It is stand up and be counted time. April 1 is Census Day, and it is no joke that responding to the federal government’s questionnaire — no matter how you do it — is important, according to officials.
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By Jeff Bessen
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1/23/20
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Once every 10 years, state legislatures across the country play a game known as reapportionment. After the federal census is completed, your elected state legislators will decide . . .
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5/17/19
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Communities across Nassau County are changing fast. The demographic profile the county comptroller’s office developed highlighted new challenges the county faces so we can deliver the right services in the right way to everyone.
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By Jack Schnirman
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3/29/19
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Over the past several decades, women have made tremendous strides in the workforce. Working mothers are now the single or primary source of income in 40 percent of . . .
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4/20/17
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Once upon a time, Long Island was known as one big, largely white suburb — but no more. There is no doubt that the face of Long Island is rapidly changing.
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12/22/16
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Teenage girls of Southeast Asian descent carrying skateboards, observant Jews walking to and from shul, Hispanic young men playing soccer, and blacks and whites living in the Five Towns, which are really a dozen communities that form this portion of what is called the South Shore of Nassau County.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/27/15
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Poverty is hard to define, I learned during a “Covering Suburban Poverty” conference sponsored by the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communications and the Poynter Institute last Sept. 26 and 27.
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By Scott Brinton, Senior Editor
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2/12/14
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The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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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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