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Over two feet of snow blanketed Franklin Square and Elmont over the weekend, and after the record-setting accumulation, residents and service organizations started the slow and arduous process of …
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By Steve Smirti
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1/26/16
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New York Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore administered the oath of office to swear Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas into office on Monday. The ceremony, held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, featured several guest speakers. Singas’s family and friends attended the ceremony, with several family members in town from Greece.
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By Stephany Reyes
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1/26/16
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In the coming weeks and months, local school districts will be planning their 2016-17 budgets, deciding how to allocate their pieces of that very large pie. It’s our right to have a say in how that money will be spent.
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1/21/16
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Elmont businessman Ali Mirza has filed paperwork, challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks for his fifth district seat. Mirza, along with New York State Senator James Sanders are …
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By Steve Smirti
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1/20/16
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This fall six Hofstra University graduate journalism students visited Hempstead High School weekly to teach members of the newspaper club about how to write news and feature articles and to introduce …
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/23/15
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With the convictions of former State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, pundits now claim that Albany’s pay-to-play system of dishonest dealing has finally been . . .
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12/17/15
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Only 20 percent of Long Islanders voted in last week’s election, but they made sure their voices were heard loud and clear: They were sick of the corruption that has plagued politics at all levels of government.
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11/12/15
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In a good year, many, if not most, Nassau County voters are cynical about local politics. Two powerful machines, led by the major political parties, exercise tight control over . . .
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11/12/15
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The drug addicts’ brain scans that Dr. Stephen Dewey takes appear in psychedelic shades of red, yellow, green and blue, each indicating a level of brain activity — or inactivity. Red means excited. Blue is dormant.
Dewey is the laboratory director for behavioral and molecular neuro-imaging at the North Shore-LIJ Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. In that capacity, he’s put hundreds of addicts’ brains to the test — the positron emission tomography test, that is — seeking to understand precisely what happens to the mind when a pot smoker lights up or a heroin junkie shoots up.
And, he has found, it isn’t pretty.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/11/15
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Madeline Singas has won the race for Nassau County District Attorney. With a commanding lead at about 11:15 p.m., Singas gave a victory speech at the Garden City Hotel, where local Democrats assembled on Election Night.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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11/3/15
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