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As the New York Times reported on Sept. 11, at the insistence of the S.E.C. “New Jersey agreed never again to fraudulently hide its underfunding of the state's public pension system.” Hide or not, many states (including New York) have invested too little money in public pension funds. This represents a huge hidden liability for both current and future taxpayers.
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Hal Peterson
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9/29/10
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Most Long Islanders know — thanks to pocket-draining experience — that living here carries a hefty price tag. What many don't seem to know is that they can change that.
How?
One way is …
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Lee Landor
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9/22/10
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Most Long Islanders know -- thanks to pocket-draining experience -- that living here carries a hefty price tag. What many don’t seem to know is that they can change that.
How?
One way is …
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Lee Landor
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9/22/10
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As I mentioned in my previous column, "Reforming New York's dysfunctional state government" (Aug. 12-18), reforming state affairs will be easier said than done, requiring political support across party lines. “New Yorkers are frustrated with their government, with the economy, with politics, with the way things are today,"Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver recently said. Not exactly a mea culpa. But apart from Silver, someone's gotta do something!
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Hal Peterson
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9/1/10
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On Monday, New Yorkers — in particular, state workers — anxiously awaited news on whether the state Legislature would pass a series of emergency bills to cut spending and stave off a government shutdown.
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6/20/10
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It was during the 1930s, in the depth of the great Depression, that Robert Moses put public authorities on New York state’s map. Hailed at the time as “the man who can get things done,” Moses gained the consent of beleaguered politicians to create public authorities that would capture federal appropriations to restart the stalled economy.
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Hal Peterson
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6/15/10
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On April 20, an explosion off the Gulf Coast on an oil rig leased by British Petroleum marked the unfortunate beginning of the worst oil spill in our nation’s history.
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Al D'Amato
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6/3/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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There are big-picture issues that the town of Hempsteand and Nassau County will have to tackle together. Foremost among them is the Lighthouse project, a sweeping proposal to transform 150 acres surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale from the barren asphalt of a parking lot to a residential and commercial zone.
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1/7/10
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Student government officers and class presidents were introduced at a recent Board of Education meeting.
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12/9/09
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