The Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation has decided, “after exhaustive study,” that Belmont Park is the best place to install 1,000 video lottery terminals. Since that announcement . . .
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1/8/16
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Incumbent Carrie Solages is a visible legislator for the 3rd District, appearing at community events, hosting tax workshops and working with residents to address their concerns. He deserves to be re-elected.
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10/29/15
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Following a community uproar and calls from elected officials and civic leaders, Joseph Cairo, the president of Nassau County Off-Track Betting, said that the location his organization was considering as a site to put a video lottery terminal casino as well as another parcel that was named are not where OTB will put the facility.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/28/15
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Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is unhealthy. It’s a fact that smoking has immediate negative health consequences and that, over a prolonged period, it causes several different forms of cancer . . .
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8/27/14
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Redistricting is most likely something Nassau County residents don’t want to think about again for another decade, especially after last year’s long and contentious process to redraw the county’s 19 legislative districts.
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2/14/14
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Although Michaelle Solages began her first term in the New York State Assembly a month ago, she wanted to do something special for the community that put her there. On Feb. 1, she was sworn in at Elmont’s Dutch Broadway School, where she began her education more than two decades ago.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/6/13
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Nassau County’s 19 Legislative districts will be changing later this year, but no one knows yet how dramatic those adjustments are going to be.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/9/13
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Nassau County Legislator Carrié Solages has called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to audit county Police Department crime statistics in light of a commander’s recent demotion for …
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By Deirdre Krasula
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8/29/12
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A trio of Democratic legislators expressed their concerns about Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano’s plan to privatize the county’s sewer system at a meeting at the Valley Stream American Legion hall on April 12.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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4/18/12
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In a contentious meeting on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature voted 10 to 9 along party lines to implement a new Community Policing Plan, in which four of the county’s eight police precincts will be closed over the next seven months and replaced with “community policing centers.”
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By Aaron Axelson and Brian Croce
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3/7/12
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