Sentences with phrase «public officials turned»
Concerned public officials turned to the U.S. Geological Survey, which has studied the aquifer since the early 1900s.
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Park district officials have been gathering public input on the idea of turning Five Seasons into a community center since April, when they announced an opportunity to purchase the local health club and the 17 acres of land it stands on for about $ 20.3 million.
Highland Park municipal and Park District officials have reached a tentative agreement on an ambitious plan that could launch $ 8 million in public projects and turn future management of the Highland Park Country Club over to the Park District.
«Two: I have stated on record many times that public officials not publicly disclosing their declared assets turns the assets declaration exercise into a hollow ritual, most recently through an article I wrote as a columnist on the back - page of THISDAY on 7 September 2015, titled «Issues around Assets Declaration.»
If the main official national records that purport to offer an authoritative picture of the state of the public finances (for instance, PESA and the Local Government Financial Statistics) can not even be compared from year to year by experts, where should we turn?
FBI officals confim that former Senate Minority Leader John Sampson is un custody after turning himself into federal officials earlier this morning on public corruption charges.
«Publishing the names of public officials involved could go a long way in preventing senior public officials from turning the public treasury into a private cashbox.
Collins, in turn, said Cuomo is «bullying» elected state officials and hospitals to issue public statements criticizing the idea.
Although they haven't been anywhere near as public about it as their colleagues at CSEA, officials at the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, have also quietly turned off the campaign cash spigot and is reassessing its contribution habits for everyone from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on down following the passage of Tier VI.
Since Lopez has been unyielding in any regard after the Joint Commission on Public Ethics report was released this week detailing the disturbing allegations, expulsion truly seems like the only option for Albany officials who want to turn the page.
In a minute - and - half video, Goldberg touts the WFP as the «progressive party» that has helped elect officials who in turn have fought to pass measures such as paid sick leave, living wages and support for public transit.
* Cuomo administration officials turned to private emails to conduct official state business, making the communications all but impossible to obtain by the public through the Freedom of Information Law.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Justice has been served, but it's a sad day when an elected official entrusted with the public purse turns out to be a crook.
«Through their crimes, Dean and Adam Skelos have fed the public's worst fears and suspicions about their government: that our elected officials are not looking out for the public good, but instead looking out only for ways to turn the immense power entrusted in them into personal profit,» they said in court filings.
Mr. de Blasio, along with prominent administration and elected officials like Public Advocate Letitia James and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, took turns rejecting the entire premise of Comptroller Scott Stringer's analysis, which tarred the mayor's Department of Education for not submitting for review more than 70 percent of the city's contracts with pre-K providers.
«We need to hold our public officials more accountable and address these issues before they turn into dire problems,» Alan Ellerbe said.
We can't turn a blind eye to possible perjury by public officials.
US officials have sought to reassure the public that the government is taking swift measures to contain an influenza outbreak that threatens to turn into a pandemic.
The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter.
XPRIZE officials, for their part, said the competition has already succeeded in raising public awareness about the potential for turning emissions into economic goods.
Public health officials sprang into action and tested further samples from the area that triggered the system, but turned up negative results.
Within days of the accident in Tulare, federal, state and county public health officials turned to a new assessment tool in an effort to reduce chemical accidents.
States including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California have banned soda from school vending machines and cafeterias in recent years, and public officials are now turning their attention to sports drinks and other sugary beverages.
The media annually turn to PDK as the official source of data on how Americans view the voucher issue, and PDK provides the lower scores from its «at public expense» question.
The Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools turned to more frequent assessments in part because officials reportedly noted that in some schools minority students were scoring lower on standardized tests than non-minority students.
School officials and experts in Cleveland turned out to lack any serious commitment to community empowerment, behaving in ways that equated it more with public relations than with a genuine transformation of school governance.
In the end, school officials and experts in Cleveland turned out to lack any serious commitment to community empowerment; they behaved in ways that equated it with public relations or community outreach rather than a meaningful transformation of school governance.
And it has helped bring together city officials, higher education, school officials, community organizations, county public health, and philanthropy to turn around attendance in Oakland schools.
Government officials also say they have a responsibility to help turn around the nation's obesity epidemic, and that encouraging healthy eating at public schools is part of the solution.
Why would Malloy and Connecticut's elected officials turn their backs on their own students, parents, teachers and public schools?
In Massachusetts, a years - long battle over eliminating a cap on expanding public charter schools will become even more heated thanks to incoming Gov. Charlie Baker, who has signaled that he will support reformers on this issue through his appointment of former New Schools Venture Fund boss - turned - federal education official Jim Peyser as the state's new superintendent.
The question that arises over and over again is why Connecticut's elected and appointed public officials are engaged in their ongoing effort to undermine and privatize public education in Connecticut, denigrate teachers and turn our public schools into little more than taxpayer funded testing factories.
Officials say good progress was made during the first year of an initiative to turn around the struggling middle schools in the second largest public school system in Massachusetts.
In Santa Clara County, where the Silicon Valley tech boom has led to skyrocketing home prices, local officials want to turn a public parking lot into teacher housing.
A few days later the Dutch car magazine AutoWEEK also published new renders of a Lamborghini Cabrera... they even mentioned special VIP events, open on invitation only would be held as early as January 2014 with the actual, official public unveil at the 2014 Geneva Auto Show... all of which turned out to be true naturally.
Through demanding appropriate response by public officials, Mothers Against Drunk Driving has turned drunk driving into the most serious driving offense one can commit.
The veterinarian will, in turn, communicate with public health officials to determine how the dog should be handled.
Each blind eye turned and each handshake extended to the killers at PETA strengthens PETA's ability to not only continue harming animals with impunity, but to use their increasing influence, power, and wealth to undermine the efforts of those laboring to protect the lives of community cats, pit bull dogs, and shelter animals whose killing PETA publicly champions to the American public and our elected officials.
Currently representing Hong Kong in an official collateral event of the 57th Venice Biennale, Samson Young will develop a one - time sound performance in collaboration with jazz singer Michael Schiefel at Tropez, a public - pool - turned - pop - up - gallery in Humboldthain.
For years, there's been a building drumbeat of criticism of the media for failing to tell the climate story «right,» and thus perpetuating public disengagement and, in turn, allowing elected officials to relax and avoid pushing for meaningful actions to blunt greenhouse emissions.
The situation doesn't appear to something that would be likely to have happened that way, much like the second half of the situation in the above - mentioned Gelbspan timeline situation, where he (as a private citizen whose only public appearance at that time in the matter was a solitary article he co-authored which briefly turned him into a skeptic) claimed an Assistant Attorney General allowed him to influence an official hearing in a major way.
Last December about 100 Morro Bay residents turned out for a public forum and grilled Trident Wind officials.
The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter.
According to Civil Eats, 500 ranchers, farmers, workers, and concerned consumers turned out for the public forum and an estimated 2,000 people in the audience the next day for the official hearing.
From start to finish, the vast majority of lawyers, judges, other public officials, and members of the general public doing case law research turn to electronic sources.
Such elegant phrases as «expenses necessarily incurred and defrayed from official emoluments» have been turned into themore prosaic «fixed sum deductions from earnings payable out of public revenue».
With this data publicly released, anyone could make a more sophisticated tool that searched plates near public officials» homes, or that showed associative relationships, or how often certain plates turned up near sex toy shops, marijuana dispensaries, or other locations that, while legal, might be embarrassing.
For instance, the powerful combination of its «public platform» — a feature currently being tested by rival Sina Weibo — and official accounts turns WeChat into a superb marketing channel to reach out and target customers.