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This one was never in doubt. Legislation that will put a cap on property tax levies passed by a 57-to-5 margin in the State Senate before it made it through the Assembly and was signed into law by …
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By Fran Berkman and Lee Landor
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7/6/11
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed New York's first property tax cap in Lynbrook today, at the home of James and Janet Gannon.
“For decades, taxpayers across New York state have been burdened …
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By Mary Malloy and Brianna Isabel Barbieri
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6/30/11
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Long Island employers got a bit of good news earlier this month when the State Senate passed a bill to repeal the MTA payroll tax — shortly after the MTA terminated its contract to operate Long …
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By Lee Landor
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6/29/11
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Seventh-grade sports might have to be eliminated. The nine-period day might be reduced to eight. And teachers might have to be let go. After that, no one’s sure what might happen, but school districts will have to keep cutting.
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Scott Brinton
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6/2/11
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James Mulva, chief executive officer of the U.S.’s third-largest oil company, ConocoPhillips, fired off a news release one day before a May 12 congressional hearing to discuss –– not to decide –– whether Big Oil should pay its fair share of federal taxes. In it, Mulva had the audacity to state that charging oil companies more in taxes would be “un-American.”
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Scott Brinton
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5/19/11
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Two weeks after former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi was sentenced to prison for his role in a “pay-to-play” scheme, Governor Cuomo proposed “Hevesi’s Law,” aimed at keeping future state employees from collecting pensions if they’re convicted of an abuse of power.
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Al D'Amato
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5/5/11
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Politicians are normal people. They like to be with winners, and want badly to blend in with the crowd. That may be the reason why New York state’s elected officials wind up supporting things like tax caps: They sound sexy and are appealing to today’s voters.
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By Jerry Kremer
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4/14/11
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Salaries and benefits make up close to 90 percent of the increase in Malverne’s school budget for 2011-12. That leaves $250,000 of the nearly $1.8 million increase to spend on everything else: …
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By Lee Landor
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4/13/11
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As Americans, we take great pride in the companies that call the U.S. home and choose to have their headquarters here. Companies that have been around forever, like GE, General Motors, Microsoft and Cisco, are American staples.
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Al D'Amato
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4/7/11
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Long Island’s history books have recorded the fact that our bicounty area has been blessed by many great political names, each of whom exercised great political clout in Washington, Albany and Mineola.
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By Jerry Kremer
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3/31/11
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