The North Merrick Library’s proposed $6.5 million renovation plan was defeated on Monday, with the public voting 445 to 358 to reject a bond proposal to finance the project.
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By David Weingrad
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4/13/11
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The Merrick Library will host its annual budget vote and trustee election in the library’s community room on Wednesday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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By David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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4/1/11
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Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 14th A.D.) co-sponsored Assembly Bill 3093, which allows villages that administer their own elections to use lever voting machines in those elections if they so choose.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/23/11
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On Election Day, angry voters all over the country focused their attention on Congress, deficits, the Obama health care plan, taxes and numerous other grievances. Incumbent politicians got the brunt …
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Jerry Kremer
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1/17/11
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Robert Ellensohn was elected the new North Merrick Fire Commissioner, defeating incumbent Kevin O’Hara.
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By David Weingrad
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12/21/10
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Mineola Mayor Jack Martins was officially declared the victor in his race against 7th State District Senator Craig Johnson by a Nassau County Supreme Court Judge on Saturday. But Johnson announced on …
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Alex Costello
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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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In a last-ditch effort to draw voters to the polls before the midterm elections, President Obama stood before Democrats at a rally in Southern California and said, “If Latinos sit out the election …
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Al D'Amato
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11/12/10
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The elections are now history. There were surprise winners and a few surprise losers on Long Island. Most voters don’t think that far ahead, but because of the climate we live in, 2011 won’t be a …
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Jerry Kremer
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11/12/10
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It took longer than usual for Nassau County election results to come in this year than it has in previous years, due apparently to the new electronic voting machine system that was implemented this …
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Alex Costello
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11/10/10
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