left behind.

Two proposed City Council initiatives aimed at changing law - and - order practices that critics say unfairly target minorities and the indigent have taken different paths, with one gaining steam as the other stalls.

Best said the legislation would open the city to a flood of lawsuits against the NYPD and could spell the end of stop - and - frisk — a practice that critics say unfairly targets minorities.