Two residents of the Rockville Centre school district have announced their intention to run for the Board of Education. They returned completed nominating petitions to the district clerk by Monday …
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Judy Rattner
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4/20/11
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The Concerned Citizens Party has announced its slate of candidates for the June 21 village election. Mayor Mary Bossart and Trustee David Krasula will run for second terms, and will be joined on the ticket by Michelle Lavacca-Sewell, who will seek a seat on the village Board of Trustees
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Judy Rattner
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3/30/11
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The chief elections for the Rockville Centre Fire Department are scheduled for April 7. Members of the department will vote for Chief of Department (John Busching), 1st Assistant Chief (John Thorp) and 2nd Assistant Chief (Robert Seaman and Brian Cook are both running for the position).
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3/20/11
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Two weeks after Francis X. Murray announced that he would run for mayor, representing the new RVC United Party, Nancy Howard and Michael Sepe have joined him on the ticket.
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Judy Rattner
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3/16/11
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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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A Nassau County Board of Elections worker has been charged with forging a petition for a County Legislature candidate in 2009. The District Attorney’s office has accused 27-year-old Imtiaz Insanally, of Valley Stream, with writing false addresses on a nominating petition.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/8/11
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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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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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