Not exact matches
As with legislation
at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on
concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in
other words, to serve as «safety champions.»
At 12:15 p.m.,
concerned citizens, led by Altamont Main Street USA and including members of MoveOn.org, Citizen Action of NY, the Working Families Party and
others gather outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for a peaceful rally in opposition to Trump's cabinet appointees, Leo O'Brien Federal Building, N. Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue, Albany.
And republicans, in addition, are
concerned about many
other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers
at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users
at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children
at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder
at the mercy of younger disrespectful
citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate
at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..
At 12:30 p.m., Rep. Kathy Hochul will «discuss her efforts to protect and strengthen Medicare as well as
other healthcare
concerns with members of the Wyoming County Senior
Citizens Club.
«SERAP is also
concerned that the proposed bill is coming
at a time the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are proposing amnesty and immunity for themselves against prosecution for corruption and
other economic crimes; and the government is proposing a social media policy to restrict and undermine
citizens» access to the social media ahead of the general elections in 2019.»
We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as
citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as
citizens in
other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as
citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues
concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss
at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.
At the same time, there are still
citizens — especially dual - income households without children who tend to populate cities, as well as those
concerned with
other issues — for which education policy doesn't weigh in as a deciding factor largely because they see little concrete connection between low graduation rates and the levels of crime in their communities.
They can simply decide to use the curriculum provided by the corporation that hired them -
at a huge profit to the corporation - with no public review or opportunity for input by parents or
other concerned citizens.
At tonight's Hartford Board of Education meeting, the outgoing Chairman of the Hartford Board of Education, Matt Poland, used a procedural maneuver to prevent Hartford parents and
other concerned citizens from addressing the Board about Capital Magnet School Principal Steve Perry prior to the Board's scheduled executive session on Perry.
Organize groups of your colleagues and
other concerned citizens to let the board know how important it is to provide meaningful support for students
at high - needs schools.
However, because standardized testing is a matter of public
concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or
citizen, about educational
concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution
at least so long as they are not encouraging
other parents or students to opt out from a test.»
«
Concerned citizens should outreach to
others to overcome the engineered ignorance about this subject,» he said, pointing to the «treasure trove» of information available
at the organization's website: www.jbs.org/issues-pages/environment.
However,
at my age, I am not so
concerned about myself but I am extremely disturbed that my children, nieces and nephews and
other relatives are now «second class
citizens», vulnerable to revocation
at the whim of some politician, with no court process.
We conclude, as have many
other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt
at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions
concerning the rights of our
citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.
The Committee suggested that Canada was complicit in the torture of Canadian
citizens post-9 / 11 and expressed
concern at the «apparent reluctance on part of the State party [Canada] to protect rights of all Canadians detained in
other countries.»
The Carter majority thus concluded
at para. 315 that the Rodriguez court's articulation of the legislative objective of the existing law was not restricted to the narrow purpose of only protecting the «vulnerable», but also with the «societal
concern with preserving life» in general, and therefore that
concerns over the fundamental shift in societal values that would arise if the state permits some
citizens to kill
others in certain circumstances, can not be simply brushed aside.
The remoteness of the decisions by
other governments, especially
at the Federal level for a minority government that holds no seats in the City of Toronto proper, makes the interests and
concerns of that political body that much more distant from the
citizens of this city.