Sentences with phrase «slashed funding for the city»

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Mayor Bloomberg is continuing his «catch more flies with honey» approach to fighting for the Obama administration to restore cuts to NYC's anti-terrorism funding, even as fellow New York elected officials on both sides of the aisle are being sharply — and very publicly — critical of the decision to slash the city's cash.

Executive Director Katelyn Wright says the land bank is bearing fruit, but looking forward, finds itself in a bind after city lawmakers slashed $ 1.5 million in funding for the land bank out of this year's city budget.

But he lashed out at the governor's proposal to slash funding for state programs aimed at helping struggling families remain in their apartments, a paring back that would apply only to New York City.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

CITY HALL — Mayor Michael Bloomberg held firm on his pledge to eliminate more than 6,000 city teaching jobs and slash social service funding for the coming fiscal year.

Monserrate was booted from the state Senate after he was charged with slashing his girlfriend's face and then spent time in prison for misspending city funds while previously a councilman.