Sentences with phrase «which governor»

Now the county is facing an unprecedented HIV outbreak, which Governor Mike Pence deemed an «epidemic.»

BOSTON — Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM) celebrated An Act to Promote Public Safety and Protect Access to Reproductive Health Care Facilities, which Governor Deval Patrick signed into law today.

State regulators were given the power to create rules and regulations for all virtual currency businesses with the passage of HB 811, which Governor Nathan Deal signed on April 04, 2016.

The agency, which the governor supervises, checked out Cruz in September 2016 because he had been cutting himself — a sign of desperation — and wanted to buy a gun.

While judicial elections in which the governor nominates and the legislature approves candidates provides for clearer accountability, they do nothing to remove the politics from judicial selection.

New York's environmental conservation commissioner joined in with the recommendation, which the governor quickly accepted.

California Assembly Bill 485, which Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law, will institute the country's first statewide ban on the sales of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet stores, starting Jan. 1, 2019, setting a dangerous precedent that could have far - reaching consequences.

That improved ranking came after the South Carolina General Assembly worked to enhance the state law last year, which Governor Haley signed last spring.

Arizona could also change the name, which Governor Brewer did in September 2013, to Arizona's College and Career Ready Standards (ACCRS).

With a system in which the governor and the state education chief have less power over school issues than their counterparts in almost any other state, initiative has been left to local school districts, and little has happened.

Last check found over 100 news articles in which Governor Malloy has said that Connecticut's state employee benefit and pension system is unsustainable.

The LAO's warning also comes as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders begin negotiations over next year's budget, in which the governor wants to provide more flexibility to local districts on spending decisions.

The governor's task force report, released with little fanfare late in the day, also calls for scrapping the Common Core standards, which the governor initially fast tracked, in favor a of a new state generated standard.

Governor Hogan's original executive order — which the attorney general's office said he may not have had the authority to issue in the first place — established such limits, creating an unbroken summer break for Maryland public schools from June 15 to Labor Day, but also allowing the State Board of Education (to which the Governor appointed me and — so far — eight other members) to issue waivers to districts that present «compelling justification» for exceeding those limits.

The bill, which Governor Chafee is expected to sign next week, will face court challenges.

The bill, which the Governor had declared dead during the regular session, will make Washington only the second state to mandate that all school districts adopt policies allowing intradistrict transfers by students, according to several observers of the school - choice movement.

The school - aid veto was one of several that removed a total of almost $ 1 billion in spending proposals from the legislature's $ 52 - billion fiscal package, which the Governor said would have created a budget deficit.

The Nov. 8 election, which the governor called last week, will also serve as a test of the Republican governor's political strength and popularity as he begins his expected campaign for re-election in 2006.

There was also a mutual disappointment in the governor's office and in City Hall over the lapsed tax break and development program known as 421 - a, which the governor had urged developers and unions to negotiate on last year, and which Mr. de Blasio looked to restart in order to support the creation of affordable housing in the city, a bedrock promise of his first term.

The move marks the latest in a series of policy changes in which the governor — whose fiscal conservatism and ties to business interests have long left progressives in his party disenchanted — has circumvented the legislative process in order to take the state in a more left - leaning direction.

The state law, which then - Governor Nelson Rockefeller pushed through in 1971, and which Governor George Pataki strengthened in 2003, is named after Rockefeller's housing commissioner, Charles Urstadt.

And as of Wednesday, the legislative leaders on both sides were still hoping to undo some or all of Malloy's cuts to social services and mental health, which the governor instituted in September as part of a $ 103 million cutback.

His proposal Tuesday kicks off months of negotiations in which the governor and state lawmakers will try to maintain their three - year streak of reaching a final budget deal by the start of the state fiscal year April 1.

In response, the Cuomo administration on Tuesday said in its most direct statement yet that no housing project proposed by the de Blasio administration would be slowed as a result of the changes, which the governor included in his budget documents last month.

The final vote Mr. Losquadro cast after midnight Friday was in favor of a 2 percent property tax cap bill, which the governor proposed and passed in both houses.

The federal train network intends to rehabilitate the crumbling tracks and platforms during a six - week period this summer — which the governor has insisted is too long and too disruptive.

Despite the challenges, the comptroller said the North Country has much to be optimistic about, including regional economic development council efforts, the $ 10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative for the City of Plattsburgh and $ 125 million state investment into Norsk Titanium, which the governor touted in a visit just days before.

But the conference, which the governor's aides said was the first of many to be held around the Upstate area, also gave Cuomo the opportunity to defend his economic development programs from critics who have said the programs have failed to create significant numbers of Upstate jobs.

It also reduced the time in which the Governor was forced to contain his fury while responding that Mr. Astorino has dishonored the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., shown his disrespect for women as part of his «ultra-conservative» agenda, and was a liar as well.

Is this investigation motivated by a much bigger political game in which Governor Cuomo encouraged / spurred / initiated Sugarman's investigation to achieve a number of goals: (a) torpedo the efforts of democrats to regain the state senate by scaring off potential big democratic donors (it is widely reported that the governor prefers working with a GOP controlled senate); (b) distract the press from Albany's complete failure to pass meaningful ethics reforms; (c) hurt his political foe, Mayor de Blasio.

In one arrangement, Bharara alleges Kelly channeled several hundred thousand dollars to Percoco and his wife in exchange for help building a power plant in upstate New York, and for other public assistance the company never received — including a guarantee the state would find a buyer for energy from the facility, and the closure of the controversial Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester, which the governor has advocated for.

«There certainly seems to be, in the last month, a number of issues on which the governor has reversed himself rather startlingly,» she said.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

I also want to note the importance of Teacher Centers, which Governor Cuomo unfortunately has not funded in his executive budget proposal.

The poll, conducted over four days last week, is the first to account for the breadth of negative coverage Cuomo's received in the weeks since the publication of a 6,000 - word story in the New York Times on July 23 that detailed the administration's handling of the ethics commission, which the governor abruptly shuttered in April this year.

The state education department is one of the only state agencies over which the governor does not have direct control, he said.

Advocates applauded the move, which the governor included in his $ 152.3 billion spending plan unveiled on Tuesday.

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In Cuomo's letter to the Army Corps official, he identifies several sites in counties that include Monroe, Orleans and Wayne, which the governor says represent at - risk areas.

«Though the full ramifications of the investigation they claimed to be carrying out has not been made known to the management of Daily Trust, the abduction of Krishi is the height of intimidation visited upon this company since January 26, 2018 following the publication of a paid advertisement which the governor of Jigawa State had taken exception to.

Following a speech he gave at an Association for a Better New York breakfast last month, Flanagan indicated he was moved by Cuomo's State of the State speech in which the governor described regretting not being at his father's side during his final days.

A spokesman for Gerard, Reid Porter, told The Post that neither Cuomo nor the state Department of Health, which the governor claims has been conducting a health study on fracking for nearly a year, has sought any information about the drilling technique from API or any of its member companies.

The meeting capped an extraordinary 72 hours in which the governor suffered the embarrassing public disclosure that at least some in the White House thought he should consider stepping aside.

During recent public appearances, Bharara went out of his way to mock Albany's «three - men - in - a-room» governing style in which the governor, Senate majority leader and Assembly speaker negotiate most budget and major policy decisions behind closed doors.

While budgets often are concerned with the minutiae of state operations, Mr. Cuomo's plan singled out some name - brand, nationally known locales — the subways, for one — which the governor said the city must help pay to repair or suffer hundreds of millions in withheld funds.

With community groups still spurning Cuomo despite his attempt to strongarm Democratic unity and win WFP support, the New York political world entered something of a parallel universe in which the governor and his allies act like Cuomo has always been a champion of party unity and that the primary fight is about anything but progressive policy failures due to years of a sanctioned Democratic split.

The Federal Government and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, the party under which Governor Peter Obi came to power in Anambra State are in a...

The Women's Equality Act was one of half a dozen policy priorities Cuomo agreed to push as part of his endorsement deal with the Working Families Party — a forced compromise from which the governor is apparently still smarting.

New York, which Governor Cuomo has touted as the birthplace of progressive politics, is the exception to the rule.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has made little headway in filling the top job at New York's banking regulator, a financial watchdog over which the governor's staff has sought to exert greater control.