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When County Executive Ed Mangano took office in January, he knew his plate was full. What he didn’t know was just how bad the situation was. Nassau County’s 2011 budget currently has a gap … more
I can’t remember the last time I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone, but I urge you all to read the article in which Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of our troops in Afghanistan, and his colleagues gave a candid interview to journalist Michael Hasting. more
More than two months since the BP disaster, a number of polls indicate that a majority of Americans still disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the spill. more
If you’re a political junkie like me, you love a good knock-down fight. In the political record book, June 8 will go down as the day when women, particularly Republican women, scored a knockout, and boy, did they roar! more
As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico and now threatens the Florida Panhandle, the blame game has begun. more
My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages. more
On April 20, an explosion off the Gulf Coast on an oil rig leased by British Petroleum marked the unfortunate beginning of the worst oil spill in our nation’s history. more
If we learned anything from last week’s elections, it’s that voters have become a lot smarter than we give them credit for. The May 18 primaries were just the first round of tests for many influential incumbents, and several big names flopped at the polls. more
Once again, New York state’s two biggest enemies — the ravenous unions and the legislators who are afraid to vote against them — have reared their ugly heads. Love him or hate him, let’s give our lame duck governor, David Paterson, credit for taking a stand. more
On May 1, a Pakistani-born American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. His intent was simple — to kill innocent American citizens and create economic chaos. more
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