Sentences with phrase «islands run year»
On smaller, less popular islands, some resorts may shut up shop while the popular islands run year round.
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«Right now, insurance on one cab runs $ 30,000,» he says, a figure that has doubled in the six years since he started Orcas Island Taxi.
US craft beer brand Goose Island is on the hunt for a new brewer to run operations at its first London brewpub opening later this year.
On New Year's Day, Jimmy Vaccaro dropped in at Ellis Island, a small casino located off the Strip where Vaccaro's employer, William Hill US, runs the sportsbook.
While the year's two most heralded sprinters were running their 9.4 s under ideal conditions in Modesto, a steady 24 - hour rainfall was flooding the track on New York City's Randalls Island, washing out Friday's trials at the IC4A meet for the first time in 85 years and with them the chance for Villanova University's Frank Budd to prove that he was in a class with his West Coast contemporaries.
The Riverdale School in Long Island City is some seriously hot water after one of their students, 14 - year - old Avonte Oquendo, ran off of campus in the middle of the school day.
Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park opened on Roosevelt Island four years ago, City Hall has been arguing with the nonprofit group that built and runs the park over whether it is fully accessible to the disabled.
But the arrest has expanded the map for Senate Democrats, who hope to run competitive races on Long Island in order to gain control of the chamber this year.
Boyd Melson, a 35 - year - old retired boxer and public affairs officer for the Army, plans to run to unseat Staten Island Republican Rep. Dan Donovan of his congressional seat next year.
Activist Akeem Browder, whose younger brother Kalief committed suicide at age 22 in 2015 after being locked for years on Rikers Island for a crime he didn't commit, it running for mayor of NYC on the Green Party line.
There's also a list called Levy's «10 shades of blue» that details all the things the country executive did to support Democratic candidates and / or positions, noting, for example, his backing of single - payer healthcare and early endorsement of former Long Island Assemblyman - turned - state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's first statewide run this year.
He has since briefly flirted with several other runs for office, including when the Staten Island Republican Party executive committee surprisingly endorsed him for his old job in 2010, and when incumbent GOP Congressman Michael Grimm was weathering serious campaign finance allegations last year.
Some suggested running Mr. Gentile would be a sign that the Staten Island Democratic establishment have given up on winning the seat this year.
«I am running to be the borough president because the people of Staten Island deserve better choices than what the old party bosses on this island serve up year in and year out,» LuthmannIsland deserve better choices than what the old party bosses on this island serve up year in and year out,» Luthmannisland serve up year in and year out,» Luthmann said.
Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.
The state - run ESD originally planned to fund its Kingsbridge commitment with money from the Transformative Investment Fund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos last year to support projects, which senators would help pick, that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long Island.
If Harrison doesn't run this year, labor groups won't find an Island elected official willing to challenge McMahon.
CITY HALL — Whether the Staten Island Ferry will run every half hour around the clock this year is still unclear as the budget process begins.
As further evidence of his outspoken nature, he also was a vocal critic of the election of Long Island Republican John Flanagan as Senate majority leader in 2015, so much so that earlier this year he said he was seeking GOPers to run against Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Seneca County, who backed Flanagan during the 2015 leadership battle.
Test boycotts last week served notice that opposition among parents ran even higher than last year on Long Island.
After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.
Mr. Grimm, a Staten Island Republican, is running for re-election this year and is facing a challenge from former Councilman Domenic Recchia, a Brooklyn Democrat.
On New Years Eve, Senator Chuck Fuschillo announced his resignation and shortly before that, his Long Island colleague, Senator Lee Zeldin, announced he will not run for another term.
A spokesman for Empire State Development, which runs the program, challenged Flanagan Tuesday, saying it had created 1,135 jobs in the 2 1/2 - year period, including 42 at 16 companies on Long Island.
The de Blasio administration is looking to take over a state - run detention center in Brooklyn as it pushes to get teenagers out of Rikers Island by next year, as required by the new Raise the Age law.
Former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican, is not on the ballot this year, but his looming corruption trial has shadowed Kate Murray, the Republican candidate running for district attorney in his home base of Nassau County, on Long Island.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The same day that Donald Trump won the Nevada caucus to solidify his GOP front - runner status, Staten Islanders took to Twitter to rehash a two - year - old burn from The Donald when he was weighing a run for governor against Andrew Cuomo.
Malliotakis, a 36 - year - old Republican who represents parts of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn and is so far the only woman out of more than a dozen people registered to run for mayor, formally registered a committee to run with the state's Board of Elections on Monday.
This year, after relocating from Long Island to the Upper East Side, Dietl had hoped to run for mayor as a Democrat.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After entreaties from the National Republican Congressional Committee, GOP state Sen. Andrew Lanza said yesterday he is «not entirely ruling out» a run this year against Democratic Rep. Michael McMahon.
Staten Island Republicans running for office this year are looking to keep the borough, including its railway system, clean and are looking to the Internet to help them do it.
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island Republican who ran against Mr. de Blasio in November, made a show of examining her own property tax records against Mr. de Blasio's, noting that she paid nearly $ 2,000 more in property taxes each year even though his home was worth nearly three times more.
Mr. Palumbo said Fishers Island seniors ran into a similar problem years ago when New York's Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage wouldn't allow them to fill prescriptions in Connecticut.
«We believe deeply in the dignity of work,» said Sen. Jack Martins, a Republican from Long Island who chairs the chamber's labor committee, occupies a swing district and, Democrats hope, may seek a seat in Congress this year rather than run for re-election.
Gentile ran for Congress last year in a district covering Staten Island and southwest Brooklyn and lost to Staten Island Republican DA Dan Donovan.
«LEANING IN, POLITICS EDITION» — Daily News Edit Board: «In a unanimous vote of the Federal Election Commission, Liuba Grechen Shirley, running for Congress on Long Island — mom to a 2 - year - old and a 3 - year - old — won the okay to use campaign funds for child - care expenses necessary as she runs for office.
They also potentially face a challenge from 26 - year - old Stapleton resident Philippe - Edner Apostol - Marius, who works as a legislative assistant for State Sen. Bill Perkins and is eyeing a run, the Staten Island Advance reported.
STATEN ISLAND — A retired boxer and public affairs officer for the Army — who lives in Brooklyn and plans to run as a Democrat — plans to run to unseat Republican Dan Donovan of his congressional seat next year.
Later that same year, Murray ran the Rhode Island State Republican Party's operation in support of the Bush - Quayle ticket.
As of mid-January, Levy, a prodigious fundraiser — pretty much the main reason Cox wanted him to run instead of former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio last year — was sitting on $ 4.1 million.
Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, a Democrat running for the NY - 3 seat on Long Island that Rep. Steve Israel will relinquish at the end of the year, today released a new TV ad that features vintage footage from President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address in which he said that «here on earth God's work must truly be our own.»
On one hand, it's nice to see the Southold Town Democrats running a mostly full slate of candidates — the party did not endorse for Fishers Island Justice or town clerk — in a year when all the incumbents on the ballot are Republican.
He's running for re-election next year in the 11th Congressional District that covers Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.
WASHINGTON — The 25 - year - old daughter of fatal police - chokehold victim Eric Garner is mulling a run for Congress against Rep. Dan Donovan, the former Staten Island district attorney who she claims didn't deliver justice for her father.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis is running an uphill campaign for mayor, a challenger has emerged to run for her Assembly seat when the Republican's term is up next year.
Public advocate Bill de Blasio and city comptroller John Liu, who are running for mayor this year, are campaigning in part on the promise of building a rail tunnel to transport cargo beneath New York Harbor from New Jersey to Brooklyn and Queens and on to Long Island.
The Staten Island Republican establishment appears to be coalescing around Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to run in the special election, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo must call next year, to replace Mr. Grimm.
The Staten Island Republican Party is seeking prospective candidates to run for State Senate, State Assembly, Surrogate Court Judge, and Supreme Court Justice this year!
His nomination to run would mean Staten Island Republicans will be spurning one of their rising stars, 34 - year - old Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.
Since the island is technically a creature of the state, which is running the place under a 99 - year lease from the city, the public authority in charge — the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC)-- has less red tape to wade through in order to implement sweeping island is technically a creature of the state, which is running the place under a 99 - year lease from the city, the public authority in charge — the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC)-- has less red tape to wade through in order to implement sweeping Island Operating Corporation (RIOC)-- has less red tape to wade through in order to implement sweeping plans.