Sentences with phrase «votes in a given city»

This model contrasts with the classic 19th century - style American political machine, which was locally based: each thrived when it could deliver government services and political patronage in exchange for votes in a given city or neighborhood.

Not exact matches

In 2016, Seattle citizens voted for legislation that requires hotels to give their employees similar devices, and Chicago's City Council approved a similar measure in OctobeIn 2016, Seattle citizens voted for legislation that requires hotels to give their employees similar devices, and Chicago's City Council approved a similar measure in Octobein October.

ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Bay Watch, the conservation group based in Tierra Verde, will operate an outpost at the new Pier.In a unanimous vote, City Council members voted Thursday to give the nonprofit organization a five - year lease to offer marine edu...

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

Arsene Wenger and the Gunners will still be under great pressure, though, but so will our next opponents West Ham and their manager Slaven Bilic who was given the dreaded vote of confidence by his club's owners after their 2 - 1 loss to struggling Hull City made it four in a row and left them just six points from safety.

City aldermen voted 6 - 1 in favor of giving the district the one - acre site, near Commercial Avenue and Wood Dale Road.

Molinaro announced he had secured the endorsements of three more county chairs from Westchester, Niagara and Albany, giving him more than 80 percent of the weighted vote heading into next month's Republican convention in New York City.

And if Republicans are in charge in Texas, perhaps they can avoid giving up as many seats to Democrats by diluting the minority vote in cities like Dallas and Houston.

The New York City Council voted to give its members hefty pay raises in February 2016 and simultaneously imposed a ban on certain forms of outside income, effectively making the job of City Council member a full - time position.

Sliwa's celebrity power in New York City could attract the 50,000 votes needed to give the Reform Party an automatic line on ballots for the next four years, ending the expensive and difficult effort to securing thousands of signatures for petitions to be placed on ballots statewide.

«Mr William Cash (Stone)(Con): Given that the single market, including the City of London, is governed by qualified majority voting, how does the Prime Minister propose to achieve a majority to protect our interests in the context of the fiscal union that he advocates?

Just hours earlier, the State Assembly had voted to give residents living in the city's 1 million rent regulated apartments a brief reprieve - pushing back the expiration of the rules until Friday while they hammer out a deal.

A New Jersey bill that would permit towns and cities to give homeowners tax credits in exchange for counting property tax payments as charitable contributions is poised for a final vote in the Legislature next month.

In Syracuse, the Democratic candidate received 38 percent of the vote in a city that gave Hillary Clinton 80 percent, losing to the son of a former Republican congressman who ran as a third - party candidatIn Syracuse, the Democratic candidate received 38 percent of the vote in a city that gave Hillary Clinton 80 percent, losing to the son of a former Republican congressman who ran as a third - party candidatin a city that gave Hillary Clinton 80 percent, losing to the son of a former Republican congressman who ran as a third - party candidate.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

The State Assembly in 2007 voted to allow Forest City to take advantage of the controversial 421a program, which gives tax abatements to developers who make 20 percent of their building's units affordable, even though Ratner didn't technically qualify.

The City Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another yCity Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another ycity in the black for another year.

While the city's request has been winding its way through the regulatory pipeline for a number of years, the governor's office has given no indication regarding his intentions in terms of whether or not, as one of eight Great Lake states governors with veto power over the proposal, he will vote to approve the unprecedented water diversion.

Labor union leaders on Tuesday said they felt confident an appeal would garner the necessary votes, given that the Common Council voted to keep tax incremental financing for the project in the city's 2010 budget.

«For those of my 8.4 million fellow New York City residents who are looking for some direction in how they will vote next Tuesday, I'll give you direction.

Who was given bribes for their vote in City Council to keep this profusely obnoxious creep in power.

«Why I should vote for mayoral control, and why I can trust you to make sure we give the 1.1 million kids in New York City the opportunity to succeed, and make sure the [state outlay of] $ 9 billion gets spread out evenly.»

The New York City Board of Elections on Wednesday released its certification report on the race for governor, which — delightfully — also gave a rundown of write - ins votes for celebrities, fictional characters and figures currently in the news.

I have the distinction of voting in the 15th CD (as well as the Harlem - centered City Council district), even though I live only four blocks north of 96th St.. This privilege was given to me thanks to the gerrrymandering skunks in that swamp called Albany!

The State Senate — particularly the Democratic faction, who resent the public and financial support Mayor Bloomberg has given Republican candidates in the past — willfully allowed the deadline to renew mayoral control of the city's schools to pass on Tuesday without a vote or even a mention.

The dream is gone - left behind as wealthy Rochester developer David Flaum looks across the Hudson to Rensselaer, where Wednesday night the city council, in a 6 - to - 1 vote, gave Flaum the green light to site a casino - hotel complex on a 24 - acre site along the riverbank.

In the city's elections of 2009, 3.5 times as high of a percentage of the city's voting age population gave money to a candidate for municipal office (1.75 percent versus 0.49 percent).

Other bills that were introduced, but not voted on, included measures to create new penalties for those who fail to report construction fatalities, a requirement for construction companies to give the city detailed reports about scheduled construction activities months in advance, and a mandate for drug and alcohol testing of construction workers at certain job sites.

At least a few Council members themselves stand to benefit from the rebate, given that the City Council voted in 2016 to increase members» salaries from $ 112,500 to $ 148,500, while at the same time limiting the outside income they can earn, meaning that individual members fall just under the Council's income threshold for the rebate.

Howie Hawkins, whose run for governor in 2014 gave the Green Party ballot access in New York, placed second with 35 % of the vote for City Auditor in Syracuse, in another race watched closely by Greens.

In a near - unanimous vote Tuesday afternoon, the City Council gave its authorization to sue the Bloomberg administration to halt a controversial new homeless policy that would force men and women seeking shelter to prove they have nowhere else to go.

The board of the city's Off - Track - Betting Corporation voted in an emergency session today to keep the bankrupt operation open through Tuesday night to give the state...

While it is not a matter of voting in Albany, Malliotakis has opposed the city's public matching of campaign funds, but says she is participating in it this year out of necessity, given that her main opponent, de Blasio, is doing so.

His first election in partisan politics wound up as a tie against an 18 - year incumbent...»... who was the majority leader of the county legislature and the committeemen - even though it takes place in a very public forum it's actually a party election, and so the committeemen broke the tie, gave it to the incumbent, and I wound up being elected in a write - in election with over 3,000 votes cast, just on a county legislative district, so, you can beat city hall.»

The New York City businessman especially wants to dominate the delegate count in his home state, after losing dozens of delegates elsewhere in recent weeks who promised to vote for Cruz — rather than Trump — if given the chance on a second ballot at the convention.

But Franklin school and city officials argued that the money was needed in the traditional schools and, astonishingly, voted against giving it to the charter school in the city budget.

Given that a recent Los Angeles Times article described how the Hyattsville, Maryland City Council voted 7 - to - 4 to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in the town's elections, invite one of the names appearing in the article to participate in a Meet and Greet.

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post the link separately since posting a link delays the post

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post... Read More

With the vote of confidence given him by Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington could afford to boast just a bit as he gave PLUS News his first interview since returning from the United Nations General Assembly in New York City where...

[The general court shall have full power and authority to erect and constitute municipal or city governments, in any corporate town or towns in this commonwealth, and to grant to the inhabitants thereof such powers, privileges, and immunities, not repugnant to the constitution as the general court shall deem necessary or expedient for the regulation and government thereof and to prescribe the manner of calling and holding public meetings of the inhabitants, in wards or otherwise for the election of officers under the constitution, and the manner of returning the votes given at such meetings.