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On Nov. 7, I was honored and humbled to be elected to the Nassau County Legislature by the residents of the 1st Legislative District, which comprises the Village of Rockville Centre and most of the Village of Hempstead. more
Having served in the Assembly for 23 years, I can’t avoid comparing the Legislature of my days and the current one. So much has changed, a lot of it for the good. There are now such things as electronic voting, immediate access to pending legislation, a modern sound system and many other changes that make legislating so much faster, easier and smarter. more
I’m occasionally asked a puzzling question by some people in political circles. What, they ask, do people in the Five Towns want from us in government. I respond, of course, that Five Towns residents want the very same things that everyone else, in every other neighborhood, wants and needs. They want their public officials to provide, above all, safety for their families. They want good schools, clean streets, good roads and an efficient, well-run government that keeps taxes as low as possible. more
There has been, rightfully, much discussion about the future of the Nassau University Medical Center, the only public hospital in Nassau County. more
Timing will be a key issue when it comes to the state’s long-planned congestion-pricing plan, which is scheduled to start sometime in 2024. more
U.S. Rep. George Santos perpetrated an enormous fraud on the voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District. He lied about his life story . . . more
The exalted halls of academia and the grit of the football gridiron have never been more distant from one another than in recent weeks. more
The number of foreign correspondents has plummeted in the past 10 years, and most overseas news bureaus have either shrunk or shuttered their offices. more
Many of us have seen the congressional sound bites. MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik, of New York’s 21st District, made mincemeat out of prestige college Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard . . . more
If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . . more
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