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Republicans in the Senate, however, have been deeply skeptical of de Blasio's handling of education and criticized his decision to not attend a second public hearing on the issue in New York City last month (de Blasio traveled to Albany earlier to personally pitch a mayoral control extension.

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Although Commerce normally investigates and applies punitive duties on narrow categories of products from specific locations, at public hearings conducted by Commerce in May, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross articulated the issue in sweeping terms.

I believe she is refering to the very Vocal Churches and Christians who have for 30 years been hollaring and screamin about the issues of prayer in public schools abortions and the anti- gay verbage we been hearing for so long... nearly every day somthing is beign said on these issues you must be mr. van winkle..

During a public hearing on the issue, district officials explained the staff cut was based in part on the current number of students registered for school next year.

A public hearing on the issue will start at 7 p.m. in the Frick Center at Elmhurst College.

You rarely hear from the people who unsubscribe for other reasons (they're on too many lists, aren't interested in your issues, etc.), and the angry emails tend to dominate, particularly if your organization or campaign is taking strong positions in public.

In order to assure a transparent and accountable process for examining and determining the petitions, the EC assembled a Panel of Eminent Ghanaians to chair the two - day public hearing on the issue.

At the same time, the Democratic - led Assembly plans to hold public hearings on water quality issues in early September.

«Our Education Committee will hold a second public hearing in New York City on May 19 to further examine this issue, giving Mayor de Blasio and his administration another chance to make their case in a more thorough and more convincing way.»

The letter comes as lawmakers in the state Senate held a public hearing on Tuesday to discuss issues stemming from the floods.

At 11 a.m., the Senate Labor and Social Services committees hold a joint public hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, hearing examining ways to address issues affecting families in the workforce, on the agenda: paid family leave, childcare subsidies, facilities enrollment, and dependant care tax credits, Hearing Room A, LOB, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

In addition, Boards regularly conduct public hearings — on the City's budget, on land use matters, and other major issues — to give the people of the community the opportunity to express their opinions.

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for public hearings; there's a June ballot question in Washington, D.C., and an effort is underway to get the issue on the statewide ballot in Michigan.

«In order to assure a transparent and accountable process for examining and determining the petitions, the EC has assembled a Panel of Eminent Ghanaians to hold a two - day public hearing on the issue.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the DEC, hold a joint public hearing to examine water quality issues and to review implementation of the $ 2.5 billion in water infrastructure funding contained in the 2017 - 18 budget, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

At 9:45 a.m., the Council Committee on Public safety holds a public hearing on a measure to require the mayor to appoint a department to oversee the coordination of efforts to address quality of life issues in local communities, Council Chambers, City Hall, ManhPublic safety holds a public hearing on a measure to require the mayor to appoint a department to oversee the coordination of efforts to address quality of life issues in local communities, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhpublic hearing on a measure to require the mayor to appoint a department to oversee the coordination of efforts to address quality of life issues in local communities, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Education issues are on the agenda in Albany as state Assembly lawmakers hold another in a series of public hearings on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposals.

The majority of Onondaga County residents that came out to a public hearing Tuesday in Liverpool on government consolidation in the county were concerned about two issues: their taxes going up and having less access to public officials.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

Mychajliw wants a public hearing with the NFTA in front of the Erie County Legislature on the issue.

On this issue, the notoriously - divided Erie County Legislature unanimously passed a ban to take effect in six - months and sent the local law to the county executive, who held a public hearing on the issue WednesdaOn this issue, the notoriously - divided Erie County Legislature unanimously passed a ban to take effect in six - months and sent the local law to the county executive, who held a public hearing on the issue Wednesdaon the issue Wednesday.

«Based on the turnout of citizens attending recent meetings on this issue in Southold and Southampton Towns, we would anticipate an overflow crowd on the night of Aug. 21 when the Town Board already has 13 public hearings scheduled,» Mr. Cantwell said in a statement.

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.

As we embark on our campaign, we will continue to discuss these important issues and we will do so until we are heard and until we make a positive change in Rockland County's public safety.

Gov. Cuomo's office says it has already scheduled seven public hearings on the issues raised in the letter.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

He also pledged to lead a series of public hearings on the issue around the state in 2008.

Because it is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills before the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1, school districts, worried about their financial vulnerability and needing to comply with personnel notification deadlines (usually in April or May), issue layoff notices and hold mandatory public hearings, even if the probability of actual personnel layoffs is slender.

Her dismal performance Sunday night on 60 Minutes (including an inability to articulate the case for expanding public charter schools and other forms of family choice in education) demonstrates that she remains as willfully ignorant about education policy issues as she was during her confirmation hearing last year.

If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like to learn more about the educational issues facing many young men of color, the Assembly Select Committee on Boys and Men of Color will be holding a public hearing on Friday, March 21, on the implications of LCFF for this subset of students.

Over the past four years Austin Voices has convened hundreds of people to weigh in on the education issues that affect them — from the neighborhood level with public housing «community conferences» to the national level with hearings on No Child Left Behind.

About 40 people on both sides of the issue asked to speak at the public hearing in Sacramento before the board voted, and numerous letters on both sides of the debate were delivered to the state board.

In response, the NAACP created a task force on public education, which held seven hearings around the country and last week, issued their findings.

Formal Recommendations on Revising Statewide Testing Due Out This Month Setting the stage for perhaps the most critical public school issue that will come before the Legislature next year, the state board of education held its first public hearing Thursday on plans for shaping the future of student standardized testing in California.

The rulemaking docket is the file in which DOT places all of the rulemaking documents it issues (e.g., the NPRM, hearing notices, extensions of comment periods, and final rules), supporting documents that it prepares (e.g., economic and environmental analyses), studies that it relies on that are not readily available to the public, all public comments related to the rulemaking (e.g., comments that may be received in anticipation of the rulemaking, comments received during the comment period, and late - filed comments), and other related documents.

These courses can be long (on average around 4 years) as there is a lot for you to learn, such as training dogs in public access skills, manners, and completing tasks to help people with issues with sight, hearing and mobility.

Bear in mind that the public are hearing very confident assertions from spokespeople on the climate change issue who appear to all intents and purposes to be representing the scientific community.

In 2010, Stacy would reveal that his group, Save Western Ohio, had a «network of experts» that included the Heartland Institute and «experts from the energy industry» who worked together to «promote and market» anti-wind power views, as well as recruit witnesses and review testimony for public hearings on energy issues.

On the other hand, Steve McIntyre is to be applauded to have made the hockey - stick result an issue in the public debate; without his efforts, we guess, there would have been not Barton letters, thus no inquiry by the National Research Council and subsequently no hearing in a subcommittee of the House.

On the day of the hearing, Rep. Markey issued a press release and sent a public letter to the Department of Interior's Office of Surface Mining (OSM) calling out the agency for its inadequate and out - of - date water protections and regulations from surface mining impacts, especially in the face of such damning health studies.

The way in which the Trial Chamber reacted to Alternate Judge Sow's decision to make a public statement on the Taylor Trial; the exclusion of his statement from the official transcript of the hearing; and the recent information suggesting irregularities in the process which the SCSL judges invoked to discipline their judicial colleague for alleged misconduct all underscore the need for greater transparency on this issue than we have so far received from the SCSL.

15 months after its creation by the Quebec government, and after extensive public hearings in all regions of the province on the issue of how far society should go to accommodate requests for religious and cultural adjustments from individuals from minority groups, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences finally released its report and recommendations.

Challenges are often legal in nature — piercing the corporate veil, a statute of limitations, conflict of laws, finding a forum in which to be heard — but increasingly public governance issues and lack of robust regulatory oversight are also on the playing field.

«To assist nearest relatives and other interested parties and to provide clarity on the purpose and scope of an FAI, COPFS requires to set out, in an understandable format, the circumstances of the death and the issues that require to be further explored in the public interest at the FAI, prior to the first court hearing.»

Justice Brown exercised his discretion to hear the appeal because: (i) the parties argued with vigour (as if the matter was not moot); (ii) the issue might not otherwise arrive at the Court of Appeal due to the costly three - stage appeal process and there was a strong public interest in resolving this legal issue; and (iii) the court was not deciding an abstract question (thus intruding into the legislative sphere) but was resolving an issue based on a complete record.

(h) Following the hearing the KRG produced copies of extracts from a textbook — Al Waseet on Public International Law — which, it was said, was used in teaching law students at the leading law school in Dubai to show that the concept would be known to UAE lawyers, a point not in issue.

Firstly, the Supreme Court heard the appeal by the Public Law Project in the residence test case and unanimously ruled against the government on the issue of whether the proposed residence test was ultra vires the enabling statute.

They also hosted a seminar on acid rain and issued publications on air pollution, water pollution, and public participation in the hearing process.

In his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on «Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017», ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage is to avoid harming injured workerIn his July 19 presentation to the Niagara public hearing on «Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017», ONIWG president Will Noiles addresses the issue of why the WSIB policy of deeming must be changed if the increase in minimum wage is to avoid harming injured workerin minimum wage is to avoid harming injured workers.