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Long Beach High School junior Madison Gusler spoke to school board trustees at the March 8 Board of Education meeting about next week’s walkout she’s organizing to protest gun violence.
LBHS students to participate in national walkout
Long Beach High School students will be among the thousands of teenagers expected to walk out of their schools on March 14 as part of a national movement to honor the victims killed in the school … more
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Hundreds of protesters chanted at Vice President Mike Pence and Republican senators at the People’s Filibuster, a protest against the Senate’s health care bill on June 27.
Long Islanders protest health care bill in Washington
Anita Faulding hunched her shoulders as the sky turned gray above Washington, D.C. on the afternoon of June 27. The 67-year-old Baldwinite let the rain soak into the back of her bright-pink Planned … more
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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, center, flanked by Sen. John Brooks, far left, County Legislator Laura Curran, Assemblyman David McDonough, and Rockville Centre Mayor Francis X. Murray. Kaminsky held a rally to demand the ouster of Amtrak as the owner of Pennsylvania Station.
Long Islanders demand a ‘sane commute’ at protest
They had all had bad commutes. Doug Goodstein, of Rockville Centre, said he had seen what appeared to be wastewater cascading from the ceiling of Pennsylvania Station on May 3, and recorded video … more
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Hundreds of people gathered on the Long Beach boardwalk on Saturday to protest President Trump’s environmental policies and promote awareness of climate change. The march coincided with similar protests around the country, including one in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds walk in L.B. climate march
Hundreds of people gathered on the Long Beach boardwalk on Saturday to walk in a climate march to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies, to spread awareness of climate change … more
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Hundreds of Long Beach School Employees Association members were joined by members of the City Council and Long Beach Professional Firefighters Local 287 at a rally led by Veronica Dale, left, before the March 9 Board of Education meeting to protest what they called a lack of progress in contract negotiations.
Board of Ed reaches contract settlement with teachers
After a two-year impasse, the Long Beach Board of Education and the Classroom Teachers Association announced last week that they had agreed on a new contract. At the March 9 school board meeting … more
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The City Council appointed Chumi Diamond to a vacant seat at a special meeting on Friday, but not before some residents protested the selection process.
Vote for new Long Beach City Council member sparks charged meeting
The City Council’s vote to appoint a new member to a vacant seat led to a charged meeting at City Hall on Friday, and some residents accused some council members of making a backroom deal and … more
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Trump takes office
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump began by thanking President Obama for a smooth transition, and offered the people of America a message of hope by stating, “We, the citizens of America . . . more
Teachers and staff members of the Long Beach school district picketed outside Long Beach Middle School.
School employees push for contracts
Hundreds of members of the Long Beach School Employees Association and the Classroom Teachers Association picketed outside Long Beach Middle School before the Jan. 12 Board of Education meeting, … more
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An estimated 200 protesters gathered outside of Donald Trump's April 6 rally in Bethpage, in what Nassau County police called a "free-speech zone." Photo by Scott Brinton/Herald
An afternoon in the ‘free-speech zone’
Donald Trump’s supporters steadily streamed into Grumman Studios on the afternoon of April 6 until more than 10,000 of them filled the venue, where war planes were once built. As they did, they walked past roughly 200 protesters who had gathered in what Nassau County police were calling a “free-speech zone,” a comparatively small, rectangular area cordoned off with aluminum barricades. more
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Richard G. Fromewick
Tax Certiorari Law
Q: When I go to the mynassauproperty.com website, my property’s market value seems low. Does that mean I shouldn’t grieve? A: On January 4, 2016 the Nassau County Assessor … more
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