Sentences with phrase «from citizen groups»

Here's what each had to say about the latest recommendations for consolidating local government from the citizen group Consensus.

There are several other challenges to that decision still pending in federal court, however, from citizens groups, the city of Oneida and the towns of Vernon and Verona.

Not exact matches

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

A flood of money from outside groups - a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United - created a «huge cacophony of television» in the final months of the campaign, making it harder for any one message to stand out.

In fact, Citizens Financial Group found that 60 percent of borrowers expect to pay off their student loans in their 40s, about 20 years after graduating from college.

Just take a look at the cage match they're fighting over the «Northern Gateway» pipeline, the Canadian equivalent of Keystone XL, which is going nowhere fast, thanks to steadfast opposition from First Nations (tribal) groups and tens of thousands of other citizens north of the border.

The fundamental principle that no judge should be expelled from office because of her core convictions unites a diverse group of Wyoming's citizens, including members of the LGBT community who have expressed dismay at the Commission's actions here.

The EPA is now offering $ 50,000 grants to citizens» groups that commission evaluations from experts of their own choice.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

Religious nutters have no right to try and withhold civil rights from a group of US citizens just because the nutters choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

As protests by citizens» groups, environmental groups and other NGOs against the treaty mount, some help has come from an unexpected quarter.

People must be taught to understand that their actions as citizens and members of other organized groups — for instance, trade unions — must be judged from a moral point of view.

«Einstein Noah Restaurant Group takes its role as a corporate citizen seriously, and we are pleased with the progress of our suppliers in their effort to help us eliminate gestation crates from our system by 2017,» stated Eric Grundemeir, Einstein Noah's Senior Vice President of Supply Chain & Distribution.

But with so many different interests to keep in mind, with everyone from governmental agencies and non-profit groups to individual citizens of Washington state potentially getting a say, the process can be complicated, to say the least.

The Citizens have taken 21 wins from 22 fixtures across all competitions this season and they have stormed their Champions League Group.

The project monitors hate groups and develops legal strategies for protecting citizens from violence - prone groups.

A group called Citizens for Better Communities — whose members are mostly Cary residents with homes bordering the property — applauded the coming acquisition that will prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit.

Residents who belong to the group Citizens for Better Communities, which was formed to muster local support and to lobby government to prevent the land from becoming a gravel pit, were also on hand to thank Hoffman and members of the park board for their actions.

Rep. John Katko stands out among House members elected to Congress in 2014 for his reliance on campaign contributions from special interest groups, according to an analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Colin and I also discuss the philosophies in Jaron Lanier's «You Are Not a Gadget» and Kurt Vonnegut's «Player Piano,» and how organizations, from advocacy non-profits to citizens groups like the Tea Party, turn their online networks into offline political influence.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

'' «state's rights»... typically is used when a group feels that federal law will prohibit their state from restricting the rights of their citizens as they see fit» That's not really accurate.

The EU blocks citizens» groups from challenging a secret US trade deal which could give corporations rights over governments

Attacks might now come from foreign nationals or from British citizens recruited by Al Qaeda, by its affiliate groups or by Al Qaeda inspired groups.

The practice of camping out in the office has drawn some criticism from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which considers the practice inappropriate and might constitute a violation of the congressional rules.

You'll usually have a short intro and a clearly - identified list of links of the documents, which might include press releases, video clips, congressional testimony, letters to Congress from supportive corporate CEOs or grassroots citizens groups, reports, factsheets, etc..

In 1963, when the then Midwestern Region (now Edo and Delta states) was carved from the old West, the progressive Action Group gave way to the centrist National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC).

Can an individual or legal (a citizens» group, activist, NGO among others) entity sue the government for not protecting me from these manifestly dangerous criminals?

Local groups and citizens held a rally over the weekend to call on the U.S. Department of Defense to halt PFOS discharges from Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, which drain into the city's main drinking water source and the Hudson River.

During remarks delivered at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan good government group Citizens Union, the Attorney General outlined what he believes is required to help «cure the disease» of public corruption, including a total ban on outside employment income for legislators, an end to per diems, rules reform to empower individual legislators, and a constitutional amendment to extend legislators» terms from two to four years.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

The presence of face to face moments between citizens, or the possibility of those moments, was still considered as crucial for fostering a shared sense of belonging, motivating the pursuit of the common good and securing laws and institutions from turning into mechanisms through which group interests competed.

You'll usually have a short intro and a clearly - identified list of links of the documents (which might include press releases, video clips, congressional testimony, letters to Congress from supportive corporate CEOs or grassroots citizens groups, reports, factsheets, etc).

It is generally harder to foster a strong sense of solidarity when citizens come from different ethnic or religious groups that do not always see eye - to - eye.

Thousands of citizens and hundreds of organizations — governments, businesses, advocacy groups, neighborhood associations and more — from across Buffalo Niagara have been a part of One Region Forward.

Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a nonpartisan good - government group in Manhattan, said Terry's background should have disqualified him from government work.

East Hampton Town has joined a lawsuit brought by a citizens group in 2014 against the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island over the installation of high - voltage transmission lines and poles along a six - mile route from East Hampton Village to an Amagansett substation.

It is exactly four years to the day since Citizens UK held an assembly at the Barbican which saw 2,000 people from civil society institutions, many of them faith groups, putting the issue of capping the cost of credit to the Treasury portfolio politicians of the three major parties.

Two other New York good - government groups, Common Cause (a national organization based in Washington D.C.) and Citizens Union (which started as a New York political party that once fought Tammany Hall), have taken money from a group closely within the orbit of NYSUT.

Elizabeth Lynam, with the budget watch dog group Citizens Budget Commission, credits Cuomo and the legislature for holding the line on spending to a no more than a 2 % increase from last year.

Ironically, some of the leaders in the WFP who have endorsed Nixon — represent groups including New York Communities for Change and Citizens Action — receive massive funding from unions.

A Specific Affordable Housing Plan A large group of churchgoers, NYCHA residents, senior citizens, and advocates recently rallied near City Hall to push for an affordable housing plan from the Metro - IAF coalition led by two Brooklyn pastors and affordable housing builders.

Cuomo's proposal earned praise from environmental groups, including the Citizens Campaign for the Environment.

A citizens» group representing 125 individuals has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Cuomo Administration from moving forward with a plan to close the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

If it really is the case that the European Research Group will be a «very powerful factor» in that vote, then UK citizens have the right to know its full membership, where all of its money comes from — and its full involvement with ministers in Britain's current and previous governments.

In addition to the calls from within the Republican conference, the head of the state's Conservative Party as well as Citizens Union, a good government group, are calling on Skelos to step aside.

VFGG was able to pay some of Foley's early political expenses after receiving money from Citizens for Democracy, a 527 group whose chairman is Larry J. Lawrence of Greenwich, the treasurer of Foley's 2010 and 2014 gubernatorial campaigns.

The group has only two other contributors — with $ 660,000 from a conservative group known as Citizens for a Sound Government of Colorado and $ 25,000 from Republican Craig R. Stapleton, a former U.S. ambassador to France and a close friend of Foley's from Greenwich.