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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In a race widely viewed as crucial for state Democrats’ efforts to take control of the Senate, Anna Kaplan, a Democrat from Great Neck defeated Republican incumbent Elaine Phillips from Flower Hill …
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By Peter Belfiore
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11/7/18
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In the nearly two years that Atlantic Beach resident Melissa Miller has been a state assemblywoman, she has learned that government moves at a glacial pace — which Miller, the mother of a special-needs child, finds frustrating.
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11/1/18
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My stomach was churning furiously. The Press Club of Long Island’s first-ever poetry reading on Aug. 23 was to begin in a half-hour at the Huntington Station birthplace of the unparalleled poet and journalist Walt Whitman. Would anyone show? I wondered.
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9/14/18
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Juan Vides from Oceanside defeated his opponent Jack Vobis of Island Park late Thursday night to became the Democratic nominee to take on Republican incumbent Assemblywoman Melissa Miller of Atlantic …
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By Peter Belfiore
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9/14/18
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Two men are vying for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Melissa Miller for New York’s 20th Assembly District seat.
Jack Vobis, from Island Park, an attorney who …
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By Peter Belfiore
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8/30/18
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Congressional candidate Liuba Grechen Shirley won a landmark ruling from the Federal Election Commission to be able to spend her campaign funds on childcare.
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By Eden Laikin
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5/24/18
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State Democrats assembled at Hofstra University Wednesday and Thursday to pick their nominees for governor, attorney general and comptroller, with Sec. Hillary Clinton endorsing incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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By Erik Hawkins
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5/23/18
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Part six in an ongoing series. Read parts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7] here.
When temporary protected status for Haitians was revoked last November, TPS recipients from other countries …
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By Nadya Nataly, Alyssa Seidman and Brian Stieglitz
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4/26/18
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A group of eight women from the Five Towns, Valley Stream and Massapequa Park fiercely believe that more honesty and principled thought need to be injected into the political process that produces government officials at every level.
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By Tyler Marko
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4/19/18
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