Sentences with phrase «members said the item»

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The other significant change, the CNN Digital editor said, is that iReport members will no longer be able to post items to the site without having them verified by an editor first.

Adding clear plastic shelf dividers at the edges of shelves can prevent thieves from sweeping a shelf while allowing customers to hand - select the items they need, says Bill Alford, president of International Lighthouse Group and member of the ASIS Loss Prevention committee.

The online retailer, whose purchase of Whole Foods will close on Monday, said in a press release on Thursday that it would immediately cut prices on a selection of best - selling basic items, with more to follow, and down the line will make Amazon Prime the loyalty program for Whole Foods, offering members special deal and other perks in stores.

To undercut rivals, Amazon promised no markups on menu items or hidden service fees and said delivery on orders will be free to Amazon Prime members for a limited period.

He said the number of items Prime members can get within two days had grown fivefold since the last price increase four years ago.

«We had two parties after the blessing and ribbon - cutting ceremony: one for local press and chambers that featured some of our popular items from each restaurant venue, and a second event for tribal members,» she says.

When developing new items, Scicchitano says, a member from every department is involved to make sure there are no hurdles and great ideas have every chance to succeed.

Silver has also been an unabashed defender of legislative member items, saying that lawmakers know their districts best when it comes to allocating state dollars to local causes.

Can you say Member Item anyone?

Schneiderman's office says the vast majority of funding for Christian Community In Action received tens of millions of dollars from the Medicaid program, while the Christian Community Benevolent Association received about $ 495,000 in member item grants.

A guest in prison — a horrible experience GBC's Emmanuel Mensah - Abludo says the first point of call of the Member of the Council of State, was the Sunyani Female Prison where she donated some items.

«I will stop the money before allowing it to be distributed as member items because, in my opinion, it's a waste of money,» he said.

A spokeswoman for Governor Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.

While the source could not say exactly why federal investigators were looking at Huntley, the New York Post reported the southeast Queens senator received a federal subpoena in connection with $ 400,000 in member items she helped steer -LSB-...]

But Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle says that item is likely off the table because most Democratic Assembly members are against it.

Franco also said Silver could unilaterally steer state money to Taub, the cancer doctor, using the controversial member - item process in which many lawmakers legally dole out grants to favorite causes.

«It's just member items by another name and process,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a good government advocacy group.

«There doesn't have to be member items if that dialogue can take place among members of the administration and members of the Legislature,» said Silver (D - Manhattan).

As lawmakers prepare to pass the third consecutive state budget with no new pork - barrel spending, Cuomo said yesterday he doesn't believe legislative «member items» should ever return.

With the City Council's 2010 fiscal budget, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) trailed the pack in member item funding, though his office said the councilman made up for some of that by seeking private grants for constituent groups.

EJ McMahon with the fiscal think tank The Empire Center, used the state's freedom of information laws to get the list of projects, and he says it looks at lot like the old member items.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has said raising the minimum wage is an essential budget item for his members, and Assembly Democrats back increasing it even higher, to $ 15 an hour in New York City by 2018.

State lawmakers said a few years ago they would no longer permit the controversial member item program to continue, but critics said the old system, which gave taxpayer money to legislators» pet projects, is being revived in a new form.

This year, Mark - Viverito has said she will divide member items based on a formula that accounts for the income levels of each council district, rather than hand them out arbitrarily as was the practice in past years.

«The notion of on average once a year a member of this city council going to jail and each and every case from misuse of member item money I think this has reached an unsustainable point and it simply proves that this system is no longer workable,» de Blasio said.

But local legislators say the loss of member item money will, ultimately, only hurt their communities; that the ones taking the hit are the local organizations and services that rely on support from elected officials to stay afloat.

«At the heart of every scandal is always member items, or pork, or whatever they call it, in New York State,» he said.

If I was so interested in those member items, I could have easily said, «Dean, you know what?

Eric Stevenson, a first - term state senator representing East Tremont and other neighborhoods in the south Bronx, said he'd planned to give his expected $ 100,000 in member item money to local tutoring and after - school programs and a cash - strapped little league, some of the same organizations that his predecessor, Michael Benjamin, had funded over the years.

«The assembly gave out their member items, and the members knew exactly what they were getting in April,» Espada says.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

«When the Senator says legislators «should play a critical and pivotal role» in the distribution of funds, that's code for going back to the days of member items and pork barrel spending that were the vestiges of the old Albany,» he said.

Paterson also gave a shout - out to Smith, who lost his majority leader post in the coup, saying the Queens Democrat, who succeeded Paterson in the Senate minority leader post in 2006, doesn't get sufficient credit for showing leadership by denying a member item to Espada, even though that made him angry enough to join the the GOP.

Assemblywoman Sandra Galef released a generic letter to the editor she penned in the wake of former Sen. Vincent Leibell's guilty plea to federal corruption charges, saying the latest corruption scandal should spur member item reform that she has long advocated.

«When the Senator says legislators «should play a critical and pivotal role» in the distribution of funds, that's code for going back to the days of member items and pork barrel spending that were the vestiges of the old Albany.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

The governor has said that these favors were promised when he took office in 2008 and that all member items — usually $ 200 million for legislators and the governor — have been on hold for two years.

«I commend the speaker for distributing member items not on the basis of political favors but on the basis of objective need, as measured by the number of residents in your district who live below the poverty line,» he said.

Laura Seago, a research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice, said it could be money the senator is expecting to get from member items funds for the upcoming year.

«I do get the strong sense that this will be one of the biggest reform packages in terms of the City Council that we've ever seen,» De Blasio who has proposed banning member items said on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on Friday.

But he says there are around 130 member item grants that have been repurposed for a new organization, using an old line of funding.

The speaker — who has introduced new rules for member items — says she wants to keep them.

Governor Cuomo has vetoed over half a million dollars of legislative member items, saying he's following through on a promise to ban the funds, which have been used in the past to finance lawmakers» pet projects.

Skelos says while it's «totally appropriate» that legislature should have input on where and how the funds are distributed, he would not characterize any such grants as member items.

The governor says he is allowing any member items from that prior time period promised to groups like Little Leagues, senior centers, and other community organizations to be awarded, even though he doesn't approve of the practice.

«Member items are problematic because they really don't have a statewide benefit,» Lynam said.

«Unlike some old member item pots, the State and Municipal Facilities program is limited in scope to bricks and mortar capital projects with the requisite useful life,» Peters said.

A spokeswoman for Governor Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork - barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.

A spokeswoman for Cuomo's campaign says the governor actually reformed previous economic development practices, scrapping the notorious legislative member items, known as pork barrel projects, for regional approaches led by local leaders.