Sentences with phrase «mayors of cities like»

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Being the mayor of a mid-size city is not like being the mayor of a humongous metropolis.

The mayor says it's unclear yet if the tax has increased rental accommodation, and better data collection methods are being developed for the city to monitor the impact of initiates like the tax more closely.

«Residents of Molokai don't like to be bullied,» Alan Arakawa, the mayor of the city and county of Maui, said.

Rudy Giuliani told CNBC on Monday that high unemployment in places like Detroit is the result of the same Democratic policies that crippled New York City's economy before he became mayor in 1994.

It also mentioned the letter being sent out by MFM this week calling on London mayor Boris Johnson and the UK's other elected mayors to promote meat - free days like those adopted by the Belgian city of Ghent, which goes meat - free every Thursday.

I do probably twelve to fifteen TV and radio interviews during the show, where it's being like a mayor of a small city for three days.

Bo Dietl, a retired NYPD detective and former Fox News contributor is now immersed in a sideshow - like bid for mayor of New York City, has had some high - profile private investigator clients.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

Ultimately, the mayor needs to join Gov. Andrew Cuomo in support for congestion pricing, which has proved effective in cities like London and Stockholm, according to Jon Orcutt, spokesman at the nonprofit TransitCenter and former policy director at the city's Department of Transportation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, brushing off results of a poll conducted by a strategist who said he wants to find a candidate to unseat the mayor in next year's Democratic primary, asked Wednesday: What's not to like about New York City?

Often, that means going toe - to - toe with the mayor, arguing over things like the city's share of the bill for the MTA.

Candidates in the race for Rochester mayor are painting a picture of what city schools might look like under their administration.

Now it's our turn to support a progressive African American, i.e. current comptroller William Thompson — a friend and admirer of Adolfo — in his bid for Gracie Mansion... But the message the reader takes away from the Times» City Room post is that the Bronx BP is focused like a laser beam on being mayor.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly may never have expressed interest in the job, but he tops the list of city officials New Yorkers would like to see as the next mayor in a new poll.

But the ad - targeting world changed in 2014, with vendors like DSPolitical (via DemocraticAds.com), CampaignGrid (via CampaignGridDirect) and Targeted Victory launching «self - serve» platforms that allow down - ballot campaigns for state legislature, mayor, city council and even school board to buy banner ads and even pre-roll video ads (if enough volume is available) that appear on a huge range of content websites, all targetable at particular slices of their own electorates.

The mayor of Syracuse is warning that her city is nearing a crisis level when it comes to paying for basic services like police cars, water main repairs and road construction.

Other proposals by the Albanese campaign include new Mitchell Lama development in place of the mayor's proposal to build 90 new homeless shelters, a tax on real estate purchased by foreign individuals and corporations as investments rather than residences, and consolidating «programs like Head Start and pre-K under a single city agency.»

«I think it is an interesting state of affairs when someone puts something like that together»cause they say they don't like the state of the city,» the mayor said.

Ms. Rose said she was happy with the inclusion of several priorities in the mayor's budget - like increased funds for senior case management, anti-gun initaitives, summer youth employment and science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at city colleges.

Despite a push from a coalition of labor unions and high - profile Democrats like New York City mayor Bill de Blasio — and the promise of help from Governor Andrew Cuomo — the Democrats could not pull off a win.

Mr. Katz cited the example of transportation funding in Los Angeles, where former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa worked with mayors of nearby cities to get Washington to vastly expand federal transportation loans to cities like his, and then supplemented that federal funding with a sales tax hike devoted to funding regional transit.

«This governor and the mayor of New York City have taken political jabs at each other and at the same time, even on an issue like this, neither has shown the willingness to put muscle behind the positions they have taken,» Martin said.

The comments came after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the leading Democratic mayoral candidate and a usual ally of the mayor, last week threw her support behind a bill that would create a new inspector general for the NYPD, who would be charged with overseeing police policies, like the controversial stop - and - frisk practice.

Who would you like to see run for mayor of New York City?

ALBANY — On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio made his third pilgrimage to Albany as mayor for «tin cup day» — an annual legislative rite in which mayors from various cities around the state appear before a joint bipartisan committee made up of members of both houses of the Legislature in order to, essentially, beg for what they would like to see in the state's final budget.

The mayor used the opportunity to ask Congress to increase the amount of federal financial aid available to cities like Syracuse to repair water pipelines.

The mayor has seized every opportunity to promote himself as the rhetorical and policy leader of the resistance, rallying along with paleoliberals like Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon and vowing to maintain New York as a sanctuary city in the face of Trump's anti-immigrant push.

But the mayor cautioned that the only way cities like Syracuse will be able to fix the larger problem of leaking water pipes is if Congress provides financial aid while tackling a root cause of the problem — climate change.

The mayor sent his own staffers to run campaigns against the Republicans and he got unions and people who do business with the city, like John Catsimatidis — to donate massive amounts of money.

«Thankfully Governor Cuomo and Legislative leaders like Speaker (Carl) Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Flanagan and numerous members stepped up to stop the mayor and REBNY's plan from undermining the working families of this city.

Days after de Blasio said he is considering revisiting the idea of capping the number of for - hire vehicles like Uber operating in the city, Cuomo suggested the mayor should go for it.

A poll by his own news service indicates that Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former New York City mayor who reportedly is considering a run for the White House, isn't very well known by Iowans and isn't well liked by those who have heard of him.

His decision to drop out thrust Ms. Malliotakis into the role of Republican front - runner after little more than two months of campaigning and offered an opening for outsider candidates like Roque De La Fuente, a San Diego developer who recently moved to New York City to run for mayor as a Republican.

But the mayor told the Observer that he would not allow public dollars to go toward the defense of anyone found guilty of one of the 170 crimes that New York exempts from its «sanctuary city» protections — violent offenses like rape, murder and terrorism, for which local law enforcement will turn over a foreign national to federal authorities.

«The mayor has always done what he thinks is right, including cutting programs people like instead of letting the city go into default and standing up for Constitutional rights even if it's not popular,» Loeser said in a statement.

A liberal Democrat like Mr. de Blasio, the public advocate - turned - mayor, Ms. James has not warred with City Hall like her predecessors, who were Democrats charged with serving as ombudsmen in the shadows of two imposing Republican mayors.

«With six weeks to go, anything can happen, but it looks like former Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself right out of the race for New York City mayor,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

It is a stark reminder of how unpredictable governing a city like New York is: most of the people interviewed by the Observer about the mayor's first year in office spoke to the paper before the murder of the police officers, which will amount to one of the biggest challenges the mayor will face in his first term.

«I hope she'll evolve and do more oversight of and investigations into city services and corporate misconduct rather than coming across like merely a vice president or deputy mayor,» said Mark Green, the city's first public advocate and an endorser of one of Ms. James» rivals last year.

ALBANY — Having secured a victory in the streets of New York City and over its mayor, the ride - sharing company Uber announced a legislative and public relations push on Tuesday to expand its business to taxi - and job - challenged cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Albany.

Lavine said becoming mayor of Syracuse appeals to her because she'd «like the chance to bring the city back to life, and back to where it used to be,» she said.

With their new clout, progressives in the City Council will undoubtedly take on many of the legislative priorities they've been touting for months, including council rule reforms and passing a new living wage law that would benefit unions and pro-immigrant policies like noncitizen voting, which the mayor opposes.

So I say come to Brooklyn the Home of Mayor Bill DeBlasio and see first hand what a mayor & city look like who gives it's citizens

So city Comptroller Scott Stringer and good - government groups like NYPIRG are right when they say the mayor should get a ruling from the Conflicts of Interest Board.

«Especially somebody running for mayor, when you look at somebody like Norman, he's black, he's got a predominantly minority union, and 90 percent of them live in the city.

Oswego's Common Council, mayor and department heads saw firsthand what Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 agenda will look like, during a recent presentation of his State of the State address at city hall.

The mayor was at the State of the State — but probably didn't like the parts where Cuomo said that New York City would have to put more money toward CUNY and Medicaid than it has had to in the past, one of the ways Cuomo plans to save money and pay for his proposals.

«The governor is trying to kill the mayor, the Senate wants to punch him, and the Assembly has to stop it even though a lot of members don't particularly like him,» said one frustrated city Assembly Dem.

«And he's indicated that if Commissioner Kelly does not run, then he's inclined to do so, and we will be blessed as a party and as citizens of this city to have someone like John Catsimatidis as our mayor.»

The former mayor commended the work of Midler, the Broadway icon who helped start the New York Restoration project — a public - private partnership between the city and major donors, like Bloomberg and David Rockefeller, who pushed the tree planting effort.