Sentences with phrase «favor of the city last»

An arbitrator ruled in favor of the city last November, giving police a retroactive pay raise of just 1 % for time worked between April 2010 and April 2012.

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Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

The petition process, while clearly favoring Democrats in a Democrat - heavy city, was meant to offer a route onto the ballot that didn't require going through one of the city's massive, powerful political machines at the turn of the last century.

Last year, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Joon Kim, who closed a probe of whether de Blasio traded favors for contributions from donors that included Singh, said prosecutors found «several circumstances» where the mayor «made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies» on behalf of donors seeking «official favors.»

We are disappointed with the decision not to vote in favor of our application to rezone Sherman Plaza but want to thank Community Board 12, Borough President Brewer, the City Planning Commission and the Mayor for working with us over the last two years in support of the project.

ALBANY — Twelve of Albany's 15 wards favored incumbent Mayor Kathy Sheehan in last week's Democratic primary — including three out of the five majority - minority wards in the capital city, according to a breakdown of unofficial results from the Albany County Board of Elections.

Last November, in his most recent re-election to the state Senate, Latimer was passed over by the Independence Party line in favor of his opponent, Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian, a Republican.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

Last time the districts were redrawn, Republicans led the governing body and managed to skew the process in their own favor — leaving most of the underpopulated districts upstate, while the growing populations in the New York City region went unrecognized by a matching increase in proportional representation.

Queen City Landing claimed a court victory last May, when the Appellate Division of the Fourth Judicial Department upheld a prior court decision in favor of the developer and the City of Buffalo.

As reported by The Real Deal last month, the city's Housing Court rarely rules in favor or tenants, having only done so in 2 percent of cases brought by tenants between 2014 and 2016.

But the mayor dismissed the idea that the plot could be an argument in favor of hiring 1,000 more police officers — something the City Council has been proposing since last year but the mayor has so far declined to include in his budget.

«We are disappointed with the decision not to vote in favor of our application to rezone Sherman Plaza but want to thank Community Board 12, Borough President Brewer, the City Planning Commission and the Mayor for working with us over the last two years in support of the project,» said Paul Travis, head of Washington Square Partners, in a statement following the Council's verdict.

But while Edison, the New York City - based company whose educational program does include free computers, has lost hundreds of millions of dollars and fallen out of favor with investors, National Heritage last year turned a small profit managing more than two dozen...

This comes just days after The New York Times / Siena College Poll released last week showed a resounding majority (See NECSN's release here) of New York City likely voters favor creating more public charter schools.

In addition to «The Big Six,» other organizations that are presently lobbying Connecticut legislators in favor of the charter school and «education reform» agenda include the Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the North East Charter Schools Network, Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school chain with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Families for Excellent Schools, the New York - based lobbing and political entity that bused in charter school students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston last year to rally in support of Malloy's efforts to hand charter schools even more public funds.

Neglected by a broke city, Belle Isle returned the favor last June with another Detroit black eye, when IndyCar's grand prix was halted for hours of embarrassing repairs when chunks of the disintegrating surface began flying hither and yon.

Ahead of the much - discussed «climate tutorial» in a federal court last week, Chevron quietly filed a memo with the court listing its key points and arguments in favor of dismissing the climate lawsuits, in which the cities of San Francisco and Oakland are targeting it and four other oil and gas companies.

(That last one might work out in our favor a few years down the line when the city needs to liquidate a bunch of property).

But on a single day last June, the U.S. Supreme Court recast the argument over eminent domain in a way that has tremendous consequences for the real estate industry: In a five - four decision, the justices ruled in favor of the city of New London, Conn..