Sentences with phrase «from public advocate»

The Brooklyn - based state appellate panel on Wednesday denied an appeal from Public Advocate Letitia James and several other groups seeking to overturn Justice William Garnett's decision to keep the testimony and minutes from the grand jury proceedings sealed.

He received endorsements from Public Advocate Letitia James; Gentile; Rev. Khader El - Yateem, one of his Democratic primary opponents; and the Working Families Party.

In an unusual move, Mayor de Blasio is replacing the head of the city's Commission on Human Rights — one day after getting a strongly worded letter from Public Advocate Letitia James attacking her and demanding she be fired.

Mr. Cuomo's vow of support comes on the heels of an endorsement from Public Advocate Tish James and an NY1 / Siena College poll showing Mr. Rangel with a 13 - point lead over Mr. Espaillat.

Ahmed received a proclamation from Public Advocate Letitia James, who called him a role model and let him sit in her chair in the council chambers.

The co-location is also the subject of a lawsuit from Public Advocate Letitia James, who filed papers in December seeking to overturn 42 co-locations that were approved by the DOE in October.

Another approach comes from Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio, who is also a mayoral candidate, leading one of the most recent polls of the candidates in the Democratic primary.

During Graham's eulogy, speaker Kirsten John Foy from Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's office charged police with acting maliciously in shooting the teen.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Department of Consumer Affairs First Deputy Commissioner Alba Pico, Council Member Rafael Espinal and staff from Public Advocate Tish James» Office encourage eligible New Yorkers in East New York to file their taxes for free at their local NYC Free Tax Prep site, Happy Coffee Shop, 2729 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn.

The DOE also has long had problems tracking IEPs through its custom - made program Special Education Student Education System (SESIS), which led to a lawsuit from the Public Advocate's office.

The D.A.'s sudden passing provoked conjecture that the governor might pick one of any number of figures, ranging from Public Advocate Letitia James to several prosecutors who worked under his predecessor, to take his place.

In an unusual move, de Blasio is replacing the head of the city's Commission on Human Rights — one day after getting a strongly worded letter from Public Advocate Letitia James attacking her and demanding she be fired.

Not exact matches

King also said in a response to an open letter from NYC public advocate Laetitia James, «We welcome the opportunity to work with anyone that can help us reduce potential discrimination in the Airbnb community.»

While it's possible the terms of his employment agreement with (and departure from) Facebook could prevent him from taking an active role at a competitor (or any company in the virtual reality space) for several months (or even years), he could reassume his public presence as an advocate for VR technology and its larger potential.

From 2010 to 2013, he was the city's public advocate.

New York City Parks Advocates had argued the event was taking away public space from, well, the public, by setting up on Damrosch Park, an area of greenery on the Lincoln Center compound.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

The mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana has proposed the city create its own cryptocurrency to raise money for public finance, taking a cue from Berkeley, California, according to The Acadia Advocate.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

Same - sex marriage's journey from minority status to the law of the land offers important lessons about gaining broad - based public support that fiduciary advocates can gain from.

That doesn't mean Religion should be expelled from the public life, as some would - be-little-hitlers advocate, it does however mean that the Church should be independent of the state and conversely the state, and its citizens independent of the Church.

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

By contrast, advocates of the total exclusion of all religion from the public - school curriculum speak from a post-Enlightenment perspective.

From at least Daniel Boorstin and Sidney E. Mead on, scholars have seen the leaders of the American Enlightenment — the religion of the republic that animates present - day civil or public religion — as being advocates of some sort of primitivism.

Feeding America also supports programs that improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry.

Identify and advocate for public policies that could incentivize more food donation from the private sector and expand options for landfill alternatives such as composting and anaerobic digestion.

From building awareness among the public and advocating for sustainable policy, to building capacity and facilitating the transition of farmers to organic agriculture, everything we do aims to strengthen the organic movement and lead it forwards.

MomsRising.org members, joined by advocates at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, urged the chain to improve the nutritional quality of its kids» meals by removing soda from the kids menu.

I don't have a problem with the FA protecting the referees from public criticism (I don't advocate referee themselves apologise because then they have to do it every time they make a mistake which is insane) but they SHOULD be the ones making sure the standard is consistently high and if it's not possible then it's time to bring in technology or extra eyes to improve it.

, in which they advocate for the removal of youth football programs from public schools.

So when a group of health - care workers and advocates from the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition asked her in January to join their movement to lobby the Legislature to allow women to breast - feed at work and in public, she jumped at the opportunity.

An ambitious vision for a bigger Burnham Park passed its first public test Wednesday, amid praise and a few suggestions from parks advocates.

To play devil's advocate, c - sections are a public - sector service from our health care system.

Creation of new standards, which public health advocates have sought for a decade, has unprecedented support from many of the nation's largest food and beverage companies.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Cuomo's push for Democrats, they argue, is based on the primary challenge he's received from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and advocate for public education.

Also at 9 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James and Rep. Nydia Velasquez hold a rally with tenants from 83 - 85 Bowery, who are allegedly being illegally threatened with evictions, state Supreme Court steps, 80 Centre St., Manhattan.

Spitzer declined to pick favorites in the 2006 Democratic primary, but was believed to prefer former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green to Cuomo — in part because Green's rich developer brother, Stephen, gave very generously to Spitzer's campaign, but also because Spitzer didn't relish the idea of having the ambitious Cuomo breathing down his neck from the AG's office.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James wants an explanation from the Department of Environmental Protection about their projections that water rates could swell 80 percent by 2027.

The public matching program was approved in the state budget in 2014 as a compromise with Senate Republicans and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was under pressure that year from good - government advocates and public - financing supporters to create a public financing system.

Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big public event like this (and the #SOTU hashtag...

Cuomo this year faces his own political challenge from the left in the form of a primary waged by actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon.

The invite to the May 12 event, which costs between $ 1,000 and $ 3,800 to attend, features a photo of the mayor and a note from him lauding the Buffalo Democrat as a «champion for charter schools in the Assembly,» (which is, for the record, a place where that sort of behavior is not widespread), and also an «outspoken advocate for public school reform.»

The public advocate was asked during the post-event Q&A what he thought of the fact that Bloomberg had monitored the crash and its fallout from an undisclosed location (that was not, according to the Times» Michael Barbaro, Bermuda).

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Letitia James and New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer hold a press conference to announce that New York City Department of Sanitation trucks have been removed from Ravenswood streets, 35th Avenue and 21st Street, Queens.

NYC Councilman James Gennaro, one of Council Speaker / mayoral contender Chris Quinn's most loyal allies and attack dogs, stepped forward to defend her against the most recent salvo from her rival, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Basio.

Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big public event like this (and the #SOTU hashtag associated with it) to reach activists, journalists, bloggers and other influencers with messages designed to shape the online commentary around their particular issues.

In the races for mayor, public advocate and comptroller, the WFP issued Wilson - Pakulas from the state party's executive board.