Sentences with phrase «czar said»

A signature economic development program conceived by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a success, the administration's top economic development czar said Monday after an at - times contentious appearance before state lawmakers at a public hearing in Albany.

A Buffalo real estate executive who this week was appointed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's economic development czar said he understands some of the challenges facing Long Island, having grown up here in the 1960s and»70s.

More than two years after de Blasio announced an ambitious plan to create 15,000 supportive - housing apartments, only a few hundred are up and running, the city's homelessness czar said.

U.S. Asian Carp Czar Says Poison, Genetic Engineering Among Solutions Asian Carp Update: Michigan Request For Lock - Closing Turned Down By US Supreme Court

Not exact matches

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Washington last week meeting with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer, who has said he is hoping for an agreement in principle within weeks.

He based that on what he said were weekly meetings with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer.

The NAFTA renegotiation survived its sixth round of talks in Montreal, with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer saying enough progress was made to push forward despite American dissatisfaction with some Canadian proposals.

CARACAS / HOUSTON Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they were seeking an Interpol red alert for ex-oil czar Rafael Ramirez on corruption charges, heightening tensions between the former political heavyweight and the country's socialist government.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

The government knows all this, the governors conceal it, the Senate connives at it, the ministers say nothing; the czar, and the synod, the landowners and the police all agree with Selifan [from Dead Souls]: «Why not thrash a peasant?

Now, however, «the protection from pads is so good that you probably could go down to 10 inches easily,» says Dave Dryden, King's predecessor as goalie - equipment czar and a member of the NHL's injury panel.

Max's family suffered under both the Czar and, later, the German invaders «My great - uncle was killed by the Cossacks during the pogroms,» Max says.

The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said — a direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

Howard Zemsky, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's economic development czar, cited Entourage's mulling of New Jersey as its future home and said, «We are ensuring a New York business continues to grow and create jobs in New York State.»

Greater collaboration with those groups» leaders, including the creation of a cabinet - level nonprofits czar, Hager said, would address those issues.

Howard Zemsky, a Buffalo real estate executive who this week was appointed Cuomo's economic development czar, said he understood some of the challenges facing Long Island, having grown up here in the 1960s and»70s.

At an energy hearing earlier this month, state officials, including energy czar Richard Kauffman and Public Service Commission Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman, said R.E.V. initiatives would save consumers billions of dollars every year by making the entire energy grid more efficient.

ALBANY — The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said, in a notably direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.

Even a former top federal counter-terrorism official who «fully understands» Kelly's motives said the International Liaison Program would have to be reconfigured by Bratton and his new counter-terrorism czar, John Miller, if they plan to keep it staffed.

California - based Soraa is expected to move into the new facility by the end of the year, said Howard Zemsky, New York's economic development czar, during a visit to Syracuse on Tuesday.

The governor said he spoke to President Barack Obama on Thursday night, as well as Ebola czar Ron Klain about the situation.

ALBANY — State legislators have a say in which projects are supported by a $ 400 million discretionary fund, the state's business subsidy czar confirmed, but other details about how the Cuomo administration is approving funding requests remain unclear.

Democrat Adam Haber proposes naming a «disaster czar» to handle a county - wide emergency management and information system that he says would give Nassau County the response it did not get after Sandy.

New York state energy czar Richard Kauffman says providing any more public testimony on the program is not possible right now since there are lawsuits filed against the initiative.

Bill Weihl, Google's «clean energy czar,» said his company undertook the study out of a combination of self - interest, commitment to cleaner energy, and frustration with a national energy policy debate that seems to ask a lot of wrong questions.

Singer said that Ebola czar Ron Klain has the right idea for fixing the system by creating a public health emergency management agency, which «would have the funding and expertise to respond to the increasing number of infectious disease crises.»

We shouldn't have a czar per disease,» Greer said, predicting that a Zika czar might be the next appointment.

Texas» new schools chief said he plans to appoint a «dropout czar» to try to help the state improve its efforts to keep more students in public schools through graduation.

Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar — who may be a charter school vendor — to oversee Network Schools.

«If Congress does not act now,» he said, «our inaction will transform the U.S. secretary of education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law that has identified what he says may be as many as 80,000 «failing» public schools.»

«If you close and consolidate campuses, the students will be able to take money to another campus,» said Juliet Stipeche, a former HISD board member recently appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner as the city's first education czar, explaining the logic behind school closures.

And while at least one of the panelists testifying before HELP today — Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education — could cast the waivers in a negative light, Kentucky education czar Terry Holliday, and and New York State Education Commissioner John King are likely to say mostly nice things about the effort.

Good fortune brought an unexpected visitor in the spring of 2000: the Gates Foundation's education czar Thomas Vander Ark. «I knew after ten minutes we wanted to support this guy in any way we could,» he says.

The czar — also known as former legislative staffer and elementary school teacher Gary Bennett — said the website is slated to go up next week, as are two requests for proposals.

«Give General Motors credit for staying true to the Solstice concept, the car GM product czar Bob Lutz ordered up 15 weeks before the 2002 Detroit show,» said AutoWeek senior news editor Bob Gritzinger.

Excerpt: President Obama's «science czar,» John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, «compulsory sterilization,» and the creation of a «Planetary Regime» that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.

Nov 15, 2008 Gore Says No to «Climate Czar» Role

President - elect Barack Obama's transition team is flirting with creating a White House «Climate Czar,» but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn't want the job.

Obama, who is rumored to be considering the creation of a cabinet - level position («climate czar») for guiding U.S. climate policy, has said repeatedly that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world.

I read an article (probably fake) that said you might appoint Ivanka as Climate Czar, I think this would be a bad idea.

Entertaining to see one lone public mention in 2008 of «3000 scientists» from President Obama's then soon - to - be Science Czar John Holdren, where he said:

«States are building a new kind of electric grid instead of relying on an old - fashioned grid relying on coal,» said Richard Kauffman, New York's energy czar and one of the chief architects behind New York's Reforming the Energy Vision.

For example the new energy czar could say plug - in hybrids are best but I think Pickens may be more on track with natural gas cars.

Friday's sanctions, which target Russian security services, energy czars and weapons companies, come in response to Russia's «malign activity across the world,» a senior administration official said, noting Russia's occupation of Crimea in Ukraine, support of the Bashar Assad dictatorship in Syria, subversion of Western democracies and continued belligerent cyber attacks.

This «will be very different than the last several decades when things were thought of but never actually executed,» said Marvin Odum, Houston's Hurricane Harvey recovery czar.

Maybe M.P.s should be given a vote on the performance of high profile (unelected) bureaucrats at regular intervals during a government's life cycle, in a democratic attempt to curb «Abuse of Dominant Position» by said unelected czars.