Sentences with phrase «where elected officials»

We recommend not picking up hitchhikers near prisons, work farms or buildings where elected officials work.

That's the case in Letcher County, Kentucky, where elected officials are trying to build a new federal prison on the site of a mountaintop removal coal mine.

The Sierra Club threw its full weight behind a fear - mongering campaign in Ohio where elected officials sought nuclear energy as a way to reduce deadly coal pollution.

A Washington activist, philanthropist and co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Cafritz nurtured a nexus of art and politics at her home where elected officials, cultural leaders and artists young and old gathered, surrounded by art displayed in every room.

Tens of thousands have joined us for Charter School Advocacy Day throughout the years, where elected officials and their staff heard our calls for equitable funding, the elimination of the charter cap, and more.

If Rosenbaum's experience is foretelling, lawsuits like Reed may provide a more productive avenue for education reform in states where elected officials disappoint.

This is important, because in the U.S. political system, where elected officials closely measure constituent feedback, meetings with real people are much more effective than letter or phone campaigns.

Rivera is one of five tenants battling an imminent eviction from 221 West 16th Street, where elected officials and tenants» rights advocates say Furnished Quarters President Gary Brown is exploiting a legal loophole to ditch long - term, low - rent residents.

The call came on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, where elected officials and advocates rallied to denounce the Arizona law, which forces police officers to ask individuals for their immigration status if they look suspicious.

A people who should take note of where their elected officials come down on this issue — and remember that the next time they ask for the people's support at the polls.

The African American Embrace / Abrazo Afro - Americano is a free banquet for 500 people where the elected officials recognize with proclamations and certificates five (5) distinguished members of the African - American Community in Bronx County.

But could law firms step up where elected officials fear to tread?

«I think the voters deserve to see either where their elected officials stand — or that they won't stand at all.»

A three - month - old law allowing the sale of sparklers is creating fireworks in Saratoga County, where elected officials may become the first in the state to allow them.

«The women of New York deserve a vote on the entire Women's Equality Act and have a right to know where their elected officials stand on these important issues,» Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.

He also broke with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, calling again for an immediate vote on a marriage equality bill, arguing that voters have a right to know where their elected officials stand.

The governor's comments came at a press conference where elected officials were celebrating the state's success in landing federal «Race to the Top» funds.

It would certainly benefit Trump at the state level to have a Republican ally in the executive mansion — especially in a Democrat - dominated state, where elected officials — from U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, the incoming Democratic minority leader, to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — have vowed to oppose the new administration on multiple fronts.

Knowing where your elected officials stand on important conservation issues is critical to being an effective advocate.

I think most single moms would happily forego being called a hero if they had the right to govern their own body and lived in a country where their elected officials created policies that allowed them to raise their kids in healthier, happier ways — from affordable childcare to universal preK to paid sick leave to equal pay.

In the overwhelmingly Democratic city where every elected official is a Democrat, Ethier said it would be nearly impossible for any candidate to win without the committee's backing.

Not exact matches

Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).

«What's really encouraging to me,» Fadness said, «is all the work that's been done in the years before this, to build up to a day just like today where relationships and collaboration have started to flourish among elected officials and business leadership and nonprofit leadership.»

The office of our highest elected official is where separation of church and state should START.

Where the Constitution does not supply a rule, it admits of democratic choice of policy and a range of action for elected officials.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

So while Ken imagines DC parents calling up their district, my own fantasy takes place on Capitol Hill, where throngs of parents brandishing lunch trays would finally start holding their elected officials accountable on this critical issue.

However, I do find it interesting that Coffey is inserting himself into a battle taking place at the county level where it just so happens that Rice is the only Democratic countywide elected official who survived the 2009 sweep by the GOP.

Elected officials in New York — especially those from Brooklyn — have lobbied heavily in favor of holding the convention there, where former New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to emerge as the nominee of the party.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

Also at 6 p.m., elected officials will join fed - up transit riders and advocates for a rally outside Cuomo's midtown Manhattan office where they will demand the governor and state lawmakers pass congestion pricing this year, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

U.S. Congressman Adriano Espaillat took elected officials and community members on a walking tour this Sun., Mar. 18th of vacant lots where he said that the city could build 100 percent affordable housing.

The motion contains an affidavit by Town of Oyster Bay Republican Councilman Joseph Muscarella where he states that following the November, 2016 election, he and his brother, Thomas Muscarella, met at a Mineola restaurant with former Nassau Democratic Party official and now State Supreme Court Justice Robert McDonald, to congratulate him on being elected to a judgeship.

«We have locally elected school officials who have forever been responsible for seeing to it that the monies received into the district from the state and federal level are brought into a budget that allocates resources where they are needed most,» Kremer said.

In essence they're creating an environment where quite frankly the courage level of elected officials goes down dramatically.

He then headed indoors for a news conference, where he was accompanied by elected officials, government reform advocates, and representatives of the city Campaign Finance Board.

FPI joined the rally, where ordinary tax payers, elected officials, community organizations and labor unions called for a 0.5 % New York State tax on stock buyback trades, which would mean corporations using their federal tax cuts simply to benefit their shareholders would have to pay a small New York State tax on... (read more)

«If you curtail the power of an elected official via a local law you have to put it to a mandatory referendum and this would be a clear case where the underlying authority to establish fees is vested in the town board,» Sabatino said.

«I want to know: why does Rob Astorino think that I am and all the women up here less than he is,» Ms. Quinn said at press conference in Grand Central Station, where she was joined by women's rights groups and several elected officials.

Building better communities where all people — from grandparents to kids — can safely live, work and play requires elected officials who champion integrity and responsibility to the community first and foremost.

As elected officials struggle to address the ongoing opioid crisis, one of the more controversial proposals has been legal injection sites, where addicts would have access to clean needles, medical staff, and a variety of information and services — including treatment options.

Mr. Cuomo has avoided the campaign trail while Ms. Hochul has campaigned furiously, stumping with Democratic elected officials — and even Mr. de Blasio's wife — in New York City where voters do not know her.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (r.) talks with Liz Bishop - Goldsmith, (second r.) the founder of Mothers Against Guns, following a news conference, where several elected officials called for tighter gun restrictions.

More than 200 people packed the meeting, where they were encouraged to «maintain pressure» on elected officials, including U.S. Rep. John Katko (R - Syracuse), Mager said.

Local elected officials told the Advance that they wanted the mayor to go to the Island more often, particularly to the South Shore where he only went once in 2014.

That's where they recruit, that's where they intimidate, that's where they meet,» Cuomo said at Central Islip High School's auditorium with a dozen local police, elected and school officials on hand.

In these roles, Jenny has established relationships with key community leaders and elected officials at local, state and federal levels to bridge the communication and understanding of the needs of the community where she lives, works and volunteers.

DiNapoli held forth at La Marina on Dyckman Street, where he was joined by elected officials, community leaders and residents.

Demonstrators kicked off the rallies — which they called a one - day strike — about 6 a.m. outside a Midtown McDonald's, 1651 Broadway, where about 30 people including fast food workers and elected officials filled the sidewalk.