Sentences with phrase «opens budget talks»

A proposal by Senate Democrats to open budget talks to the news media is a chance for politicians to shine a little more light on the process, and Republicans shouldn't hesitate to agree.

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Gov. David Paterson, who authored a Times OpEd entitled «Borrowing Our Way to Failure» less than two months ago, essentially panning the proposal of his own hand - picked LG in the process, today said he's open to borrowing — as long as it's a «last resort» used to close down budget talks.

Molinaro said he would try to relieve the property tax burden, invest more state money for opioid treatment, abide by a two - term limit, re-prioritize capital spending at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and open up secretive talks that just yielded the state budget.

I know that when Councilmember Robert Jackson, or Simcha Felder, or the council members who are here tonight come to the speaker's office and say we need to talk about policy, we need to talk about budget priorities when it comes to housing, healthcare, education or economic development, my door is going to be open.

During budget talks last month, NY1's statehouse reporter Zack Fink tweeted that Senate Republicans were open to passing modest voting reforms if Sugarman were fired.

Fearing it would open the floodgates for other Republicans to vote «no», Flanagan, sources said, spoke of hte conference's successes in the budget talks and urged unity, noting the importance in an eleciton year.

And while Heastie has promised wholesale change in the way the chamber operates in the wake of former Speaker Sheldon Silver's downfall, he hasn't pushed to open up the budget talks.

But one insider said with the possibility of the seat opening if Ortt is convicted, and now with Boyle possibly leaving, the Senate GOP could be under even more pressure to deliver a progressive victory in the ongoing state budget talks for the eight breakaway Democrats.

I've always loved Gordman's since they opened back home when I was in high school (we won't talk about how long ago that was...), and since then it's been my go - to place for finding quality, layered pieces on a budget.

Disney will continue to break glass ceilings soon after Black Panther: On March 9, the studio will open the feature adaptation of the children's classic A Wrinkle In Time, which at a $ 100M - plus budget is the first production of its scope to be directed by a woman of color, Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay (at one point before Coogler, she was in talks to potentially direct Black Panther).

Even though there are talks of budget airlines opening routes to Albania this has yet to happen and flights to Tirana are still quite expensive.