Sentences with phrase «of about a dozen states»

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

But a group of about a dozen states remains year after year at the bottom of the ACEEE State Energy Efficiency Scorecard...

Not exact matches

While legislation allowing this form of equity financing remains stalled at a national level, about a dozen states now allow equity crowdfunding.

In the magazine's Annual Fintech Issue, Modern Trader editors spoke with dozens of Fintech leaders about the state of the industry.

Of that number, about a half - dozen taxpayers have an effect on revenue that's noticed in the legislature and the state Department of Revenue ServiceOf that number, about a half - dozen taxpayers have an effect on revenue that's noticed in the legislature and the state Department of Revenue Serviceof Revenue Services.

We don't know why Trump decided to fire Flynn (the stated reason that he «lied to Mike Pence» doesn't pass the laugh test), whether he was told of the domestic abuse allegations against then - White House staff secretary Rob Porter, what's on the Apprentice outtake footage that producer Mark Burnett is keeping locked up, why exactly Trump handed some choice Israeli intelligence to the Russian foreign minister, who financed the hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, or any of a dozen other major questions about Trump.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

At the end of 2015, Zillow surveyed dozens of economists and housing analysts about home price trends in the United States.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Point number six, of course, is stated in about a dozen different ways, with people arguing over what the actual requirement should be (repent and be baptized, confess your sins, say this prayer, etc, etc), but for the sake of this blog post, I don't really care about that.

The arrests ordered by Connecticut authorities are likely to be merely the first of a number that will send shock waves through Florida, Rhode Island and Nevada, where betting on jai alai is also legal, and perhaps put a fatal crimp in the sport's plans to invade Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland and about a dozen other states and two Canadian provinces.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

I recently spent a month on the road in the United States and spoke with dozens of Americans about the election.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lState Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lstate legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

About half a dozen fire departments and state rangers were called in to battle a fire that burned dozens of acres in St. Lawrence County.

On Tuesday, Burse and colleague Gabby Santos held a workshop of sorts to raise awareness about domestic violence and HIV in the LGBT community for a dozen or so social service agency representatives at the Empire State Plaza.

About two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantAbout two dozen people attended the People's State of the State Address, holding signs that called for taxes on the rich and giving speeches about mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantabout mass incarceration and the increasing lines at food pantries.

She already has support from three influential labor unions — the Communications Workers of America, the New York State Nurses Association and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union — whose local leaders joined her on stage, along with about half a dozen City Council members.

Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

About a dozen local protesters appeared in the lobby of the New York State Education Department in Albany Wednesday demanding the immediate removal of Buffalo Board of Education member Carl Paladino.

She told commissioners that she and the other candidates were chosen late last year during a meeting of about a half dozen people on the state party executive committee.

About a dozen conditions are eligible for treatment, including, according to the State Health Department, «severe and debilitating» forms of cancer, HIV, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.

About a dozen investigators from the FBI, IRS and state Attorney General's Office broke through the back door of the White Plains Road clinic sometime before 6 a.m. and pulled out more than 30 boxes of documents.

A state official Thursday confirmed that raises for about a dozen supervisors at the Clinton Correctional Facility are being withheld pending the outcome of a state Inspector General's

With Kurantowicz as director, Voters for Good Government made a splash in 2012 by spending about $ 300,000 on a last - minute burst of negative ads and mailings aimed at trying to defeat a half - dozen Democrats and flip control of the state Senate.

Cuomo, along with George Gresham — the president of 1199 SEIU — took about half a dozen questions from participants, who asked how the governor reached the $ 15 figure, why was he able to raise the wage for fast food workers, and why the state is pushing to increase the minimum wage and not the federal government.

The hearing began last week, but Tuesday was the only day to draw about more than two dozen protesters outside of the state Education buildnig in Albany.

A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers.

Nearly two dozen people from five states are accusing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his communications with the Russian government and subsequently trying to cover up that lie, according to a complaint sent to the Department of Justice.

About two dozen educators as well as students took to a podium at Tuesday night's Common Core forum in Manorville to, for the most part, poke holes in the state's rollout of the Common Core State Standards Initiastate's rollout of the Common Core State Standards InitiaState Standards Initiative.

Federal investigators» interest in the former gubernatorial aide came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from Bharara's office seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will deliver his 2018 «State of the State» address at 1 p.m. today in Albany, offering about two dozen proposals that tackle some key issues that have attracted national attention.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio may have come to the Capitol on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for help with affordable housing programs and homeless shelter allowances, but he found himself forced to answer a barrage of questions about an unexpected issue as more than a half - dozen lawmakers pressured him to allow a property tax cap in the city.

A panel of about three dozen state lawmakers subjected the commissioners of the health and environmental conservation departments to five hours of often - intense grilling.

The Greentrack casino proposal is one of about dozen in the state - designated Hudson Valley - Catskils region, which comprises Orange, Ulster and Sullivan counties.

Common Sense Principles, which claims to educate the public about limited government and fiscal responsibility, commissioned dozens of mailers in at least three key State Senate districts, targeting Monroe County Legislator Ted O'Brien, Assemblyman George Latimar (D - Rye) and Senator Joe Addabbo (D - Queens).

Louisiana state officials said about a dozen people were arrested after throwing chunks of concrete at cops.

The governor said START - UP is one of about a dozen or so programs that's contributed to a revitalized New York economy, one where there are more jobs than ever in the state's history.

About half a dozen people have recently returned to the United States from West Africa and gotten tested because of symptoms consistent with Ebola.

Reporters also analyzed employment data, interviewed more than 45 officials and experts, and reviewed about a dozen reports and audits of subsidy programs conducted by the state comptroller and watchdog organizations.

According to information from the New York State Authorities Budget Office, only about a dozen authority board members would be covered by the order under the Cuomo administration's new interpretation — and at least one of them is among those who have donated to the governor.

Enterovirus impact can be minimized The best defense against a rare virus that has caused severe respiratory illness in hundreds of children across about a dozen states is proper hand - washing, reminded health officials from the Oneida County Health Department and the county's hospitals, Rome Memorial Hospital, St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare.

Confirmed, two cases in Oneida County - Enterovirus The best defense against a rare virus that has caused severe respiratory illness in hundreds of children across about a dozen states is proper hand - washing, reminded health officials from the Oneida County Health Department.

About two dozen tenants rights activists, as well as several Democratic State lawmakers, were arrested at a protest on the lack of action so far on reforming New York City's rent laws, which expire on June 15th, to include more protections for tenants.

In the case of the comptroller against the Department of Social Services, DSS is claiming that the financial information on about a dozen wards of the state under its administration is not subject to comptroller scrutiny.

The demonstrators — a cohort of about three dozen older New Yorkers, millennials, and one as young as 10 years old — were one of a number of groups that had gathered at locations across the city on a recent Wednesday to protest at the offices of Democratic state Senators who the protesters believe have betrayed them.

In addition to the face - off between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, New Yorkers will have a chance to vote on about two dozen candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, one U.S. Senator (Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand) and 213 members of the New York State legislature.

U.S. Rep. John Larson, one of the chief architects of the sit - in, collected about a dozen donations in the days that followed the protest, mostly in the form of checks for a few hundred dollars from in - state donors that totaled around $ 5,000.

Signaling a formal start to the campaign season, Woodstock supervisor Jeremy Wilber and Town Board members Cathy Magarelli and Bill McKenna stated their cases for reelection at an August 19 forum that drew about two dozen residents, including acknowledged supporters of the three incumbents, to Town Hall.

Federal investigators» interest in Percoco came to light in late April, when the administration acknowledged that it had received a wide - ranging subpoena from the office of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara seeking information about actions taken by a half - dozen current or former members of the administration, including Percoco, that might have benefited two dozen companies that had received state funds or other benefits.