U.S. Rep. Peter King’s recent decision to retire from Congress will end a distinguished career of public service to Long Island, New York and America. In a time when our politics is more fractured and contentious than ever . . .
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11/29/19
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There are three seats up for grabs on Oyster Bay’s Town Board, which is solidly Republican. The three candidates on the Republican ticket include newcomers, Laura Maier and Vicki Walsh. Both hope …
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By Laura Lane
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10/25/19
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John Novello, a Hewlett Harbor resident who ran for trustee last year, was arraigned on a grand jury indictment on Sept. 5 for allegedly stealing more than $59,000 from the Cedarhurst Republican Committee. He was arrested on the same day.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/5/19
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I’m a big believer in bipartisanship. I come from an era when Democrats and Republicans worked together successfully on a variety of important issues. As a Democrat, I remember the Republican Party as the party of Lincoln, the party of Ronald Reagan . . .
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4/26/19
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At the 2008 Republican National Convention, party stalwart Michael Steele declared, “Drill, baby, drill! And drill now! Do you want to put your country first?"
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4/25/19
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Town of Hempstead Republicans practically swelled with pride on April 16, after the Town Board unanimously passed a revamped ethics code.
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4/25/19
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The conviction last Friday of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano was yet another domino falling in the county’s GOP political machine, with possibly more to come.
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3/14/19
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The vote to reappoint Associate City Judge Joseph McCann came before the City Council Tuesday night after Mayor Tim Tenke, who nominated him, asked that the item be tabled at a meeting on Jan. 8. And …
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By Alyssa Seidman
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1/24/19
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In the nearly two years that Atlantic Beach resident Melissa Miller has been a state assemblywoman, she has learned that government moves at a glacial pace — which Miller, the mother of a special-needs child, finds frustrating.
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11/1/18
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When Laura Gillen took the reins in January as the first Democratic supervisor in the Town of Hempstead in more than 100 years, residents, and even some members of the Republican-majority Town Board, expressed hope for a new era of cooperation and transparency.
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By Erik Hawkins
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8/23/18
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