Sentences with phrase «disputes over public»

While disputes over public characters makes for good press, this kind of dispute is actually not that rare.

Washington (CNN)- A dispute over public prayers at town board meetings will be taken up by the Supreme Court in coming months, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the public arena.

The centerpiece of the bill is resolution of a dispute over the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA), the once - obscure 1978 federal law designed to promote small power producers in regulated utility markets.

Not exact matches

Amazon and Hachette Book Group have put hostilities aside, ending their long - running and very public contract dispute over e-book pricing by signing a new multiyear agreement.

«It becomes a matter of corporate philosophy — does the employer want to get in a public dispute over this?»

Yelp, or any other employer dealing with public disputes, should send an email or memo to employees, explaining that it will not respond to human resources requests that have been broadcast over social media, suggests Segal.

The dispute over the panels began on Monday, when Merck & Co.'s Kenneth Frazier took a public stand against Trump, saying that quitting the manufacturing council was «matter of personal conscience» and said that U.S. leaders had to reject «hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.»

As Facebook grapples with a backlash over its role in spreading disinformation, an internal dispute over how to handle the threat and the public outcry is resulting in the departure of a senior executive.

The ongoing dispute is not between censors and civil libertarians, but over what standards should prevail in defining public decency.

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

Writing for a general audience, the author surveys some of the disputes over whether the public square should be naked, sacred, or civil.

Terry pinpointed a dedication hardly in full view last season at Villa, where Bruce had a very public dispute with # 12m striker Ross McCormack, currently on open sale over his «continually missing training» which included one no - show that was blamed on a faulty electric gate.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

Political parties in Belfast are in dispute over whether to hold a public inquiry into the scandal - which would have the power to compel witnesses to give evidence - or an investigation which would allow Stormont to set the terms and procedures.

Fifty thousand tax workers are being balloted on a wide - ranging programme of industrial action in a dispute over job cuts, the Public and Commercial Services union announces.

The unions have been willing to call industrial action over pay and conditions, and these disputes have always attracted considerable public attention, stemming from the importance attached to education.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for Fujitsu have voted in favour of an offer to end a dispute over jobs, pay and pensions.

Last month, Cuomo asked some of his New York commissioners to boycott the Port Authority's public board meeting in protest of the ongoing dispute with New Jersey over what to fund in the agency's 10 - year capital plan.

The city of Utica and its former fire department chief continue to battle in court, and in the public arena, over a dispute about his service in the aftermath of 9/11.

Tensions are said to be mounting again between Canadian officials and New York State over the Peace Bridge, months after the cross-border dispute was supposedly settled in a much - heralded public ceremony.

A simmering dispute between leaders of the House intelligence committee spilled into the public over an investigation into whether Trump has ties to Russia, even as they pledged to conduct a bipartisan probe.

Public sector workers are taking part in a series of strikes across the country over disputes involving pay, pensions and cuts.

By Sean Ryan Public policy and public opinion are going head to head over a disputed zoning law in an east side Milwaukee neighboPublic policy and public opinion are going head to head over a disputed zoning law in an east side Milwaukee neighbopublic opinion are going head to head over a disputed zoning law in an east side Milwaukee neighborhood.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

New York City's public hospital system will receive $ 380 million in federal and city funds after a dispute with the state over the funding.

They have since issued a joint statement smoothing over the public dispute, but their evidence to the committee remains contradictory.

None of the details have yet been made public, but allies are claiming that Abrahams is being targeted because of a number of disputes with Corbyn's team over the past year, during which the Labour MP stood up to the leadership.

The Buffalo Teachers Federation has asked the Buffalo Public School District to clarify its proposal for a second time to end the dispute over City Honors.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Union leaders with the Buffalo Teachers Federation recently announced they've agreed on an arbitrator in its dispute over City Honors with the Buffalo Public School District.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Representatives from the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Buffalo Public Schools met with an arbitrator Thursday, the latest step in the months - long dispute over teaching positions at City Honors.

This is the first joint interview between Mahoney and Miner since a public dispute (and lawsuit) over county tax breaks given to a developer the city of Syracuse alleges it had previous arrangements with.

The Buffalo Public School District may get $ 36 million being held by Albany in a dispute over how much parent participation is going on in the school system.

Breaking weeks of public silence, Albany County District Attorney David Soares on Thursday issued stinging criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid an ongoing dispute over who should handle the case of an Albany man who died in April after a late - night encounter with police.

County Executive Michael Hein's administration locked horns with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an ongoing public dispute over the matter.

A bill moving in the statehouse is meant to settle a long - running dispute between private landowners and the public, by handing the issue over to the courts.

The good news is that the program was approved at all, after a very public dispute between the governor and Mayor Bill de Blasio over the city's share of responsibility for funding the MTA.

Miner stepped down as co-chair of the Cuomo - controlled Democratic State Committee last year, and most recently has been in a public dispute over whether the state should direct funds to upgrade infrastructure in Syracuse and other cities or funnel them to projects tailored for economic development.

More than a million public sector workers are expected to strike in a series of disputes with the government over pay, pensions and job cuts.

The agency is confronting pressure from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline and speed up the drug application process, budgetary concerns stemming from relatively stagnant public funding over the last several years, and disputes over subjects ranging from biological warfare to the regulation of genetically modified foods.

«Private conflicts, for example, domestic violence or friendship disputes over money or girlfriends, can and do spill over into public spaces, be it on stoops or street corners, in bars or local parks.»

Prusiner says that he persisted because he never found another problem as captivating as prions, but Dreger cites a number of researchers who, after bruising public disputes over unconventional conclusions, retreated to other, less inflammatory, lines of inquiry.

At the center of The Post are a series of disputes that took place over the advisability of making public the explosive government secrets, including between Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and her financial and legal consultants, and between Graham, on the one hand, and managing editor Ben Bradlee and his reporting staff, on the other.

The 41 day anti-federal government occupation capped decades of disputes over how federal public lands are managed in the West.

The nation's most extensive experiment in private management of public schools sputtered to an end last week as the Hartford, Conn., school board said it would end its partnership with Education Alternatives Inc. in a dispute over finances.

The latest suit also marks the second time in a year that Jindal has locked horns with the federal government over education: He and the Justice Department claimed partial victories in a dispute over a private school voucher program that the feds said affected desegregation efforts in Louisiana public schools.

This move toward quality control could be the first step back toward renewing the drive for national curriculum standards that flared up and flamed out in the 1990s in disputes over ideology, pedagogy, course content, and control of the public schools, speculated Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the 64 - campus State University of New York.

This changed this year with new research that shows ethnic - studies classes boost student attendance, GPAs, and high - school credits for a key student group — a pivotal finding that brings hard evidence to the dispute over adding these courses in public schools.

It's a debate that includes disputes over whether charter schools — untied to neighborhood boundaries — should be leveraged to help integrate public schools racially and socioeconomically, whether poor students benefit more from diverse classrooms, and whether charters are indeed less integrated than their district school counterparts.

The Atlanta Journal - Constitution (AJC) published an article regarding Clayton County Public Schools (CCPS) and the Atlanta Hartsfield - Jackson International Airport's ongoing dispute over Clayton County sales tax revenue from jet fuel.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.