Sentences with phrase «renewed calls for reforms»

Already, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others have renewed calls for reforms in the wake of the convictions of two men who were once among the most powerful in the state.

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The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «global political authority.»

There are calls for labour market reform, for lower labour costs (ie lower wages), for «renewed efforts» to get school leavers into training, for better use of an existing EU jobs website to «facilitate the cross-border placement of young people».

«The Governor and key legislators have set a positive tone for 2014 but there are also renewed calls for increased state spending, new taxes and new employer mandates,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «We believe it is important for New York to maintain its focus on state spending restraint and broad - based reforms.»

In a radio interview this week, Gov. Cuomo renewed the call for statewide campaign finance reform, decrying the corrosive effect that super PACs and high contribution limits continue to have on electoral politics in Albany.

Good government groups used the occasion of Silver's sentencing to renew their calls for comprehensive ethics reform, including limits on lawmakers» outside income and a comprehensive overhaul of the operation of the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The scandal, alongside the arrest of Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, has renewed a semi-annual call for ethics reform in Albany.

Meanwhile, Cuomo ended his three - day State of the State tour Wednesday with a speech in Albany that featured a renewed call for ethics reform and a proposal designed to cap the sky - high prices of prescription drugs in New York.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

The Governor also renewed his call for all Californians to conserve water, laid out the key elements of the state's long - term water plan and noted the work ahead to fight climate change and build on historic reforms to the state's school funding and criminal justice systems.

By calling on Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months ahead.

They are also likely to renew calls for comprehensive ethics reform in Albany — a goal that has eluded Cuomo and lawmakers despite a seemingly unprecedented period of exposed public corruption, including the arrests of two legislative leaders in 2015.

Nine major civil rights organizations today called on Congress to make reforming America's high schools and improving graduation rates for minority students the most urgent priority as it moves forward on renewing the No Child Left Behind Act.

The experiences of educators such as Rabe, and many others who put Turning Points into practice, provide what authors Jackson and Davis call the «muscle, heart, and soul» to the renewed push for middle grades reform.

A recent article by Chicago Teachers Union staff coordinator and activist Jackson Potter inspired me to renew my call for the use of boycotts to fight corporate school reform.

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D - VT) is calling for a renewed push for patent reform, in the wake of the FTC's settlement with MPHJ and its law firm Farney Daniels P.C. over allegations they «used deceptive sales claims and phony legal tactics in demand letters accusing thousands of businesses of patent infringement.»