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Last week we highlighted some of the work we think the New York Senate and Assembly have left incomplete as they head toward the end of this legislative session on June 19.
We said that …
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6/12/14
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Long Islanders have a lot to be happy about these days. Not only is this wretched winter coming to an end, but our average proposed school-tax hike is the lowest it has been in more than four decades.
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3/27/14
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When our Founding Fathers sat down to create the Constitution, they decided it would be best to devise a system of checks and balances in order to guard the people against tyranny.
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3/6/14
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As snow storms continue to roll in and out of Nassau County, local officials shared storm-related information with residents on Monday. State Sen. Dean Skelos, like other representatives on the state, county and town and city level, said he encourages Long Islanders to keep the phone numbers listed below handy so they know what agencies to contact for storm-related information or services.
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By Julie Mansmann
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2/3/14
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Friends, the state of our county is good. Our unemployment rate is at 5.1 percent, the lowest in the state. Thanks to the combined efforts of the governor, our county executive and local officials . . .
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1/16/14
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Nassau County’s response to Hurricane Sandy was the pinnacle of Ed Mangano’s first four years as county executive, prominent elected officials said during his inauguration ceremony on Jan. 2 at Bethpage High School.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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1/7/14
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As dusk crept in over Chester A. Reese Veterans Memorial Park in Malverne on Sept. 11, families, residents and officials gathered around its 9/11 memorial with dozens of flickering candles for the …
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By Emily Webb
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9/17/13
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The state’s new Commission to Investigate Public Corruption has the potential to finally address, in an organized and effective manner, the illegal and unethical practices of too many elected public officials in New York.
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7/10/13
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The Jets’ old, dark-green scoreboard still stands in a dirt field at the team’s former training camp on Hofstra University’s north campus. “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare,” it reads.
Call it a monument to the past, which will soon be removed to make way for the future –– a 63,000-square-foot addition to the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ Medical School, which was founded in 2008 and welcomed its first class of 40 in 2011. The $39.5 million project, funded in part with a $14.5 million state grant, will more than double the size of the medical school.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/12/13
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Within a few days after you read this, New York state will have a new budget. It will mark the earliest budget passage in the past 30 years.
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3/28/13
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