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Last week, state leaders approved a $132.6 billion budget for 2012-13 that includes funding and a study for the redevelopment of Belmont Park. For many local residents, who've been urging development there for years, the announcement was considered a bout of luck.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/2/12
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Nassau County created an independent Board of Visitors in 1990 to oversee and reform the Nassau County Correctional Center. Since its creation, however, the panel has never been fully staffed or functional.
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By Shannon Koehle
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3/29/12
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Nearly 450 local residents attended a mortgage safety seminar at the Elmont Memorial Library in Elmont on March 10.
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By Jackie Nash
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3/28/12
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Nassau County Legislators Denise Ford, Howard Kopel and Dennis Dunne, all Republicans, recently filed legislation to ban the processing of hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking,” waste at county sewage-treatment plants. On March 26, the Republicans’ bill passed out of the Legislature’s Planning and Rules Committee.
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By Jackie Nash
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3/26/12
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County Executive Ed Mangano delivered his third State of the County address to a crowd of more than 100 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City on March 14. In the hour-long speech, Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, emphasized his pledge to cut property taxes by reducing the size of government, seeking more partnerships with the private sector and fixing the county’s broken property tax assessment system.
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By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com
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3/22/12
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The Nassau County Legislature voted unanimously on March 19 to approve a police retirement incentive plan that County Executive Edward Mangano said was a key component of the controversial new community policing center plan, which will turn four of the county’s eight police precincts into Community Policing Centers.
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By Aaron Axelson, aaxelson@liherald.com
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3/20/12
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Once upon a time, politics was a sport that the outside world watched with great intensity. It attracted the rich and the poor. It attracted dreamers and schemers.
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3/8/12
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The Nassau County Sheriff Officers Association held a press conference in front of the Correctional Center on March 2 to highlight safety problems at the facility.
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By Shannon Koehle
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3/8/12
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In a contentious meeting on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature voted 10 to 9 along party lines to implement a new Community Policing Plan, in which four of the county’s eight police precincts will be closed over the next seven months and replaced with “community policing centers.”
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By Aaron Axelson and Brian Croce
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3/7/12
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When Councilman Ed Ambrosino (R-North Valley Stream) first read William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” play as a teenager, Caesar’s famous line, “Cry, ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war” — a signal given to the English military forces to direct soldiers to fight — stuck with him. He thought about those words often several years thereafter, and when he was elected as a Town of Hempstead Councilman in 2003, the quote took on a new meaning for him: it became representative of the sacrifices made by American soldiers.
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By Jackie Nash
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3/6/12
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