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Nine-nine-nine. Sounds like a card game. Unfortunately for me, it’s not.
But if you’re like me, you’re totally confused by the Republican presidential candidates’ plans for tax reform.
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11/3/11
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How many times do you recall a teacher calling to your attention the fact that history repeats itself?
Well, my old Chaminade history teacher, Mr. Fox, was right.
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10/27/11
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Wall Street has been occupied.
Thousands of Americans have built a small, self-sustaining shantytown in lower Manhattan where they eat, sleep and continue to protest wealth, corporate greed and Wall Street. Specifically, they have come together claiming that “1 percent of the population … has destroyed this nation and its values through their greed.”
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10/13/11
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Last week I wrote about Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s 2012 budget proposal, one that actively seeks to reduce Nassau County’s work force by an additional 700 employees. Mangano’s call for concessions by union leaders was met by steep opposition and what he referred to as “juvenile” criticism by labor leaders.
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10/6/11
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It’s no secret that Nassau County is going through a rough fiscal period. The county faces an estimated $310 million deficit in 2012. County Executive Ed Mangano is still paying for the previous administrations’ unaffordable labor contracts, the assessment system is broken and the global recession has hit everyone, including Nassau County.
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9/29/11
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It’s been a rough few weeks for President Obama.
Over Labor Day, the president attended a union rally in Detroit and was introduced by Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa Jr. During the …
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Al D'Amato
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9/16/11
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Hurricane Irene was the first hurricane to touch ground in the U.S. since 2008. For the first time in its history, the New York City transportation system was shut down. Mayor Bloomberg and our local …
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Al D'Amato
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9/1/11
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The newly announced candidate for the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has created media buzz. According to the most recent Rasmussen poll, Perry was leading fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney by 13 points just days after confirming his presidential run.
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8/25/11
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On Friday, Aug. 5, just days after Congress passed and the president signed a deal to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, Standard & Poor’s announced that it was downgrading our debt …
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Al D'Amato
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8/18/11
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On Aug. 1, the president signed and Congress passed a half-baked bill raising the debt ceiling, Nassau County residents voted 57 to 43 percent against a taxpayer-funded initiative to rebuild Nassau Coliseum, and I celebrated my 74th birthday.
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8/11/11
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