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' [...]It’s petition warfare in Nassau as Democrats and Republicans wrestle for control of the county legislature, where Democrats hold a slim 10-9 majority.
Both parties are fighting over the Independence and Conservative support in the belief that having these third-party ballot lines can make the difference in a tight election.
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The South Shore Press has published a picture that photo-shops Brookhaven Councilman Keith Romaine into a July 2 news conference at Smith Point County Park that he attended -- but later than the moment at which the photo was taken. The Web site 27east, which gets content [...]
Former gov., Mario Cuomo will headline a $250 a head Chairman Club event Thursday at Brookhaven town leader Marsha Laufer's estate over looking Long Island Sound.
The video above is a beautifully presented piece about the schools under Mayor Bloomberg who has now served nearly two terms. All his ads are expensive, polished productions, free of peeve.
Um, say -- is that school bus in the background at 23 seconds by any chance from Jofaz, which was [...]
Let's see. A big public undertaking moves forward, and quietly, someone connected to local officialdom obtains adjacent property that stands to increase in value. It is out of the textbook. But Nassau County does not seem to be all that intent on breaking new civic ground anyway.
GOP State and County [...]
As many expected, Gov. David A. Paterson's move to unilaterally appoint Richard Ravitch his lieutenant governor -- without an election, confirmation, or any other check or balance -- has been tentatively halted on the likelihood that it may be illegal. State Supreme Court Justice William LaMarca temporarily [...]
Southampton Republican Supervisor Linda Kabot, dumped by her own party for re-election last month, will lead the GOP ticket after all.
Her GOP-named foe, James Malone, Southampton Conservative chairman, declined the nomination late Monday and is expected to run instead as the Republican and Conservative candidate for town [...]
On the last days day candidates have to decline candidacies and parties have the authority to put non-party members on the ballot, the Suffolk Board of Elections was frenzied with last-minute activity Monday in many towns:
Suffolk’s largest union, the Association of Municipal Employees has filed union judicial charges Monday against two high level union officials for siding with the takeover attempt of the Communication Workers of America.
Dems shuffle the deck. When Gov. David A. Paterson recently replaced June O'Neill as Democratic state chairman with Nassau Chairman Jay Jacobs, right, you could have guessed that Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wasn't going to be crazy about the pick -- if you assume the template of a [...]
Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player?
1. Doctor-turned-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) using the 1950’s Desi Arnaz term “you’d have some ‘splainin’ to do” during a jocular exchange with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
2. Comic-turned-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) asking Sotomayor, when she didn’t know which case [...]
Six months ago, it was noted in this space that despite investment collapses worldwide, active and retired participants in New York City's teacher pension system continue to draw an exceptional taxpayer-guaranteed return of 8.25 percent annually on savings funds known as 403(b) plans.
Many times before and since, Mayor [...]
Trying to keep aides to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from spying on lawmakers' newsletters, Legis. Cameron Alden has asked the legislative counsel to draft a bill moving control of county printing away from the Public Works department.
Alden wants to move the duty to Civil Service, where director of personnel,' [...]
She may be the Republican candidate, but Carol Bissonette has also filed petitions to run a Democratic primary against incumbent Legis. Kate Browning.
Bissonette’s petitions, containing 659 signature, just 159 over the minimum required, arrived at the Suffolk Board of Elections Friday, the day after the deadline, but the package was [...]
Republicans have launched their campaign to win control of the Nassau legislature this fall by mailing postcards printed "NOTICE OF TAX INCREASE" to homeowners in districts of those they perceive as the three most vulnerable Democrats: Legis. Joe Scannell of Baldwin, David Mejias of Farmingdale and Jeff Toback of Oceanside.
The [...]
Stephen Baranello, who helped engineer Steve Levy's rise to county executive only to crash almost immediately on corruption charges, was sentenced Friday but got no jail time.
Baranello received 5 years probation and 840 hours of community service.
County Court Judge Ralph Gazillo sentenced Baranello, the son' [...]
Edward Dumas is returning to the Levy administration from a higher paying job at the Long Island Power authority to be chief deputy county executive for policy and communication.
Dumas' return will reinstate Levy's earlier set up of having two chief deputies as he did when he first' [...]
The weeklong game of cat and mouse over Brookhaven GOP town board member Kathleen Walsh’s future political ties continued Thursday at the Suffolk Baord of Elections.
A top Brookhaven Conservative official Kenneth Auerbach filed petitions for Annarosa Delvalle, 30, of Selden, to run a Conservative primary against Walsh.
The Nassau County Independence Party has given its endorsement to incumbent Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, a Republican who is seeking re-election.
Rumors had circulated in recent weeks that party chairman Bobby Kumar would give the ballot line to Murray’s Democratic opponent, Kristen McElroy, at the urging [...]
Two state senators from Suffolk County Wednesday night parted ways on the reappointment of Court of Claims Judge Mark D. Cohen of Stony Brook.
Sen. Brian X. Foley (D-Blue Point), right, had Cohen’s confirmation by the Senate delayed, angering Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport), left.
Flanagan [...]
The question was never whether, but always how, ethnicity would come up.
The answer is that the emotional implications of ethnicity have threaded their way through the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
The first African-American president, Democrat Barack Obama, wins the political plaudit of nominating the first Hispanic member [...]
A middle-aged man stood in the plaza in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. He carried a poster proclaiming "White guys 4 'Wise Latinas.' "
He asked a police officer if Sotomayor was in the building for the day. The officer shook her head and explained that she'd be' [...]
Moreso than any of Republicans to address Sonia Sotomayor thus far, Sen. Arlen Specter (was R-, now D-Penn.) is visibly and audibly upset with the Supreme Court nominee for ducking his questions about abortion, the number of cases the court considers annually and the extent of executive privilege. [...]
At the end of Sen. Amy Klobuchar's time questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the Minnesota Democrat became the latest interrogator to bring up Sotomayor's love of baseball.
"Did you have a chance to watch the All-Star game last night?" Klobuchar asked.
"I haven't seen television in a'" [...]
For a doctor who is so righteous on such matters of where life begins, it was odd to hear Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) quip lighthearedly that under a hypoethical involving Sotomayor and a gun, she'd 'have some splainin' to do.'
Here is a nuanced news story on his remark [...]
Sotomayor: "We don't render decisions to please the home crowd -- or any other crowd."
That's in answer to Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn's question as to whether we as Americans should aim to please those overseas or some such. . .
Sounds like more of that low-wattage "umpire" talk.
Earlier' [...]
Islip, once home to Suffolk's most unified and well-heeled Republican machine, has gone Democratic.
The latest figures from the Suffolk Board of Elections, dated July 1, show that Democratic voters now ounumber Republicans, 63,328 to 63,040.
Islip becomes the fourth and largest town to date to turn Democrat. The [...]
Brookhaven's new deputy supervisor for economic development, Paul Pontieri, left, gets a part-time $60,000 salary which is double that allowed under state limits, but the impact of the restriction will not take effect until next year because half the year is past.
Under state law, a retired [...]
Thomas Schillaro may be the only Democratic candidate in his party primary for the Brookhaven town board, but a review of his petitions shows that several GOP elections workers and one GOP legislative candidate aided his bid.
Schillaro, is running against Denmocratic designee Ron Lupski, who swtiched from the [...]
Frank MacKay, right, calls it "just a bizarre coincidence."
But the head of the state and Suffolk Independence Party as well as the national chair of the Independence Party of America will happen to be in Alaska later this month when Gov. Sarah Palin, [...]
She said her remarks about a "wise Latina" reaching better conclusions than white males really meant to convey the message, "Don't play into skepticism about the law. Look to explain...the process." She displays the lawyer's bipartisan ability to reinterpret "this is an orange" to mean "How ya doin'."
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The question among observers is how gritty the senatorial fishing might get Wednesday, how intense a competition there will be to command the "story of the day" coming out of the hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.
You'll probably have more on the "judicial'" [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (D-S.C.) hit all the GOP talking points during his question time. He returned to her infamous "wise Latina woman" line, saying that an unstated they "would have had my head" if he'd made a similar remark about himself. He also asked about her court manner, citing a' [...]
After Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) peppered Sotomayor with tough questions about her past statements about her Hispanic heritage impacting her judgement, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) comes to the rescue by asking the judge about her personal feelings in ruling against a series of sympathetic plaintiffs.
"How’d you feel ruling against" [...]
Sotomayor said in response to a question from Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) that the attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, did not change the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
"The issue of the country’s safety and the consequences of that great tragedy are the subject" [...]
The day's first protester appeared while Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) was asking Sotomayor about cases involving personal property rights. All we could hear from the broadcast was the man yelling "defend the babies!" The protester was quickly removed.
[...]Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) began her 30 minutes of questions with a pointed defense of Sotomayor after the tough but fair questioning posed by GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Feinstein, like Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) had earlier, also took umbrage with the "activist" label [...]
Anti-abortion protests, including Tuesday's star appearance and arrest of Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade herself, seemed to have subsided in time for Sen. Dianne Feinstein's commentary on the shift on the U.S. Court on the matter since Roberts and Alito arrived.
Feinstein, right, put forth [...]
After a long, thoughtful back-and-forth about the New Haven firefighters' discrimination case, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) offered this closing sentiment on its lead plaintiff, Frank Ricci:
"There's a rumor that People for the American Way, that these people have been smearing Frank Ricci, because he may be willing to be'" [...]
On affirmative action: "always first a legislative determination"
On Bush v. Gore: "I don't take a position."
On Kelo v. New London: "Kelo is precedent. I must follow it."
On Roe v Wade: "That is the precedent of the court and settled."
On Planned Parenthood v. Casey: "That is the'" [...]
After Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) led off in the questioning of Judge Sonia Sotomayor focusing on her infamous "wise Latina" comment and her opinion on the contentious New Haven firefighter and Washington, D.C., gun case, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), left, took the microphone [...]
After repeated questioning on her "wise Latina" quotation by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), left, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor bends in her defense of her words, that she was trying to inspire young Latinos that their life experiences would be valuable in the law.
Sessions did not buy [...]
Cesar Perales was seated early, before the Senate hearing room filled up.
He stayed, just a couple of rows back from Judge Sonia Sotomayor and her relatives, all the way through the hours of speech making that consumed the first day of her confirmation process for a seat [...]
Republican challenger Maria Novarro, backed by the Brookhaven’s CESA town employee union, filed petitions Monday to run a Republican town board primary against one-term Conservative incumbent Jane Bonner.
[...]After an outburst on the subject earlier Monday, another anti-abortion protestor stood up at the Sotomayor hearings and shouted, "That's right, Abortion is murder."
Capitol Police dragged him out, too.
--Tom Brune
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) Ditches baseball and goes with football as his metaphor at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings:
"To borrow a football analogy, a lower court judge is like the quarterback who executes the plays – not the coach who calls the plays.
" [...]Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, recoiled against the suggestions that Sotomayor has utilized her position as a judge to promote agendas. He cited particulars and percentages, including the figure that she sided with Republican-appointed colleagues in 95 percent of cases.
[...]Sen. Charles Schumer this A.M. at the Sotomayor hearings:
"Chief Justice [John] Roberts was, and is, a supremely intelligent man with impeccable credentials. But many can debate whether during his four years on the Supreme Court he actually has called pitches as they come -- or has tried to change the" [...]
Seated behind Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the first day of her confirmation hearings is a New York support group beyond her family. These include longtime lawyer and former social services official Cesar Perales and current NYC Deputy Mayor Carol Robles Roman, whose boss -- seeking reelection this season -- is [...]
Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion?
1. Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) calling the late pop star Michael Jackson a pedophile, a pervert and a lowlife.
2. Rev. Al Sharpton claiming a “disrespectful double standard” in media coverage of Jackson’s death and others’ including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.
3. Sen. Jeff [...]
Last November, Sen. Charles Schumer — like many Washington politicians — jumped on the bandwagon and signed up for a Twitter account.
“Just joined Twitter!” he tweeted at 4:02 PM on Nov 19th, 2008.
Yet that was not only his first tweet, it was his last.
After all, why does Schumer [...]
Especially with the state Senate crisis ebbing, Gov. David A. Paterson’s move to make Richard Ravitch his lieutenant governor looks now more like a rash and extra-legal political stunt than a sober government action.
Paterson said his concern was gubernatorial succession. But Article 6 of the state Constitution sounds plain enough: [...]
The Suffolk Community College trustees are getting closer to complying with New York State’s Freedom of Information Law, though they are still falling short.
Outgoing board chairman William Moore last month declined to detail how the board voted in executive session for his successor, but meeting minutes issued last week show [...]
Much of Latino political New York seems to have expressed enthusiasm for the selection by President Obama of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. So how would Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who as an upstate Congresswoman took positions on immigration that rattled the same caucus, not benefit from [...]
Now there is another formal symmetry between the Democrats and Republicans in Nassau County: The county chairman becomes state chairman. Like the GOP's Joe Mondello, Jay Jacobs heads the state party in the absence of June O'Neill who according to the announcement has had hip surgery. It seems [...]
A major drug company, OSI Pharmaceuticals, said last week it was bailing out of Long Island for Westchester County — but said Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi had worked hard to keep it here.
Company CEO Colin Goddard said in this opinion piece in Newsday last Thursday that in addition [...]
The spin from Mayor Bloomberg's chief campaign spokesman is that oh, well, Democrat William C. Thompson Jr. had to fight for the Working Families Party endorsement.
But behind the scenes, things weren't so mellow, according to the Voice's Tom Robbins, who reported Friday:
One of those casting' [...]So in the wake of the drama of the past two days, the state Senate -- for the moment back in the control of the Democrats -- approved 135 bills overnight, the typical practice for an early-summer end-of-session rush.
Plenty of questions remain, of course, such as how the [...]
Viewing the drama from afar, many will see this as Republican Senate leader Dean Skelos' famous Albany power play -- one that sent the house's reputation from the basement to the sub-basement.
"Sorry, but Skelos signed up with skells. Lie down with dogs and you get fleas," said a [...]
Here's the governor's private attorney, Kathleen Sullivan, telling reporters outside state Supreme Court in Mineola that a temporary restraining order has been lifted and that Richard Ravitch is officially the lieutenant governor.
"He is now the lieutentant governor. He's been the lieutenant governor. What he can now do is'" [...]
So now Espada scurries back to the Democrats, as Monserrate did before him.
He will be rewarded with the currency that the majority caucus can give him, and the Democrats are rewarded with what they deserve: Pedro "Teach-You-Some-Manners-Papa" Espada.
Now it is their turn to worry about [...]
Gov. David Paterson reacted tartly, while introducing Richard Ravitch as his appointee for lieutenant governor, to a question about the Republicans' court challenge -- that the governor insists should be sited in Albany, not Nassau.
"What an interesting place to bring a court action!" he said of Nassau, aware that it' [...]
“Desultory” would be a good word to describe Thursday’s meeting of the Budget Review Committee of the Nassau County Legislature.
“Dispirited” might work too.
Committee chairwoman Judy Jacobs (D-Woodbury) explained that the gridlock in Albany left county government at sea. “We just want to know what you’re doing,” she told [...]
In getting state Supreme Court Justice Ute Wolff Lally to issue a middle-of-the-night order barring Richard Ravitch from taking office as lieutenant governor, the Senate Republicans brought the venue back home to GOP Leader Dean Skelos' roots in Nassau County, at least for now. Just by way of' [...]
One woman, Doris Stallings-Rodriguez, won her legal battle with Nassau County for equal pay just before she died in January, but what about other women in county government?
At its meeting Tuesday night, the Nassau County Legislature approved the payment of $150,000 to the estate of Stallings-Rodriguez, who had [...]
Trying to figure out Gov. David Paterson’s end game has become an Albany pastime. But in this crisis it seems clear he is determined to push the month-long, first-of-its kind state Senate deadlock toward a resolution in court. And for his immediate purposes, winning or losing in [...]
Robo-calls about 50 seconds long have been going out this evening from Gov. David A. Paterson, carrying the same message from the East End to Queens and Brooklyn. "This is Gov. David Paterson," the familiar voice states, then tells you he's appointed Richard Ravitch as lieutenant governor to get the [...]
Key words in Paterson's statement: "Though I seek closure to this crisis, I am aware that I am not the final arbiter of legal issues. And should there be any legal action, I just ask that it be done expeditiously...."
You can see why Judith Kaye, former chief judge, is not [...]
Former MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch, who headed the commission that ran into a frustrating time trying to sell the Legislature a financing package for the busted agency, is said to be the man to whom Gov. David A. Paterson will turn to break the state Senate deadlock when he goes [...]
Mr. Madore updates us on the speculation that Gov. David A. Paterson will use his statewide television address to discuss appointment of a lieutenant governor:
Paterson spokesman Peter Kauffmann has shot down a report that Paterson was poised to tap Nassau Executive Thomas Suozzi. People [...]
Reports have come out of the Capitol in recent days that the dicey factor of racial alignment is a driving force behind divisions within the Democratic conference. Witness one caucus' questioning of Jeff Klein's racial sensitivities. Leaders within the conference include Malcolm Smith and John Sampson, [...]
Now Gov. David A. Paterson plans to take to the airwaves to address the state Senate deadlock, the exact likes of which have never been seen even in Albany a.k.a. Trenton-on-the-Hudson. It has been noted that an address on the fiscal crisis a year ago [...]
Those wacky guys and gals in the state Senate are getting some competition from the Nassau County Legislature, where backbiting, griping, sniping, innuendo, shouting and other bad behavior goes hand in hand with attempts to legislate.
The presiding officer, Legis. Diane Yatauro (D-Glen Cove) would no doubt challenge that [...]
On a kind of victory lap, AG Andrew Cuomo rolled into Islip Town Hall to unveil a Web site designed to make it easier to dissolve local governments, tied to the legislation he recently championed to streamline the process.
Sandra Peddie's dispatch is here.
Meanwhile, Gov. David A. Paterson was' [...]
The latest word from Mr. Madore out of the state Capitol:
"Two senators have walked out on fellow Democrats minutes after a Republican-led faction claimed more Democrats will join them Thursday if the month long-standoff in the Senate isn't resolved."Democratic Sens. Hiram Monserrate and Ruben Diaz had no comment' [...]
The fractures inside the Senate Democratic conference are well-documented, but their ultimate resolution remains unclear. Here is some of the air guitar being played at the one-month mark.
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People who live near the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant are planning a rally Tuesday night at the Nassau County Legislature in Mineola to demand upgrades to the plant before any additional sewage is pumped there.
“As you probably know, the county's consolidation plan... will have the villages of [...]
The Nassau County Legislature will hold its only night meeting of the year Tuesday night, giving county residents with day jobs their one chance this year to address legislators.
As late as 2004, the legislature was holding as many as four nighttime meeting annually, but scaled that back to [...]
Some observers are interested in the political implications of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's rejection of the idea that Gov. David Paterson can appoint his own lieutenant governor.
If the appointee were Tom Suozzi, that could install the Nassau executive in a position to succeed Paterson in office,' [...]
Once again, U.S. Rep Peter King has displayed his reliable skill for condemning media coverage in a way that wins him, well, media coverage.
Most importantly the exposure elevates his profile in the district. In videotaped remarks that drew him his latest 15 seconds of national fame, the Seaford [...]
Which was the most fevered lunge for self- promotion?
1. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, running for Senate, expressing dismay Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand introduced her bill on Sept. 11 worker health.
2. Nassau Conservative chairman Roger Bogsted slamming Nassau GOP chairman Joseph Mondello, for allegedly trying to subvert Bogsted’s support of Legis. Joseph [...]
Here's the latest on the Albany deadlock from Mr. Madore:
Paterson should use a little-known provision of the Public Officers Law to break the stalemate by appointing a lieutenant governor, good-government groups and an assemblyman said Monday.
Citizens Union, Common Cause and Assemb. Michael Gianaris' [...]
When he served as president of Teamsters Local 282, based in Lake Success and representing private construction workers, Gary LaBarbera won praise for transforming the organization from a mob enterprise into "a model of union democracy," in the words of his lawyer, Bruce Maffeo. Two years ago, LaBarbera [...]
No one in the New York congressional delegation is more enthusiastic about new “social media” tools such as Twitter and YouTube than Rep. Steve Israel, the former PR man turned five-term Democratic congressman from Huntington.
Just last Tuesday, he was on a panel about social media’s impact on government at [...]
The Lighthouse Project in Uniondale has the blessing, in the temporal sense, of Bishop William Murphy, head of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
At the bishop’s request, co-developer and Islanders owner Charles Wang gave a presentation for parishoners two Sundays ago, June 28th, in the basement of St. Martha’s [...]
Matt Miner, a deputy health commissioner, is the leading contender to replace deputy Suffolk executive Jeff Szabo, when he leaves to take a post at the Suffolk Water Authority, according to several political sources.
Miner, 42, is a $132,327 a year deputy who oversees administration in the [...]
Here's the full dispatch from Rick Brand on a Suffolk lawsuit to combat the ouster of police brass from police organizations:
County Attorney Christine Malafi may be using public money on what critics say is a “private” $12.25 million person injury lawsuit for top police brass,' [...]In the latest of his sidewalk dispatches, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) takes aim at the mortal national foe that is Michael Jackson coverage.
In a two-minute YouTube video that appears to have been smuggled out of Iran, King has his say about the nonstop Jackson coverage the last nine [...]
The AP's Michael Gormley aptly points out that the Albany stalemate has taken about as long as the founders spent in Philadelphia in 1776 drafting a government of a revolutionary kind.
Mr. Madore notes in Newsday that Long Island's own Senate GOP leader Skelos speaks with subtle diplomacy pending [...]
Count Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), who was on hand at the Republican National Convention last year to cheer the introduction of Gov. Sarah Palin to the rest of the nation, among those who think her resignation as Alaska governor is geared toward a 2012 presidential run.
"I would think" [...]
Maybe the real story is she was so charmed by her recent visit to St. James that she just wants to move Todd and the family here. Maybe not.
Either way she's due to move out of the Alaska governorship and who knows -- perhaps straight into the 2012' [...]
Who knows? Maybe Judge Scalia can roll into town -- and do one of his famous judicial fixes on behalf of the GOP replete with July 4 fireworks.
County Executive Steve Levy, Democrat -- an interesting prospect for statewide office if nothing else -- emerges this week with [...]
The other day we quoted Ronald Reagan, "How can a president not be an actor?" Now Newsday's Tom Brune cites Politico's noting this from the July/August Playboy interview with Alec Baldwin, in which he talks about running -- and even rambles into wondering aloud whether his Congressman, Tim Bishop, will [...]
This flier is hitting the mailboxes of NYC voters just as Mayor Michael Bloomberg is finessing the political system to retain control of the city’s public schools.
The claims, accurate as far as we can tell, are nonetheless reminiscent of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s claims on crime reduction years [...]
With the upper house still in deadlock, Sen. Brian Foley (D-Blue Point) has been touting a bill aimed at preventing foreclosure for Suffolk armed-forces veterans.
LIBN's political blog has previously posted a good summary of the mechanics here.
Like other legislation, it is in limbo due to the 31-31' [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have done it again. He warned Albany of widespread pillaging, looting, disease and locusts if he didn't get his way, only to have the sun rise as always the following day.
In this account, summer school continues as before.
Chancellor Joel Klein,' [...]
Long Beach City Councilman Leonard Remo, a two-term Democratic incumbent (in photo), is still shaking his head at his party’s decision not to back him for a third run in this fall’s election, even as party leader Michael Zapson insists he would’ve supported Remo “100 percent.”
“Lenny’s choice [...]
And so, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney becomes the second Democratic primary candidate in the race to replace appointed U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the first being Jonathan Tasini, who announced last month. Her advantage may be her having been in the Congress for a long time. And who [...]
