Sentences with phrase «over district lines»

The oral arguments were the final step before the state Supreme Court rules in a years - long litigious battle over the district lines.

That's just what we need - a group of fictional characters debating over district lines.

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«The bottom line is the evidence indicates that Uber hired Levandowski even though it knew or should have known that he possessed over 14,000 confidential Waymo files likely containing Waymo's intellectual property; that at least some information from those files, if not the files themselves, has seeped into Uber's own LiDAR development efforts; and that at least some of said information likely qualifies for trade secret protection,» U.S. District Judge William Alsup wrote.

The cheapest solution for Chicago taxpayers would be to turn over Soldier Field to McCaskey, eliminate all the city taxes, give him all the profits on concessions and parking, renovate the facility along the lines of the 1992 plan, and have the Park District continue to pay the $ 12 million a year that it costs to operate the stadium.

Elk Grove Village — The Park District is holding a special meeting Monday to reconsider the time line and scope of three previously - approved building renovations after bids came in nearly $ 200,000 over budget.

I then sent Jimmy through my Houston district's elementary school lunch line over the course of a single week, letting him pick and choose from the week's menu as he wished (lots of chocolate milk, tacos, burgers and the rest).

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

The state representatives and state senators elected 15 months from now will preside over the rawest political act in America: the redrawing of congressional and legislative district lines based on the results of the decennial census.

ALBANY — Top Queens Democrats are backing Adrienne Adams over incumbent Democrat James Sanders in Tuesday's Senate District 10 primary, a decision Sanders says is «payback» for his penchant for skirting the party line.

Over the weekend, Senate Republicans posted a memo on the legislature's redistricting website from their legal counsel, justifying the creation of a 63rd Senate seat in the reconfiguring of district lines.

That year, he supported then - incumbent District Attorney Charles Hynes over Thompson in the Democratic primary, then switched his allegiance to Thompson after the challenger triumphed in September and Hynes carried on his campaign on the Republican line.

Government reform groups are split over whether an amendment on the November ballot to change the way legislative district lines are drawn is an improvement, or will make only make gerrymandering worse.

But the state party has no control over districts that are wholly contained in a single county — only in those that cross county lines.

January 13, 2010 (readMedia)-- On January 12th over 1,500 gun owners celebrated the Second Amendment in Albany and lobbied their representatives in the State Assembly and Senate to reform NYS gun laws and bring them into line with the landmark legal decision in District of Columbia v. Heller.

There is increased speculation that Kenneth Mitchell, Council Member from Staten Island District 49, chagrined over his loss to Debi Rose in the Democratic primary, is readying a run in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

But in Mr. Silver's old Assembly district in Lower Manhattan, voters chose Alice Cancel, a Democrat, who eked out a win over Yuh - Line Niou, a Working Families Party candidate who had pegged Ms. Cancel as a creature of Mr. Silver's machine.

McKee says the only thing that has done more to keep Senate Republicans in the majority over the last few decades is their ability to draw district lines.

The governors» landscape is all the more important when you consider that the winners in 2010 will exert considerable influence over the decennial redistricting process that will reshape the lines of congressional and legislative districts across the country.

New York will now have 27 seats in the House, down from the current 29, the U.S. Census Bureau announced, prompting what is sure to be a long and heated battle over where the new district lines are drawn.

Coughlan — who has come under fire recently over retweets he sent from his personal Twitter account that some have characterized as racist or sexist — said he intends to seek the Republican and Independence lines in the 41st District race in a September primary.

The day is expected to be further complicated by brand new Assembly and Senate district lines, which have changed many voters» districts and polling places, as well as lingering doubts over the competency of the Board of Elections, which bungled the ballot count in June's Congressional race between Rep. Charlie Rangel and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat so badly that it took weeks to learn the final results.

«My district is competitive, and that's a good thing... because it forces people to talk to a broader sense of the community,» Hurd said Saturday as the closing witness in a trial over whether the district lines should be redrawn.

While waiting for district - by - district allotment information, sources said Buffalo Public Schools are in line for a 3.36 percent school aid hike from the current year, up $ 6.8 million over Cuomo's plan in January.

The term gerrymandering refers to the practice of drawing electoral district lines to favor one political party, individual, or constituency over another.

The New York Public Interest Research Group and the New York League of Women Voters issued a joint report today in Albany that shows current district lines are uneven based on population and voter enrollment, with one party being favored over the other.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has proposed that a commission of non-legislators should take over the once - a-decade process of drawing district lines for the state Legislature and Congress, his aide said Monday.

An independent reconfiguration of district lines around the state could have a transformative effect on state politics, particularly over the long term, by making elections more competitive and, theoretically, making the parties in power more accountable to voters.

Around three quarters, 76 %, believe the «lack of transparency» over the policy issues decided that night are a «serious» problem, and 68 % were concerned about the gerrymandered new district lines.

But Quinnipiac's Mickey Carroll says the voters surveyed are less enthralled with some of the action in Albany over the past month, including, an all night session of the legislature that approved, among other things new district lines manipulated by majority party legislators.

He had a ridiculously large lead over challenger Eric Lynn before the new CD 13 district lines were verified by the Florida Supreme Court.

The 65th Assembly Democratic County Committee voted overwhelmingly for Ms. Cancel over her rivals: district leader Paul Newell, district leader Jenifer Rajkumar, community board chairwoman Gigi Li and Yuh - Line Niou, chief of staff to Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim.

«The Special Master's lines came out today, and while I can't predict what the final lines will ultimately look like, the Special Master's district six is centered around my home and communities that I have represented in the Assembly, on the community board and as a civic leader for over twenty years.

The Suffolk Independence Party is giving its ballot line to Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin over its former party member, Anna Throne - Holst, who switched parties to run as a Democrat in the First District.

In a prepared statement announcing his decision, Coughlan said while he is «humbled by the support so many have shown to my campaign over the last several months, I remain committed to this principle» that, in order for the Republicans to win back the district, the GOP candidate must also hold the Conservative and Independence lines.

MacKay said local Indy committees (and remember, there has been a power struggle — particularly in NYC — over who controls the line) are responsible for making endorsements, with the executive committee stepping in to make decisions in districts that cross county lines.

Political observers say the ability to tweak district lines is crucial to the Republicans» ability to stay in power, and they have been loath to cede any control over the process — their reform bill, which passed the Senate in March, sets in motion a constitutional change that would not take effect for a decade.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has been inching away for a while now from his earlier blanket promise to veto any congressional and district lines drawn by the legislature, expressing a preference for a an agreement on acceptably partisan lines drawn by lawmakers over a court - controlled solution.

Melissa Mark - Viverito is the first member to announce she will not support Quinn for mayor following a bitter public fight over the new lines of her East Harlem district, which now stretches deep into The Bronx.

Tkaczyk's assertions were in line with Superintendent Seth Turner's presentation to the board at the December meeting, during which business administrator Lissa Jilek said the gap elimination adjustment has cost the district $ 11.7 million since 2010, an amount which is equal to 4.1 percent of the total operating budget, and breaks down to over $ 800 per pupil.

If the power over lines is taken out of their hands, and the districts are required to have roughly equal numbers of residents in them — at the moment the populations of each district are permitted to depart from the mean by up to five percent in either direction — the swing back toward Democratic control will be that much more dramatic.

ALBANY — Even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo leveled a threat to veto new legislative district lines that legislators have drawn for themselves, he left himself open to a negotiated solution that would preserve their control over maps that will be in place for the next ten years.

On Monday, the largest public workers union, the CSEA, suspended all political endorsements and campaign contributions over the pension package, saying lawmakers traded the retirement security of future workers in exchange for new district lines, which were also passed in the all night session.

When the State Senate and Assembly deadlocked over how to gerrymander the districts, he allowed a court to draw the Congressional lines for New York without offering any input.

Holden, a registered Democrat who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines after losing to Crowley in the Democratic primary, had a 137 - vote lead over Crowley after the city's Board of Elections counted all of the paper ballots on Wednesday for the district, which includes Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood, Woodhaven and Woodside, according to the New York Daily News.

The New York People's Convention, a group funded heavily by Bill Samuels, a New York City businessman and promoter over the years of everything from improving how congressional and legislative district lines are drawn to term limits, has raised — and spent — $ 251,000 on a Proposal 1 yes effort.

Sparaco's troubles with the District Attorney began when he stepped over a critical legal line associated with the collection of petitions for positions to be voted on during a Rockland County Republican Party Committee election.

City Councilman Jumaane Williams and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said they were distressed by a flurry of complaints from voters during Thursday's state legislative primaries, stemming mainly from voter confusion over poll site changes after district lines were redrawn earlier this year.

To meet high student demand, in spring 2014, Louisiana legislators provided a line - item appropriation for the Supplemental Course Academy (SCA), with the caveat that districts have more control over what courses students take.

To keep the district solvent, the state of California provided a $ 100 million line of credit and took over the district's operations, stripping the school board of all but advisory powers and appointing an administrator to replace Chaconas.

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.