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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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Police were still searching Wednesday for a gunman who they say shot and killed a man in Long Beach on Monday afternoon.
According to Nassau County homicide detectives, a man shot Ernest …
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Joseph Kellard
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3/24/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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You might say Long Beachers like Peggy Callahan have the luck of the Irish. She gets to sing her favorite traditional Irish songs in Long Beach on two different days — not just St. Patrick's …
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JOSEPH KELLARD
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3/11/10
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The state of New York’s economy is precarious. Battered by a recession that saw Wall Street implode — and tens of thousands of workers in the finance industry laid off — the Empire State has been hurting since mid-2008, if not before.
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3/10/10
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The New York Times nailed Gov. David Paterson last week in an alleged abuse-of-power case, so much so that he was forced to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. Yet there was Paterson, in typical fashion, denying culpability.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/10
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Peter Schmitt, presiding officer of the Nassau County Legislature, got off on the wrong foot this year when he announced a 47 percent pay increase for himself and similar raises for the two other top members of the Legislature.
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Al D'Amato
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2/4/10
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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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Fifty-one Long Beach students in grades four through 12 qualified to perform in the New York State Music Association’s (NYSMA) All-County Festival in January. They will join a select group of …
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1/7/10
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