Sentences with phrase «with member items»

And most taxpayers would probably prefer the legislature DID N'T stay in Albany for six months, passing unfunded mandates, raising taxes and fees, and lining their friends and families» pockets with member items.

«Bill De Blasio had no problem with member items when he was doling them out and getting campaign contributions in return.»

«These are arguably worse than member items because at least with member items, there was some transparency on how the money was being divvied up in Albany and which members were directing it.

Mr. Paterson announced that he would veto the grants after lawmakers set aside parts of his budget and passed their own version this week, restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in school and health spending along with the member item money.

Not exact matches

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This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.

And Walmart, whose e-commerce grew 63 % last quarter, is looking to keep pace with Amazon, whose Prime members can get free two - hour delivery on a limited assortment of goods, as well as same - day delivery for free on many items.

Amazon Prime members can now have big boxes filled with regular - sized household items delivered at a flat rate.

The online retailer, whose purchase of Whole Foods will close on Monday, said in a press release on Thursday that it would immediately cut prices on a selection of best - selling basic items, with more to follow, and down the line will make Amazon Prime the loyalty program for Whole Foods, offering members special deal and other perks in stores.

A team member will identify an issue or opportunity for improvement, put together a case and schedule a meeting or call with stakeholders to review the item.

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A family member lives in the old house with me covering all costs; this is a non-negotiable item, unfortunately.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

We have noticed that one item in the body of instructions was the rule that members of the church should be ready to work with their hands.

Members quietly sabotage the minister's well - laid plans by dragging their heels, coming late to meetings, «forgetting» essential items, or simply leaving the success of the entire enterprise in the minister's crowded (with dependent parishioners) lap.

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What began strictly as a frozen food buying group program in 1954 with seven original members, today has over 20,000 items across all major product categories including meats, poultry, seafood, non-foods equipment and supplies, servicing both foodservice and retail markets.

These items would help her so much as the baby will be travelling to be with family members as my daughter trys to finish school and enrich her and the babys future, Thanks for this oppertunity and i have my fingers crossed.

Please note only members with at least 3 months membership and 250 + posts can create new topics to sell items (this permission is set automatically).

Look at photos or old baby items, watch videos, or reminisce with a spouse or family member.

When members of the Chicago Park District's largest union sat down Tuesday with their bosses to discuss a new contract, a plan to track some workers via satellite was the newest item on the agenda.

Make baby a word book complete with pictures of items from your home and life, as well as photos of friends and family members.

To establish the roles that members can take on (note: it's important to be flexible regarding roles, especially with a small group; members may take on responsibilities as action items arise).

Nestled between a barber shop and a jewelry store, the Bumble Tree often bustles with activity as the youngest members of the community sample the products from cool wooden tractors to soft cotton dolls... Other specialty items are cloth diapers, organic cotton clothing, soft - soled «Stones» winter footwear - to be worn over regular shoes - and Swiss - made SIGG metal water bottles.»

Also, consider asking friends and family members with children if they have old baby items that they no longer need.

If the item is out of your budget for a person find a friend or family member to go in on it with you!

Can anybody post a in item on this blog or do you have to be a member of the inner circle with a PhD in political science and suitable contacts in high places to vouch for one?

And he would not go along with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's push for reintroducing new member items into the state budget.

So firm was Lopez's hold on his Democrat - dominated borough that elected officials and would - be elected officials alike would routinely make the pilgrimage to the taxpayer - funded Ridgewood - Bushwick Senior Center picnic he threw every year, and those with the power to do so approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of NYC and state member items that the assemblyman used to build his senior services empire.

Governor Paterson's Executive Budget contains several items which may be of interest to Business Council members who contract with NYS or local agencies.

While the source could not say exactly why federal investigators were looking at Huntley, the New York Post reported the southeast Queens senator received a federal subpoena in connection with $ 400,000 in member items she helped steer -LSB-...]

Farrell also challenged Cuomo's desire to kill member items for good, noting the governor has plenty of economic development cash to dole out on his own — or, as the assemblyman put it: «The governor has people who walk around with money in their pockets.»

A government serious about transparency will post information online as interactive maps as the federal government did with Recovery.org, including spending, tax breaks, capital projects, member items, economic development projects, etc..

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

As lawmakers prepare to pass the third consecutive state budget with no new pork - barrel spending, Cuomo said yesterday he doesn't believe legislative «member items» should ever return.

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That investigation exposed a nonprofit set up by, as the AG's press release put it, «a New York state senator,» which allegedly funneled about $ 30,000 in member item funds to those associated with it, including the senator's aide and an individual who shares a residence with the senator.

The European Commission also announced a consultation with member states on proposals to allow countries to vary their reduced VAT rates on items such as: e-books; women's» sanitary products; domestic «green» expenditure; children's clothing; and basic foodstuffs.

With the City Council's 2010 fiscal budget, Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) trailed the pack in member item funding, though his office said the councilman made up for some of that by seeking private grants for constituent groups.

Capital Region Assembly members John McDonald and Patricia Fahy emerged from an evening conference with their Democratic colleagues confident that major items were being locked down at last.

They may not get to shape the final legislation, but they are typically rewarded with earmarks — known as member items in Albany parlance — and informal control over some state contracts.

EJ McMahon with the fiscal think tank The Empire Center, used the state's freedom of information laws to get the list of projects, and he says it looks at lot like the old member items.

A nonprofit funded with hundreds of thousands of dollars secured by state Sen. Adriano Espaillat through legislative «member items» quietly wound down last year and threw its four paid staffers out of work.

On the flip side, it means difficulty for central New York's Democratic Assembly members to push through key agenda items, and reduces the influence of Sen. Dave Valesky, who DeFrancisco shares representation of Syracuse with.

So it became clear that folks who had problems with school governance or some other legislative issues would not get their member items.»

In February this year, there was a high sophisticated robbery attack at the residence of the member of Parliament at Buobai where valuable items amounting to millions of Ghana Cedis were made away with and till date the police were not able to make any arrest.

Not everyone is thrilled with Assemblywoman Sandra Galef's post-Vincent Leibell call for a member item overhaul.

* In the third case, the Empire Center argues the City Council violated state law when it failed to comply with a March 1, 2010 FOIL request for information about the Council's «discretionary» funding, also known as initiative - based or member - item grants.

«I have always had a problem with our system of legislative pork, and have never taken member items, even when I was criticized for not doing so,» Galef wrote.