Sentences with phrase «public hearings this week»

State officials are holding a public hearing this week to discuss plans for replacing 115 - year - old bridges linking the mainland to islands near the brink of Niagara Falls.

ALBANY - Officials with the state Department of Environmental Conservation will host three legislative public hearings this week regarding a proposed natural gas pipeline that will run through nearby Erie and Cattaraugus Counties.

But Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is so anxious for the package to move forward, he scheduled public hearings this week so the full Assembly could take it up on Feb. 11.

Rep. Bryan worked on his legislation with various stakeholders behind closed doors, producing 40 + versions of the proposal before it would have made it to a public hearing this week.

Despite a long history of blatant environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, Shell denied in a Dutch public hearing this week allegations of using «nontransparent, inconsistent and misleading figures» regarding the causes of oil

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The survey, which polled 1,002 U.S. adults, also highlighted the fact that the DOJ and Apple legal battle has become a hot topic in the public sphere, with 75 % of respondents saying they have heard a lot about it since the news came out last week.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearances this week at congressional hearings delving into the Cambridge Analytica data scandal mark a crucial moment for the company, its users, and the broader public — and it's important that members of Congress use it wisely.

THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will next week hold public hearings in Perth and Albany as part of its national inquiry to determine whether there is a need for retail price control arrangements to continue to apply to Telstra after Ju

A UK parliamentary committee has published a cache of documents provided to it by an ex CA employee, Chris Wylie, who gave public testimony in front of the committee at an oral hearing earlier this week.

Commonwealth Bank's provision of the products will be examined in detail by the Hayne royal commission as early as next week at public hearings which begin in Melbourne on Tuesday, March 13.

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.

Eric Janszen, Interview with Dr. Michael Hudson 6 November, 2010 Janszen (E): What I'm noting, starting with the gold crisis over the last few weeks, and the public nature of some of the complaints that we're hearing out of Brazil and China and the front page of the Financial Times, we seem to be heading into a pretty serious currency crisis.

Senator John Thune of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said a decision on public hearings would be made after the Facebook briefings this week.

Nava called, and a Public Safety officer came, took a brief statement, and collected the threatening note, but Nava didn't hear back from them for several weeks, and when he did he informed them about a third threatening note he had just received the previous day.

His alleged victims testified in the first two weeks of the preliminary hearing via a video link from a remote location to a room closed to the media and public.

Public hearings are taking place this week examining how the Church of England handled allegations of sexual misconduct stretching back to the 1950s, first focusing on the Diocese of Chichester.

Despite the restriction, the inquiry heard Cotton took five public services between 2001 and 2003, four of which were in one week for Pritchard - who was handed his second jail sentence last month.

After hearing both sides or all sides (grandparents and the public school teacher occasionally appear, too), the director and audience offer a number of suggestions to try during the forthcoming week.

Public hearings are taking place this week to examine how the religious order handled paedophilia allegations stretching back to the 1950s, first focusing on Chichester.

Not a week goes by in sports without the public hearing on ESPN about a profes - sional athlete who undergoes micro-fracture surgery.

The village will express its opposition again next week when the Park District presents its proposal during a public hearing before the County Board's Planning and Zoning Committee.

Homeowners in the vicinity of the former school land complained bitterly last week at a public hearing on the proposed annexation of the land.

Consultant Drew Petterson spoke about the issue to about 30 residents, mostly recreational - vehicle owners, at a public hearing last week.

The proposal will be revised during a series of hearings and meetings, Phelps told worried residents last week at the first public session.

Glen Ellyn: — Last week, when Joe Graves, a leader of a group of village residents opposed to the park district's proposed public - private fitness center, stood up at a public hearing to list his complaints, he paused for a moment.

Commissioners voted last week not to build the facility on top of the city's central reservoir on Myrtle Avenue at the Union Pacific railroad line after residents and Union Pacific officials testified at a public hearing that the site would be unsafe.

Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University and author of «What To Eat,» was pleasantly surprised this week to hear that Mrs. Q had stuck with her school lunch blog.

Many residents, unaware that the district was focusing on Centennial Beach, blasted Park District officials about the timing of the public hearing, one week before the Park Board is scheduled to vote on the location of the skate park.

During last week's Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, Cindy Jones of Olathe Public Schools, KS testified that her district's meal program (among the 95 % of certified schools) is running a deficit and experiencing declining participation under the rules.

After failing in their effort two weeks ago to force the Senate Republicans to hold a public hearing on a package of ethics reform bills, the Senate Democrats are taking matters into their own hands.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie promised public hearings within two weeks to select an attorney general to replace Schneiderman, who resigned in disgrace Monday night.

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committees on Investigations and Government Operations, on Energy and Telecommunications, and on Aging hold a joint public hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

Last week, the New York State Assembly Higher Education committee held a public hearing to review the performance of the new Excelsior Scholarship program.

Some have called for a public hearing on water quality in recent weeks, including Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin.

Over the past week I've heard the following arguments - they want to lift the poor out of tax, actually the main beneficiaries of this policy won't be the poor because they don't pay tax, but will instead be the middle class, anyway, on a point of principle we need to simplify the tax system, and we need to cut public services by # 80 billion per year, or maybe we don't.

Tens of billions of dollars are spent to meet those demands and this week the governor's health budget proposal was the subject of a legislative public hearing.

Democrats, already fearful of getting throttled at the polls in November, are dreading a public airing of Rangel's ethical misdeeds at a hearing before the ethics panel's adjudicatory subcommittee — just weeks before the elections.

The town board last week unanimously set a Jan. 10 public hearing for the proposal, which would have given residents who bought the premium permit guaranteed parking near the entrances of the Bethpage, Hicksville, Massapequa and Syosset LIRR stations.

Director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion Lee Miringoff chats with Alan Chartock on this week's The Capitol Connection Program, which you can hear Friday night at 10:30, Saturday at 1 or anytime at wamc.org.

The Town Board will now review the supervisor's budget plan in the coming weeks and hold a public hearing on the proposal later this fall.

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

Following two public hearings, where a total of eight people raised their objections, the plan was approved by the full Board again a week later, but on a partisan 12 - 5 vote.

«County executives are going to have meetings and they're going to be open to the public and you'll hear the dialogue,» Cuomo said in Syracuse last week.

She gave the sides an ultimatum: If they don't reach a resolution within two weeks, the Council will hold hearings, requesting both sides face the public to explain why they have blacked out the games.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> A measure that would make it illegal for people under the age of 18 to possess tobacco products in Ulster County took a step forward this week when two key legislative committees approved a resolution setting a public hearing on the proposal.

You've got to feel just a bit sorry for the members of County Legislator Ed Romaine's tick task force, which held its first local public hearing in Peconic last week.

In the past week, some state lawmakers, including Marchione and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, have called for legislative hearings to determine whether health agencies acted swiftly enough in notifying the public about the potential dangers of consuming the contaminated water.

The NYPD presented its application last week at the Borough President's Land Use Public Hearing at Borough Hall.

Assemblyman Dan Losquadro doesn't want to see Southold and Shelter Island towns removed from his Assembly district and he's taking the fight against North Fork redistricting to a public hearing next week.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL No public comments on budget at this week's NRCSD Meeting The North Rockland Central School district met on Tuesday evening at North Rockland High School to honor several students who had won essay contests, and hold a public hearing on the 2012 — 2013 budget.