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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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Last week, freshman Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano laid it on the line for county residents. He told us that the county is facing a $286 million deficit, the largest in its history.
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Al D'Amato
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5/6/10
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At a budget workshop at Gunther Elementary School on Wednesday night, North Bellmore officials told residents how the 2010-11 school budget would affect their taxes.
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Deirdre Krasula
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4/29/10
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The Merrick School District Board of Education adopted a $41 million budget for the 2010-11 school year on April 20 that would, if passed, increase spending by 3.37 percent and the tax levy by 5.34 percent.
The tax levy cannot be definitively determined until a New York state budget is passed in Albany and school districts receive information regarding state aid funding.
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Sari Zeidler
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4/29/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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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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I never imagined that there would come a time in our nation’s history when Americans would be prohibited from free speech.
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Al D'Amato
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4/8/10
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I trust you haven’t forgotten the famous slogan Gov. Hugh Carey used during New York’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s: “The days of wine and roses are over.”
Unfortunately, the …
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Al D'Amato
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4/3/10
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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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