How can voter-rich Long Island maintain its political influence in a State Senate chamber that will have an overwhelming number of New York City legislators next year? It will be a challenge that the Senate’s new Democratic leadership will need to master . . .
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By Kyle Strober
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12/20/18
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In the nearly two years that Atlantic Beach resident Melissa Miller has been a state assemblywoman, she has learned that government moves at a glacial pace — which Miller, the mother of a special-needs child, finds frustrating.
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11/1/18
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My stomach was churning furiously. The Press Club of Long Island’s first-ever poetry reading on Aug. 23 was to begin in a half-hour at the Huntington Station birthplace of the unparalleled poet and journalist Walt Whitman. Would anyone show? I wondered.
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9/14/18
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Part six in an ongoing series. Read parts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7] here.
When temporary protected status for Haitians was revoked last November, TPS recipients from other countries …
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By Nadya Nataly, Alyssa Seidman and Brian Stieglitz
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4/26/18
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Baldwin Democrat Laura Curran pulled out a victory over Republican Jack Martins in the race for Nassau County’s highest seat on Tuesday night, withall precincts reporting, …
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By Erik Hawkins
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11/7/17
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President Trump has derided the Affordable Care Act time and again over the past two years, saying, over and over, that it — and, you would think, it alone — caused insurance premiums to skyrocket.
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6/1/17
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Since November’s election, it hasn’t been easy to be a Democrat. Most of us assumed that Hillary Clinton would win in a walk, and the media . . .
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2/9/17
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One day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, women, men and children by the hundreds of thousands descended on Washington, D.C., New York City and more than 60 major points around the globe on Jan. 21 to send a signal to Republican lawmakers: Women’s rights are human rights.
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By Scott Brinton and Rossana Weitekamp
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1/22/17
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Russia. Friend? Enemy? Campaign and political pawn is more like it these days.
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12/22/16
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Long Beach City Councilman Anthony Eramo defeated former Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback by a wide margin in Tuesday's Democratic primary for the vacant 20th Assembly District seat.
With all …
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By Jeff Bessen and Anthony Rifilato
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9/13/16
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