Sentences with phrase «serve our citizens more»

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The more progressive line argues, as Wolman does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

By 1997, he expects that more than 100,000 citizens will be serving their country, receiving education and training benefits in return, and hundreds of thousands more will be doing vital community work, able now to afford the time for such satisfactions because the need to repay their college loans will no longer «block their way.»

Public water supplies have been examined, these include four thousand suppliers whose water serves more than ten thousand US citizens.

That college trustees, themselves some of our more prominent citizens, may begin acting more like stewards of the institution they serve — yea, even as student advocates!

Metzger is also the director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

The EFCC had commenced investigating Azibaola last year sequel to a list sent to the commission by a committee set up by the Federal Government to probe contracts awarded by the ONSA from 2011 to 2015 which indicted more than 300 companies and prominent citizens, including serving and retired officers of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

The candidate is perhaps best - known regionally as the founder / director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

Next week, Chicago voters will exercise their distinctive brand of school democracy by choosing more than 5,000 fellow citizens to serve on panels that wield potent influence over their neighborhood schools.

Opened in 2010, we serve more than 670 scholars in Kindergarten - Eighth Grade through the pursuit of 21st century learning, project based & service learning, and traditional coursework strategies, students will be prepared to succeed in academically competitive schools as well as become responsible citizens of the global community.

Indeed, you seem to imply that citizens are best served when government takes more money out of the pockets of employers.

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is one of America's leading urban public libraries, serving a community of more than one million citizens in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

These community professionals, business officials, public policy leaders, and leading citizens offer their time and talent to serve on the governing boards of this century's most innovative higher education institutions - community, junior, and technical colleges - and make decisions that affect more than 1,200 colleges and over 11 million students annually.

Citizens for Public Schools believes that allowing or promoting more charter schools in Massachusetts would drain desperately needed resources from traditional public schools, which continue to serve our neediest students and families.

Limit laws can drive a wedge between animal control agencies and many of the citizens they serve who responsibly keep more than the allowed number of pets.

Senate Resolution 144 introduced by Senator Thom Tillis and House Concurrent Resolution 46, introduced by Congressmen Ted Yoho, Kurt Schrader and Ralph Abraham highlight the role that purebred dogs and breeders of purebred dogs have played in the history of the United States as well as the numerous ways purebred dogs have served U.S. citizens as search and rescue dogs, guide and service dogs, military working dogs and more, all while providing one - of - a-kind companionship.The designation of National Purebred Dog Day was created by Colorado resident and Puli fancier Suzi Szeremy to recognize the heritage and diversity of purebred dogs and to highlight and celebrate all the ways purebred dogs better our lives.

«Our aim is no longer to serve as a simple pound for municipalities but to work with them to ensure citizens are educated and encouraged in responsible pet ownership as well as to implement more humane animal services» states Alanna Devine.

She was also instrumental in getting farmers, restaurant owners, farmers markets, consumers and citizens together to talk about and take action around creating more local, sustainable food options in Jefferson County during a Menu for the Future community organizing push a few years ago, which served as an example for other groups in the US, with Cleveland, Ohio and Vermont replicating her efforts.

In fact, the group serves as little more than a mouthpiece for Big Carbon and the modern Republican Party which, largely thanks to Citizens United in 2010, now eschews the use of actual science in the public sphere.

As Justice Brandeis explained more than 70 years ago, «it is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.»»

Next week: Subsistence hunters serving as «citizen scientists» help Brinkman's team by providing detailed observations about climate change - driven changes in their areas that have made hunting, fishing and trapping more difficult.

Fear not: On the menu today at Legal Blog Watch is a more manageable serving of notable Citizens United news.

We conclude, as have many other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.

This exhaustive publication serves as a reference guide to the legal systems of more than 190 nations and helps give citizens and communities everywhere a direct voice in the development and administration of international law.

Attorney Jacqueline Scott has been serving the legal needs of Louisiana citizens for more than 27 years.

Long terms make more sense for young people in good health; senior citizens may be better served by short term policies.

National Council for Behavioral Health, State Associations of Addictions Services Presents the website of a membership organization of community behavioral / mental health and addiction treatment organizations consisting of more than 2,200 member organizations serving some of the United States» most vulnerable citizens — the more than 8 million adults and children living with mental illnesses and addictions.