Sentences with phrase «small city governments»

They sued small city governments for using bus tracking software.

Three years ago this month I quit my decade - long gig with a small city government and headed back to my undergrad alma mater, this time as a law student.

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The UK capital hopes to lure talent with its East London «Silicon Roundabout,» (OK, a «roundabout» sounds a bit dinky compared to a whole «valley,» but the area boasts a new Google - sponsored space for start - ups as well as 300 innovative companies) as well as measures to boost the city's start - up scene, including # 75 million in funding for high - tech small and medium businesses from the government's new Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth and the Digital London summit showcasing local tech talent that's due to be held March 13 to 14.

A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

Not only did an entire delegation from the Turkish government, including high - profile diplomats, travel to the U.S. Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week event in Washington, D.C., last year; tech giant Dell chose to host its Women's Entrepreneur Network event in the nation's most populous city, Istanbul, this month.

Secondly, we would welcome invitations to speak to local groups, including economic development organizations, community bankers, and city government, about our bill and how it will help Massachusetts communities and small banks.

In contrast, Public Banks empower small businesses, students, homeowners, city and state governments, and community banks to prosper and thrive by banking for the common good over the long term, and making low - cost credit available where it is needed in the real economy.

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Howard Bancorp Inc. in Ellicott City last year repaid its $ 5.98 million in TARP money with about half of the $ 12.5 million it received by switching to another government program, the Small Business Lending Fund.

Introduce your gutter cleaning services company by sending introductory letters alongside your brochure to households, residential estates, industrial estates, local government councils, corporate organizations, small scale businesses, medium scale businesses and other key stakeholders throughout the city where your gutter cleaning services company is located

Such gaps tend to narrow for a number of reasons, including higher marginal productivity on cheaper labor and land costs in lower - tier cities, better economic integration with government - led redistribution of infrastructure and public resources from regional hubs to small neighbor cities, and broader penetration of technology, including smartphones and the internet, according to the Morgan Stanley research.

Local government elections don't have any direct impact on each other and there is no consensus way to quantify the fact that an election in a small city, or a city with more seats on its council, may be less important than in a major city, or a seat with fewer seats on its council.

«New Yorkers have a City government that simply runs better, in no small part due to the programs and initiatives Jeff has developed and led.

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Once rediustricting takes place, we in New York City will be more than happy to give Republican upstate New York the cut in services that will guarantee it the small government that thgey crave.

City Comptroller John Liu, also a mayoral candidate, said a lot of rhetoric is given to the idea that small businesses are the backbone of the city but there is a lot more that government can do to help such as tax breaks and reducing harsh enforcement measures and fiCity Comptroller John Liu, also a mayoral candidate, said a lot of rhetoric is given to the idea that small businesses are the backbone of the city but there is a lot more that government can do to help such as tax breaks and reducing harsh enforcement measures and ficity but there is a lot more that government can do to help such as tax breaks and reducing harsh enforcement measures and fines.

A small city could never expect to become something akin to a mini-state - but if its businesses, civil society and the university were to unite in requesting specific powers, a government accepting «democracy on demand» would be bound to consider granting them.

«I think that when you look around today and see many shared concerns and challenges left unaddressed, it makes you consider the role you have in fixing things in government, be it appointed or elected, city or state, big or small.»

Syracuse, NY - In a State of the City Address that included the word «crisis» at least six times, Mayor Stephanie Miner laid out her vision tonight for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective during her second year in offCity Address that included the word «crisis» at least six times, Mayor Stephanie Miner laid out her vision tonight for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective during her second year in offcity government smaller, smarter and more effective during her second year in office.

They would like the state to adopt New York City's system of government funded matching grants for candidates, who collect small donations for individual donors.

«If you talk to small businesses in the city of New York, they'll tell you that government works against them, that government slows them down, that government in fines and fees and penalties and taxes work against them.

City governments — especially those in Europe — must lead the global fight against anti-Semitism by banishing indifference and denouncing acts of hatred however small, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a speech Sunday at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

After three terms of Bloomberg autocracy, he's bringing small - d democracy back to city government.

But, state aid to municipalities outside New York City would not increase at a time when many counties and smaller local governments are dealing with rising costs and falling tax bases and worry about insolvency.

City governments — especially those in Europe — must lead the global fight against anti-Semitism by banishing indifference and denouncing acts of hatred however small, de Blasio said in a speech today at the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

Comptroller Scott Stringer says his office is making plans to cut red tape for small business seeking approval from city government.

Welcome to Trenton, N.J. And Harrisburg, Pa., and Tallahassee, Fla. — all of them small cities in heavily populated states living with the blended problems and positives of serving as the seat of state government.

This borough's 16,429 small businesses employ 66,300 New Yorkers, but as my Red Tape Commission found, too often government has been a barrier to success, rather than a partner in growth,» New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer said.

Mr. de Blasio, looking confident between indecipherable small talk and endless photos — chugging a can of Limoncello to keep fresh in his dark suit and red tie — was feted as the sudden hero of progressives and good - government advocates across the city.

To be clear, the Northern Powerhouse should not be the sum total of Government interventions in the North of England; but nor should we stretch the concept to include everyone — urban and rural, small towns and big cities.

Public records indicate that legal maneuvers by Small's law firm facilitated nearly $ 700,000 in anonymous lobbying spending for Pledge 2 Protect, a nonprofit founded in 2013 to fight the city government's plan to build a marine waste transfer station on the Upper East Side that would haul away garbage by barge.

«Adriano has been an outspoken voice in the fight to reform government, improve our city's schools, protect our environment and revitalize our small businesses,» Bloomberg went on to say in the statement.

Like the Citizens Union, I've come to value government accountability, transparency, and citizen participation during my 20 years of non-profit and small business work, and I look forward to working with them to uphold those values on the City Council.»

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign finance system.

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Dick Dadey, executive director of the government watchdog group Citizens Union, said «this is more of a perception problem than a conflict problem,» adding Wolfson owns «too small» of a sum in Forest City Enterprises stock to think there's a conflict or his judgement could be impaired.

Miner laid out her vision for making city government smaller, smarter and more effective in her second State of the City address, delivered Thursday night at the Everson Museum in Syraccity government smaller, smarter and more effective in her second State of the City address, delivered Thursday night at the Everson Museum in SyracCity address, delivered Thursday night at the Everson Museum in Syracuse.

To date, the government has ordered some 1.2 million people in two cities and 116 towns clustered on the banks of the Yangtze to be evacuated to other areas before construction, promising them plots of land and small stipends — in some cases as little as 50 yuan, or $ 7 a month — as compensation.

She and a colleague at the NRDC wrote a book, Respirable Particles, in 1979, which warned that the government's air pollution standards for American cities and industries were failing to curb the very smallest particles.

Dear Rena, small and big cities have put a lot of speed - control - systems in Italy (small orange towers along the roads) in order to get money from fees that they don't receive any more from the central government.

On St. Petersburg's main retail boulevard, Nevsky Prospect, the city government recently rented a space for 35 small - scale designers in a central shopping centre.

Overall, the top cities for black - owned small businesses are We also looked at the friendlier cities for black - business owners - these are cities where Black business owners rated their governments significantly better than business owners of other races Jan 4, 2017.

Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a man from a small European country whose government happens to get overthrown while he is in transit to New York City.

He successfully protected small businesses from city zoning and big government regulation in the courtroom.

Government is Paterson's single largest employer, followed by healthcare and the textile industry that still exists in Paterson, but there are many private companies and smaller industries that keep the city running and contribute to its low unemployment rate.

Government: Pierre is a small Midwestern city of about 14,000.

In 1850, the very first document was signed and sent to Belize City by residents of the island asking that Cristiano Novelo (great great... uncle of Mito Paz) be named head of the alcalde — the government system used for small villages.

In 1970 the capital was officially moved to Belmopan so this small city is where you'll find the embassies as well as the government offices.

As a small town, it was believable that Raccoon City's police department would be overwhelmed by a biological threat until the government...

Recent projects have included Kala's ongoing Milvia / Addison windows display in downtown Berkeley, small exhibitions in city government offices, and a large group exhibition of prints and paintings presented at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, an academic think tank on the UC Berkeley campus.