Sentences with phrase «with city mayors»

Mike Kane, the shadow schools minister, has spoken of the need for schools to be more accountable for parents and for England's schools commissioners to cover smaller areas and work with city mayors.

The day included introductory remarks from Harvard President Drew Faust, a morning keynote address by former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and a panel conversation with city mayors.

Not exact matches

With 47.7 % of its population of non-Dutch origin, Rotterdam is proud of its multiethnic makeup, and in 2009 it further cemented its multicultral status after Ahmed Aboutaleb became the first Muslim mayor of a major Dutch city.

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Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

It's a cause that Perry, a former L.A. councilwoman who has served in leadership positions with the city for nearly 25 years and ran for mayor in 2013, has long championed.

During his time at City Hall, where he sat back to back with the mayor, he says, they discussed the company for a total of perhaps one hour before Mike asked him to run it.

She later introduced the first federal gay - rights bill, along with future New York City mayor Ed Koch.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

«We've been working with the Commission to bring some of the issues that we were struggling with to the mayor and to the city council, and they've been really responsive,» says Kiewiet.

Just weeks after settling a dispute with New York City's mayor over limiting new drivers, Uber is once again making headlines but this time in Asia, where the controversial ride - sharing app is facing fresh legal accusations.

The result of turfing Ford seems especially troubling when we compare Ford's ethical cluelessness with the out - and - out corruption that has brought down mayors in other major cities.

This summer, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a bill requiring for - hire vehicle companies that have bases with 500 cars or more — which includes Uber — to increase their number of vehicles by only 1 % every year.

With Hartford on edge about the future of Aetna here, CVS Health Corp. chief executive Larry Merlo traveled to the city in January for high - profile meetings with the governor and the city's maWith Hartford on edge about the future of Aetna here, CVS Health Corp. chief executive Larry Merlo traveled to the city in January for high - profile meetings with the governor and the city's mawith the governor and the city's mayor.

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, now an attorney for President Trump, has rocked the political and legal worlds not only with his revelation that Trump reimbursed attorney Michael Cohen for hush money paid to adult - film actress Stormy Daniels, but that the president fired James B. Comey because the then - FBI director wouldn't publicly clear Trump in the Russia affair.

Akilah Johnson has been a reporter with the Globe since 2010, covering neighborhoods, Boston's mayor's race, and the crosscurrents of race and ethnicity in the city.

On each poll, participants indicated whether they approved or disapproved of the job performance of President Barack Obama, their state governor, senators, representative and their mayor, if they lived in a city with more than about 10,000 residents.

He feuded with the London mayor in the wake of a terror attack on the city.

Unfortunately, with Christy Clark playing endless transit funding games with the mayors of Metro Vancouver, at this rate commuters in other cities will wait for years before they see the buses and trains required to reduce gridlock and traffic.»

With six days left until municipal election day in Alberta, the mayors in the province's two largest cities are facing very different election campaigns.

Edmonton's last mayor with any lengthy amount of prior elected experience was Jan Reimer, who served three - terms on City Council before being elected as mayor in 1989.

We have presidential elections coming up in Mexico where there is a surge of populism for the current, or the former Mexico City mayor and dissatisfaction with the incumbent president.

The urban advantage of state treasurer hopeful Shawn Wooden got another boost from a big city mayor Thursday, with Hartford's Luke Bronin endorsing the former city council president.

We met with Vera Baboun, the newly elected and first - ever female mayor of Bethlehem, a small city in the West Bank.

Pittsburgh's mayor knelt down in defeat on Tuesday, donning a Denver Broncos No. 15 jersey and «Tebowing» in front of the Steel City's skyline to pay off a bet he made with the mayor of Denver over the Steelers - Broncos playoff game.

The Brooklyn - based group has coordinated the lighting ceremony since it began in 1977, then coinciding with the administration of Abraham David Beam, the first Jewish mayor of New York City.

My 86 year old great uncle who has been with the same man happily for 40 years, a good deal of the time as mayor of a decent sized city (no, not in the backwater US) has had one of the greatest, happiest lives I know.

Zanis» voice cracked as he told CNN in a phone interview the stories of victims» families he met in Aurora and described praying with the city's mayor, Steve Hogan.

Now Partnership is working with the mayor's office and other concerned groups on a more ambitious plan: rehabilitation of more than 1,000 city - owned apartments to provide permanent housing for almost 4,000 homeless families and individuals.

Will that nation of yours include Houston with it's gay democratic female mayor and some of the other big cities that voted for Bill White in the last election?

Today, its a comparison of John Lindsay, late 60s / early 70s mayor of New York City, with the One.

You have right to not agree with Christian beliefs but why are you using CNN belief blog to openly express your hatred and provoking retaliation from citizens and the cities / mayors etc?

Somehow I doubt the experience as mayor in a new suburb in the west would really qualify for dealing with urban issues that come with millions of people in cities now aging into centuries.

She added: «Through this campaign, peace activists, lawyers, city mayors, faith leaders, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many others are speaking with one voice.

A new political dawn in the land of the meatball has brought with it a culinary awakening, with news that the new mayor of Turin wants it to become the first vegetarian city in Italy.

Each year the U.S. Conference of Mayors in partnership with the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America provides grants to support mayors who are proactively working to fight childhood obesity in their cities.

The program also includes a national public awareness campaign, and connects mayors with innovative, cost - effective strategies to successfully reduce childhood obesity in their cities.

While four teen - age «observers» from a private military academy passed out pennants with the motto Por mejores jinetes con mejores caballos (for better horsemen with better horses), the general sat at his ease, dispensing radiant good will, autographs and tequila to his assorted fans and accepted with equal enthusiasm invitations from a grade school girl to address her class and from the mayor to accept the keys to the city.

Formula E has had a couple of hits this season in terms of location as the proposed round in Sao Paulo has had to be postponed a year, and the mayor of Montreal cancelled the city's race because of financial reasons, leaving the sport with it's planned season finale.

After Sept. 11, Chicago mayor Richard Daley insisted the rights arrangement be stricken from the city's stadium renovation deal with the Bears.

City workers will begin shutting down streets at 1 p.m. Houston mayor Sylvester Turner made a statement to go along with the announcement of the celebration.

MILAN: AC Milan insisted Tuesday they have no intention of moving away from the iconic San Siro stadium which they share with city rivals Inter after the mayor of Milan suggested a move was imminent.

The voluntary commitment comes following extensive discussions with The Living Wage Foundation and Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool city region, which have taken place over recent months.

Ferguson concluded that Maggie Daley's charity was benefiting from its ties to City Hall, but he stopped short of saying those developers who were awarded taxpayer subsidies were buying influence with the former mayor.

The mayor «s forces handed Kelly «s vast powers over the park district, with its $ 230 million budget and 5,000 full - time and part - time jobs, to Jesse Madison, the city «s consumer services commissioner.

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City who recently took a lot of heat for his law that would ban the sale of soda in containers over 16 ounces, is at it again with a controversial pro-breastfeeding program.

With a program called Latch On NYC, the mayor has convinced most of the city's hospitals to stop giving out swag bags containing formula, and to have nurses record a medical reason for giving a baby a bottle.

Despite the mayor's claims to the contrary, City & State found some details of his nonprofit groups and their interactions with City Hall remain private or virtually inaccessible to the public, and oversight of them appears muddled with largely voluntary compliance.

With unusual bluntness, the mayor criticized the Success Academy charter school network for refusing to sign a contract his administration says is mandatory for all organizations offering city - funded pre-kindergarten programs.