Como has promised to repeal the payroll tax and complains on his website that the legislature has provided «no 5 - year highway, road and bridge plan — a key
economic development initiative for Upstate and Long Island — while approving over $ 23.8 B in new funding for the MTA.»
Acting under the auspices of the Cuomo - controlled SUNY system, Kaloyeros ran the governor's
signature economic development initiatives through several semi-private companies, including the Fort Schuyler Management Corporation.
In addition to working with CREA and OREA on federal and provincial matters, members were kept informed
of economic development initiatives in Halton Hills, Erin, Caledon and Brampton, through well - attended workshops.
Speaking before a standing - room - only crowd of over 350 people for the approximately 45 - minute speech, Poloncarz detailed successes from the first year of his administration
including economic development initiatives and better cooperation among governmental partners, while also touching on challenges ahead in upcoming years.
State Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan (R - East Northport) said the state should dissolve Start - Up NY and put the $ 44.5 million that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposes to spend on advertising the program and
other economic development initiatives to better use.
Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Wednesday gave an address to a packed auditorium at Fowler High School's PSLA, providing several updates on ongoing
economic development initiatives as part of a «state of the city» speech.
The WSJ report did not say if Kaloyeros was among the «other individuals,» but this omission may not have chastened the staffers, since the Buffalo Billion, a key
state economic development initiative channeled through an opaque SUNY Poly - affiliated nonprofit, was almost certain to figure prominently in the complaint.
All of these items, added to a general lack of transparency from the executive and questions surrounding
major economic development initiatives like the Buffalo Billion, have crippled state government.
Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries called for the Democratic National Committee to give Gov. Andrew Cuomo a chance to address the nation at its convention in July — despite an escalating Justice Department investigation into one of the governor's
key economic development initiatives and one of his closest aides.
Participants heard plenary framing presentations on five topics including the Governor's recent
regional economic development initiative and experience with it to date, past and current efforts to do regional planning in the Hudson Valley and regional approaches to business and tourism.
A day after the Justice Department filed accusations of a multibillion - dollar bid - rigging scheme at the heart of his
biggest economic development initiative, Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared on the scene of the alleged crime — Buffalo — to announce both an administrative reshuffling and a renewed commitment to the program.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has hired a former criminal prosecutor to review his upstate
economic development initiatives after learning federal investigators are examining potential conflicts of interest and improper bidding.
I want to underscore the word «we» because it takes teamwork and regional collaboration to undertake transformational
economic development initiatives like the Marcy NanoCenter project.
Laura Greenwood was instrumental in the identification and description of resources for the Sustainability Education and
Economic Development initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges.
While Beijing has touted the project as a
mutual economic development initiative, it's widely seen as an attempt by China to construct a massive, multi-national zone of economic and political influence that has Beijing at its core.
A staff «white paper «prepared for Thursday «s regular Fair Authority board meeting will suggest a series of
economic development initiatives linking the fair to Gov. James Thompson «s Build Illinois program and to the Commercial Club of Chicago «s recent report on creating jobs in metropolitan Chicago.
While the former mayor was in office, Miner and Mahoney publicly exchanged blows
over economic development initiatives, sanctuary cities and the Consensus commission's city - county merger proposal.
There's not even a publicly stated rate of pay for his hand - picked investigator, who was assigned, from what the governor says, to look into what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara already was looking into — which seems so far to be improper lobbying and conflicts of interest involving the Buffalo Billion and upstate
nanotech economic development initiatives, connected to SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany.
New Republican State Senator Chris Jacobs said he also was pleased to hear the Governor's support of ridesharing, as well as the additional commitment of $ 500 million
toward economic development initiatives.
Federal investigators looking into the Buffalo Billion have requested information from SolarCity, the California - based rooftop solar energy systems installer, whose solar panel factory in South Buffalo is the keystone of the state's high -
profile economic development initiative.