Sentences with phrase «recent mayoral»

Since their inception Jungle Fire has played an impressive amount of club dates and festivals both domestic and abroad having shared the stage with Shuggi Otis, The Blackbyrds, Lee Fields, Charles Wright, The Budos Band and even performing for Los Angeles» recent mayoral inauguration.

While laced with humor — and even making associations with Dante de Blasio and New York's recent mayoral race — the cover warrants consideration in light of Mary Reid Kelley's WWI article.

One need only witness the behavior of the Chicago and New York City school boards before their recent mayoral takeovers — or the behavior of the Los Angeles and Dallas school boards today.

In article after article about a series of recent mayoral policy forums, not a single major outlet even mentioned the allegations, which many had predicted would be a death sentence for Liu's mayoral hopes — and even grounds for resignation.

In many major urban centres Labour thrives: witness the victory of Labour's Marvin Rees in Bristol's recent mayoral election.

While a casino could be a road to relieve the financial distress Mayor Sheehan has been speaking of, at a recent mayoral forum at Albany law School Sheehan said she feels Albany's development plan for downtown presents a much more attractive package than any casino.

But it was not only the speaker's role as Cruella de Quinn — enemy of our hoofed friends in Central Park and our furry friends in all five boroughs — that fueled the movement against her, unprecedented in recent mayoral campaign history.

Hawkins has always done better among upstate voters but the recent Mayoral campaign of de Blasio building on the Occupy movement's criticism of income inequality shows that his message has widespread support in New York City.

Also during the hearing, Erie County Legislator and recent mayoral candidate Betty Jean Grant openly called for the replacement of Commissioner Derenda, complaining he has failed to participate in community meetings while others from the department have been regular attendees.

The costs were a key issue candidates pledged to fix during the city's recent mayoral election.

At a recent mayoral debate, Councilor - At - Large Joe Nicoletti, who is running for mayor, boasted he and the council were able to make the bureau a reality.

Unlike Labour's recent mayoral contest which contained four big names, Zac always looked like a shoo - in against his relatively unknown rivals.

As he celebrated his victory of Toronto's recent mayoral election, a triumphant Rob Ford reiterated the catchphrases that gave him a decisive 47 % of the popular vote.

Not exact matches

Real boss Zinedine Zidane had lamented the club's failure to replace Alvaro Morata in the transfer market in recent weeks, but 20 - year - old Borja Mayoral proved Madrid's surprise hero at Anoeta to show he can supplement Real's number nine options.

While other measures lacked the same urgency or drama as mayoral control, which did not get done this session, lawmakers did approve scores of bills in recent days, like a provision that would make it easier for cancer patients to sue for malpractice, and a ban on e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants.

NYC Councilman James Gennaro, one of Council Speaker / mayoral contender Chris Quinn's most loyal allies and attack dogs, stepped forward to defend her against the most recent salvo from her rival, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Basio.

There was a bit of fraternal biffing during a recent Conservative mayoral candidate debate about who and what a «proper Tory» is.

None of Flanagan's colleagues in the Senate have come forward to publicly defend the bill in recent days, either, and Albany sources say the mayoral control battle has been a grudging one for some senators.

That was at the core of Republican mayoral candidate Michel Faulkner's pitch to the Queens Village Republican Club in a recent visit.

If the general election on June 8 can be considered British politics» «main event» for 2017, then the recent local council and mayoral elections on May 4 can be seen of something of a dress rehearsal.

Republican New York City mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis filed a public records request demanding the city release documents detailing the amount spent on de Blasio's out of state trips — including his recent visit to Germany to lead a G - 20 summit protest.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis brushed aside rival candidate Bo Dietl's recent complaints on not being granted a waiver allowing him to run in the Republican mayoral primary and his assertion that the New York State Republican chairman and New York County Republican chairwoman quashed his prospects in order to boost Malliotakis.

The Democratic mayoral candidate has snagged a number of endorsements from party leaders in recent weeks, including from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.), and New York State Senate Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins (D - Yonkers).

The recent death of Newburgh's Judy Kennedy left her mayoral seat to go one of two ways.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis has a generally positive view of Governor Andrew Cuomo, although she's dismissive of his recent attempt to distance himself from the MTA.

De Blasio had sought a permanent extension of mayoral control, but in recent weeks has settled for a three - year sunset as backed by Assembly Democrats.

The blog also highlights his recent deliberate distancing from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, despite previously highlighting associations with his campaign in order to win the mayoral selection.

Still left undone is an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, which Senate Republicans are linking to an expansion of charter schools — an approach Cuomo has spoken favorably of in recent days.

Nor in recent times has a major mayoral hopeful launched a candidacy so late in the campaign, with so many endorsements already decided.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

, an arrangement now subject to greater scrutiny thanks to last year's pay - to - play allegations against its former impresario and an Albany mayoral candidate's more recent campaign pledge.

Senate Republicans are scrapping to keep control of their slim majority in the face of investigations and illness and they have expressed a great hesitance to renew mayoral control under Bill de Blasio, New York's progressive mayor who worked to push the chamber into Democratic control in the recent election cycle.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Caught in the middle are a host of issues affecting 8.5 million residents of New York City such as mayoral control of schools, the expansion of charter schools and the most recent hot - button issue between the two men — the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

Recent months have been marked by friendly fire from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has challenged Mr. de Blasio at every turn — on mayoral control, on minimum wage proposals, on Ebola, on snowstorms.

As recent attention in the mayoral race narrowed to Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson tried to elbow his way into the mix.

Among his recent political appearances was a brief speech to kick - off a Reform Party mayoral candidate forum held last Tuesday.

New York City mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis filed a public records request on Wednesday demanding the city release documents detailing the amount spent on Mayor Bill de Blasio's out of state trips — including his recent visit to Germany to lead a G - 20 summit protest.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mayoral candidate Rachel Barnhart says the city's Board of Ethics will take up her complaint about a recent Uber job fair held at city hall.

Two recent surveys indicated former Rep. Anthony Weiner on top of the pack in the hunt for the Democratic mayoral nomination.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Calling it a «flawed test,» mayoral candidate Carolyn McLaughlin ripped a recent Spectrum News / Siena College poll that showed her lagging far behind her opponents in the Democratic primary.

A shambolic campaign in the Scottish parliamentary election of 2011 (which delivered just 0.35 % of the local vote) and his most recent foray into the 2016 London mayoral election (when he won 1.4 % of the vote) showed that without the right issues and electorate to exploit, his rhetoric could only get him so far.

CECs are the local representative bodies that help inform education policy decision making and have been highlighted during the «Mayoral Control Forums» held by Public Advocate Letitia James in recent weeks.

Dietl, distantly trailing Mayor de Blasio and his two fellow de Blasio challengers in recent public polls and experiencing a significant drop off from early fundraising success, is looking to the mayoral debate to recharge his campaign.

We've seen the trend toward strong mayoral control in many large cities in recent years, with Richmond, San Diego, Oakland and many others taking big...

The New York Times calls mayoral control «among the most successful contributions the Legislature has made to education in New York City in recent history,» and says it needs to be extended — or «ideally» made permanent — now, «while the budget pressure is on, and not put off for another day.»

Sarah Olney lost her Richmond Park constituency to Zac Goldsmith in the recent election — just six months after stole the seat from the former Tory London mayoral candidate.

(A recent survey from NY1 and Marist College puts him second to last among likely mayoral candidates, just ahead of Manhattan Media president Tom Allon, and 14 percentage points behind establishment favorite Christine Quinn.)

In another recent case, Sen. Malcolm Smith was accused of scheming with New York City Councilman Daniel Halloran, a Republican, to bribe county Republican leaders for the GOP line on this year's mayoral ballot.