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There's still hope for redevelopment at the Nassau Hub

It was a promising sign to see several firms answer Nassau County’s recent call for a master developer to create a workable plan for the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the surrounding Hub area. more

Eric Alexander | 8/9/12

Tough times call for tough measures in Nassau County

Last week, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano sent a memo to county department heads, ordering them to compile layoff lists. This would be the third in a series of layoffs of county employees ordered by Mangano in one year. more

8/2/12

Joe Smith, executive director of Long Beach Reach Inc., addressed the hundreds of people in front of Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Legislative and Executive Building in Mineola.

Youth-service agencies face county cuts

Hundreds of people gathered at Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Legislative and Executive Building in Mineola on July 6, rallying for the reinstatement of contracts and funds that the county cut for youth programs and substance-abuse treatment agencies. more

By Brian Croce | 7/11/12

Stop using the needy as pawns

Politics ain’t beanbag, the old saying goes. To get what they want, politicians make quid pro quo agreements and try to force deals all the time, all in the name of accomplishing what they think is best for their constituency. more

6/14/12

Linda Leonard, executive director of the Long Island Crisis Center in Bellmore, said she worries that her agency could lose its 24-hour, seven-day-a-week suicide-prevention hotline if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano eliminates funding for the private, nonprofit agency.

Nassau’s social-service network in crisis

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week. more

By Scott Brinton | 6/9/12

Bumps appear every few yards, in the pavement surrounding manhole covers, along Woodfield Road’s southbound lane, from Laurel Court in West Hempstead to Lakeview Avenue in Lakeview.

‘It’s an accident waiting to happen’

In what has been described as a serious safety issue, some West Hempstead and Lakeview residents continue to demand that “hazardous” conditions on Woodfield Road be addressed. The Herald … more

Chris Engelhardt | 5/31/12

Sewer deal could be boon for county

Nassau County’s aging sewage treatment plants –– the Bay Park plant in East Rockaway, the Cedar Creek plant in Wantagh and the Glen Cove plant –– have for years been a proverbial yoke around the county’s neck. more

5/17/12

Sewer deal could be boon — or not — for the county

Nassau County’s aging sewage treatment plants –– the Bay Park plant in East Rockaway, the Cedar Creek plant in Wantagh and the Glen Cove plant –– have for years been a proverbial yoke around the county’s neck. more

5/14/12

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano recently announced his intent to pursue a public-private partnership to operate and maintain the county’s three sewage treatment plants.

County weighs leasing the sewer system

Facing a $3 billion debt, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano recently announced his intent to pursue a public-private partnership to operate and maintain the county’s three sewage treatment plants. At a news conference in Mineola on Thursday, Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, said the transaction would earn the county $750 million, alleviating 25 percent of Nassau’s debt –– the highest of any county in New York. more

By David Weingrad | 5/5/12

Our local leaders deserve our support

Last week, I focused on how Long Island taxpayers were lucky to have two county executives who, despite being from different political parties, were doing everything in their power to save their respective counties. more

5/3/12