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Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spoke of the looming state budget deficit during a question-and-answer session with Herald editors on March 4.
Skelos: Don't miss chance to trim spending
State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending. more
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Senate passes tax cap bill
All 32 Republicans and 13 of 30 Senate Democrats voted to pass tax cap legislation on Monday night, limiting the growth of school property taxes to 2 percent, or the Consumer Price Index (CPI), … more
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Sen. Dean Skelos, second from right, was sworn in as majority leader on the floor of the New York State Senate on Jan. 4, as his father, Basil, left, and son, Adam, watched. With his wife, Gail, holding the bible, Associate Justice Peter B. Skelos, Dean’s brother, administered the oath of office.
Skelos takes office
Sen. Dean Skelos assumed the two most powerful posts in the State Senate — majority leader and president pro tem — last week. more
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Dr. Martin Roginsky
Rockville Centre police nab village doctor in major drug bust
Rockville Centre police believe they have disrupted a major drug-dealing operation in the village with the arrest of a doctor who allegedly sold prescriptions for addictive, opiate-based painkillers like OxyContin, oxycodone and Roxicodone without performing medical exams. more
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Sen. Dean Skelos will return as his party's leader when the new legislative session begins in January.
Skelos to lead GOP in Senate
Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) will return to the State Senate as the leader of his party — his colleagues elected him to that position at their reorganizational meeting Monday afternoon — but whether he returns as Senate majority leader is still up in the air, with a Republican majority hinging on two races that have yet to be decided more than a month after the election. more
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Brian Kemp, who grew up in Rockville Centre and East Rockaway, was selected in the 19th round of the 2009 MLB Draft after a three-year stint at St. John's University.
Kemp living the baseball dream
Topping 2009 won’t be easy for Brian Kemp, but the Rockville Centre native isn’t about to stop trying. The list of baseball accomplishments for Kemp last year includes becoming the … more
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The girls of Franks' Steakhouse captured the RVC Major League Softball Division title.
Frank's Steakhouse Rockville Centre team is a cut above
The girls of Frank’s Steakhouse captured the Rockville Centre Major League Softball Division title in an exciting evening game on June 6. more
Family dentistry at Brooklyn prices
After seven years of practicing dentistry in Brooklyn, Dr. Eli Adler, who grew up in the Five Towns area, has opened an office in Lynbrook. more
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Alena's parents, Dan and Ellen Korins, left, and teacher Arlene Musnick watched as Robinson awarded Alena a new laptop computer.
Major League Baseball's big day at Birch Elementary School
Some of baseball's biggest luminaries made their way to Merrick on Monday to honor Alena Korins, a 9-year-old Birch Elementary School student who won first prize in the Scholastic and Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson Breaking Barriers Essay Contest. more
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Reid Gorecki
Putting on the pinstripes
When Reid Gorecki, 29, was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett to play for the Atlanta Braves last August, the East Rockaway native picked up a couple hits in his first Major League Baseball game — against his favorite team growing up, the New York Mets. He even singled against Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana. more
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