The zoning board did its job. We heard from all the parties and there were a lot of residents worried about it. After careful consideration, the board concluded that this was not an appropriate location for a stand-alone bank and it would not be beneficial to the borough of Westwood.
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The former Bronx borough president's proposal on computers for student use came as he detailed how he would spend the additional billions of dollars in financing that state courts have ordered for the city's school system, as a result of a lawsuit filed a decade ago by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity .
I think these things are up to the discretion of the borough president,
We are working throughout the borough with the community, with elected officials, and civic organizations to foster economic growth as well as support the creation of attractive and affordable housing to neighborhoods and provide the city's largest borough with an even better future.
The (50th anniversary) celebration is a good way to understand the changes within the borough.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
Just because the Democratic machine in a particular borough supports a candidate, they still may not really have that much clout,
Fernando Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, appeared at several black churches yesterday morning and issued a statement calling the Bush administration's response shocking, inadequate and indefensible. ... we have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.
We secured 5 million of Gerlach-Santorum funding and as (borough manager) Don Edwards acknowledged during a meeting, the borough didn't have to lift a finger and we spent a lot of money, ... This shows our continued commitment to the publicprivate partnership.
... Your ideas for the operation of the police department - one of the primary responsibilities of the mayor, and of critical importance both to borough residents and me - convince me that Phoenixville will be a safer community with you as mayor,
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed and that was quite enough for him.
This is the height of a conflict, if ever there were one, ... There is a need for this matter to be looked at by higher authorities. And it's further evidence that there needs to be a cleanup of all the corrupt mess in the borough of Brooklyn.
The fire department always can use money to buy equipment for the firefighters, ... It will go to the proper places so it can benefit the proper members of the Hanover Borough Fire Department.
The borough is willing to allocate some tax monies to go through these various studies. Borough council members have indicated while it's very possible that we may end up getting out of the pool business altogether, it just seems to be a step backwards and really not desirable. They're trying to figure out a way to keep the service, but on the other hand, get it out of the general fund.
We can do better than a mayor who says he doesn't think many people make the minimum wage. We can do better than a mayor who says that poor people get better health care in this city than the wealthy. I believe that hope and opportunity have to be present in equal measure on every block, on every street in every neighborhood in every borough of our city.
I think he's on a very good track to accomplishing some very impressive things in his next four years. Adolfo is a very bright guy, he's a good borough president and he'll have a solid record of accomplishment that will serve him well for anything he wants to do.