Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony Santino will bid goodbye to Baldwin in January when a new council district map goes into effect. The new map, which has inspired considerable debate, was drawn up in … more

Nassau County will use funds from a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to help prevent a property-tax hike that a number of county residents would have faced because of Hurricane Sandy, according to New York state’s grant proposal and state and county spokespeople. more

Maureen Beccaris has been an officer in the Nassau County Police Department’s 1st Precinct for 26 years, but for the past six months, she said, she came to work every day not knowing where she would be the next week. She explained that her office’s supplies and papers were still in boxes, waiting to be moved to Seaford when the scheduled merger of the 1st and 7th precincts took place. more

Nassau County Legislator Dave Denenberg, a Democrat from Merrick, introduced two bills on March 21 that seek to force insurance companies and banks in the county to speed up their payments of … more

“What happened with Sandy is really a metaphor with what’s happening in Washington,” U.S. Rep. Peter … more

Tara Notrica, a 48-year-old Merrick mother of two, says that over the course of several years before the fall of 2010, she and her husband spent tens of thousands of dollars on private transportation to send their children from their home to elementary school and back again. more

In a vote along party lines, the Nassau County Legislature approved a controversial redistricting plan on March 5. The new maps will redraw the county's 19 legislative districts, which will take … more

Election Day is still eight months away, but the race for Nassau County Executive has already begun to heat up. Two Democratic candidates — one who is quite familiar to the county political scene — have emerged to seek the party’s nod to challenge Republican incumbent Ed Mangano in November. more

A state appeals court has denied Nassau County’s attempt to shift the cost of refunding property-tax challenges to school districts and towns. The decision was reached unanimously on Feb. 27 by four justices of the New York State Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. more

Republicans in the Nassau County Legislature modified their proposed redistricting map yesterday, backing off a plan to place a sliver of Merrick, including the home of Democratic Legislator Dave Denenberg, into the neighboring district of Legislator Joseph Scannell, a Democrat from Baldwin. The plan would have removed one of the two incumbents from the Legislature. more