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Four-term Congresswoman Kathleen Rice will not run for re-election, she said.
Congresswoman Kathleen Rice won't run for re-election
Four-term Congresswoman Kathleen Rice will not be running for a fifth two-year term. Rice, a Democrat, represents the 4th Congressional District. more
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin, holding the portion of the state budget that included the disputed zoning provision, thanked County Legislator Tom McKevitt, third from right, who discovered the provision because he read through the entire proposed budget.
Town, County officials: No to ADU’s
Hempstead Town and Nassau County officials – and some South Shore residents – are up in arms over a zoning proposal within Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022-2023 New York State Budget. more
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County legislators and Jewish community leaders surrounded County Executive Bruce Blakeman as he signed the amended resolution creating the Special Legislative Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. To Blakeman’s right was Legislator Arnold Drucker. Legislator Mazi Pilip stood to his left.
Blakeman signs anti-Semitism bill
Two events of particular relevance to Nassau County’s Jewish population occurred at the Theodore Roosevelt Legislative and Executive Building in Mineola on Jan. 27: County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is Jewish, signed an amended bill creating the Nassau County Special Legislative Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, and he led a commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. more
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Ismael Diaby of Freeport was missing as of Saturday afternoon, Jan. 22, 4:00 p.m.
Missing juvenile in Freeport
The Nassau County Missing Persons Squad is investigating a missing juvenile that occurred Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm in Freeport. more
An inauguration like no other
I have been blessed to raise my hand and pledge to serve my community as an elected official many times over the past 16 years. However, last Monday was the first — and hopefully, last — time that I will take the oath of office in my living room. more
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Bail reform law needs still more tweaking
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder convened a news conference on Jan. 13 to make a point: The state’s bail reform law, enacted in January 2020, needs further reform . . . more
At a news conference on Jan. 6, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order requiring school districts to vote in January on whether to require masks in classrooms.
Freeporters debate masks in schools
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed executive orders on Jan. 6 directing local boards of education to vote in January on whether their districts should mandate mask use, while also lifting the mask mandate for all county agencies and the state's temporary mask mandate in public places. more
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Surrounded by Nassau County legislators and officials, former County Executive Laura Curran, fourth from right, announced her formation of the Nassau County Advisory Committee for Gender Inclusivity on Dec. 30, 2021.
Curran pushes gender inclusivity, Blakeman pulls out
On her second-to-last day in office, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran issued an executive on Dec. 30 to create a nine-member Nassau County Advisory Committee for Gender Inclusivity to address gender identity discrimination in the county's charter, administrative code and other regulations. The committee would report to the county executive. more
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Janna Rodriguez, owner of The Innovative Daycare Corp. in Freeport, discussed the reasons for the U.S. government to support child care providers in a recent Zoom interview.
Child care providers fight for government support
When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down businesses and schools in March 2020, a new phrase passed into common use: essential worker. The term referred particularly to employees whose jobs were essential to societal function and could not be accomplished remotely, like those in health care, food production, and sanitization. But when employees in these sectors went to work, what happened to their young children? more
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New Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, speaking at his inauguration Monday, said once again that he would not enforce New York state's mask mandate for public spaces.
Nassau should enforce state’s mask mandate
Bruce Blakeman’s first public act as Nassau County executive-elect, in the second week of December, was one of rebellion. more
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