Sentences with phrase «who run the state»

Moderates now are in a kind of wilderness, Sherman contends, and need to take steps to utilize energies provided by powerful moderates who run state conventions in Texas and Virginia, plus other new moderate groups in Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Illinois.
Abe Lackman, who ran the state Senate Finance Committee when Fuleihan handled the twin Assembly committee, praised the appointment.
In fact, even the coalition of Republicans and independent Democrats who run the state Senate have proposed expanding the prevailing wage law to all projects that use some portion of public funds.
With precious little time remaining for the legislative session, which is to end on Thursday, the antepenultimate day in Albany was marked by the usual closed - door negotiations among Democrats, who run the State Assembly, and Republicans, who rule the State Senate.
A spokesman for Cuomo, asked about the calls to increase taxes, accused Democrats who run the state Assembly of reneging on a plan to strip felonious officials of their public pensions.
Cahill was an aide and environmental conservation commissioner to former Gov. George Pataki, a Republican who ran the state from 1995 to 2006.
Each intervention is different, says Jim Larson, who runs the state's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround.
But your point raises the question of why the academics who run the state - funded granting agencies favour the «luvly models run on big, all flashing, computers» rather than the run - of - the - mill scientist working «in the peace and comfort of his own little lab.»
As a Texan, it pains me to see my former governor, a man who ran the state pragmatically and competently for 14 years, squirm and strain to communicate why it's good for our country to cut the national labs and reduce our commitment to federally funded scientific and technological innovation.

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Rosenthal finally secured a meeting in Chicago with the Central States Pension Fund, run by Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who agreed to loan him $ 12 million to fund the construction.
Whether small business owners think their state government is supportive or hostile depends on who they are, the kind of business they are running, where they are located and their political beliefs.
This time, despite Schultz's denials, the announcement has triggered rampant speculation that Schultz, who is a fan of President Barack Obama and publicly supported Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, is preparing for a run for president of the United States in 2020.
«The tracking system is the most important tool a state has,» said Michael Crabtree, who runs Denver - based Nationwide Compliance Specialists Inc., which helps tax collectors track elusive, cash - heavy industries like the marijuana business.
In addition, Leatherbarrow said the best sources out there have yet to be translated from Russian — including the accounts of senior managers, state - run media reports, and a book by an engineer who's been blamed for the disaster, but insists he was scapegoated by the government.
««You know people who have died from this: Geraldine Ferraro, who ran for Vice President of the United States; Frank Reynolds, the former ABC anchorman.
«We run our organic farming program and organise farming certifications at their farms free of cost,» states Shailendra Dhakad who is the Founder and CEO at Carmel Organics that is headquartered at Madhya Pradesh..
Jenny Wilson, a Democratic candidate running for Senate in Utah, said this week that «Utah families deserve another Utahn as their senator, not a Massachusetts governor who thinks of our state as his vacation home.»
Research for the book led him to Vermont, a state teeming with entrepreneurs like Alan Newman, who believed that they had a better way to run a business — with emphasis on environmentally friendly materials, fair dealings with suppliers, and generous benefits for their own workers.
A critical component of the ACA mandates operation of a federally - run exchange in states that choose not to participate, and subsidies for people who can not afford coverage.
«We can't place someone who has no experience in running a large organization in this important position... The current state of the BOJ is different to the BOJ of the past, because nowadays it is on par with the likes of the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank,» he said.
Nixon may be taking cues from the success of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who successfully ran for governor on a platform to legalize marijuana in the state.
There are those who treat running like a sort of religion — one to be practiced in silence to achieve a meditative state.
For those who do need an individual plan, you can access the federal market as well as the enrollment websites for state - run Obamacare markets through Healthcare.gov.
Some senior officials have discussed nominating Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who ran the House committee that investigated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's actions in connection with the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.
But what's happened in the kind of post-Soviet era is that it's been hijacked by a group of basically KGB people, who have captured the state and run it for their own purposes.
Another women, who appeared to be a climate change protestor, yelled, «Please don't let Exxon run the State Department.
State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, has asked President Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S.State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, has asked President Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S.state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S. law.
But the project has run into opposition in Minnesota from the state, along with Native American tribes and environmental activists who have questioned whether the replacement is needed.
Bob Hoban, an attorney who runs his own cannabis law firm with clients in 17 U.S. states, says state - guaranteed insurance for California's industry is a big deal for businesses.
For several years, Erdoğan and his allies have accused the elderly Gülen, who has been in the United States since 1999 and runs a large network of charter schools here, of plotting the subversion of the Turkish state.
Looters plundered a truck carrying corn, a food collection center, and a state - run supermarket, according to Paparoni, and a vet who witnessed the mayhem.
And his (relatively) new secretary of state is John Kerry, who was one of Obama's most prominent endorsers in January 2008, when Obama was running for the Democratic party presidential nomination.
California's state treasurer, John Chiang, who is also running for governor there, traveled to the meeting to call for a shakeup in the executive ranks.
The change made it «that much harder for women» who had suffered abuse, says Natalia Pankova, the director of a state - run domestic violence organization called Sail of Hope.
«If you've got one member of the power couple — Jared Kushner, whispering in the President -LSB-- elect]'s ear — and if you've got the other, the wife and daughter, who is running businesses, it merges the Trump Organization and the United States into one huge conglomerate managed by the Trumps for their own interests,» he says.
Except for the millions of non white non KKK bastards who run that state.
«Those who expressed negative views stated that running elections in this country was the sovereign and exclusive responsibility of the states, and they did not want federal intrusion, a federal takeover, or federal regulation of that process.»
Baker, a Democrat who is running for Hogan's job, said he would seek state assistance in putting together the application for Prince George's to win the new, 100 - acre campus.
While I understand that the NDP must feel intense pressure to capture votes — including from people who have never taken a course from John Smithin — I often wish that the NDP would show a bit more policy leadership on the issue of the deficit and debt. I was particularly disappointed during the 2008 federal election campaign when Mr. Layton stated, unequivocally, that the NDP would not run a deficit in the following year if elected (even though it was clear that Canada was entering a recession).
The foreign partners have also grown increasingly frustrated with Quevedo, who initially asked for their suggestions on fixing the state - run firm but now appears ill - disposed toward reforms, the sources said.
What's going on is that thousands of oil workers are fleeing the state - run oil firm under the watch of its new military commander, who has quickly alienated the firm's embattled upper echelon and its rank - and - file, according to union leaders, a half - dozen current PDVSA workers, a dozen former PDVSA workers and a half - dozen executives at foreign companies operating in Venezuela.
The United States runs a deficit with countries who fit at least one of the following three criteria.
In 2014, the IRS ruled that bitcoin are assets, meaning that people who owned it would have to pay taxes, although exchanges in the United States have already run into problems with regulations.
Mid-decade activism by CalPERS, for example, reportedly was «fueled partly by the political ambitions of Phil Angelides, California's state treasurer and a CalPERS board member,» who planned on running for governor of California in 2006.
To run the Department of Energy, Trump chose former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who took the job «believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state
Under the Connecticut bill, employees who are at least 19, make at least $ 5,000 a year and work for companies that employ five or more workers and don't offer a retirement plan would automatically be enrolled in the state - run plan (a Roth IRA) at a default contribution rate of 3 %, according to the National Association of Plan Advisors, which cites the Connecticut Post.
This is someone who was taken advantage of by a consortium of interests, including a massive company that happens to be run by someone who is personal friends with the president of the United States,» he added.
Part of the signal to cut and run from commodities is provided by various neo-Hobbesians (the natural state of mankind is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short») who argue that the world has reached a «Malthusian breakpoint.»
Rosneft, the country's largest oil producer, is majority owned by the state and is run by Igor Sechin who is considered one of the country's most powerful players and an ardent Putin ally.
The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time.
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