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The governor has chosen 10 people, including leaders of the city's LGBT community, to be on the commission to design and build the memorial.

The former Memphis City School leader received a favorable response from those attending, including the leader of the city teachers union.

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Like many Catalan independence supporters, including Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, Rufian wears a yellow ribbon to highlight the continued imprisonment of separatist figures Oriol Junqueras, the leader of Esquerra, former interior minister Joaquin Form and civil society leaders Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart.

Leaders from nearly three dozen tech companies, including Salesforce, Yelp, AT&T, Comcast, and Square, signed off on a letter to local officials last week, urging them to consider a development proposal that would add seven million square feet of commercial space and 4,400 housing units to the small city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Chapman's list of speaking engagements includes Conscious Capitalism events, the 2016 US Congressional Retreat, WorldBlu, CEO Global Leaders Forum, International City Managers Association, the AME International Conference, Institute for Healthcare Consumerism Forum, TEDxScottAFB, Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence International Conference, HERO Forum for Employee Health Management, Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership's International Conference, St. Louis Business Journal's Salute to the Top 150 Privately Held Companies and to numerous Fortune 500 company leadership teams.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

Missions assigned to leaders of local chapters include creating standards, managing local communities, and lobbying with city authorities and national regulators.

Despite his rural pedigree, I would not discount his ability to build relationships with the group of young municipal leaders who have been elected in recent years, including Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton City Councillor Don Iveson.

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God's Love We Deliver, and the Bed - Stuy Campaign Against Hunger.

Covering a wide expanse of restaurant openings, including those in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa, Hospitality Design maintains its status as the industry leader in new restaurant and nightclub development.

On Monday the union's general secretary Robert Reid told a group of Hamilton leaders, including representatives from the Waikato Regional Council, Hamilton City Council and National and Labour MPs, that another bid had gone to the company.

However, the clash between the Gunners and Liverpool tonight is starting to take on the feeling of a must win for us, and that was only made more clear yesterday as the league leaders Man City overcome a determined Everton to make it three wins out of three, including one over Chelsea.

Both teams will fancy their chances of winning this; Sunderland have won three of their previous four home Premier League games − including a 1 - 0 win over leaders Man City at the beginning of the year − whilst Norwich are setting their sights on a fourth successive away win.

Some of the players expected to attend include 2017 MLS MVP Diego Valeri of Portland, Newcomer of the Year Miguel Almirón (Atlanta United), Golden Boot winner Nemanja Nikolić (Chicago Fire), U.S. men's national team goalkeeper Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids) and 2017 assists leader Sacha Kljestan (Orlando City).

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Legislative leaders, meanwhile, have been hesitant in speaking with reporters, even when it comes to providing routine updates on a variety of issues due to expire in the coming days, including rent control for New York City as well as the 421a tax abatement.

Flanagan's Tuesday down in the city later included meetings with legislators such as IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a key part of that coalition that keeps Flanagan in charge of the Senate.

De Blasio — who has resisted including the «Fair Fares» (city - funded half - priced Metro Cards) measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered by an army of city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $ 212 million for it in his executive budget.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein on Wednesday night said he sought a legislative package at the end of the session that would have included three - quarters disability for first responders, design build for New York City an additional 50 speed cameras around schools.

Mr. Halloran is one of the most colorful characters on the City Council, and his bio includes the fact that he is the leader of a local Pagan group, had a videotaped confrontation with a ticket agent, and sparked a Department of Investigations inquiry after he claimed that he personally knew of sanitation workers who deliberately sloughed off snow removal during a blizzard to protest Bloomberg administration policies (the investigation found no truth to the claims).

City officials and community leaders peppered the crowd, including much of Miner's staff and several department heads.

The support of leaders in education and in government, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Elia, state Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and the heads of both the State and City University systems, sends a strong message both to the federal government and the affected students, Worona said.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

At 11 a.m, public charter school leaders, including Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, join parents on the City Hall steps to demand that de Blasio «act immediately to resolve (their) open space requests,» Manhattan.

Attendees included a host of community leaders including City Council Members Ruben Wills, Leroy Comrie, and State Assembly Member Rory Lancman.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

He had spent the last year or so making pre-candidate moves, including speeches from Queens to Chautauqua County, schmoozing with Republican leaders in Albany and producing an ad that attacked Cuomo, a Democrat who says he will seek a third term in office this year, over his stewardship of New York City's subways.

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During the Saturday morning rally, SBU and Coalition activists joined with politicians, including Assemblyman Jose Rivera and City Council Members Joel Rivera (the majority leader and Jose's son) and Robert Jackson (head of the Council's Education

A DRI committee made up of city and county leaders, following public, post-award deliberations, included the Kaz site on a

In Manhattan's 65th Assembly District, which Silver represented for decades, Democrat Alice Cancel, a longtime district leader and member of City Controller Scott Stringer's staff, won the Democratic nomination with the help of key Silver loyalists, including his former chief of staff Judy Rapfogel.

Her stance aligns her with city leaders, including Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, against a controversial proposal by President Obama that would adversely affect the ability of the city — the nation's top terror target since 9/11 — to protect itself.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

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A diverse group of celebrities, newsmakers and elected officials including Stephen Colbert, Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Burns, Giants coach Tom Coughlin, Brooklyn Nets, New York Islanders, New York Yankees, Carson Daly, Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Rosanna Scotto of Good Day New York, Harry Belafonte, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Police Commissioner William Bratton, Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, are among the first to share welcome messages.

NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call as symbols of hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature announced a «framework» for a deal Tuesday on several outstanding issues, including rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement program, mayoral control of New York City's schools and the education tax credit.

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary proccity council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary procCity Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

The pols and delegates expected to attend include Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, labor leaders and members of New York's congressional delegation, the Legislature and the City Council.

Mr. Lopez, who as the Democratic leader in Brooklyn and chairman of the Assembly's housing committee projected great influence across New York City and the state, resigned in May 2013 after a state ethics commission released a report about his alleged behavior including groping of female staff members and other unwanted sexual advances.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

Longtime state Sen. Eric Coleman, D - Bloomfield, is in a battle with Hartford city council leader Shawn Wooden for the nomination in a district that includes parts of Bloomfield, Hartford and Windsor.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

The eight City Council members, all Democrats, who are competing to lead the 51 - member legislative body as speaker for the next four years must convince numerous constituencies of their viability, including some combination of county party leaders, labor unions, the mayor, and other influential politicos.

Mr. Bharara, 48, had a somewhat more equivocal greeting for the city that has provided him fodder for some of his highest - profile triumphs, including, most recently, the convictions of the former speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, and the majority leader of the State Senate, Dean G. Skelos.

Some of his colleagues — including City Council Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio (R - South Shore) and Councilman Steven Matteo (R - Mid - Island / Brooklyn), in whose district the event took place — didn't even attend the announcement.

Endorsements (announced June 9, 2011) Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent Auditor Tom Schweich Senate Majority Leader Tom Dempsey House Majority Floor Leader Timothy Jones (announced Sept. 20, 2011) U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (announced Oct. 4, 2011) Michael Gibbons; Former Senate President Pro Tempore Catherine Hanaway; Former Speaker of the State House Doug Russell; Former Missouri Republican Party Chairman Mike Kehoe; State Senator John Griesheimer; Former State Senator & Franklin County Commissioner Sue Allen; State Representative Cloria Brown; State Representative Mike Cierpiot; State Representative John Diehl; State Representative Tom Flanigan; State Representative Glen Klippenstein; State Representative Bill Lant; State Representative Noel Torpey; State Representative Chuck Pryor; Former State Representative Todd Smith; Former State Representative Dean Dankleson; Jasper County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd; Platte County Prosecutor Kathy Swan; Cape Girardeau City Council Member Jeremy Boucher; St. Clair County Republican Chairman Robert Hull; Worth County Republican Chairman (announced Dec. 1, 2011) Steven Tilley; Speaker of the House George H. Walker III; Former U.S. Ambassador Harry Otto; Deputy State Auditor Ron Richard; State Senator Betty Sims; Former State Senator John Griesheimer; Former State Senator & Franklin County Commissioner Gary Nodler; Former State Senator Jay Barnes; State Representative Scott Dieckhaus; State Representative Delus Johnson; State Representative Cole McNary; State Representative Dwight Scharnhorst; State Representative Sheila Solon; State Representative Gary Dusenberg; Former State Representative Brian Stevenson; Former State Representative J. Daniel Patterson; Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Steven Stevenson; Andrew County Prosecuting Attorney Adam Warren; Livingston County Prosecuting Attorney Gregg Grounds; Former Mayor of Blue Springs Stephen Holt; Jasper Collector of Revenue Dale Carter; Blue Springs City Council Member Larry Vincent; Cole County Collector Chris Wrigley; Cole County Commissioner Judy Lohman; Vice Chair, Morgan County Republican Central Committee Karen McCutcheon; Vice Chair Morgan County Republican Central Committee Louella Pryor; Treasurer, Morgan County Republican Central Committee Katie Smith; Former Director, Missouri Department of Agriculture Trish Vincent; Former Director, Missouri Department of Revenue (announced Dec. 2, 2011) Former U.S. Sen. John Danforth (announced Jan. 12, 2012) U.S. Rep. Billy Long (CD - 7, SW corner of Missouri) Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer State Sen. Dan Brown State Sen. Mike Parson State Sen. David Pearce State Sen. Kurt Schaefer State Rep. Kathy Conway Cass County Committeeman Ryan Johnson St. Louis County Committeeman Jim Gwinner (announced March 5, 2012) Former Attorney General John Ashcroft (announced March 8, 2012) Former U.S. Sen. Kit Bond (announced March 15, 2012) 14 more current and former officials including Jefferson City Mayor Eric Struemph

Ellison had the backing of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — who helped roll out Cuomo's free SUNY and CUNY tuition plan in January — as well as a number of New York Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

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