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Over the past 20-something years, election integrity has become a hot-button issue in our country. In 2000, Democrats claimed that George W. Bush was an illegitimate president . . . more

By Brian Curran | 7/27/23

An example of the fake letters being sent out to residence that are not sanctioned by Nassau County Fire Commission or Valley Stream Fire Department.

Fire Department warns of fake funding letters

Valley Stream Volunteer Fire Department is warning residents of fake funding letters soliciting donations for the Fire Department’s fund drive. The department posted online examples of the … more

By Karina Kovac | 2/10/22

Deliver the letter. The sooner, the better.

Meet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to . . . more

By Randi Kreiss | 9/11/20

Kudos for peace plan, but the prez still has to go

Let us assume that we all have first-rate intelligence. It’s a bit of a leap, because many Americans are wedged into a rigid binary belief set, either blue or red . . . more

8/21/20

Support the U.S. Postal Service — period

The U.S. Postal Service is older than the United States itself: Benjamin Franklin appointed the first postmaster general in 1775, a year before the Revolution against Great Britain erupted. Ever since, the Postal Service has been woven into the very fabric of our democracy . . . more

8/21/20

Dear Randi: A peek inside my mailbox

I get plenty of letters, but only a few of them get published, so I thought you’d like to see some samples of the mail I get day in and day out from supporters and critics, the thoughtful, the loonies and the insightful. more

1/10/20

My mailbox: the good, the bad and the ugly

My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Heller, told me that I needed to grow an “elephant skin.” She advised toughening up if I wanted to survive elementary school trash talk. more

3/31/17

Let the sun shine on Albany ethics negotiations

There’s a perverse irony in the fact that negotiations about ethics reform in the corruption-stained state Capitol are conducted in secret. Time and again we’ve seen the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader . . . more

3/18/16

Six candidates for the county legislature and Hempstead Town Board answered residents' questions last week at a candidates forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Nassau County.

Candidates discuss political mailings, lack of parking at library forum

At a candidates’ forum in Franklin Square last week, commuter parking in southwestern Nassau County and political mailings distributed by the Town of Hempstead were the focus of extensive discussion by a county legislator, two Town of Hempstead councilmen, their three challengers in next month’s election and residents who attended. more

By Rossana Weitekamp | 10/21/15

Dave Denenberg, a former Nassau County legislator from Merrick, offered public apologies after his sentencing for mail fraud on June 5 at the U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip. He will spend three months in jail and three months under house arrest.

Denenberg gets 90-day sentence

A federal judge last Friday sentenced Dave Denenberg, the former Nassau County legislator who pleaded guilty to cheating a law client out of $2.3 million and resigned from office earlier this year, to three months in jail and three months of house arrest. more

By Brian Racow | 6/5/15

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