Sentences with phrase «governor of a state where»

It said, «Imagine a governor of a state where a dangerous disease has already claimed over 62 lives doing nothing to save lives.

Requires the petition to be filed simultaneously with the Secretary of Labor and with the governor of the state where the workers are employed.

Back then, Palin was the governor of a state where «coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, retreating sea ice, record forest fires, and other changes are affecting, and will continue to affect, the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans,» as she wrote (in a 2007 administrative order creating the state's Climate Change Sub-Cabinet).

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The governors of Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Alaska — where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal — wrote to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in April, warning altering the memorandum «would divert existing marijuana product into the black market and increase dangerous activity in both our states and our neighboring states.»

In Tuesday's comprehensive rout, Republicans won in places where Democrats were favored, taking a Senate race in North Carolina, pulled out victories where the going was tough, like a Senate battle in Kansas, and swept a number of governors» races in states where Democrats were favored, including Obama's home state of Illinois.

The pope is a head o state of a sovereign country, several times the age of the US Empire and the pope used a cheap car to travel from the airport in Rio (a city where the mayor and governor travel by helicopter all the time) and stayed at a modest lodging belonging to the Catholic Church, not a 5 Star Hotel.

The reputation of the BJP suffered once more after the horrific 2002 riots in the northwestern state of Gujarat, where Prime Minister Modi served as governor.

The Kaduna State governor has been accused of trying to restrict press freedom and silence voices that draw attention to violence in southern Kaduna, where for over a year Fulani herder militia have attacked communities, killing over 800 people and seizing land and property with relative impunity.

While we were in Colombia the governors of four departments (states) in the south, where the spraying is most intense, flew to Washington to object.

Mass Audubon staff joined Governor Charlie Baker, state officials, and nonprofit partners on the windy shores of Scituate last week where the Governor announced the filing of a 5 - year, $ 1.4 billion capital spending bond.

Dr. Cheyney is also a Certified Professional Midwife in active practice, the Chair of the Governor - appointed Board of Direct - entry Midwifery for the State of Oregon, and the Chair of the Division of Research for the Midwives Alliance of North America where she directs the MANA Statistics Project — the only existing data repository for planned homebirth in the United States.

The governor was said to be returning from Takum where he spent his Christmas when the accident occurred at Garba Chede area of Gasol local government area of Taraba state

After dodging months of questions about where he stands on key issues important to the future of the state of New York, now candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo is doing his best to answer them all — and quickly.

It's the anchor of Governor Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» announced during the 2012 State of the State address where Cuomo said,

This is currently happening in Lagos, Nigeria, where the State governor, Babatunde Fashola, has embarked on an ambitious set of policies designed to improve public services provided by his government and infrastructure of one of the most populous cities on the continent.

Also Dickson community to community meet the people tour may turn out to be the game changer for the ruling party as the tour afforded the governor the opportunity to interface with the communities in all the nooks and crannies of the council to sell his agenda to the locals The APC may have captured power at the federal level but the PDP remains a formidable party in the state where money, to a large extent, plays a major role in swaying the vote.

Kano State is one of the very few States in our current democratic experiment, where a governor has been succeeded by his erstwhile deputy.

Though he attended the gala in 2010 when he was the state attorney general preparing to run for governor — an awkward moment that saw him sharing a table with Paterson, who looked to be on a political collision course with Cuomo until he decided not to follow through with his plans to seek a full four - year term — Cuomo generally avoids the public portions of caucus weekend in favor of private events at the mansion where he has more control — both over the guest list and media access.

Two of Governor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from aGovernor Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the State Capitol, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from agovernor's energy policies are far from adequate.

The protesters held a rally in Lafayette Park across the street from the Capitol, where Governor Cuomo has ordered the state police nightly to arrest protesters who are in violation of what the Cuomo Administration says is an 11 pm curfew.

Governor Andrew Cuomo saved his ethics proposals for the last stop of his State of the State tour in Albany, where he released a 10 - point plan to address rampant corruption that has reached his own administration.

«The governor wants the message to be sent again that it's a new day at the State Police, [where] only the highest standards of conduct will be tolerated,» an administration official said.

The governor called housing discrimination «unethical,» «immoral» and «wrong» and said it very much exists in New York though it is a state where prejudices are typically handled in a more «subtle» and «sophisticated» manner than in other parts of the country.

The governor chose to make his announcement in the eastern part of Upstate New York, where Albany and Troy were among the state's top five most violent cities per capita, in data available from 2015.

Enforcement of those state lobbying laws is the province of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, a 14 - member body where six of the members and the executive director are selected by the governor.

In his State of the State speech, he's jokingly displayed a Photoshopped image of himself, and the two then - majority party legislative leaders — Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos — as ship captains, and, most recently, in sombreros, where the governor called the trio the «three amigos.»

Anger swirled about the decrepit state of New York City's subway system; despite the governor's efforts to pin the blame on Mayor Bill de Blasio, it ultimately has settled on Cuomo, where it largely belongs.

Similar accusations by others made it into the Times» reporting, as well as the Daily News, where it's long been reported that the governor's associates helped quash subpoenas to his allies like the state Democratic Party and Real Estate Board of New York.

«As he inherited a system where there was a parallel operation, through the SUNY schools, and that was done with governors prior to our own governor, but I think as he mentioned, there will be lessons learned from this and to have some as trusted and well - regarded as Howard Zemsky, now in charge of it all, is really an important first step, but there will continue to be checks and balances,» stated Hochul.

Governor Cuomo should put his money where his mouth is and make sure there is funding in the state budget to implement it,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, Director of the Public Citizen's Democracy Is For People campaign.

Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz said, «We are honored to welcome Governor Cuomo back to Hofstra University, where he is delivering a message that is critical for the future of our school, Long Island and all of New York state.

The medical personnel of the clinic has equally been redeployed to general hospitals, under the directives of the governor who pointed out that government house staff should start using public hospitals where other citizens of the state of the state visits.

That absurdity is replicated in states too, where the governors also fancy themselves as strongmen, before whom other party hoi polloi, including even elected collectives as the House of Assembly, must bow and worship!

According to him many of the reports centred on Governor Fayose's appeal to labour union leaders in the state and some contained in his media interviews, where he tried to falsify the state's debt portfolio in a manner that has become the standard practice of his regime in the bid to appeal to the striking workers.

With the Virginia House of Delegates firmly in the hands of Republicans, the arena of competition is the State Senate, where there is an even partisan split [Note: the recent election of Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam now puts the Democrats in control].

Just yesterday, they released a new online ad accusing the governor of «mismanagement» of the subway system, and state Chair Ed Cox has made it clear there will be much more where that came from in the future.

State Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) has sent a letter to state Attorney General Andrew Como asking for guidance in resolving the leadership quagmire in Albany, where the post of lieutenant governor is vaState Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) has sent a letter to state Attorney General Andrew Como asking for guidance in resolving the leadership quagmire in Albany, where the post of lieutenant governor is vastate Attorney General Andrew Como asking for guidance in resolving the leadership quagmire in Albany, where the post of lieutenant governor is vacant.

«The governor no matter where he is goes, he's protected by contingent of armed State Police,» Russo said.

The latter plaque recognized the governor for signing an executive order last June that made state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases where a police officer kills a possibly unarmed civilian, which Mr. Sharpton called «the only national model» for handling deaths at the hands of local law enforcement.

The governor has not spelled out yet where the state's $ 8.3 billion share of the new MTA mass transit capital plan will come from.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Lewis joined Teachout and Wu at a press conference outside the Brooklyn courthouse where arguments were heard today in Cuomo's appeal of a state supreme court ruling that Teachout meets the residency requirements for governor set forth in the state constitution.

The case will be a test for the Democratic governor, but also for federal prosecutors in New York, where former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara brought a parade of indictments against people in state politics.

But a vote on the measures is something of a precursor to the larger fight that looms in Albany, where the Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo must act to renew the state's rent law before it expires in June.

«Eva and I have spent an enormous amount of time thinking and discussing whether we can create some compromise where I can do as good a job as governor as I would want to and as the state deserves, while also continuing to spend as much time as I want to and need to with Eva and the girls,» Wilson wrote.

The former Kansas governor said she is heartened by the number of women she sees running for the job in 2018 - including in her own state, where veteran state Sen. Laura Kelly jumped into the Democratic primary in mid-December and immediately became the favorite to win the nomination.

Two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political opponents were at an Earth Day rally on climate change attended by hundreds at the state Capitol Monday, where they said the governor's energy policies are far from adequate.

After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

Most recently, this focus on secrecy was shown in the extraordinary efforts of the governor's aides to shield some of his records from public scrutiny in the State Archives, where a top Cuomo lieutenant spent nearly eight hours screening documents from Cuomo's years as attorney general that were sought by the Times Union under the Freedom of Information Law.

As Assembly Speaker, Silver was a member of the so - called «three men in a room» who, along with the Governor and Senate Majority Leader, wielded immense influence both in Lower Manhattan — where he was first elected in 1976 — and throughout the state.