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More than 100 residents of Freeport and neighboring communities like Merrick, Bellmore and Rockville Centre converged on Freeport Village Hall on Monday to protest Mayor Andrew Hardwick's reported proposal to build a $550 million waste-to-energy trash incinerator in south Freeport, near the Merrick border.
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Sari Zeidler and Scott Brinton
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4/6/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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For years, the common wisdom has been that American industry is in an irreversible decline. As the reasoning went, our shrinking industrial base would be somehow magically replaced by “service industries” like insurance, finance, consumer retail and a big real estate boom.
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Al D'Amato
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2/18/10
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On New Year’s Day, I proudly watched the swearing-in of Nassau County’s next leader. Many cheered loudly for Ed Mangano, a candidate who stood for change and overcame great odds to become our new county executive.
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Al D'Amato
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1/14/10
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The Nassau County Legislature is on the verge of repealing the controversial energy tax, which adds 2.5 percent to the cost of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, propane and firewood. Most Republican candidates vowed during their election campaigns that they would eliminate this tax if they won.
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12/17/09
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It is at last official: Republican Ed Mangano of Bethpage, a 14-year Nassau County legislator, is our new county executive, having defeated two-term Executive Tom Suozzi by the slimmest of margins.
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12/10/09
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Surprise, surprise! It’s an election year, and Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, who is up for re-election, is promising not to raise property taxes in 2010.
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9/24/09
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