Sentences with phrase «get city control»

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In our ongoing coverage of innovative cities, CNBC's Louisa Bojesen gets behind the operations of a Danish company that gives total control to the eyes.

Speculators who can get around China's strict capital controls to profit from the price difference are driving some trading activity in the city, Weese said.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

Not even the networks can hide any longer the fact that so many cities in California are bankrupt because they can not get their spending under control, and businesses are leaving in droves due to over regulation and taxation.

So what if I would rather collect my well fare check, head down to the Piggly Wiggly and buy me a box of slim jims to snap into, then ride a city bus back to my rent controlled apartment so I can use someone elses wireless connection to get on the internet so I can complain about Obama giving those other people, you know, them dark skinned ones, lot's of stuff they don't deserve.

The city's mayor, Job Cohen, admitted that the Red Light District has attracted criminal involvement and has gotten out of control.

However in the last five years we have allegedly got our debts under control and are a club that each year turns a healthy profit, we were also told by Wenger that the Fifa FFP rules would limit the other big spending clubs and this would level the playing field, and we could then be able to level out with the Chelsea and Man City's of this world.

Unless Ronaldo gets his weight under control and finds a way to prove the injury isn't an issue, I can promise you he'd be worthless to Man City.

Keen on maintaining their winning run in the league, Man City immediately took control of proceedings as they push forward vigorously and got themselves ahead...

Their attack was elite this season, and it controlled enough of each game to not allow many chances on the other end, but whenever an opponent did happen to get a shot, City gave up high - quality looks.

Shinawatra got his plaything and Manchester City fell under the control of a dubious billionaire.

After the interval, City established greater control and barely let Palace get out of their own half.

Man City to win: The visitors should get plenty of chances to control the game and they have the superior firepower and creativity to pull out the victory.

If Latin gets preferential treatment, City Hall essentially will be, yes, giving control of public land to a private user.

A guy who invested in downtown buffalo when everyone else gave up on the inner city while his opponent was carefully reinventing himself as a calm, aloof, controlled and experienced outsider, who just happened to have a former governor (a crappy one at that), married a Kennedy for her name and got cuckolded in the process, wasted billions on bad sub-prime mortgages and canal money, ran against Carl McCall earning the everlasting respect of the African - Americans in NYS, and now sounds suspiciously like Elliot Spitzer.

The Staten Island Ferry engineer who fell asleep in the control room as the boat was docking will get his job back, plus about $ 20,000 in unearned overtime, after a judge overruled city officials who wanted him demoted.

But the fact is that political achievement was overshadowed by what tenant advocates did not get in the final deal: an abolition of vacancy decontrol, or a repeal of the Urstadt Law, which would have returned control of New York City rent stabilization policy to the cCity rent stabilization policy to the citycity.

This past weekend, with mayoral control of the city schools set to expire at month's end if he can't get action, he was off in Miami Beach pontificating on national problems.

Both sides will benefit, Democrats would get Downstate (which in my humble opinion should be called the Commonwealth of New Amsterdam after the most progressive city in Europe and in reference to the city's history), a guaranteed two seats in the US Senate (+1 because Gillibrand did well Upstate in the last election, so 3 seats for the Democrats), guaranteed control of the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches, and the once in a lifetime opportunity to write a state constitution to their own liking (firearms rights applies only to military and police, right to choose for women, protections for LGBT New Yorkers, etc)

«There's some very open - ended language in the executive order, which could result in the city having to recur a substantial additional cost that will not go through our budget process, that the Council doesn't get to vote on, that I as mayor have no control over,» de Blasio said.

The next Labour government will ensure city and county regions, like this powerhouse economy in Leeds, get control of business rates revenue so that any extra money raised here... can be invested here.

«The mayoral control bill and the pension bill are both issues that New York City needs to get resolved,» he said.

Look for the city to strategically give up some direct control over the plan and to offer to document how it benefits working - class nabes, and we give Bloomberg three - to - two odds of getting his bill passed.

Charter advocates, who feel they have gotten short - shrifted by the city and state, say they would look to run candidates to grab control of the community boards, whose elections would be held in May 2018.

The Republican - controlled State Senate never got around to confirming de Blasio's three appointees to the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which controls New York City's subways and buses.

Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.

If leftist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the radical Working Families Party and the Senate Democrats are allowed to control this seat, hardworking Western New York taxpayers are going to get the shaft — just like they did when Democrats controlled the Senate in 2009 - 10 and raised taxes by $ 14 billion,» Reif said.

Democratic lawmakers in that chamber already have a number of issues they have to get done: rent control, monitoring the regulations for the new teacher evaluation law and an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and criminal justice reform, just to name a few.

De Blasio, who remains unpopular in Albany, is likely to get a one - year extension on mayoral control of New York City schools, thanks to the Senate Republicans, though Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie insisted he's holding out for three years.

The Cuomo administration did raise the question of expanding mayoral control outside New York City before this year's legislative session even got underway.

The national passenger railroad over the weekend activated its version of so - called positive train control between the two cities, the last stretch of its tracks on the busy Northeast Corridor to get the system.

City workers will get free birth control pills, preventative health checkups, mammograms and breastfeeding supplies under a new deal the de Blasio administration announced on Friday.

De Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt yesterday, when the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, issued a statement harshly criticizing the mayor's performance at a hearing on the issue.

After months of review, city leaders are trying to get some control of the spending allotted in the 2010 budget.

Despite the well - documented difficulty of getting anything accomplished in Albany, Mr. de Blasio was still hopeful that the system could be changed to give the city more control — citing the repeal of the Urstadt Law, which gives Albany control of the city's rent laws, as one priority.

«We're going to be pointing out what «victory» looks like — higher taxes, illegals getting the right to vote, and New York City will control the entire agenda,» the Senate Republican official said.

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He criticized the mayor for a «complete lack of leadership» on transportation issues and then condemned the MTA's statement that Long Islanders working in the City should consider working from home during upcoming Penn Station repairs, eventually getting around to the position that any further capital funding from the City should be conditioned on «increased mayoral control and influence.»

It's still not known whether the governor would get his wish to have greater control over the exact school aid distributions for New York City schools and large upstate school districts, including Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

«Why I should vote for mayoral control, and why I can trust you to make sure we give the 1.1 million kids in New York City the opportunity to succeed, and make sure the [state outlay of] $ 9 billion gets spread out evenly.»

If he can't get it overturned or reduced, Thompson faces the daunting prospect of trying to raise funds both for his next possible mayoral run in 2013 and for a settle ment with the city's Environmental Control Board, where the case was adjudicated.

The city's rising test scores show de Blasio should «absolutely» get a longer extension of mayoral control, the mayor said.

The local media in Rochester is apparently having a hard time getting information about the schedule of the city's mayor — and Andrew Cuomo's hand - picked LG running mate — Bob Duffy, from the notoriously tight - lipped and highly - controlled Cuomo campaign.

If Syracuse does not get its finances in order, it could be subject to a state fiscal control board, which Maroun said would take power away from the mayor and the council over the operational expenses of the city.

Violence at the detention centers and facilities is «getting more and more out of control,» according to Comptroller Scott Stringer, leading to a rise in personal injury lawsuits that are putting the city on the hook for large sums of money.

Do you as party chair feel any particular obligation to exercise quality control over who's getting on the ballot, particularly in the city, to try and upgrade the quality of elected leadership this community has?

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt on Thursday, when the leader of the State Senate issued a statement harshly criticizing Mr. de Blasio's performance at a hearing on the issue.

Critics yesterday blasted Mayor Bloomberg for getting on his high horse in a relentless campaign to control what New Yorkers eat and drink to fight obesity — while jacking up the fees at city recreation centers where they go to work off those calories.