Thanks to a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, states are now allowed to mandate the collection of state sales tax on items purchased online from out-of-state retailers. Passing such a measure in New York, with certain stipulations, would benefit small businesses of all types.
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8/10/18
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County residents voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to support Nassau BOCES’ purchase of the Jerusalem Avenue School building in North Bellmore, at a purchase price of $12 million.
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By Erik Hawkins
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2/9/18
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Today I bought athletic shorts. You know the kind: nylon with colored piping around the legs. It was incredibly easy. I mean, I didn’t hesitate a bit.
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7/17/13
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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The Bellmore Board of Education last week approved a budget of nearly $31 million for 2010-11. The spending plan, if approved by residents in May, would allow for a 2.97 percent increase over the current spending plan, with a tax levy increase of 3.96 percent. The administration has yet to release how the proposed budget would affect individual taxpayers' bills.
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Deirdre Krasula
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4/29/10
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