Sentences with phrase «give upstate cities»

The announcement comes nearly a year after the Lake City received $ 10 million in DRI funds from the state, part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to give upstate cities a shot in the arm.

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In the summer of 2012, Efrem Weiss, the CEO of YouGift, a social - media site for gift giving, relocated his startup team from New York City to upstate New York to join a three - month accelerator program.

Platzer was running a kitchen in upstate Pennsylvania when on one of his trips home was given an opportunity for a job in the soon - to - open Atlantic City Casino industry.

«Mayor Brown's vast executive and legislative experience, both as Mayor of an upstate industrial city and as a state legislator, gives him an important advantage and at the same time would have brought balance to the ticket.»

To mark the occasion, the ride - hailing service said it will match every tip given by riders to drivers across the country today, including in Buffalo and other cities upstate.

Once rediustricting takes place, we in New York City will be more than happy to give Republican upstate New York the cut in services that will guarantee it the small government that thgey crave.

We are turning around upstate cities like Buffalo that people had long ago given up on.

And while lawmakers seem prepared to give New York City almost all the money Mayor Bill de Blasio asked for, there is not as much funding for upstate.

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

The governor says if upstate cities really believe they are «on the brink,» then they should give up their powers of governing to a state - appointed financial control board.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for upstate races, giving Tkaczyk a lift (and later facing scrutiny over alleged violations of campaign finance laws).

In some cases, Albany receives a quarter of the state funding that other large upstate cities are given.

In his last election, Cuomo lost the upstate region, but won 77 percent of the city, enough to give him a 13 percent margin.

Give upstate counties in New York relief from Medicaid payments: Lawmakers added a provision that would ban the federal government from reimbursing New York State for Medicaid funds raised by counties outside New York City.

Upstate lawmakers worry Cuomo's plan will give preference to New York City and say funds should be spread fairly to ensure upstate bridges, highways and transit agencies aren't left out.

«When half the children in our major upstate cities are living in poverty, how can the Governor possibly justify giving more than half of his projected $ 2 billion surplus to the state's millionaire and billionaires through dramatic reductions in the estate tax and tax breaks for big Wall Street banks,» said Ron Deutsch, Executive Director for Fiscal Fairness.

Republicans believe that coming corruption trials, continued service problems on New York City's subways and a struggling upstate economy give them an opening.

Governor Andrew Cuomo will spend Saturday on an three - city upstate bus tour, and his opponents plan to give him some company.

While Johnson could not provide specifics regarding upstate New York, the union argues that lack of a FiOS buildout in ANY given city or region threatens thousands of CWA jobs.

Rivals in the region said putting a casino so close to New York City would be unlikely to give the upstate economy much of a boost.

He's also said he might like to use some for economic development aid for some upstate cities, modeled after the Buffalo billion, where the state gave a billion dollars to the Buffalo area over a multi year period to boost the region's economy.

Among local issues that drew attention at the debate was the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in shaping the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's filtration avoidance determination, which gives the city oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communitCity Department of Environmental Protection's filtration avoidance determination, which gives the city oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communitcity oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communities.