Sentences with phrase «to run the city»

The real problem is that the politicians who run this city want to turn it into a theme park.

Sure, you could always gift money to your cities, but when you're running another city in your region, your other cities don't exactly raise money per hour.

«I've developed a work ethic that's necessary to run a city with an $ 85 billion budget,» he said.

You can't run a city where the only people the city cares about educating is the bottom ten percent.

She now runs the city's largest business improvement district.

Can't have a White guy running our city.

Better still is the fact that it has been designed to be handed off to the next person in line, just like any well - run city services department.

The comptroller's findings come amid reports that protecting the president - elect, his family and his properties runs the city more than $ 1 million a day.

It is extremely important to have a chief executive running our city who is clearly committed to helping all children achieve in school and reach for a higher standard of living.

Her mother was a teacher, and her father ran city parks.

The four officials charged include two former state - appointed emergency managers who ran the city and two city employees: a public works superintendent and a utilities manager.

«I thought to myself, who would want to be in charge of running the city of New York,» Rendino said.

It replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

The law provides more than $ 10 million in funding to Animal Care and Control, the nonprofit group which runs the city's animal shelters.

It's a reach at best shown as we are the anarchy that reigned then and for decades to come with Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall running the city as a fiefdom for the robber barons at the top of New York society.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

On the other hand, if Lhota ended up winning City Hall, Cuomo would have a trusted ally running city government in 2014 as he was gearing up his own possible campaign for the White House in 2016.

Burnaby has pushed to be a better city for its citizens and it has been recognized in the past for its initiatives with awards even the Best Run City in Canada, as named by Maclean's Magazine.

De Blasio was focused on running the city, and Cuomo was keeping a low profile.

What does sexual preference have to do with running the City Council for private gain and blind ambition - nothing.

Suspicions that Mayor Bill de Blasio has run City Hall as a deal - making watering hole for «consultants» and their clients gained credence this week.

Some felt it's not a good sign for Mr. O'Brien, who is trying to push a platform of running the city like a business.»

MANHATTAN — Political consultants who helped run city Comptroller John Liu's campaign are now lobbying for money managers who want a piece of the city's $ 103 billion pension fund, which Liu's office controls, the New York Post reported Sunday.

Mayor de Blasio, deputy mayors, and senior Administration officials will run the city from Queens -LSB-...]

Mayor Bill de Blasio invoked Malcolm X's famous slogan when asked today about the lengths he would go to to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new plan to have the city shoulder more of the costs of running the City University system and Medicaid — a plan he claimed could have a billion dollar price tag for City Hall.

Arsenal out of the League cup early and very likely to be knocked out by Barca in theR16 means Arsenal will play at least 5 games less than City depending on FA cup runs City also have an improved Chelsea (away) and a sure to be stronger Liverpool (away).

His election marks two watershed moments: he is a member of the Democratic Alliance, which has never run the city before; and he's a successful businessman who has never been a public servant.

The mayor defended his statement about running the city so well «you'd assume they'd be having parades out in the streets,» insisting he was misinterpreted and just wanted to draw attention to all the «good news» going on in the Big Apple.

The mayor said he's running the city so well that «you'd assume they'd be having parades out in the streets,» and insisted he'd be more popular if it weren't for «the time in history.»

Good - government groups have questioned whether Harris can devote herself to helping run the city if she's also involved in the day - to - day operations of the charity committed to national and international causes.

Gallo at the time was busy running city government and trying to save his brief political career from dissident Democrats.

Between the lines, we're meant to wonder, Can this man really run a city as cutthroat as NYC, or is he just too soft a waffler?

Even this, though, feels like the developers didn't want to give their game any bit because provided you have not run the city into the ground getting re-elected isn't difficult.

Neither the governor, who controls the MTA, nor the mayor, who runs the city where the derailment crippled commutes, showed up at the site of the derailment in Harlem.

For the third year in a row, Albany agreed to extend Mayor de Blasio's authority to run the city public - school system for just one year.

In January Steubenville was forced to launch a website to combat the perception that «the football team runs this city.»

The de facto covenant was this: Singapore's officials would run the city state (largely) effectively and cleanly — making it an oasis in Southeast Asia — and, in return, its citizens would toe the line.

Instead of following other Western tech firms, which at times have relied on foreign managers with little knowledge of China, Uber hired and empowered local people to act as managers to run city operations as they saw fit.

Chelsea, MA had to have a reciever or dictator run the city.

I expect Chelsea to run City close, with Arsenal coming third.

After two years of searching for a new harbor manager, the Chicago Park District plans to award a five - year contract to Westrec Marinas, the controversial company that currently runs the city's nine marinas.

Together they will work with the combined authority cabinet (i.e. local authority leaders) to run the city region.

Indeed, New York is on a back - to - the - future trip to the pre - Giuliani / Bloomberg era — when the unions ran the city solely for the benefit of union members, and elected officials were along merely for the ride.

Paterson has reportedly «lost confidence» in Meyer «Sandy» Frucher to run the city OTB and would accept his resignation — if offered.

«People need to stop sitting back and letting everybody in the 8th Ward run the city of Albany.

THE BRONX — Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. sharply criticized the city's response to the summer's deadly Legionnaires» disease outbreak and hinted that he might one day run the city himself in his 2016 State of the Borough address, delivered on Thursday at Cardinal Hayes High School.

It's not a new complaint, but it's the core sentiment of many legislators who once ran cities, counties, businesses, law firms and classrooms before they got to Albany, where many found themselves limited.