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At the 2008 Republican National Convention, party stalwart Michael Steele declared, “Drill, baby, drill! And drill now! Do you want to put your country first?" more

4/25/19

One more shameless appointment by town GOP

Town of Hempstead Republicans practically swelled with pride on April 16, after the Town Board unanimously passed a revamped ethics code. more

4/25/19

Is Nassau learning from the guilty verdicts?

The conviction last Friday of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano was yet another domino falling in the county’s GOP political machine, with possibly more to come. more

3/14/19

Vote for Melissa Miller in 20th Assembly District

In the nearly two years that Atlantic Beach resident Melissa Miller has been a state assemblywoman, she has learned that government moves at a glacial pace — which Miller, the mother of a special-needs child, finds frustrating. more

11/1/18

Facing a November trainwreck

I’m positive that not one reader knows the name Lou Wolfe, an obscure state legislator from Plattsburgh. Lou was a great roommate for our group of freshman legislators from Long Island back in the 1960s. more

7/28/18

Republicans throughout the Five Towns hope that the party can bounce back from losses in November of 2017.

‘Public service first, politics second’

Known for teaching the fundamental instead of focusing on wins and losses propelled John Wooden to a Hall of Fame career as coach of the UCLA Bruins, where the team won 10 NCAA championships in 12 years, including seven consecutive titles. After stunning defeats in last November’s elections, when both the county executive position and Town of Hempstead supervisor post went to Democrats, the Inwood-N. Lawrence-Atlantic Beach Republican Club is aiming to use Wooden’s lessons and improve the party’s standing as the 2018 midterm elections approach. more

By Tyler Marko | 5/17/18

State Assemblyman Charles Lavine, a Democrat from Glen Cove, reviewed a list of legislative proposals that address the termination of temporary protected status on a national scale.

Pushing back against TPS termination

Part six in an ongoing series. Read parts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7] here. When temporary protected status for Haitians was revoked last November, TPS recipients from other countries … more

By Nadya Nataly, Alyssa Seidman and Brian Stieglitz | 4/26/18

Lively political discourse dominated Indivisible South Shore’s meeting at Sip This in Valley Stream. From left were Patty Roblin, Linda Kampton, Icela Fischthal, Julie Pareles, Susan Rifkind, Janine Torresson and Gloria White.

Indivisible South Shore flexes its political muscles

A group of eight women from the Five Towns, Valley Stream and Massapequa Park fiercely believe that more honesty and principled thought need to be injected into the political process that produces government officials at every level. more

By Tyler Marko | 4/19/18

President Donald Trump’s first year in office has seen much turmoil and sparring with political opponents.

Surveying Trump’s first year before midterm elections

Rarely has Long Island felt Washington’s political reverberations as strongly as it has during the first year of Donald J. Trump’s presidency. more

By Scott Brinton and Tyler Marko | 1/18/18

Baldwinite Laura Curran declared victory in the race for Nassau County executive on Tuesday night.

Curran declares victory as Nassau's first female county executive

Baldwin Democrat Laura Curran pulled out a victory over Republican Jack Martins in the race for Nassau County’s highest seat on Tuesday night, withall precincts reporting, … more

By Erik Hawkins | 11/7/17

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