Mr. Coscia said the Port Authority might invest in improvements at Stewart to attract airlines, even though doing so would probably require legislative changes in Albany and Trenton to the authority's charter.
My mandate comes from them, not some daft local police authority diversity charter.
The MBA report calls for "two or three" new GSEs at first, but would give the government the authority to charter additional firms.
"The reason that people don't want a statewide authority [authorizing charter schools] is that the districts don't want competition," Hyatt said.
The Conservative Party stated that this was in part a response to Danish and Swedish authorities allowing charter services to Phuket, Thailand, which could be seen as competing to SAS' route to Bangkok.
Under a so-called deferred-prosecution agreement with United States authorities, Standard Chartered is required to report any potential wrongdoing to the Justice Department.
Charter advocates quickly challenged the new rule, and ultimately a judge said the department did not have the authority to bring charter schools under the program.
The trustees and the Regents each have authority to approve charter schools, which are publicly financed but operate free from local school districts' control.
A provocative multimedia artist whose work is slyly political, Mr. Wu may have also angered the authorities by signing Charter 08, the manifesto calling for free elections that brought its main author, Liu Xiaobo, an 11-year jail sentence — and the Nobel Peace Prize.
The writer Liu Xiaobo is being detained by Beijing authorities for signing Charter 08, a document published online that demands substantial government reform in China.
