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Last week, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano sent a memo to county department heads, ordering them to compile layoff lists. This would be the third in a series of layoffs of county employees ordered by Mangano in one year.
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8/2/12
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The shape and composition of the Nassau County Legislature’s 19 districts are modified after every U.S. Census to reflect changes in population from one district to another.
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7/26/12
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Politics ain’t beanbag, the old saying goes. To get what they want, politicians make quid pro quo agreements and try to force deals all the time, all in the name of accomplishing what they think is best for their constituency.
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6/14/12
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Residents of Island Park and the southern portion of Oceanside have joined the 4th Congressional district after a panel of federal judges issued court-drawn revised district maps for New York …
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Aaron Axelson
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3/28/12
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Last spring, the Republican-controlled County Legislature attempted to redraw the lines of its 19 electoral districts in an effort to gerrymander at least one Democrat, if not two, out of a job.
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3/1/12
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Looking at the current New York state government, you could almost forget that until recently it was an ineffective embarrassment, a decidedly non-functional democracy.
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2/9/12
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Under the proposed redistricting maps for New York State, some Oceanside residents may find themselves with a new district in the Assembly.
The maps, released late last month, are based on data …
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Alex Costello
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2/8/12
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The issue of redistricting — the redrawing of state Senate, Assembly and congressional district lines to reflect population shifts reported by the U.S. Census so that each district has a more or less equal number of people — sounds as interesting to most citizens as last month’s presidential poll numbers.
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12/8/11
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Back in July, we praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for completing so much important work in the last legislative session. In a …
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9/1/11
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In a 3-2 decision last Thursday, New York State Appellate Division judges upheld new boundaries drawn by Nassau Republican lawmakers for the county’s 19 legislative districts. If the state Court of Appeals rules in favor of the Republican plan on Aug. 24, the GOP’s legislative map will reshape a number of districts, including those covering the Five Towns, Elmont, Baldwin and Merrick-Bellmore.
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By Ann E. Friedman and Scott Brinton
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8/16/11
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