Sentences with phrase «getting public officials»

Public sector unions can drive total revenue for their industry higher without any improvements in productivity simply by getting public officials to increase taxes.

Not exact matches

Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

Gannett — which owns USA Today and a number of other prominent U.S. titles, including the Detroit Free Press and the Arizona Republic — reportedly sent its official bid to Tribune Publishing on April 12, but the media giant decided to make the offer public on Monday after getting what it suggested was an unsatisfactory response from Tribune management.

Now, we're getting some more details on exactly what happened: The performer reported thought he was taking traditional prescription Vicodin but was actually taking a counterfeit treatment laced with the far more powerful (and deadly) opioid fentanyl, which has become an increasing source of alarm for public health officials.

In September, California officials started requiring companies testing autonomous vehicles on public roads to get permits.

Although Warren did not herself use legislation or official congressional power to get Wells Fargo to claw back $ 60 million from executives, her public shaming and the Facebook post that followed fanned the public opinion fires so vigorously that the bank's board had to do something to quell shareholders and an angry public.

She then got Puerto Rico's public safety secretary to confirm Monday that there have been dozens more deaths than the official statistic reflects.

It's a tremendous responsibility, and one elected officials elsewhere have decided is better left to public servants whose primary motivation isn't getting re-elected.

Sometimes they would even threaten the lives of the public officials in order to get a pay raise.

We can mock and criticize public officials without getting sent to jail.

Using this system, 98 % of the public can have official recognition and get some holidays.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Whereas in Sweden a Lutheran pastor is a highly paid public official, in the U.S. a pastor has to please a local membership in order to get and hold secure employment.

It was only when the school nurse starting asking around that public health officials got wind that jacketing was a common practice among Lincoln High's football players and wrestlers.

At public forums where city officials unveiled the details of the proposed $ 90 million project, the public got its first chance to comment on the plan, which will dramatically change the face of the lakefront from the Field Museum of Natural History to McCormick Place.

Industry officials know better than to take on publicly someone who can get on any television show she wants, and they are always thrilled to be invited to the White House for a meeting or a public event.

The first nine holes of Buffalo Grove «s new municipal golf course will open for public play Tuesday, but village officials got to try the course a day earlier.

We have gotten here because, I remember, not too long ago, in a programme organized in Tema, of which government officials were present, and in the full participation of the public, members of the Invisible Forces took the microphone, and warned of mayhem should the government they operated to aid to power, fail to provide them jobs.

``... I'm still truly amazed, and I actually said this when I was running for attorney general, but it's only gotten worse over three years, the lack of trust in the public officials — especially in Albany,» the AG continued.

Once again, the official arbiters of taste and decorum have lowered their standards sufficiently to allow an errant Texan to slip past the velvet ropes and sneak in to blast a crowd both innocent and unprepared with that special e.politics magic... i.e., a couple of conferences are coming up, so I get to babble at length and in public without the risk of being gagged or (openly) shunned.

Democratic operative Charlie King, an on - again / off - again Cuomo ally for years, gets attention from the WSJ for his recent public — and controversial — attacks defending a top administration official, Melissa DeRosa.

Also at 2 p.m., women leaders and activists will gather at City Hall to condemn Cuomo's «bullying of elected officials and community organizations» in response to his reported effort to get NYC Public Advocate Tish James not to accept the WFP endorsement to run for AG, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«So if you want to contribute to a school, a public school specifically, or a not - for - profit that supports a government purpose... you get a tax deduction,» the official said.

«Sadly, we're getting confronted with public officials who are alleged to have abused their positions of trust, in this case the highest - ranking elected official in Nassau County and in the Town of Oyster Bay, for their own corrupt benefit, thereby abusing the public trust,» Robert L. Capers, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at a news conference.

The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.

«When we have public officials who are entrusted by the public with their trust, it's absolutely outrageous that when they commit crimes and get convicted of them, that the same members of the public have to pay for them,» he said.

It would be advisable to hold multiple hearings in different parts of the state to get valuable insight from experts, public officials, and the general public.

«What matters is getting results for people and I think the the public is very smart,» de Blasio said during a Thursday press conference in which NYPD officials announced there had been less shooting and murders this year than during this time last year.

NEW YORK — The campaign to get recreational marijuana legalized in New York got another push Tuesday, as Public Advocate Letitia James along with other elected officials got behind the movement.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

The Ghanaian public is charged up with keen interest to find out which football officials in the West African country have been videoed getting involved in corrupt practices.

While the toxins didn't reach the level of a public health concern, it got the attention of federal, state and local officials.

City Hall would agree to make it easier for charters to get public - school space or obtain funding to lease private space, said an education official familiar with the discussions.

Lights and sirens are only supposed to be used in emergencies, and a number of public officials have gotten criticized for misusing them, including Mayor de Blasio during a lengthy streak of late arrivals to events in 2014.

Silver also got the Assembly to honor Taub with an official resolution that the speaker presented during a May 2011 event in Manhattan and the next year helped one of Taub's relatives land a job at a nonprofit that got millions of public funds from Silver, court papers say.

«What a wonderful opportunity to get to know public officials who are involved in education.»

Prosecutors on Thursday afternoon wrapped up 10 weeks of testimony and arguments in Central Islip, where they sought to make the case that the one - time elected officials accepted an illegal stream of benefits from restaurateur Harendra Singh and, in exchange, abused their public positions to get him two county contracts and more than $ 20 million in town - guaranteed loans.

And regular readers as well as public officials in New Rochelle know that getting my attention is never a good thing.

The crime of corrupting government applies to public officials, or someone «acting in concert» with an official, fraudulently getting money, property or services from the state or a municipality.

This extra money they would produce will never make it to us working taxpayer, either someone on public assistance (that is cheating to begin with) or gov» t officials will get it Wake up NY ers it all about the rich getting richer!!!!

Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Mondello leveled extraordinary criticism at GOP officials who are embroiled in public corruption scandals, saying he was «angry as hell,» and would do everything he can to «get them out of the party» if they are convicted.

In New York City, without a public schedule, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, whose administration was hit with a subpoena last week on the Buffalo Billion investigation from the same federal prosecutor who got the Silver conviction, issued a brief written statement saying that the Silver sentence sends «a simple message that officials who abuse the public's trust will be held accountable.»

This November, New York voters will get to decide whether state officials who are convicted of public corruption can be stripped of their pensions.

«We have to make sure that every elected official is on point with this because what some people don't get on the federal level and elsewhere is that all elected officials are servants of the public,» Afaf Nasher, CAIR - NY's executive director, who served as the rally's emcee, said to roaring applause from the crowd.

She has not only gotten the support from Uptown officials like Espaillat and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, but also previous Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Public Advocate Letitia James.

2 p.m., Women leaders and activists will gather at City Hall to condemn Cuomo's «bullying of elected officials and community organizations» in response to his reported effort to get NYC Public Advocate Tish James not to accept the WFP endorsement to run for AG, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«If they were really serious about getting public input they wouldn't just hold public hearings — they would sit down one - on - one with the elected officials of the towns, the county executive and state officials,» he said.

The county executive, swarmed by reporters at a public event last week, said: «It's somebody that's out there getting their jollies, taking down, ya know, a public official.

«The bill is also counterproductive, especially at a time Nigerians are witnessing a sprawling gap in accountability for grand corruption, and high - ranking public officials accused of corruption are getting away with reduced punishment, and allowed to keep their ill - gotten wealth.»

A resolution to set a date for a public hearing to consider term limits for elected officials in the Town of Huntington failed to get enough support to be scheduled.