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The choice for the 3rd Legislative District seat isn’t an easy one this year, between 16-year Republican incumbent John Ciotti and his challenger, 31-year-old Democrat Carrié Solages, a local attorney.
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10/20/11
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It’s just over three weeks until Election Day, Nov. 8. Candidates are running for all 19 seats on the Nassau County Legislature, three Hempstead Town Council district positions, the townwide offices of supervisor, clerk and receiver of taxes, and judgeships in the county and state courts.
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10/13/11
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Over the past few years, New York state lawmakers have targeted bullying in schools with legislation designed to allow students to feel safe in a place where they should feel safe.
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10/6/11
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Halfway through his first term as county executive, Ed Mangano is proposing yet another budget that takes a hatchet to spending.
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9/29/11
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Call it the planet’s dirty secret: We’re running out of topsoil. The ground beneath our feet may not have the appeal of the sky above our heads, and there may not be a ready-made vocabulary of terms like “greenhouse gases” or “global warming” to spur a dialogue about earthy matters, but the inconvenient truth remains: Soils are eroding faster than they can reform.
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9/22/11
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In days past, parents used to be able to send their children off to school without a second thought about whether they would return safely. And while children are still in good hands during class …
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9/16/11
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Emergency responders and public officials deserve credit for getting way out in front of last month’s devastating hurricane.
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9/9/11
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It is difficult to believe that 10 years have come and gone since Al Qaeda terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, a third into a field in Pennsylvania and a fourth …
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9/9/11
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Back in July, we praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for completing so much important work in the last legislative session. In a …
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9/1/11
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Throughout July and August, the Herald has reported on the importance of Long Island’s waterways in its eight-part series, “There’s something in the water.” We took on this …
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8/25/11
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