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Twice last week, authorities discovered neglected animals inside dilapidated Rockville Centre homes. The second discovery was by far the worst ...
At 14 Montauk Ave., Faith Ross, 54, and her …
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Tom Steinert
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1/19/11
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Sen. Dean Skelos assumed the two most powerful posts in the State Senate — majority leader and president pro tem — last week.
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By JUDY RATTNER
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1/11/11
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Susan Williams will spend the next 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison after Nassau County Judge Norman St. George sentenced her on Dec. 17 at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola.
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Tom Steinert
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12/21/10
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Long Island’s nine senators will become part of the Republican majority in the New York State Senate next month, and as their leader, Sen. Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre is expected to have their …
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Judy Rattner
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12/8/10
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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.
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Hal Peterson
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12/1/10
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Giving gifts at Hanukkah time is a response to our neighbors’ celebration of Christmas. I think it is pleasing to appreciate others every day and at special times. We Jews have a long and rich history. We have lived around the world and we have influenced and been influenced by other cultures. Giving gifts is a lovely thing to do.
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Marc A. Gruber
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12/1/10
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Susan Williams, the 44-year-old Garden City mother and former Rockville Centre resident accused of hiring a hit man nine months ago to kill her estranged husband, a Lynbrook businessman, was found guilty by a Nassau County jury after four hours of deliberation on Monday.
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Tom Steinert
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11/17/10
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Back in early August, I began to consider writing a series of columns on reforming New York’s dysfunctional state government. Friends and neighbors were not aware of my interest in this subject; others suggested that no amount of disclosure and transparency could possibly make a difference.
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11/17/10
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Back in early August, I began to consider writing a series of columns on reforming New York’s dysfunctional state government. Friends and neighbors were not aware of my interest in this subject; others suggested that no amount of disclosure and transparency could possibly make a difference.
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Hal Peterson
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11/10/10
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As I’ve mentioned in my four prior columns, our state authorities and agencies are not sufficiently accountable to the public. In the past decade alone there have been multiple reports by the state Comptroller’s office, governors’ commissions and public sector watchdog groups about this. Efforts to legislate greater accountability by officials who have focused their attention on authorities have met with limited success.
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Hal Peterson
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10/27/10
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