Last week, Governor Cuomo unveiled his 2013-14 budget. He proposed to increase school aid statewide by 3 percent while keeping overall state spending growth under 2 percent.
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1/31/13
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On Dec. 30, one day before one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, State Sen. Charles Fuschillo, Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg and Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice called for swift passage of a new law to close a legal loophole that Fuschillo said allows convicted drunken drivers to escape the mandatory ignition interlock requirement of Leandra’s Law.
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By Julie Mansmann
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1/4/13
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Harvey Weisenberg has served in the State Assembly since 1989, and during that time he has worked to pass more than 300 bills.
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11/2/12
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An entertaining Sunday at the Five Towns Community Chest Fair
[Photo gallery]
Musical performances and karate exhibitions were part of Sunday's entertainment at the 28th annual Five Towns Community Chest in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/23/12
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The summer of 2012 hasn’t been a very good one for some present and former state legislators.
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9/6/12
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Lawrence resident Dr. David Sussman says he wants to bring common-sense thinking and reform to Albany.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/7/12
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Second of two parts.
From the early 1970s to the 1990s, civic and environmental activist Morris Kramer scoured the sands of Atlantic Beach and Long Beach in search of hypodermic needles and balls of sewage sludge that had congealed on disposable pens and bottle caps.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/2/12
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First of two parts.
In 1965, Morris Kramer, a 30-year-old bachelor who lived in Atlantic Beach with his mother, claimed that the Lawrence Public School District and the State of New York were discriminating against him.
Kramer owned no property and had no children in the schools, so, by state law at the time, he couldn’t vote in a school district election. That, he said, violated his constitutional rights.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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4/18/12
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Larger businesses have had grand openings, but not many had the fanfare of a high school drum line pounding out loud, pulsating beats to herald a ribbon-cutting.
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JEFFREY BESSEN
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3/22/12
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The long tractor-trailer truck took up several spaces on Central Avenue in Lawrence and the monster truck “Crushstation” also known as the “Monstah Lobstah” grabbed center stage outside Peninsula Public Library on Jan. 26.
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JEFF BESSEN
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2/2/12
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