Sentences with phrase «first state in the union»

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In a sketch that saw first lady Melania Trump pouting as she prepared to attend the State of the Union address, former first ladies — dead and alive — came to Trump to share their wisdom.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201In his first State of the Union address late Tuesday, President Donald Trump touted the country's job growth in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in his first year, the strengthening economy, and — a key part of his campaign — the surprising pop in the coal industry in 201in the coal industry in 201in 2017.

«The main concern is that an unexpected exit of the U.K. from the EU could lead to similar initiatives in other member states, making Brexit the first step towards the disintegration of the union,» Antonio Barroso, senior vice-president of political risk consultancy, Teneo Intelligence, said in a report this week.

But the transformation had been in the making since March 2011 when Colbeck and a fellow freshman, state Representative Mike Shirkey, first seriously considered legislation to ban mandatory collection of union dues as a condition of employment in Michigan.

During his first State of the Union address in February, Trump said that Congress had «repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare,» citing the nixing of the health law's individual mandate (which requires Americans to either carry insurance or pay a tax penalty) that passed alongside the recent GOP tax overhaul.

President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address was rife with promises to put «America First,» but investors and political analysts in Asia seem to be taking it in their stfirst State of the Union address was rife with promises to put «America First,» but investors and political analysts in Asia seem to be taking it in their stFirst,» but investors and political analysts in Asia seem to be taking it in their stride.

At a campaign stop later in the day at the Pink Cadillac Diner in Rochester, N.H., during a motorcycle tour of the first primary state, Mr. Walker defended his battle with unions and portrayed Mr. Obama as a tool of entrenched interests.

The uncertain state of the eurozone economy may become clearer on Wednesday when the European Union statistics office releases an estimate of its economic growth in the first quarter.

Orion Energy, a solar technology company in Beaver Dam, was the first place President Barack Obama visited after his initial State of the Union address.

In his first State of the Union address, the president introduced an immigration reform plan that would end the two traditional routes to green - card status: the green card lottery, and family - unification.

In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortuneIn his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunein office can reverse its fortunes.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson issued the following statement on why she will not attend President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address: «For the first time since I began serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, I will not be attending the president's State of the Union address.

A brief glance through Huntington's Guide to Gettysburg Battlefield Monuments reveals that the majority of Union monuments rose between 1885, the twentieth anniversary of the war's end, and 1893, the thirtieth anniversary of the battle, though Confederate representation at Gettysburg was virtually nonexistent until Virginia raised the first Confederate state monument, featuring Robert E. Lee, in 1917.

It happens a lot because for the first time in their spiritual lives they may feel like they finally have permission to be honest about the actual state of their union.

In us, matter is brought into direct synthesis with spiritual mind... [it] is subsumed and transformed into a more perfect state by direct union with the Godhead... It is this destiny and this environmental harmony that is lost by sin in the first generation... this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.&raquIn us, matter is brought into direct synthesis with spiritual mind... [it] is subsumed and transformed into a more perfect state by direct union with the Godhead... It is this destiny and this environmental harmony that is lost by sin in the first generation... this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.&raquin the first generation... this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Ireland will be the first European Union state that has been given the OK to sell beef in the United States again after Mad Cow disease turned the nation against foreign beef in the 1990s.

On October 3, Applebee's marks a milestone, when Hawaii — the last remaining state in the Union without an Applebee's — gets its first restaurant in Ewa Beach on Oahu.

III state rankings and No. 31 overall) won its first section title in 21 years and won in a bracket that included two other teams, East Union - Manteca and Oakdale, that were in the State Top 20 for most of the sestate rankings and No. 31 overall) won its first section title in 21 years and won in a bracket that included two other teams, East Union - Manteca and Oakdale, that were in the State Top 20 for most of the seState Top 20 for most of the season.

Elk Grove High School was among the very first high schools in the state of California, and is certainly the oldest of the nine high schools in the Elk Grove Union High School District.

And the Unite union, in its information for employers and managers, stated that its members «will always put patient safety first».

The New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, which is firmly in the «progressive» camp of the state's many labor unions, has issued a trio of Assembly endorsements — including a first - time nod for Staten Island Republican Nicole Malliotakis.

First, the state Education Department and the teachers unions must resolve a lawsuit over the evaluations or Cuomo will insert his own plan into the 30 - day amendments (taking advantage of the broad powers the governor has over the budget in New York).

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer picked up her first union endorsement this week in her bid to replace Westchester County - elect George Latimer in the state Senate.

Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address takes place tomorrow, and with it comes a yearly tradition in the political advocacy world: SOTU rapid response.

ALBANY — Mayor Bloomberg's drive to end «last in / first out» protections for underachieving city teachers got a big boost in the state Senate last night with the introduction of a measure to end the union - backed practice, The Post has learned.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

But Clarke did speak with Spectrum News: «I'm on a mission right now, and that mission is, as one of the headlines in the, uh, Times Union I think is the newspaper here, «Trump boosting ex-lawman comes to Albany,» uh, I'm a huge supporter of the president of the United States, I work with America First Action, the official Trump PAC, I'm a senior spokesman for the PAC and the objectives of the PAC.

And then there was the announcement made at the State of the Union a few weeks earlier that Schneiderman would co-chair a multi-agency task force to investigate the mortgage crisis, a move that gave the onetime state senator a public profile for the first time in his State of the Union a few weeks earlier that Schneiderman would co-chair a multi-agency task force to investigate the mortgage crisis, a move that gave the onetime state senator a public profile for the first time in his state senator a public profile for the first time in his life.

A hearing scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Albany will be the first courtroom encounter between Paterson — represented by lawyers from the attorney general's office — and four state workers unions that brought suit against the governor's plan to force employees to take a one - day - a-week furlough until the state's budget plan is finalized.

The city's teachers union this week failed yet again in its effort to stop a lawsuit that aims to prove that the state's tenure laws and «last in, first out»...

«It is on record that we have never, since the inception of this administration, had any dispute with the organized labour and I will be the first to admit that the Labour Unions in Lagos State have been most responsible and while, at the same time, being dogged in their advocacy for the promotion of the interests of workers in Lagos State, both in the public and private sector groups.

Taking his first name from Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and his middle name from union organizer Alexander Bustamante, Mr. Blake decided to pursue a career in politics, and in 2005 had interned for Illinois State Senator Jeff Schoenberg.

The Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award - winner was among the star - studded cast of actors, entertainers and activists who came together for «the People's State of the Union» in January, an alternative event to President Donald Trump's first State of the Union speech.

On a union hall stage in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Cuomo made New York one of the first states in the nation to allow the write - off.

President Donald Trump will tout the accomplishments in his first year of office and talk about infrastructure and immigration initiatives he's sending to Congress in his State of the Union address Tuesday, a senior administration official said.

It furthered stated that the sum of N1.2 billion computed by the staff union for payment could not have been budgeted for in 2016 in the first place, not only because of the paucity of funds, but also the fact that the SOT allowance was not part of the remuneration in the Federal Public Service.

«For the first time in the history of the state of New York, the collective - bargaining rights of a union's members were thrown out, by law.

The New York State Senate Republican Conference held a press conference to announce the first proposal of the Senate's one - house budget Wednesday March 9, 2016 in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

Third, Cuomo officials believe they have the support of 1199 SEIU, the largest health care union in the state and a driving force behind many of the protests and rallies that centered on Brooklyn health care during Cuomo's first term.

New York NOW, a collaboration between WMHT - TV and The Times Union, won its first ever New York State Emmy Sunday night in New York City.

But many of his proposals — such as toughening up evaluation systems teachers barely agreed to in the first place, firing teachers with bad ratings, tying tenure to evaluations, and increasing the cap on charter schools — are sure to be met with ire from politically powerful state and city teachers union.

Political analysts, county and state lawmakers and union officials also noted that Curran's first 100 days have come in the shadow of predecessor Edward Mangano's corruption trial in federal court in Central Islip.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

Plaintiff Mark Janus, an Illinois state worker who declined to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, argues in his lawsuit that the payments he's compelled to pay the union violate his First Amendment ristate worker who declined to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, argues in his lawsuit that the payments he's compelled to pay the union violate his First Amendment riState, County and Municipal Employees, argues in his lawsuit that the payments he's compelled to pay the union violate his First Amendment rights.

When ethics expert Jane Feldman's departure from the New York State Assembly, and her appraisal of the experience as «as waste of money,» was first reported by the Times Union last week, many saw it as another blow to reform efforts in Albany.

ALBANY — For the first time in recent New York history, unions and other groups representing organized labor gave substantially more money to Democratic candidates for the State Senate than to Republican ones.

For the first time in more than a decade, the State Senate Republicans isn't getting any money from the state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election State Senate Republicans isn't getting any money from the state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election state's powerful health care workers» union, SEIU 1199, at election time.

If the court sides with Mr. Janus, it would spark the biggest change in government labor relations and state politics in New York since the passage of the Taylor Law in 1967, which first established ground rules for public employee unions.