Sentences with phrase «open state assembly»

She spoke to the local network again Thursday about the open state Assembly seats in the West Bronx.

The Republicans» candidate for the open state Assembly seat in Corona, Humberto Suarezmotta, has been booted from the ballot for failing to file his signatures with a cover sheet, a decision he says he may dispute in federal court.

The nine races for open state assembly seats Tuesday resulted in four wins for GOP candidates, with one saying he'll caucus with Democrats.

Mr. Banks said he plans to challenge Charles Barron, the avowedly radical former East New York councilman, for the open State Assembly seat vacated by Ms. Barron after she won Mr. Barron's City Council race last year.

There are also nine races for open state assembly seats: Two in the Capital Region, three on Long Island, one in Buffalo, and three in New York City.

There were also nine races for open state assembly seats: Two in the Capital Region, three on Long Island, one in Buffalo, and three in New York City.

Suffolk's Democrats and Republicans have both held nominating conventions, but neither party has decided who will run in November for the North Fork's open State Assembly seat.

Not exact matches

Opponents of the measure in the state assembly claimed that it would open the state to an invasion of teen - age and preteen drifters, drug addicts and prostitutes.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The Open Space Land Acquisition program has a permanent funding source because the General Assembly doubled the state property transfer tax.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heasite on Wednesday morning departed a meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the state budget, indicating he was open to a potential «modification» for the minimum wage to accommodate agricultural businesses.

A state Senate GOP budget resolution leaves the door open for a deal on legislation that would make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as adults, but unlike Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats, state Senate Republicans have offered no specific plan.

At 7 p.m., — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Sens. Brian Benjamin and Kevin Parker join AARP NYS Director Beth Finkel, state NAACP President Hazel Dukes and NY Urban League Executive Director Arva Rice to address disparities hurting New York's communities of color on WBLS's «Open Line» with Judge Bob Pickett and Bob Slade, Schomberg Center for Research for Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem.

The Assembly Democrats» press release about the passage of a plan to keep state parks open arrived in my in - box at 3:17 a.m..

After a year in which Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver, respective legislative leaders of both the State Senate and State Assembly, were convicted for defrauding the public for personal gain, politicians in Albany have once again refused to act on preventing corruption and enacting needed ethics reform and running a more open government.

Assembly Majority Leader Morelle says it's unlikely though that lawmakers would be open to restructuring state government in a «rushed» end of the year session.

After Stop & Shop announced in March that it would be closing, Deputy State Assembly Speaker Earlene Hooper (D - Hempstead) met with store staff, residents, Mayor Don Ryan and other community leaders to discuss their concerns about the store closing, and with Stop & Shop officials to lobby to keep the store open, she said.

New York Democrats huddled with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Capitol Hill on Thursday as Heastie attempted to push back on reports he's already lined up his preferred pick for the state's open attorney general job.

Rodriguez, who has been a member of the State Assembly since 2011, is running for the open seat held by the City Council's term - limited Speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito.

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state Attorney General, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegatState Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state Attorney General, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegatstate Attorney General, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegations.

New Jersey's Democrat - led Assembly passed a measure that would force the governor's beach house to close during a shutdown, while a second measure they approved would keep state parks open.

D. Billy Jones, the Democrat running for the open 115th Assembly District, was required to release an internal poll to the state Board of Elections after supporters leaked a portion of the poll to the media.

The Democratic half of the state Senate staked out the chambers early this morning, opened an extraordinary session at 3 p.m., but failed to pass any further legislation after Sen. Jeff Klein (D - Manhattan) issued a statement warning that any bills passed under the extraordinary session would not be valid because the Assembly had passed the bills during the standard session.

When the state Assembly opens its 2011 legislative session in January, two new faces from western Queens will be seen on the floor.

Assemblyman Dennis H. Gabryszak's seat is empty during the opening prayer at the New York State Assembly opening session Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)

A bill to repeal the vacancy allowance has languished in the State Assembly for years, but some see an opening to inject the issue into negotiations over the renewal of a tax exemption for developers who build affordable housing.

He launched the African Anti-Corruption Year 2018 during the Opening Ceremony of the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital.

In the last year, Uruguay became the first national jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis; the world's first legal, recreational cannabis market opened in Colorado; Colombia and Guatemala took a daring stand at the UN general assembly, telling assembled delegates that the war on drugs had failed; and the Organisation of American States became the first multinational body to raise the prospect of drug treaty reform.

Meanwhile, the Benue State House of Assembly has today passed the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Tuesday indicated to reporters in Albany he would be open to changing how per diems are allocated to state lawmakers, possibly as a way to achieve a pay increase for the Legislature.

«WFP candidates swept our priority races tonight, fending off a million - dollar expenditure from billionaires seeking to privatize education and winning key open seat races that will shape the state Assembly for years to come.

She speculated that she faced no Democratic challengers for Wright's seat - which is centered in Harlem and represents almost exclusively Democrats - because of a number of factors, including the trips Assembly members must make to Albany, the last - minute nature of the opening, and what she said was insufficient pay for state legislators.

He recently endorsed Rubain Dorancy for an open Brooklyn State Senate seat and Rodneyse Bichotte for an open Brooklyn Assembly seat.

«Remember, I opened a campaign account for state Assembly in 2004 but ultimately decided not to run until 2006,» Molinaro said by phone.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., Senator Joseph A. Griffo, Senator David Valesky, Member of Assembly Claudia Tenney, Marcy Supervisor Brian Scala, and City of Rome Mayor James F. Brown joined leaders and members of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association and other local elected officials today to announce that they are assembling a strategy to show state government that the four state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association and other local elected officials today to announce that they are assembling a strategy to show state government that the four state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept state government that the four state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept open.

Raymond Harding, the former chairman of the state Liberal Party, admitted he received more than $ 800,000 in exchange for doing political favors, including opening up a Queens state Assembly seat for former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's son, Andrew, the state attorney general said last week.

«The New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate has passed a bill unanimously that says we want to keep it open,» says attorney for the facility Steven Cohen.

In the 2009 episode that Judge Caproni said she would allow discussion of if the defense were to «open the door,» prosecutors said Mr. Silver used his official Assembly letterhead in 2009 to write to a state agency, seeking a reduction in tax valuations of certain buildings in his district.

By unanimous votes in both the Senate and Assembly, New York State lawmakers have approved legislation that keeps the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center open.

Long Island Democrats appeared to lose one open seat in the State Assembly but maintained another, while incumbent Assembly members in both major parties Islandwide appeared headed toward victory, according to precinct returns Tuesday night.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state attorney general, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegatState Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced plans for an open interview process for the legislature to appoint a new state attorney general, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegatstate attorney general, now that Eric Schneiderman has resigned over domestic violence allegations.

State lawmakers seeking to put the brakes on a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to hike electric bills to keep open upstate nuclear power plants have introduced legislation calling for a moratorium on the plan as the Assembly considers a one - house budget bill that would do the same.

During their opening statements today in the criminal corruption trial of former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, prosecutors and Silver's defense attorneys painted sharply different images of the elected official at the center of the case.

Also at noon, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will preside over Opening Day deliberations and present remarks from the rostrum, Assembly chamber, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

The president stated this in Abuja on Thursday while declaring open, the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Governors of the Association of African Central Banks.

As the legislative session kicks off this week, there are a slew of open state Senate and Assembly seats, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has not indicated when or whether he will call a special election to fill the vacancies.

THE two women who say they were raped by the Assembly's former chief counsel have sent an unprecedented «open letter» to state lawmakers, urging an end to the «victimization» of...

Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto said in a statement he was always open to ideas that «improve transparency and accountability,» but it was «going to take a very persuasive argument to convince the Assembly that the state should be taking Horizon's funds, especially amid the dire health care uncertainty in Washington.»

With the state's rent regulations set to sunset in June, the Assembly's Democratic majority is firing an opening shot in what is typically a high - profile legislative fight over the future of New York City's approximately 1 million rent - stabilized apartments.

Twice in the past three years, former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has sat in the same Manhattan federal courtroom and heard opening statements in his public - corruption trial.