With a snowstorm expected to dump 8- to 12-inches of snow on Long Island, Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano will activate the county’s Non-Emergency Hotline beginning Tuesday at 8 …
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1/11/11
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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Thousands of Long Island families had a more abundant feast this Thanksgiving Day due in large part to the generosity of Robert Jesberger, proprietor of Mid Island Collision of Rockville Centre. At a …
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By Andrew McClure
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12/15/10
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South Side High School sophomore Adam Moss received a citation from Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano on Nov. 10 for his support of diabetes research, his commitment to educating his peers …
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12/1/10
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Comptroller George Maragos and some members of the Nassau County Legislature have demonstrated that they understand tough times call for compromise in their dealings with the MTA’s threat to kill the Long Island Bus System.
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11/25/10
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Just work it out. That’s the advice Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos has offered County Executive Ed Mangano and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which are at a standstill …
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Lee Landor
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11/24/10
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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano announced last week that Eisenhower Park will provide a free round of golf for veterans and active-duty personnel on Eisenhower Park’s Blue Course on …
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11/5/10
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The Nassau County Legislature voted 11-8 to approve County Executive Ed Mangano’s $2.6 billion budget on Saturday night, following a contentious, two-day public hearing in Mineola that turned bitterly partisan as legislators argued over details of the spending plan.
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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11/2/10
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The Egyptian pharaohs, who ruled the Nile River Valley from 3150 B.C. to 30 B.C., favored what we call Keynesian macroeconomic theory. That is, they liked big-government projects — obelisks, temples, pyramids.
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Scott Brinton
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10/28/10
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The Nassau County Legislature’s hearing on its 2011 budget ended on Monday without a vote on a proposal to nix the county’s longstanding guarantee to pay for property owners’ challenges of its tax assessments. If passed, the plan would effectively shift that burden to school districts and local governments, which would have to defend the county’s assessments and pay for successful challenges by property owners.
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David Weingrad
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10/20/10
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