The State of New York has decided to strip Nassau County’s finances from its Tea Partying County Executive, who has mismanaged them over the past year. The take over by an Interim Finance Authority has virtually left Republican County Executive Edward Magnano an impotent administrator who will not be able to affect much change...
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The Republican leadership in the New York State Senate has been very responsive to the four-member Independent Democratic Conference, even giving them choice seating together in the chamber yesterday. This has angered other Democrats, such as Senator Eric Adams (SD-20), who started a brouhaha about it on the floor yesterday. But now, all four...
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Sen. Carlucci State Senator David Carlucci (SD-37), along with the three other members of the Independent Democratic Caucus will get four committee assignments, after they had been earlier snubbed by minority leader John Sampson. But State Senator Jeff Klein (SD-44) of the IDC is still not happy, as other Democrats were given five committee...
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Courtesy of Nyack News & Views Responding to calls from country legislators, the New York State Comptroller’s office will conduct an audit of Rockland County finances. The state had initially decided to delay a decision to audit until a formal risk assessment had been completed, but the county’s falling bond rating has prompted swifter...
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In hopes of making a clean break from the dysfunction that has defined Albany, freshman State Senator David Carlucci (SD-38), who campaigned as an “independent Democrat” this fall, put real meaning behind those words when he joined three other Senators in forming a third New York State Senate conference today. Carlucci–only a few hours...
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