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Last week, the Town of Hempstead unveiled its long-awaited plans for the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum property. While well intentioned, there is little chance that the town’s vision — or more accurately, lack of vision — will stir anyone’s imagination or solve any of the many problems facing Nassau County. more

7/22/10

County exec betting on Nassau’s future?

After some seven years of studies, community meetings, press conferences and tens of millions of dollars spent on planning and consultants, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum remains an aging concrete behemoth surrounded by 77 acres of cracking asphalt. It is a glaring eyesore in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties. more

5/6/10

A Lighthouse neutral zone

As Charles Wang and the Lighthouse Development Group tried to prove, silence can be deafening. Wang wanted the Town of Hempstead to give him an answer — yes or no. It appeared that the town carried the keys to his development dreams. more

2/18/10

Bob Young, a one-time Democratic candidate for Town Board, is a chief organizer of the Roll Back the Raises petition drive.

Residents want to repeal town pay raises

A group of Town of Hempstead residents is organizing a petition drive in the hope of repealing recent pay raises for Town Supervisor Kate Murray, a Republican from Levittown, Town Clerk Mark Bonilla, a Republican from Bellmore, and Town Board trustees. more

Sari Zeidler | 1/12/10

Issues galore for the town of Hempstead to tackle

There are big-picture issues that the town of Hempsteand and Nassau County will have to tackle together. Foremost among them is the Lighthouse project, a sweeping proposal to transform 150 acres surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale from the barren asphalt of a parking lot to a residential and commercial zone. more

1/7/10

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano swears Murray into office.

Hempstead incumbents take oath of office

While taking a thinly veiled swipe at the previous, Democratically controlled county government, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray touted her administration's fiscal and environmental accomplishments in her inaugural speech on Tuesday. more

Scott Brinton | 1/5/10

the lighthouse project was a topic of fierce debate leading up to Charles Wang’s Oct. 3 “deadline,” but the Islanders owner has been quiet as of late.

Murray: Lighthouse talks going ‘smoothly’

This year’s election brought about a change in Nassau County government, but the status of the Lighthouse project remains static and unclear. Ironically, Election Day fell exactly a month … more

Mike Caputo | 11/18/09

Lighthouse a focus in race for supervisor

Essential services and property taxes are often in the forefront of the issues in the Town of Hempstead, but in this year’s race for supervisor, the rhetoric has shifted toward the proposed … more

Mike Caputo | 10/22/09

Let the Lighthouse process play out

Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray has said, “Development is coming” to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. The question is, will the New York Islanders be there to anchor the property when all is said and done? Or will Long Island’s only professional sports franchise move to Queens or Brooklyn, or even to Kansas City or Ontario? more

10/1/09

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