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West Hemsptead resident Gary Port is challenging Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray for her seat this year.
West Hempstead man takes on Kate Murray
West Hempstead resident Gary Port is challenging Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray for her seat this year... more
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County Democrats, Republicans kick off campaigns
RepublicansNassau County Republicans kicked off their fight against the Democrats on May 24 at Wisdom Lane Middle School in Levittown. With the exception of one, all Democrat-filled seats on the … more
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Redistricting map halted in court –– again
A State Supreme Court justice has signed a temporary restraining order barring Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, the County Board of Elections and the County Legislature from adopting the new legislative redistricting lines that were approved on May 24. more
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Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman led the nomination procedures at the Democrat's convention at the Cradle of Aviation Museum.
Dems kick off ToH campaign
Town of Hempstead Democrats kicked of their fight against the Republicans on May 24 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. Gary Port, of West Hempstead, will be challenging Kate Murray for Supervisor. … more
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Town of Hempstead Republicans, or "Team Murray," kicked off their campaign last week.
'Team Murray' kicks off ToH campaign
Hempstead Town Republicans kicked off their campaign last week with promises to freeze town taxes in 2012 and maintain a full array of services. Republican town officials on the ballot this fall … more
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Howard Sobel, Oceanside past president of the School Board
The lever is back
Assemblyman Brian Curran (Lynbrook – 14th A.D.) co-sponsored Assembly Bill 3093, which allows villages that administer their own elections to use lever voting machines in those elections if they so choose. more
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Street signs and other government-mandated boondoggles
On Election Day, angry voters all over the country focused their attention on Congress, deficits, the Obama health care plan, taxes and numerous other grievances. Incumbent politicians got the brunt … more
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Jack Martins, pictured here on Election Night, declared himself the winner at the Republican Headquarters that night. A judge decided the vote in his favor on Saturday.
Martins wins 7th Senate District seat
Mineola Mayor Jack Martins was officially declared the victor in his race against 7th State District Senator Craig Johnson by a Nassau County Supreme Court Judge on Saturday. But Johnson announced on … more
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Hal Peterson
Cuomo: Local governments are antiquated, inefficient
During his campaign, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s transition team released a detailed and well-annotated report outlining plans for “Rightsizing Government.” The report’s findings and recommendations reiterate much of what the previous columns in this series have suggested: that New York state’s Public Authorities and agencies have “become too big, too expensive, and too ineffective — an ever proliferating tangle of boards, commissions, councils, departments, divisions, offices, task forces and public authorities, [that] the taxpaying public can no longer afford.“ Amen. more
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Can Obama recover from a shellacking?
In a last-ditch effort to draw voters to the polls before the midterm elections, President Obama stood before Democrats at a rally in Southern California and said, “If Latinos sit out the election … more
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