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Area teachers, from left, Melissa Cangelosi, Lauren Funaro, Dani Iadevaia Andria Karousis showed their feelings about the Common Core tests at an education forum at Levittown Hall in Hicksville on March 16.

They all had different ways to say it, but the message was clear: opt out of Common Core tests. Two teachers, two administrators and a parent told the more than 300 people at Levittown Hall in Hicksville that the only way to send a message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was to refuse to let their children take the third through eighth grade English language arts and math tests in April. more

By Rebecca Melnitsky | 3/25/15

Governor Andrew Cuomo is pushing lawmakers to approve legislation to raise New York's age of juvenile jurisdiction in order to charge 16- and 17-year-old offenders as minors, instead of adults.

Cuomo pushes to ‘Raise the Age’

New York is one of two states in the country that automatically processes, prosecutes and incarcerates 16- and 17-year olds — regardless of the offense — as adults, a measure that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, backed by a large number of advocacy groups, is pushing to change. more

By David Weingrad | 3/18/15

Assemblyman Brian Curran, left, led a town hall state budget presentation on March 4 at Baldwin Public Library. From left were Library Board President Joe Carroll, Board of Education President Karyn Reid, Town of Hempstead Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, County Legislator Laura Curran, Board of Education Vice President Mary Jo O’Hagan, Library Board Trustee Carl Williams and Baldwin Civic Association President Karen Montalbano.

State budget presentation comes to Baldwin

Roughly two-dozen Baldwin residents took an in-depth look at parts of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed state budget last week as Assemblyman Brian Curran (R-Lynbrook) brought his town hall budget presentation to Baldwin Public Library. more

By Brian Croce | 3/11/15

Dealing with sexual assault on campus

The numbers from the U.S. Justice Department are sobering: from 1995 to 2013, more than 10,000 women in college were raped. more

3/4/15

Making college campuses safer

Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forward a bill that would help combat sexual assault on college campuses across New York. The bill, part of the governor’s Enough is Enough initiative, would make all colleges in the state, which enroll some 1.2 million students, comply with initiatives the governor instituted at SUNY schools last year, including setting up a statewide definition of affirmative consent and creating a Bill of Rights for victims and survivors of sexual assault. more

By Alex Costello | 3/4/15

Patrick Robbins, of Sane Energy Project, addressed about 40 people at the Baldwin Public Library last Saturday about Liberty Natural Gas’s plan to build Port Ambrose, a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 19 miles southeast of Jones Beach. Environmental groups are calling on Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie to veto the plan.

LNG proposal criticized at Baldwin meeting

Local environmental groups made their case against plans for an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal and implored South Shore residents to do the same with their elected officials at an informational meeting in Baldwin last Saturday. more

By Brian Croce | 2/25/15

So much for sunlight

"People all across the state, when you mention state government, [are] literally shaking their heads . . ." more

2/19/15

At a press conference on Feb. 12 at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, commissioner of the county Department of Public Works; Jon Kaiman, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s special advisor for Long Island storm recovery; Ed Mangano, the county executive; and Todd Kaminsky, a state assemblyman from Long Beach, announced that the state would provide $150 million to upgrade the Bay Park plant with a nitrogen-removal system.

State promises $150 million to better treat sewage

New York state has pledged to fund the installation of a $150 million nitrogen-removal system at the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant, which will reduce the environmental harm of the sewage the plant discharges into Nassau County’s Western Bays, state and county officials said on Feb. 12. The officials, speaking at a Mineola news conference, also called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $550 million more to build an outfall pipe to carry effluent from Bay Park into the Atlantic Ocean. more

By Brian Racow | 2/13/15

What wasn't in the State of the State

One thing that can be said about Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State speech on Jan. 21 was that he didn’t shy away from most of the hard issues. more

1/29/15

Nassau County drivers can now return to the roads, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted the travel ban effective at 7:30 a.m. MTA service is set to resume at its normal schedule at 8 a.m.

Cuomo opens Nassau roads

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday morning that he has lifted Nassau County's travel ban, effective at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and that MTA service will continue on its regular schedule … more

By Brendan Murray bmurray@liherald.com | 1/27/15

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