Facing a fiscal crisis, Nassau County’s leaders have difficult decisions to make. Raising property taxes and imposing budget cuts are two options and County Executive Ed Mangano said last week that he would choose the latter.
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MIKE CAPUTO and ALEX COSTELLO
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3/25/11
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Facing a fiscal crisis, Nassau County’s leaders have difficult decisions to make. Raising property taxes and imposing budget cuts are two options. County Executive Ed Mangano said last week that …
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Mike Caputo and Alex Costello
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3/23/11
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State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos says he is optimistic that despite the difficult choices they face, this is the year when Albany lawmakers will finally make the structural changes to the state budget needed to rein in spending.
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Judy Rattner
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3/9/11
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Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 14th A.D.) co-sponsored Assembly Bill 3093, which allows villages that administer their own elections to use lever voting machines in those elections if they so choose.
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By Mary Malloy
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2/23/11
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In one of its first orders of business in the new legislative session, the State Senate passed the Job Creation and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2011 on Jan. 19. Supporters of the three-part plan say it will encourage the creation of new private-sector jobs with a tax credit, ensure fiscal responsibility with the enactment of a 2 percent state spending cap and require a two-thirds “super-majority” vote to increase taxes if the Assembly, and then voters, approve a constitutional amendment.
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Judy Rattner
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1/26/11
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Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, a longtime advocate of gun control, spoke out regarding the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others in Arizona last Saturday. Shooting suspect Jared Loughner appeared in Federal court in Phoenix on Tuesday.
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by Mary Malloy
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1/11/11
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Sen. Dean Skelos assumed the two most powerful posts in the State Senate — majority leader and president pro tem — last week.
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By JUDY RATTNER
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1/11/11
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“You just smelled it again,” said Legislator Dave Denenberg (D-Merrick), who stood at West Bay Drive in Long Beach last month with several West Pine Street residents. Denenberg was observing a brown plume moving across Reynolds Channel — a waterway adjoining a system of bays including Baldwin Bay, Middle Bay, Randal Bay and Parsonage Cove. “That is [from the] sewage treatment plant,” he said. “You shouldn’t be smelling it from here.”
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By Chris Engelhardt and Chris Connolly
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12/16/10
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Long Island’s nine senators will become part of the Republican majority in the New York State Senate next month, and as their leader, Sen. Dean Skelos of Rockville Centre is expected to have their …
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Judy Rattner
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12/8/10
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Mineola Mayor Jack Martins was officially declared the victor in his race against 7th State District Senator Craig Johnson by a Nassau County Supreme Court Judge on Saturday. But Johnson announced on …
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Alex Costello
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12/8/10
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