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Is it spying when the National Security Agency listens to your phone calls and reads your text messages? more
I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more
A special North Bellmore School District committee formed to address a state-mandated property tax cap met for the first time last week. The committee is chaired by Superintendent Arnold Goldstein, and includes administrators, teachers, parents and residents. The North Bellmore School District takes in Park Avenue Elementary School, which is in North Merrick. more
Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students from Professor Scott Brinton’s Current Issues in Science Reporting class recently participated in and are reporting on an Envirothon that took place in the woodlands around the Meadowbrook Parkway in North Merrick, Roosevelt and Freeport on April 30. Brinton, of Merrick, is a senior editor and op-ed columnist with Herald Community Newspapers. The Nassau County Unprotected Woodlands Taskforce, headed by county Legislators David Denenberg and Norma Gonsalves, organized the event. more
The Long Island Index — an independent, non-partisan group that compiles data every year about different aspects of Long Island — has spent the past few years working on analyzing the area’s … more
During his campaign, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s transition team released a detailed and well-annotated report outlining plans for “Rightsizing Government.” The report’s findings and recommendations reiterate much of what the previous columns in this series have suggested: that New York state’s Public Authorities and agencies have “become too big, too expensive, and too ineffective — an ever proliferating tangle of boards, commissions, councils, departments, divisions, offices, task forces and public authorities, [that] the taxpaying public can no longer afford.“ Amen. more
Q. We're about to start a construction project, and workers' cars will be parked all around us. I have this ongoing problem: My neighbor constantly does vindictive things to cars parked in front of his house. more
The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is looking at a 3.58 percent increase in its 2010-11 operating budget when compared to the current year, meaning expenditures would jump from roughly $122 million to $127.3 million. more
Aqua America Inc., based in Bryn Mawr, Pa., provides water or wastewater services to 3 million people in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It is traded on the New York Stock exchange under the symbol WTR. Founded in 1968 as the Philadelphia Suburban Corporation, it was renamed Aqua America Inc. in 2004, and acquired New York Water in 2007. In Bellmore-Merrick it operates under the name Aqua New York. more
Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray has said, “Development is coming” to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. The question is, will the New York Islanders be there to anchor the property when all is said and done? Or will Long Island’s only professional sports franchise move to Queens or Brooklyn, or even to Kansas City or Ontario? more
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