Sentences with phrase «how public officials»

«Poisoned Water» takes a thorough look behind the headlines to give viewers insight both into the environmental and human costs of the Flint water crisis as well as how public officials actively hid the danger thereby eroding the public trust.

After the revelation of lead contamination in Flint, Mich., where Gov. Rick Snyder's response was widely criticized, the situation in Hoosick Falls has provoked both deep concern about water quality and a heightened scrutiny of how public officials have responded.

The New York Times: «After the revelation of lead contamination in Flint, Mich., where Gov. Rick Snyder's response was widely criticized, the situation in Hoosick Falls has provoked both deep concern about water quality and a heightened scrutiny of how public officials have responded.»

«New Yorkers have a right to know how their public officials are interacting with the special interests,» said Cox in a statement.

Not exact matches

A ProPublica investigation of the case, based on interviews with more than three dozen US and foreign officials and an examination of confidential government documents, represents the first detailed public account of how the Cuba incidents unfolded.

Foreign investors in particular — and even foreign officials now — are disgusted with how the Americans are mismanaging the economy and indeed, flagrantly stealing from the public domain.

That depends on how one interprets the final outcome, which will not be known until the official Public Accounts numbers are released the fall.

The research provides insight into the policy options under consideration in Ottawa and how federal officials are testing various ways that those ideas could be sold to the public.

Some argue using a permission blockchain would help as it would only allow a few people to fully access the records, but the possibility of having a government official (or just the regular public) know how an individual vote goes against the premise of free and fair elections.

Brazilians are waiting to see how other public officials treat the notary's action.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

One need not be a historian of education or a theologian to assess the damage done to public education and then to society in general by how these cases were decided and what public school officials were empowered to do (or so they believed) despite the clearly given cautions from the Supreme Court itself.

If we take a look at our Catholic brothers and sisters, we can see how Pope Francis has quickly shifted the public perception of the Catholic Church, even though many of his official positions related to contentious issues remain the same.

A letter written by a now - dead Canadian bishop shows church officials knew of se.xual abuse allegations involving a priest before his promotion to a top Vatican post and then discussed with Vatican officials how to keep the scandal from becoming public.

question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not - so - subtly suggested that Ryan's approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church's social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is «always on the side of the poor and dispossessed»; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not - poor and not - dispossessed?

It is not even too hard to understand how the primacy of the spiritual power revealed by Jesus Christ, by comparison with the secular power, might be thought to require official, public recognition of the primacy of the Church.

What matters, of course, is how a school answers these questions in practice, not necessarily in its official public rhetoric about itself.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

How does this compare to public officials acknowledging Jesus now?

MAY HELP THE PUBLIC REDUCE PORTION SIZES Up until now, there has not been any official guidance on energy intake for our three main meals of the day, these new guidelines may help us to stop and think about how much we're eating by becoming more portion and calorie aware at meal times.

In e-mails to city officials, Christopher Hansen, 44, a Seattle native who made his fortune in finance, Hansen discussed how he was involved in plans to broker deals for an arena that didn't involve tax increases or «direct public funding.»

Fitzgerald Public School administrators say the new guidelines represent a maddening overreach by distant federal officials with little or no understanding of how kids actually behave.

She said the litigation underscored the need to explore further how far public - private partnerships can go, at one point reminding Latin School officials the soccer field would not be theirs.

Department officials have revealed few details of how they will motivate the public to move beyond the new graphic and seek more nutrition information on the Internet or elsewhere.

I enjoy Flower of Scotland, but... The «black British» point and the absence of «black English» from public discourse is not intended as a demand for hyphenated identities or any official categorisation, though I can see how it could be read as that.

Our law enforcement officials and public servants need research to most effectively understand how to help communities and keep them safer.

«We believe that it is necessary to keep the public informed of key votes and let the taxpayers be aware of how elected officials spend our money.

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Local Government holds a public hearing to listen to local governments, local elected officials and local government advocacy organizations regarding shared services and discuss how Albany can better partner with localities, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

unethical behavior by public officials, shining a light on how campaigns are funded, and ending large

In a letter to the state Public Employment Relations Board, DOE officials said the union recently refused to negotiate details of the evaluations until questions of how it would be implemented were answered — which they claim violates state bargaining law.

Citing unnamed sources, New York Post columnist Fred Dicker reported this morning that legislators are considering a push to have the Joint Commission on Public Ethics investigate how Duffy approached the Rochester Business Alliance and its officials about a job as the group's president, and whether he properly recused himself from government decisions pertaining to the organization.

«How elected officials treat citizens who want to exercise their 2nd Amendment civil rights is the main issue our members and constituents look at when considering candidates for public office.»

But with voters focused on the issue of public corruption, after indictments of key officials including County Executive Edward Mangano, the candidates have said less than usual about the central issue in past campaigns: How to cut high county property taxes.

A new report by the Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has revealed how «55 politicians, high - level public officials and leaders allegedly stole N1.354 tr...

In Buffalo, public school officials led invited guests on a tour of a handful of schools, hoping to show them how the dollars secured from their respective governments are impacting the students.

As for how overseas people can watch the debate, in the US, I used C - Span, the official congressional cable channel that will broadcast daily business in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as other public events.

Liu introduced a better way to track public money, as federal officials continue their probe of how he raised campaign cash.

«I would think it would be a plus to have someone who understands New York state government and its public officials,» said Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia professor and author of «Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.»

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

«When a public official takes cash like that, in a car, in an envelope, it's so troubling, it's shady,» said Karas, referring to how Halloran was caught red - handed taking bribes.

«It reminded people of that [influence] and opened the curtain up so they could see some of the mechanics of how the industry and public officials interact with each other,» he explained.

He urged officials to be «very conservative» when estimating exactly how much gambling cash the state might actually see over time if Cuomo's constitutional amendment passes muster with both the Legislature and the public.

The face - to - face meeting with the federal government's top transportation official comes at a crucial moment for Mr. Cuomo amid intense public scrutiny on the state of New York City's deteriorating subway system, and how to fix it.

It revealed how officials of BoG, have helped Menzgold lawyers to even issue disclaimers in some selected newspapers to reiterate the fact that it is not into the collection of deposits from the public as being speculated.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is proposing legislation that would require the entities administering tax check off funds to improve efforts to spend dedicated contributions within the year they were made and report how the money was spent to the public and state officials.

«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.

The death of an 84 - year - old man in December in an elevator at a Bronx housing project exposed «significant flaws» in how public housing officials complied with safety laws and responded to urgent complaints about elevator breakdowns from residents across New York City.

The arrogance of a public servant selling his influence and abusing his office illustrates just how far off the beaten path a pathetic, narcissistic and power crazed elected official can become and why term limits ate so important.

Numerous ethics boards tasked with monitoring the conduct of elected officials and public employees have not met in years, do not document their meetings and provide little information on their websites about how to file an ethics complaint.