An important item will be on the ballot in November, the passage of which would do more to benefit New York state government in the future than any individual we elect.
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7/16/14
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Every two or four years, we get to hold our elected officials accountable for the decisions they have or haven’t made, the actions they took or didn’t.
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11/7/13
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In so many ways, the Town of Hempstead has set an example of how government ought to operate.
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2/28/13
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There are 10 elephants and nine donkeys in a field.
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2/21/13
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Last year, Nassau County created the Temporary Districting Advisory Commission to draft new legislative maps for the next decade.
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1/10/13
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Back in July, we praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for completing so much important work in the last legislative session. In a …
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9/1/11
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In a public hearing that turned raucous at times on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature heard testimony from a long line of speakers who charged that a Republican plan to redraw the lines of the county’s 19 legislative districts would, if passed, dilute the minority vote while shifting roughly half of the county’s population –– 576,000 people in all –– into new districts.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/9/11
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Darkly mirroring the polarization and antagonism that prevails in Washington, D.C., in many states and in Albany, Mineola’s elected officials have now waded into arguably the most tendentious and consequential area of political debate: redistricting.
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5/5/11
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