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Organized in conjunction with Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC), Making Room explores how the rise of New York's single adult population, in addition to other shifting social, economic, and cultural demographics, is dramatically changing the landscape of urban living.

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Because the deal that secured the votes of the conservative House sect known as the Freedom Caucus, allows states to seek waivers that let them opt out of basic protections for some citizens — rules, for example, that prevent insurers from charging virtually anything they want to «cover» those with preexisting conditions or that demand that insurers provide certain basic health and preventive care services.

In 2006, the federal government made it even easier for citizens to buy homes by permitting the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. to insure 40 - year - long mortgages with no down payment required.

Lee widened roads, dug canals, cleared slums, erected high - quality public housing estates, herded the satay and chicken - rice vendors cluttering the sidewalks into spacious food courts, cleaned up rivers, planted trees and zealously fined citizens, especially the superstitious who believed in ejecting the «evil spirits» lurking in one's throat, who splattered Singapore's roads with spit.

Norm Eisen, who served as an ethics lawyer in the Obama White House and now chairs the left - leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which has repeatedly challenged Trump, said it might have to do with the fact that Cohen is under criminal investigation in New York.

This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.

For example, a moving company promoting a special discount for senior citizens could target people who purchased a house within the last month, layered with an age range of 60 years old or greater and their service area locations.

Last Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian citizens and three Russian companies, accusing them of conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and help Donald Trump win the White House.

«Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen.»

With Republicans in control of the House, Senate and White House, they would totally «own» such a shutdown, which citizens detest, and this could only hurt them in the November, 2018 elections.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

Here is the often thoughtful Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on the eve of last November's elections: «Let Karl [Rove] know that you think this is a critical election, because you know as a citizen that if the Bush team can behave with the level of deadly incompetence it has exhibited in Iraq — and then get away with it by holding on to the House and the Senate — it means our country has become a banana republic.

Here is the often thoughtful Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on the eve of last November's elections: «Let Karl [Rove] know that you think this is a critical election, because you know as a citizen that if the Bush team can behave with the level of deadly incompetence it has exhibited in Iraq — and then get away with it by holding on to the House...

A halfway house for emotionally disturbed teenagers, tutoring programs for educationally deprived youngsters, a community service program for senior citizens, and a hot - line link with a substance abuse clinic, become, in Landry's sermons, ready references to ways in which Christ intervenes in the corporate life of downtown Metro City, to help translate the powers of death into the vitalities of new life.

According to a White House statement, Mike Pence spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi by telephone to discuss the «upcoming May elections in Iraq, reports of Iran attempting to meddle in Iraq's election and government formation, and the need to ensure free and fair elections that include Iraq's citizens displaced by the fight against ISIS».

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

I believe we would discover that the human qualities of these men would assist thousands of the down - and - out with their specific life problems — employment, housing, child - rearing, crime, drugs — and would significantly relieve the national plagues of millions of dispossessed, angry and disengaged citizens.

The issue is of particular importance to Republicans in the Senate, who hold the majority in that house by just one vote, says Dick Dadey, with the reform group Citizens Union.

Mashing up Google Earth and with the companies, universities and nonprofit recipients of earmarks in the House Defense Appropriations bill (available from Sunlight and Taxpayers for Common Sense on EarmarkWatch.org), citizens can get a bird's eye view of where members of Congress are shipping our defense dollars, and zoom in close on recipients.

I'm not sure about legal actions a citizen should take if they disagreed with the economic help, but you could write the members of House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has requested that the Office of Congressional Ethics investigate whether Grimm's behavior with the reporter violates House Rules.

The new organization — which would be empowered by the US Supreme Court's controversial 5 - 4 «Citizens United» ruling in June, which gave corporations the green light to run «issues advertising» targeting specific candidates on TV and radio — would initially focus on state Senate races in hopes of seeing the Legislature's upper house return to Republican control, said a source familiar with the planning for the group.

CPC's work with its partners has helped revitalize countless neighborhoods and provided quality housing for families, senior citizens, and individuals with disabilities.

In an interview with The House magazine last month, she defied the Labour leader to call for Syrian president Bashar al - Assad to be «removed» if he was found to be responsible for a chemical weapons on his own citizens.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

«For us to build the country of our dreams, for us to make Nigeria a truly great nation, a nation that is able to feed and house its citizens, a nation with a stable currency, we must embrace science and technology.

At 1:30 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and state Assembly Housing Chair Steven Cymbrowitz are meeting with senior citizens to discuss the proposed Mansion Tax, Mirage Diner, 717 Kings Hwy., Brooklyn.

After all, we have champions in the house, in fact one who is currently a First Deputy Speaker, who has been in the trenches with the Coalition when it came to working on the Bill to make it more robust, and knows the benefits of an RTI law to citizens in general and Ghanaians in particular.

Citizen's Committee for Children: Combining public policy research and data analysis with citizen action, Citizen's Committee for Children casts light on the issues, educates the public, engages allies, and identifies and promotes practical solutions to ensure that every New York City child is healthy, housed, educated and safe.

The only presidential campaign - derived organization so far with real independent influence started with Howard Dean: Democracy for America directly descends from the citizen - driven movement that tried to put him in the White House twelve years ago.

The House of Commons has transformed itself over the past 25 years, with increasing speed, from a chamber of citizen legislators, who were funded by private interests, to one of professional politicians, who are financed by the taxpayer.

Although houses were immobile, people were not, and keeping track of citizens» movements - particularly in cities - combined with widespread protests that occasionally broke into rioting, made the system unworkable.

HIs contributions to our neighborhood have included «securing financing through the State's Secured Hospital Revenue Bond Program so that Flushing Hospital Medical Center and Jamaica Hospital and Medical Center could modernize and expand; providing the Lifeline Center for Child Development with a permanent home; securing the financial support that has enabled the Bayside Historical Society to undertake its restoration of the Fort Totten Officers Club; creating the Colonial Farmhouse Restoration Society to operate the former Adriance Farm Site as the Queens Farm Museum and transferring 52 acres of surrounding land to New York City for permanent use as horticultural - agricultural parklands; and providing land for the Cross Island YMCA to expand, for the Hollis - Bellaire - Queens Village - Bellerose Little League to own their ball fields and for Catholic Charities of the Brooklyn - Queens Diocese to develop senior citizen housing in Bellerose.

The governor who assured all its citizens, especially those from the Eastern Senatorial Zone that no Bill has been sent to Kogi State House of Assembly in that regard, specifically said the decision was in line with the 1965 Northern Nigeria Government Grazing Reserve Law and modified 1978 Land Use Decree of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Unlike the UKIP demand for a federal UK based on Little England as a fortress outside the European Union, Greens and progressives should seize this historic moment to argue for a new constitutional and democratic compact, with electoral reform, including proportional representation for both houses of parliament, greater participatory democracy in the regions, and a written constitution with a citizens bill of rights.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

The hunt for housing is an increasing challenge for New York City's senior citizens, as Social Security checks fail to keep up with the...

Ep 12 - 77,651 — Listen to excerpts of a speech the city's housing commissioner, Maria Torres - Springer, gave at a Citizens Budget Commission event on Wednesday, September 20, followed by 15 minutes of Q - and - A with the commissioner.

Democrats need 17 seats to regain control of the House this November and entered the race this spring with email blasts painting both GOP candidates as enemies of the middle class, women and senior citizens, hinging them to the Ryan Budget, a blueprint would seek to erase the deficit with deep cuts in domestic spending.

Governor Ambode, who led a symbolic walk against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Alausa, Ikeja, with top government functionaries including the Deputy Governor, Dr. Oluranti Adebule, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Olufunmilayo Oke, wife of the Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode, Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, members of the State Executive Council, members of the House of Assembly, stakeholders in the justice sector, celebrities, students, among others, said it was time to walk the talk and ensure that all hands are on deck towards safeguarding the rights of every citizen and the most vulnerable in the society.

Jim Tomasik credits member phone calls and emails (along with those of other Tennessee citizens) with helping move House Bill 475 through committee.

«If the Democrats take over, there's probably going to be a big opening and plenty of momentum for climate legislation... with more Republican support,» said Steve Valk, a spokesman for Citizens» Climate Lobby, a group that has helped assemble the bipartisan and growing House Climate Solutions Caucus.

And its 585,500 citizens have dating possibilities anyone would be jealous of: Get a couples massage at the Spa Suites at Rustic Inn, go hiking in the Grand Teton National Park, visit Old Faithful and enjoy the show when it goes off, set out on a hot air balloon ride with the Wyoming Balloon Company, try your hand at horseback riding at Mill Iron Ranch, and eat an incredible meal at Morris House Bistro, the Kitchen, or the Lotus Café.

In a time when many citizens are casting a suspicious eye towards their government and the news media has taken a beating, it's worth looking back at an era when the fifth estate did battle with the Nixon White House in order to publish a report they thought the people had a right to see.

A man starts a job in which he evicts families from foreclosed houses with the help of two sheriff's deputies: at some houses, the owners cry and argue loudly with him and the deputies enter the home, force the people outside and call in waiting movers to place all the owner's possessions on the front lawn; at one house, a confused senior citizen is escorted outside to sit, where he says he has no family and knows nowhere to go and a deputy says he will drive the man to an agency that will help; a man at another house says he has only rented there for eight years and is not the owner, to which the man evicting him says that the landlord is in foreclosure and scammed the renter.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

In ways that would surely resonate with the denizens of Norway House or the mourners in Waru, the African American single mom and teenage son at the center of this drama are lifelong residents of northern Florida but remain, at best, provisional citizens of their own country.

The White House's We The People initiative, an online petition that allows citizens to seek governmental action, is filled with what some would deem crazy requests.

The House budget proposal will reflect a «good balance of continuing tax reform and tax reduction with making sure that we're meeting the needs of our citizens,» said Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Cary Republican and the House's senior budget writer.

As with voting rights and rights to non-discrimination in employment and housing, the federal government protects all citizens by ensuring equal access to those things that enable us to enjoy the fruits of our Constitutional form of government.