Sentences with phrase «public hearings so»

More than 10,000 people have attended public hearings so far, on top of the more than 120,000 comments submitted calling for extensive environmental review of these projects.
And I just can't understand why the state board did not require public hearings so everyone in the community... Read More
And I just can't understand why the state board did not require public hearings so everyone in the community can be informed about the choices available.
In December, Horgan and environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert sent a letter to the energy minister asking to have the independent oversight roles of the BCUC and the Agricultural Land Commission reinstated, and to expand public hearings so that the majority of British Columbians are able to participate.
There are other reasons, too, why the public hears so little in detail from those scientists who approach climate change issues rationally, the so - called climate sceptics.

Not exact matches

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has also requested Zuckerberg's testimony, while the Senate Judiciary Committee has been mulling doing so since two senators asked its chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, to bring the billionaire in for a public hearing.
And so I believe we need to hold a public hearing with Flynn to get to the bottom of this,» Cummings said.
Some people might be surprised to hear you speak so passionately about entrepreneurship, considering that both Built to Last and Good to Great focused on giant public companies.
«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.
Yup, perhaps it's not «public economists» who find a ready hearing so much as «creditable people who advocate cutting corporate taxes and restraining minimum wages.»
This misjudgment (perhaps initially due to management downplaying the incidents) could explain why the board got engaged so late in the process, and why they did not impose penalties on executives until after the first scathing Congressional hearing and weeks of public outcry.
The hearings themselves may also be open to the public, provided that the government whose decisions are being challenged «determines that it is in the public interest to do so
God responds by saying, «Moses, I will come to you in a thick cloud in public view, so that the people may hear when I speak with you, so that they will trust you forever.
So far, India's government has offered mixed reactions to Compassion's public hearings with the Congressional committee.
I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.
By late 1997, public discourse about the Net was so deeply anchored in Gutenbergian mythology that skeptics of the digital revolution were sometimes dismissed without a reasonable hearing.
So here it goes: In contemporary usage I hear «kingdom» used for two primary dimensions — for public sector social justice activism (I call this «skinny jeans» because a pastor told me a story about his social justice associates who wore skinny jeans) and for seeing kingdom as God's redemptive power unleashed wherever that power is unleashed (again, I call this pleated pants kingdom because of the same story).
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..
I was forced to do so by the bravado and arrogance of the imagined title «public reader of all Holy Scripture in Leipzig», a title never heard of.
If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again
So, having thoroughly proved his fitness, form and desire to stay, he would naturally expect an honourable and sane man to keep his word and open talks with him just as his (Wengers) public statements said, which we all heard, in December.
You may have heard that Toro Rosso were involved in an ever - so - slightly bigger incident which involved airing their dirty laundry with Renault in public.
We need a secret handshake or something, so let's talk a little bit about our experiences and some of the experiences we've heard about for moms that have been nursing in public.
said he was not surprised to hear nachos were so popular in Chicago Public Schools but was adamant that change is needed.
I used to be a Master level public school teacher, and have heard this debate so many times.
So far, more than 1,200 signatures have been sent over to the DuPage County Zoning Board of Appeals whose members will meet Thursday to continue the public hearing on the issue.
Now I hear of women in the public system being given so much more information, options, assistance and choices than I ever was.
There's so many people out there that haven't ever heard of this, or ever experienced it or even knew someone that has gone through this so this is what's so important about educating the public and future moms about how important breastfeeding is and it can be done, it's not impossible as you both know.
Every time I hear about another case of a woman breastfeeding her baby in a restaurant, department store or on a plane who is asked to cover up, head to the bathroom or leave altogether, I wonder why in 2014 we remain so incredibly uncomfortable with breastfeeding in public.
This is shocking, and goes against all the rhetoric that we hear so often about the need for more women in public life.
THE MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE JUNE 6 2018 AT 14317 WEST BARRE ROAD ALBION N.Y. 14411 PLEASE CALL THE THE TOWN OF BARRE N.Y. TOWN HALL AT 585-589-4666 AND PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LIST TWO DAYS BEFORE THE PUBLIC MEETING SO WE THE RESIDENTS OF ORLEANS COUNTY AND THE TOWN OF BARRE N.Y. 14411 CAN HAVE ALL OF OUR VOICES HEARD AND TELL THEM TO STAND UP FOR THE HEALTH OF THE RESIDENTS AND NOT THE MONEY OF APEX WIND TURBINE COMPANY.
Mr. Krupski and Ms. Fleming asked that the public hearing, which lasted more than two hours, go into recess so the Legislature could consider the speakers» statements.
Sheehan said the so - called «E23 project» was, in the developers opinion, not financially viable, and the developer is looking at Rensselaer - where will be a town board public hearing at Genet Elementary School at 7 p.m. and public comment will be heard regarding the proposed «East Greenbush Casino» that has the backing of Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
City Hall has so far been unresponsive to requests to testify at a public hearing or meet on the issue, Flanagan said.
The thing is: What you hear from the media, what's really happening out there, and how the public reacts to it, is so different we can't really imagine.
«I'm appealing to you Mr President, there are so many things people are not telling you; when I get to that public hearing I will tell you some things that nobody ever told you Mr President because I never had the opportunity to sit down with you.»
Ms. Cumbo told Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, at a hearing of the council's public housing committee that residents in her district are perplexed that so many non-English speaking immigrants are moving into certain developments.
«We strongly urge you to hold a new public hearing on Success Academy's application to open a new charter school in School District 1, so that the residents of that district have an opportunity to provide their input on the revised application,» said local leaders in a Nov. 13 letter to Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
The relocation was considered a «non-material charter revision» and did not require Success Academy to resubmit an application, so another public hearing in District 1 was not required, Barker Miller said in her letter to Fariña.
Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.
Thank you, I have made out a public records request into Yonkers and so will wait to hear back on the tickets.
«If you read Section 3 of the Criminal Offences Act, the definition of a public officer includes a potential public officer, so when the President nominated me and announced it to the whole world, I became a potential public officer, recognized under the Criminal code as a public officer, so as far as I am concerned, since that day, I am neutral, and that is why you have not heard my voice over the air saying anything because I am coming to an office which has to be neutral and impartial.
He's made passing references to «wealthy donors» three times in his past five addresses, but goes all - in with that line of reasoning this time around: we have contribution limits to make sure elections «are not captured by wealthy public interests,» he says; «wealthy individuals and corporations are able to use Limited Liability Companies» to avoid these limits, so reform is needed «to even the playing field so that rich and poor New Yorkers alike have their voices heard
And it did so without notifying the public of its consideration of Entergy's application, or permitting the public to comment, or participate, or attend a public hearing.
It is always dangerous dealing with people who may be intelligent without depth, shrewd without vision, jocular without humour.People whose friends don't like him and courageously describe them as cold and pompous.We heard Kennedy Agyepong openly insult every soul in the Npp including the flagbearer, we heard him call on Akans to wipe off Gas and Ewes from Ghana and heard Osafo Marfo one personality I hitherto admired so much, declare citizens from some particular regions unfit to occupy the executive seat.Nana did not find these inhuman and obnoxious outbursts as insulting, didn't find it expedient bringing these henchmen to order.We heard Ursula who is a spiritual confidant of Nana painfully say on public platform that had it not been free education, many of our northern appointees would have been managers of cows not human beings.This was how far people who are very close to him went.Antwi another close associate courageously referred to Fantes as «fickle minded» fit only for concert shows.
If you want to influence the boundary review process (and happen to have an advanced degree in psephology) there are a series of public hearings you're free attend, but with the Boundary Commission themselves having so little freedom to manoeuvre, its unclear if voters - without the time, resources and expertise - can generate a workable alternative.
So it is odd to hear someone as canny and careful as David Greenfield break the façade and reference the Speaker's race on the public record, 19 months ahead of time, with the two leading candidates for the job (Johnson and Ferreras - Copeland) sitting right there.
So I don't want to hear anything about bullying from the benches opposite, the public can draw its own conclusions.»
«To be clear, we all want comprehensive campaign finance reform with public financing at the core and we feel public financing is the real game changer, but we're hearing a lot of myths around public financing in particular and trying to connect that to corruption in a bad way as opposed it to being a solution so we wanted to focus on that today,» he said.
Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command ASP Ebenezer Tetteh said: «Last night at about 6.45 pm, we heard sporadic gunshots in town, so our men had to be moved in quickly.
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