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How can voter-rich Long Island maintain its political influence in a State Senate chamber that will have an overwhelming number of New York City legislators next year? It will be a challenge that the Senate’s new Democratic leadership will need to master . . .
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By Kyle Strober
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12/20/18
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When State Sen. John Brooks defeated incumbent Republican Michael Venditto in 2016, it felt like a fluke. A combination of political headwinds and unfortunate family matters in the news for Venditto, perhaps, paved the way for the newly registered Democrat to claim the seat that the GOP had won with 60 percent of the vote in most elections.
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11/1/18
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The Herald Gazette endorses Democratic challenger Jim Gaughran, of Huntington, for the State Senate’s 5th District seat.
In addition to his years of public service on the Huntington Town Board …
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11/1/18
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Having represented the State Senate’s 6th District for nearly a decade, and with another 13 years in the Assembly before that, Kemp Hannon has the experiene to continue tackling the issues his …
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11/1/18
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The New York state legislative session ended in Albany on June 20 and, despite the push by a number of advocacy groups around New York and in Nassau County, a number of voting reform bills did not …
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By Jennifer Corr
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6/28/18
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Ana Wagner, 37, of Lynbrook, paints a portrait of her childhood that she shares with her three children. She tells them about her life growing up in Brooklyn, that she was the smallest girl in her classes and that she maintained straight “A’s” throughout elementary school. The picture she paints, however, skips over a three-year segment of her story during which she was sexually abused by a friend of her father.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/19/18
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A businessman who can’t stop popping pills, an old woman who calls a park bench her home and a veteran who never leaves her home are all fighting their own battles, one might say. However, State Sen. John Brooks, of Seaford, is looking to prove how mental health is the one umbrella under which a variety of issues must be addressed.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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11/30/17
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When the House Ways and Means Committee met to consider its bill to revamp the U.S. tax code . . .
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11/24/17
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Roughly two months after the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan reversed New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s corruption conviction, a federal appeals panel overturned those of former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, on Tuesday.
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By Ben Strack
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9/26/17
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Let’s imagine our house on fire. What’s the first thing we’d want to do? Put it out! Try to save it to be repaired and reoccupied. But too often these days . . .
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8/10/17
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