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School budgets in the age of the tax cap
School spending plans passed at a high rate on Long Island and throughout New York state last week, ending the first budget season in which districts were limited by the state’s new tax levy cap. more
Tax hypocrisy where we shouldn't expect it
Warren Buffett, the billionaire businessman and investor, well-known in America’s political community for his public proclamations that he is willing to pay more taxes and that his fellow billionaires should join him in his fight to repeal the U.S. tax code, has himself in a little pickle. more
Mandates, pensions and health care — oh my!
Citing unfunded state mandates, rising pension and health care costs, police retirement expenses and a 5 percent drop in revenue, Lynbrook village officials have unveiled a 2012-13 tentative budget … more
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The District's Director or Finance and Operations Marcy Tannenbaum, left, and Superintendent Roseanne Melucci presented a draft of the proposed budget for 2012-13.
Tax cap forces deep East Rockaway school cuts
The East Rockaway Junior High School sports program is just one of the potential casualties of the district’s attempt to balance its 2012-13 budget. A preliminary version of the spending plan was … more
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters to the Editor: Lynbrook/East Rockaway
Approaching government as a businessTo the Editor: I am an East Rockaway resident and am responding to an article in your paper that I feel was very biased against the mayor (“Library responds … more
A populist president, or just politics as usual?
Last Tuesday, President Obama delivered his third and perhaps final State of the Union address. Given that we’re in an election year, it was understandably more of a stump speech than a major policy address. more
We Long Islanders must all do our part
On Jan. 17, in front of New York’s policymakers, Governor Cuomo announced his 2012-13 budget. The governor used the speech to apply pressure to our state’s unions, interest groups and school districts by defiantly stating, take what we’re offering or make due without state funding. more
Get ready — here comes Cuomo's tax cap
The Middle Country School District in Suffolk County faces a $10.3 million budget deficit in 2012-13 because of Governor Cuomo’s vaunted 2 percent property-tax levy cap, so Middle Country is considering eliminating its pre-school program, reducing full-day kindergarten to a half-day and axing sports and after-school clubs for middle and high school students, according to News12. more
The villages of East Rockaway and Lynbrook have already voted in local laws to override the state’s new tax levy cap. Pictured at the seminar were, from left, East Rockaway Village Trustees Ed Corrado and Deputy Mayor Bruno Romano, and Lynbrook Trustee Hilary Becker.
Taxes a hot topic with county officials
The Nassau County Village Officials Association (NCVOA) hosted a seminar in Williston Park on Jan. 10 — and the state’s new tax levy cap law that went into effect in January was a hot topic of … more
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Members of the Malverne Village Board were among the 45 Long Island villages represented at the seminar held at LaMarmite Restaurant in Williston Park. Pictured from left were Trustee Mike Bailey, Deputy Mayor Joe Hennessy, Mayor Patricia McDonald and Trustee Patricia Canzoneri-Callahan.
Taxes a hot topic with county officials
The Nassau County Village Officials Association (NCVOA) hosted a seminar in Williston Park on Jan. 10 — and the state’s new tax levy cap law that went into effect in January was a hot … more
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