Sentences with phrase «district lines come»
The issue goes back to 2012 when former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn helped sign off on the district lines coming out of the 2010 census.
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While they came from various size districts, they all have the same issues and opportunities just with a different budget line number.
And when it comes to the district's «a la carte» lines, which is where the child above obtained his or her bright orange «lunch,» I'd like HISD to take seriously its mission to offer «the highest level of nutrition possible.»
Elk Grove Village — The Park District is holding a special meeting Monday to reconsider the time line and scope of three previously - approved building renovations after bids came in nearly $ 200,000 over budget.
«We started studying the issue a few years ago and how we could make the best use of the Central Community Center, and in - line skating and in - line hockey kept coming up,» said Gail Gianpetro, spokeswoman for the district.
McEneny says the first maps of potential district lines will surface seven days before the first public hearing, which could come as early as the end of January.
Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).
Also, the Republican reign in North Carolina will likely be coming to an end soon as they've been ordered to redraw district lines and hold a special election next year.
The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.
But rather than cleaving along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans — incumbents and challengers alike — came down on both sides of the issue depending on their states and districts, suggesting national party committees aren't likely to take up the vote in their national messaging.
Draw district lines right, and you can swing the balance for years to come.
Much of the discussion centered on campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, but state races came up constantly as well, and for good reason: the state legislators and governors elected in three short months will oversee the single most important political act in our system of government, the redrawing of state and congressional district lines based on the results of the census.
A court - ordered redraw of the congressional district lines and a spate of resignations and retirements has scrambled the Keystone State, at least when it comes to the battle for the House majority.
Today's ruling, handed down by the U.S. District Court, comes after lawyers representing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos asked that the special master only oversee the process only oversee the lines for Congressional districts.
«I wouldn't have gotten elected unless each time at least one million Democrats came out to vote and crossed the party lines to vote for me,» said Pataki, rightly pointing out that Turner will need to attract voters from the other party to win in the Ninth Congressional District, where Democrats enjoy a three - to - one registration advantage.
I'm sure these kids will probably put together better and fairer district lines and be quite close on their own right when it comes to making sure the districts are with + -1 margin of error.
Coughlan — who has come under fire recently over retweets he sent from his personal Twitter account that some have characterized as racist or sexist — said he intends to seek the Republican and Independence lines in the 41st District race in a September primary.
But the three candidates seeking the Democratic ballot line in the 24th Congressional District underscored their differences when it came to a question about the influence of money in politics.
If the bill doesn't come up for a vote this year, it's hard to see the GOP letting it out in 2012 when they're fighting like hell to retain the majority — with new district lines, to boot.
It also comes as Wagner and Ball are each competing for the Green Party line (no, that's not a typo) in the 40th Senate District.
The redistricting order, which came after the State Assembly and Senate gave up trying to draw new Congressional lines, reduced the number of districts in New York to 27 from 29, as was required as a result of the 2010 census.
In the end, Cuomo came to a deal with Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats that allowed the Legislature to draw district lines one more time in exchange for a constitutional amendment that will change the process the next time around.
Late in the day, the New York Public Interest Research Group also came out against the legislature's bills, saying, in a statement, «We can not say with confidence that it will lead to a better product in the form of fairer district lines».
When it comes to actually addressing whatever overcrowding those revised methods predict, the ideas get more controversial: The Council recommends the city use eminent domain to seize potential school sites where necessary, and consider redrawing school zones and district lines to balance population between schools that have too many kids and those with empty seats.
In 2012, taking advantage of new district lines that had extended the district beyond Rangel's native Harlem and into the Bronx, and an influx of immigrants and gentrifiers into what was once the capital of black America, Adriano Espaillat, a hard - charging Dominican state lawmaker, came within a thousand votes of beating Rangel in the Democratic primary.
«The Special Master's lines came out today, and while I can't predict what the final lines will ultimately look like, the Special Master's district six is centered around my home and communities that I have represented in the Assembly, on the community board and as a civic leader for over twenty years.
The problem, Groth said, is traditional OTB parlors like Catskill and Capital District still rely on horse wagering, even as other forms of gambling are coming on line.
We have a lot of uncertainty coming in 2013, with our new District lines and our constituents deserve a steady and well behaved representative.
Turner's biggest turning point came when former New York City Mayor Ed Koch crossed party lines to endorse him, hoping a Republican win in the district would send a message to Obama on the president's policies toward Israel.
When the new lines came out, six current senate Democrats found out they were in the same proposed district as one of their colleagues (Senators Adams and Montgomery in Brooklyn, Jose Peralta and Mike Gianaris in Queens and Toby Ann Stavisky and Tony Avella in Queens).
I had never seen a line coming out of any county legislator's district office and could not justify the expense of leased space, copiers, additional phone and fax lines, and other utilities that would be required for a second office.
By talking about the «problems» with the judge's lines, Cuomo is setting himself up to sign off, with great regret, and the legislature's district lines, arguing, as his father once did, that they're preferable to anything the courts could come up with.
Come the November election, having the Independence line can be worth a couple of hundred votes in District 2.
Meanwhile, Common Cause / NY is also out with a statement pushing for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto district lines rather than to come to a deal.
Even as education advocates nationwide fight to hold the line against district - level funding cuts, the state education departments responsible for overseeing K - 12 policy are coming under the budget ax.
In the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision, the Supreme Court ruled that courts generally could not require busing across district lines to achieve racial balance; but the coming months may see more calls from liberals for moving kids across district lines to fulfill the promise of the federal law.
But then comes the punch line: «And districts should seek exemptions from the rigid, state - imposed testing regimes and consequences to enable it to establish more sophisticated methods for assessing students» near - term and longer - term academic and social progress along the lines discussed earlier.»
As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.
This report parses the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree health care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.
We recognize that districts are administering different tests and the data coming from these tests may not line up exactly to the dashboard's quarterly reporting structure.
But they chose not to come to Mississippi because of the limited pool of students that would be available without crossing district lines.
When people use this line — the district isn't paying, the money comes from the state / the federal gov» t. — do they truly not realize that ALL of the money is being extorted out of US in the first place?
Those documents indicate that even if CPS tapped the entirety of a $ 500 million line of short - term credit, akin to a district credit card, it still might not have enough money to cover all the bills coming due by the end of the month, meaning it will start the new budget year July 1 with past - due bills and an empty checking account.
Lined with independent stores and inviting cafes, the thoroughfare oozes a friendly ambience and hosts Amsterdam's oldest and most charming cinema, The Movies, which comes highly recommended for a cosy evening.Both the treasured Jordaan district and the breathtaking Canal Belt are mere metres from your doorstep, boasting such gems as the Noorderkerk, with its delightful farmers» market, the popular Anne Frank House and the unique Electric Ladyland.
The architects, Lot - Ek, update the Whitney's massive but mobile walls for the Meatpacking District, where abandoned trolley tracks already scar the streets and the High Line comes to its end above.