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Last week, state leaders approved a $132.6 billion budget for 2012-13 that includes funding and a study for the redevelopment of Belmont Park. For many local residents, who've been urging development there for years, the announcement was considered a bout of luck.
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By Jackie Nash
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4/2/12
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Rolling up their sleeves and getting to work for the area’s businesses is the Long Island Business Council’s mission, according to its respective chairs: Richard Bivone of East Meadow and Robert Fonti of Suffolk.
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JEFF BESSEN
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2/16/12
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“Saddened,” “upset” and “disappointed” were among the many dispirited words people used to describe Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to veto a bill that would …
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Lee Landor
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1/11/12
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Three Five Towns education experts consider the still-unfolding SAT cheating scandal, in which stand-ins were paid by students to take the exams for them, to be an outgrowth of society’s overemphasis on testing and the setting of bad examples by people in powerful positions.
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JEFF BESSEN
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12/8/11
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Those of us who have children or grandchildren are very familiar with the need to rein them in when they act up. The traditional way that has worked for all of us is to declare a …
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By Jerry Kremer
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9/16/11
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In 2004, the Brennan Center for Justice and New York University’s School of Law released a report describing the New York Legislature as “the most dysfunctional state [government] in the nation.” It was an excellent critique and its findings were well founded.
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By Hal Peterson
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7/26/11
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New York state government has a well-deserved reputation for ineffectiveness. Ask most New Yorkers what one word best describes Albany, and the most common response would be “dysfunctional.” That’s the term that New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice used in a study in 2004, in its follow-up in 2006 and in its 2008 update, “Still Broken.”
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7/7/11
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Opening up a dialogue, complementing each other and working together are the three main objectives of the resurgent “Five Towns — One Community” organization that held its initial meeting at Traditions Deli and Restaurant last Thursday.
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JEFF BESSEN
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7/7/11
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed New York's first property tax cap in Lynbrook today, at the home of James and Janet Gannon.
“For decades, taxpayers across New York state have been burdened …
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By Mary Malloy and Brianna Isabel Barbieri
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6/30/11
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Two weeks after former New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi was sentenced to prison for his role in a “pay-to-play” scheme, Governor Cuomo proposed “Hevesi’s Law,” aimed at keeping future state employees from collecting pensions if they’re convicted of an abuse of power.
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Al D'Amato
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5/5/11
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