Sentences with phrase «governor says the state»

The governor said the state is on higher alert right now.

The governor said the state has made great strides in minimizing tax increases, and shared services programs and the tax cap are helping to start make progress on the property tax.

The governor said the state could gain over $ 1 billion in tax revenue from the change, and the bill is backed by left - leaning and progressive groups.

In his «State of the State» speech on Wednesday, the governor said the state Department of Transportation will consider a tunnel project that an independent consultant found would cost up to $ 4.5 billion and take up to 10 years to complete.

The governor said the state is «living in the margin of our means» and now has run out of money three times — including today (he didn't elaborate), forcing him to hold back scheduled payments to school districts and local governments.

Buffalo wants a new train station and the governor says the state is willing to put up $ 25 million to build a new one.

The governor says the state's consistently high property taxes are driving young people and businesses away, and reducing those taxes will be top on his agenda in 2015.

The governor said the state is making money available to contribute to the MTA's subway turnaround plan — and wants the city to do the same.

The governor says the state could gain over $ 1 billion in tax revenue from the change, and the bill is backed by left leaning and progressive groups.

The governor said the state's review of those estimates is wrong.

The governor says the state invests $ 130 million to promote tourism, but collects about $ 8 billion in taxes related to the industry.

The governor said the state is on track to meet that goal by 2018.

But the governor said the state's Republican - controlled Senate has made it clear they will not go along with a proposal to raise the state's current $ 7.25 an hour rate to $ 8.50 an hour.

Meanwhile, New York's governor says some state workers are preparing for extended hours on weekends to help those dealing with flood damage.

The governor says the state not been aggressive enough in its promotions in recent years.

Cuomo has said ethics reforms are on the «top» of his agenda, and in Rochester this week, the governor said the state should «remove the pensions of public employees who are convicted of a felony.»

The governor said the state is looking at a comprehensive community development plan which includes addressing issues like jobs, crime and health care, but it starts with making sure people have a place to live they can take pride in.

The governor said the state government had attracted over 100 industries to the state due to its investor - friendly policies, adding that a recent report released by the Commonwealth Forum indicated the state had 75 per cent of the Foreign Direct Investment that came into the country.

The governor said the state Public Service Commission will do a full review of the utilities» response to last week's storm.

In the meantime, the Governor says a state bailout is available to any city that is prepared to subject its finances to the State's Municipal Accountability Review Board, the way Hartford has.

The governor said the state will provide $ 254 million in operating aid to fully fund its half of the cost using $ 194 million in previously unallocated monetary settlements and the accelerated transfer of Payroll Mobility Tax revenue to the MTA by eliminating the need for the $ 60 million annual appropriation.

The governor says the state faces significant challenges to rebuild, and will have to fundamentally rethink New York city's infrastructure going forward.

The Governor says the state hopes to make sure money doesn't line the pockets of the «top one - percent»... that it goes to ratepayers.

Expressing his support for President Muhammadu Buhari's fight against graft, the governor said the state of the country was worrisome, especially as it concerned the lack of respect for the rule of law and political interference in Rivers State.

The governor said the state was peaceful and recalled that on December 10 during the re-run elections, leaders of the opposition party allegedly invaded the state with security agencies allegedly maiming and killing innocent voters with an intention to allegedly rig the elections.

The governor said the state had set up a contact group to ensure that the programme achieved it's aims.

In a second announcement, the governor said the state will also lessen the weight given the new PARCC tests in teacher evaluations for the next two years.

Not exact matches

«With all due respect to my fellow LG from Georgia, I'd like to thank @Delta for joining the many companies that have ended their partnerships with the NRA, and let them know that they are certainly welcome in our state,» Washington Lieutenant Governor Cyrus Habib said later Monday night.

«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.

«[Trump's] plan would essentially throw states a few Legos when what we really need is concrete and steel,» said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Chairman of the Democratic Governor's Association, whose state was the site of a fatal Amtrak crash at the end of 2017.

«I don't really, because I see a lot of governors, a lot of communities in the United States supporting that agreement,» he said.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings with Congress members to discuss the fate of a Utah man imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of an American imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday, as the country faces a possible new round of sanctions.

Jenny Wilson, a Democratic candidate running for Senate in Utah, said this week that «Utah families deserve another Utahn as their senator, not a Massachusetts governor who thinks of our state as his vacation home.»

WASHINGTON, March 7 - A Venezuelan state governor made an unusual visit to Washington this week, seeking meetings in Congress to discuss the fate of a U.S. citizen imprisoned in the South American nation, U.S. sources said on Wednesday.

Moderator Anderson Cooper then asked Sanders, «To Secretary Clinton's point, there are a number of Democratic governors in many states who say that fracking can be done safely, and that it's helping their economies.

March 9 (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy.

Although the Ohio governor says he opposes the Affordable Care Act and would repeal it, he is one of the few Republican governors who approved expanding Medicare in his home state to help pay for the new health care program when it began in 2012.

And while New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said the wage bump would create momentum for wage increases in other states, New York franchise owners expressed unhappiness about the proposal, saying they are being unfairly singled out.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, said his state joined the legal effort because «the president has exceeded the balance of power provisions clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution.»

First there was Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman's letter saying the re-route of the pipeline around his state's delicate aquifer was fine by him.

Many said Springer, who sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio in 1982 and remains active in state politics, could be a good fit for the current political climate.

In a press conference, Florida Governor Rick Scott said state health officials had identified five cases of Zika believed to be contracted in Miami Beach.

An alert mistakenly directing panicked Hawaiians to seek immediate shelter from an incoming ballistic missile was the result of human error, the state's governor said.

Astudillo, who was elected governor of the southwestern state last year, said Guerrero could not tackle the violence on its own, and argued bringing poppy cultivation into the open could weaken the hold gangsters have on local farmers.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker declared a state of emergency as a precautionary measure, his office said.

«The preferred solution, in the opinion of many of these countries, is for the United States to internalize the effects of its monetary policies — more specifically, not to exit or at least to do so at a time that is more convenient for others,» Deputy Bank of Canada Governor John Murray recently said in prepared remarks for a speech about the likely effects of the end of QE.

«Today we make history: Washington will be the first state in the nation to preserve the open internet,» Washington Governor Jay Inslee said Monday, as he signed the legislation.

While a White House petition has reached the requisite 100,000 signatures to force a response, President Obama issued a statement, noting that the federal government could not overturn Avery's state conviction (and, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has said he has no plans to issue a pardon).

«This is some of the most important legislation that's hit this state in perhaps our history,» the Republican governor said.