Sentences with phrase «giving local elected»

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

Not exact matches

maybe if Perry didn't give tax cuts / breaks for the rich and gave away all that money to those that helpled him get elected and used all that extra revenue he would have had to use in funding to bring in water from other states and for funding local fire and rescue departments.

There has been speculation on and off as to whether Miner's tense relationship with Cuomo has cost her city, particularly given the governor's close alliance with another local elected officials with whom the mayor must frequently work — Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse the governor's reelection bid.

He was elected to the City Council in 2009 and, since then, has had an expletive - laden confrontation with a local body shop and a feud with a traffic cop who gave him a parking ticket.

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance comes to Albany to push a new bill giving local law enforcement officials more power to prosecute elected officials who violate public integrity laws.

But the mayor said it would «stimulate local democracy» and giving more powers over spending to elected councillors «would electrify politics and it was high time we did it».

He said having worked in elected offices at the local, county and state level gives him a keen sense of the concerns New Yorkers grapple with, from high taxes to providing for their families.

Given he is a hack who couldn't get elected on his own, at any level of government, it is pretty rude of him to attack local elected officials in this manner.

Local elected leaders say they aren't giving up their fight against helicopter noise despite the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to reject Southold Town's petition requesting that the controversial North Shore route be reconsidered.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick, along with co-sponsors Chairman John Mills, Legislator Lynne Dixon, Legislator Ted Morton and Legislator Edward Rath have introduced a proposed local law that would give voters the right to decide on term limits for Erie County's elected officials.

Erie County Legislator Edward Rath, along with co-sponsors Chairman John Mills, Legislator Lynne Dixon, Legislator Ted Morton and Legislator Kevin Hardwick have introduced a proposed local law that would give voters the right to decide on term limits for Erie County's elected officials.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

+1 for Federalism — a lot of folks may not realize that the constitution specifically gives states the power to set their own rules for most things, including how local positions are elected or appointed.

The new calculus for ambitious and crowd - conscious local elected officials is fast becoming how much should they support or distance themselves from the IDC, originally formed in 2011 to give four Democrats a lot more bargaining power in Albany.

The problem of relative majorities is largely ignored because the effect of electing or not electing a given local representative is of minor importance.

At 11 a.m., State and local elected officials will call on Gov. Cuomo to sign legislation that would give the state broader authority to protect the Hudson River in light of the Coast Guard's recent anchorage proposal.

Ahmad has given nearly $ 400,000 to the campaigns of state and local elected officials and political parties in New York, campaign finance records show.

Local authorities would be given a strategic role as «champions» for parents and pupils, but the Lib Dem leader said the plans did not give councils any power to do this, and consequently took power away from locally - elected politicians.

Langworthy said he hopes President - Elect Donald Trump will get involved in upcoming local races in this area, given the region's overwhelmingly Democratic registrations.

David Cameron's announcement today that Conservatives will give the country's big cities the chance to vote for elected mayors is excellent for local democracy.

I'm going to bring community leader, other elected officials at the local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around, which is to turn the school district around.

Mr. Hoffmann noted that Mr. Napolitano had «no significant political activity in the past year beyond support of his local elected officials» and that his giving is allowed.

Other elected officials at the state and local level have either returned the donations or given them to charity.

A local party congress has many of the same duties as the National Congress, and it is responsible for examining the report of the local Party Committee at the corresponding level; examining the report of the local Commission for Discipline Inspection at the corresponding level; discussing and adopting resolutions on major issues in the given area; and electing the local Party Committee and the local Commission for Discipline Inspection at the corresponding level.

Aja Worthy - Davis, a spokesperson for de Blasio, took issue with the officials» claim they were not given proper knowledge, pointing to public meetings ahead of the shelter siting and private conversations with local elected officials.

Typically, these give structure to the different levels of organization — local, county, and state committees — and establish protocol for electing committee members.

Where previously I saluted belated arrivals like The Life of Oharu, Les Bonnes Femmes, and La Chienne, I might this year have elected (in order of original release) Max Ophüls's Liebelei, Fritz Lang's Die Spinnen, Kenji Mizoguchi's The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge, Yasujiro Ozu's Equinox Flower, Jean Renoir's Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier, Jacques Rivette's L'Amour fou, R.W. Fassbinder's Katzelmacher, Joseph Losey's The Assassination of Trotsky, Rivette's Céline et Julie vont en bateau, José Luis Borau's Furtivos, or Márta Mészáros's Women — just to name the top candidates given local premières by the Seattle Film Society.

There was a controversial proposal to allow academy chains to operate without any elected parent governors, which ruffled the feathers of many people who had given up their time to help local schools.

Transparency and accountability have been key areas of concern since the commissioners were first appointed in September 2014, with opponents of academies questioning why responsibility for schools is being removed from elected local authorities and given to appointed civil servants.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

The 32 local school boards were replaced by «Community Education Councils» consisting of parents elected by Parent Associations of elementary and middle schools in the community districts and given even less authority on school matters within those districts than the 1996 law.

As a local education leader, elected in 2014 to serve on the Yolo County School Board, I know firsthand that our public schools need big changes to give all students access to the education they deserve.

Under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, states are provided with funding to develop the technical skills of secondary and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in CTE programs.46 Currently, 12.5 million high school and college students are enrolled in CTE programs.47 These programs help keep students in school; the graduation rate of CTE students is about 90 percent, 15 percentage points higher than the national average.48 However, research on their effectiveness is still in the preliminary stages.49 The best and most effective CTE programs are linked to and supported by local business or industry; provide real - world experiences or work opportunities; give students tangible outcomes such as an industry credential or college credit; and create pathways for pursuing college or career after graduation.50

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It gives you the opportunity to interact with local, state, and national elected officials on issues affecting real estate.