Sentences with phrase «urban affairs»

«It's difficult to estimate this number,» said Ralph Buehler, an assistant professor of urban affairs at Virginia Tech and co-author of ``

Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on July 13, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

«It's difficult to estimate this number,» said Ralph Buehler, an assistant professor of urban affairs at Virginia Tech and co-author of «City Cycling,» a book published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press on urban cycling and bike - share programs.

Alcantara, who studied Government and Political Science at Manhattan College and graduate work in Urban Affairs at Queens College, is already known on the local political scene.

A reader who forwarded the link to Carrion's imminent appearance noted this is the second time in less than a month that the ex-Democratic lawmaker has made the trek north from Washington, D.C. where he has been working as first director of the White House Office on Urban Affairs since last winter.

Several officials in the Obama administration spoke at the conference, providing new details about the Promise Neighborhood initiative, including Arne Duncan, the education secretary; Melody Barnes, the director of the president's Domestic Policy Council; Adolfo Carrion, the special assistant to the president for urban affairs; Heather Higginbottom, the deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council; and Jim Shelton, the assistant deputy secretary of education for innovation and improvement.

At an awards ceremony hosted by the New York City portion of the Independence Party on Sunday afternoon, former White House Urban Affairs Director and potential mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrion declared he had left the Democratic Party and is now not enrolled in any party.

Meanwhile, Espaillat has the backing of two influential former Bronx borough presidents: Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor in 2005, and Adolfo Carrión, who served as a director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs under President Barack Obama.

Saving the beaches helped protect the shoreline, said Patrick Reardon, a historian of Chicago and former Tribune urban affairs writer who wrote a report for Friends of the Parks in 2009 on the four miles of lakefront that were still privately owned.

Carrion ended up not running for comptroller, opting instead to become director of the newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs with the White House Domestic Policy Council.

In February, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held hearings on digital currencies and discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission's role in regulating initial coin offerings.

Adolfo Carrion, Jr., former two - term President of the Bronx, and Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy, and a registered independent, is seeking the Mayor's office.

Jonas has a BA in International Relations, an MS in Urban Affairs from Hunter College (City University of New York), and recently finished a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at Columbia University.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and urban affairs met in open session on Tuesday for a hearing to discuss U.S. regulators» roles in monitoring and policing the fast - growing cryptocurrency industry.

The House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs defined this risk as «the difference between the rate that the guaranteed loans carry and the rate that Chrysler would be required to pay if the loans were obtained without the federal guarantees.»

In the second hearing in as many days the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs weighed in on virtual currencies.

Another person I need to thank is someone I've never met and who never knew me: Dana Raphael, the subject of this week's featured article from The New York Times, written by urban affairs writer Sam Roberts.

Sam Roberts, New York Times Urban Affairs Correspondent, will be the moderator.

President Obama's new White House director of urban affairs Adolfo Carrion admitted to the Daily News that he has not yet paid the architect who helped renovate his City Island home two years ago.

An update from City Limits Weekly (No. 224), New York's urban affairs news magazine.

In addition, as urban affairs editor, Watson oversees coverage of the city school system, transportation and politics.

Their study, published online in Urban Affairs Review, is one of the first to examine non-local campaign contributions to school board elections.

A study published in the Journal of Urban Affairs found that homeownership gives residents a platform to connect with neighbors and increases their social capital.

Ministry of Environment, Urban Affairs Forests and Wildlife.

We won't have Laurel Broten to kick around any more as Ontario Minister of the Environment; She of the Garage Mahal and driveway full of SUV's has been dumped in favour of John Gerretsen, an OWM who in his last gig as Minister of Urban Affairs brought

The Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recognized the firm's work with its «Outstanding Achievement Award in the Field of Fair Housing» after Andy Freeman and Chris Brown won a $ 2 million verdict against a major homebuilder for discriminatory advertising that used exclusively white models.

WASHINGTON — The Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs honored Covington partner and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder with the 2017 Wiley A. Branton Award for his «unremitting commitment to civil rights and leadership on critical equal justice issues inside government and in the private bar.»

A week ago, CFTC chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo testified in front of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs about the role regulations may play in future cryptocurrency markets.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs passed the bipartisan legislation the following day.

In his testimony before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on November 28th, 2017, he stated, «We make better decisions when we have diverse voices around the table — both at the Board of Governors and at the Reserve Banks... We've seen what works.

Molly Dillon, who was a policy adviser for urban affairs, justice and opportunity on Obama's Domestic Policy Council, is now a Cuomo senior policy adviser.

«The region's going to be a difficult sell as a tech haven because the numbers don't bear out,» said Robert Lang, a professor of urban affairs at UNLV and the director of Brookings Mountain West.

Thomas J. Kane, Peter R. Orszag and Emil Apostolov «Higher Education Appropriations and Public Universities: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle» Brookings - Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005 pp. 99 - 127., (2005)

Adolfo Carrion Independence Party Candidate Adolfo Carrion, a former Bronx Borough President and Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs under President Obama, emphasized his urban planning background and his vision of a «smart city.»

Ashford's career experience includes working as the vice president of urban affairs with Jewish Community Center and Young Men's Christian Association.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs held its first or several hearings of the year on housing finance reform.

Until March 1, 2009, the Borough President of the Bronx was Adolfo Carrión Jr., elected as a Democrat in 2001 and 2005 before retiring early to direct the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy.

Dr. McIntyre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston College, a Master of Science degree in Education Administration from Canisius College, a Master of Urban Affairs from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and urban affairs met in open session earlier this month for a hearing to discuss U.S. regulators» roles in monitoring and policing the fast - growing cryptocurrency industry.

Diaz will replace acting BP Earl Brown who is filling in for Adolfo Carrion who fled the Boogie Down to be Obama's urban affairs director.

«She moved beyond planning to look at the city as economic generator,» commented Christopher Hume, urban affairs writer for The Star.

Ralph Buehler is associate professor in urban affairs and planning and a faculty fellow with the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center.

However a more positive assessment was offered by Michael Parkinson, Professor of Urban Affairs at John Moores University: although he had been sceptical in the 1980s, by 1997 he had come to feel that ministers assigned to regions, the development of housing associations and cooperatives, and the channelling of government money through business - led agencies rather than through local government.

Since the agency launched, it has returned $ 425 million in refunds to 6 million consumers, according to testimony Cordray gave earlier this year before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

However, cryptocurrency enthusiasts seemed to be mostly positive about a hearing on cryptocurrencies held by the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee last week.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to address the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee during the annual oversight hearing of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

Efforts to make the conference inclusive - it was free and anyone could register - materialised in a big jamboree of all kinds of people interested in urban affairs (as well as complaints about long queues).

Another Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs will also hold a bitcoin hearing on Tuesday 19 November.