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Democrat George Sava, of Woodmere, has announced his run to challenge Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre)for the 9th Senate District.
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Katherine Kollitides
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6/30/10
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Potential New York state attorney general candidate Sean Coffey stopped by Valley Stream for a cup of coffee last week, shared his views with a few local residents and listened to their concerns.
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Andrew Hackmack
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6/23/10
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This isn’t your children’s suburbs.
“This isn’t even the suburbs of your children’s children,” lecturer Lawrence Levy intoned multiple times to a rapt audience that filled the basement room of the Rockville Centre Public Library on the night of June 7. “It’s a bleak picture, but not an unbeatable one. We need to be smart, successful and resourceful.”
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6/16/10
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At the beginning of the year, Republicans from Washington to the far-off hustings were toasting the coming November election with predictions of a mass wipeout of incumbent Democrats.
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Jerry Kremer
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6/14/10
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Last week, 92 percent of Long Island school budgets won public approval. Aware of the public’s anger over rising taxes, most districts held their growth down to between 2 and 4 percent. Thankfully, the voters didn’t punish the children.
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Jerry Kremer
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5/28/10
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Bellmore-Merrick residents saw their water rates rise in January when the New York State Public Service Commission approved a three-year, 12.66 percent rate hike for Aqua New York, their water provider. The average customer's bill will rise from $593 to $643 this year, according to the PSC.
When U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat, heard from constituents about the rate hike, and a similar increase in December 2008 for towns in Westchester County, he and his staff began looking into Aqua New York and its parent company, Aqua America.
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Deirdre Krasula
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5/25/10
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Every April 15, I’m amazed by the number of people lined up outside the post office at the 11th hour, waiting to mail their taxes in before midnight. Friends, tax day is like Christmas — it’s the same day every year! It’s also inevitable, like death.
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Al D'Amato
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5/3/10
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The great Mayor Ed Koch used to say he’d like to take a pitchfork through the Wall Street executives who fleeced Americans over the past decade.
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Al D'Amato
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4/29/10
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County Executive Edward Mangano signed two executive orders last week that he calls "emergency measures" to fix Nassau's "broken" property tax assessment system. The first order …
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Mike Caputo
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4/15/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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