Nearly 100 people gathered at Gate 3 of Belmont Park on Saturday to urge state lawmakers to support two bills that would prohibit electronic gaming on Long Island.
The rally, organized by the …
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By Steve Smirti
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3/29/16
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Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader who was convicted on multiple corruption charges along with his son Adam earlier this year, is seeking community service rather than prison time, saying that his lifetime of good works should be weighed when he is sentenced next month.
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By Alex Costello and Scott Brinton
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3/24/16
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With less than a month remaining before voters decide who will fill the State Senate seat left vacant by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Siena College released a poll last week showing State Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky and Republican Chris McGrath in a tight race.
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By Ben Strack
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3/23/16
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There’s a perverse irony in the fact that negotiations about ethics reform in the corruption-stained state Capitol are conducted in secret. Time and again we’ve seen the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader . . .
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3/18/16
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Incumbent State Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) and Hewlett Harbor resident Christopher McGrath, both attorneys, are running in a special election to be held on April 19, the day of the presidential primary in New York state, for the State Senate’s 9th District seat vacated by Dean Skelos after his December conviction on corruption charges.
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By Jeff Bessen and Anthony Rifilato
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2/24/16
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Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky had a press conference about a bill that he was sponsoring in the Assembly interrupted by an operative from Christopher McGrath’s campaign.
Kaminsky, a Democrat from …
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By Alex Costello
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2/17/16
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Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky held the first press conference of his campaign in Rockville Centre on Feb. 11, promising that he would put forward legislation to ban outside income for Albany …
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By Alex Costello
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2/12/16
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Hewlett Harbor resident Christopher McGrath officially kicked off his campaign for the 9th Senate District seat vacated by Dean Skelos surrounded by family, friends and a roomful of Republican supporters in the Imperial Room of the VFW Hall in his native Inwood on Wednesday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/11/16
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The special election to fill the State Senate’s 9th District seat, formerly held by Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is set for April 19, the same day as New York’s presidential primary.
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2/4/16
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Hewlett Harbor resident and Inwood native Christopher McGrath has been chosen by the Nassau County Republican Committee to run against Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) for the vacant 9th District State Senate seat left open due to the corruption conviction of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Republican from Rockville Centre.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/3/16
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