commissioner
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Norfolk's police commissioner is considering scrapping his 127-date theatre show after a backlash from local people, he has told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners should direct you to the insurance commissioner in your state.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
Police commissioner Jessica Tisch said an anti-drone team would be deployed as a precaution, but stressed there was no intelligence of a specific threat to the gathering.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
About 15 years after it ended, a former Texas labor commissioner and ranking Labor Department official overseeing the program went public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
I wrote a letter to the police commissioner myself in support of Miyamoto, but I never received a reply, and Miyamoto was rejected.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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If the city ultimately decides a physical barrier is necessary, commissioners suggested a lower and more temporary fence, pointing to the chain-link fencing installed around Echo Park in 2021 and removed two years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The letter also questioned what commissioners described as the fence’s “apparent permanency” and said the proposed height ranged from 8 to 11 feet in different sections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Its published conflict-of-interest policy covers member commissioners but not, so far as the GAO could determine, its chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to the last annual report, the chair is paid between £50,000 and £55,000 while the other commissioners earn between £20,000 and £25,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The French reacted “as if it had been a victory of their own troops over their own enemies,” the commissioners reported.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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