As New York Democrats look ahead to two years of majority control of the State Senate — and the Assembly and the governor’s mansion — they should also remember the past and learn from their predecessors’ mistakes.
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1/10/19
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As we begin a new year, I’d like to share some of my wishes for the next 12 months for our leaders at all levels of government. Let’s start on Long Island.
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1/4/19
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Election night 2018 yielded significant gains for state Democrats, with hotly contested races leading to the party’s first true Senate majority since 1965.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, of …
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By Peter Belfiore
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11/7/18
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As he’s done every season since taking over as Head Coach/General Manager of the New York Lizards in 2012, Joe Spallina is willing to make whatever moves he feels will improve the roster and put the team in position to challenge for the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) championship.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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6/26/18
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Dean Skelos, the former State Senate majority leader who was convicted on multiple corruption charges along with his son Adam earlier this year, is seeking community service rather than prison time, saying that his lifetime of good works should be weighed when he is sentenced next month.
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By Alex Costello and Scott Brinton
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3/24/16
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There’s a perverse irony in the fact that negotiations about ethics reform in the corruption-stained state Capitol are conducted in secret. Time and again we’ve seen the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader . . .
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3/18/16
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In his State of the State address on Jan. 13, Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised to end the Gap Elimination Adjustment that school districts across the state have been subject to by 2017-18. That’s a major step in the right direction, but . . .
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1/21/16
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New York’s Assembly members and senators have returned to Albany to begin the latest legislative session. In the coming months, they, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will produce the state budget. Important decisions will be made on . . .
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1/14/16
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Merokean Dylan O’Shaughnessy was out east in Smithtown, helping his mom, Liz, a landscape designer, with a client’s garden in late June, when he got the call: He had been drafted by the New York Lizards, which this year was the best team in Major League Lacrosse.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/19/15
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U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara added more charges to the indictment against Senator Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, late in the day on Tuesday, July 21.
Skelos, 67, and his son Adam, 32, were already charged with six counts stemming from what Bharara said was a scheme in which Skelos was trading favors with businesses in exchange for payments made to his son.
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By Alex Costello
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7/21/15
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