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On April 14 I will host a meeting in the Rockville Centre Public Library to discuss the need for meaningful reform with representatives from two state agencies and former Nassau County Comptroller Howard Weitzman.
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4/6/11
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For just the seventh time since 1975 — and for the first time since 2006 — the New York state Legislature adopted a budget before the April 1 deadline.
Lawmakers in the Democratic-led …
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Judy Rattner
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4/6/11
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The New York State Senate has passed legislation to create felony charges for wrong-way and other reckless drivers, according to Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a Republican from Merrick who sponsored …
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David Weingrad and Chris Engelhardt
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4/6/11
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The New York State Senate has passed legislation to enact felony charges for wrong-way and other reckless drivers, according to Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a Republican from Merrick who sponsored the bill.
The legislation is in response to a significant number of arrests and car crashes involving individuals who drove the wrong way while under the influence of alcohol.
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By David Weingrad
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4/6/11
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This is about the good, the bad and the ugly. It isn’t fiction, as we get enough fiction from politicians these days. It deals with the New York State Legislature, the ethical crises it currently faces and the need to deal with them.
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By Jerry Kremer
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3/23/11
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Shaped like a footprint, Mullener Pond abuts the Meadowbrook Parkway amid a stand of oaks and maples just south of Jerusalem Avenue in North Merrick. It is a quiet place, hemmed in by a six-foot …
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By Scott Brinton
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3/15/11
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I have to admit, I’m having a problem understanding how, in just 33 working days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team was able to recommend 79 cost cutting measures to save $2.3 billion in the upcoming budget. I’ll address this concern from three viewpoints.
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Hal Peterson
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3/9/11
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Watson School fourth grader Kyle Mosher has come a long way since he started wrestling four years ago. Kyle took up the sport in the footsteps of his older brother Craig, a varsity wrestler at Kellenberg Memorial High School, who often passes along what he learns to his younger brother.
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3/9/11
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My last column, “Stop playing games with the budget deficit” (Feb. 3) was written one week before New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued his analysis of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget draft.
The irrationality I outlined fell short of anticipating the following mea-culpa expressed in the comptroller’s analysis. “The SFY 2010-2011 enacted budget relied on $16.7 billion in non-recurring or temporary budget resources; and overly optimistic tax revenue projections, causing a dramatically worsened state structural deficit.” How dramatic? These tenuous entries constituted 30 percent of all the monies in the state’s operating fund.
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Hal Peterson
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2/23/11
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Rockville Centre residents are named in almost 9,000 unclaimed fund accounts maintained by the state Comptroller's office, a state official told the village board on Feb. 8.
Michael Caplice, the …
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2/16/11
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