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                                                                               Nassau CSEA poster truck in Long Beach earlier this month                    Nassau CSEA Local 830 president Ron Gurrieri and vice president Bob Arciello were removed from their union positions today following an angry month-long public fight with Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman over health insurance. State CSEA president Mary Sullivan notified members in a letter today that she had removed Gurrieri and Arciello, explaining the...

                                                                                        An Onondaga County judge today threw out New York's new even-year voting law enacted by the Democratic-controlled state legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in December, 2023. Supreme Court Justice Gerard J. Neri, a Republican, not only voided the new law, which was to take effect next year, but he essentially sneered at the arguments used to enact it. Neri noted that the state legislature contended it had the authority to overturn county charters and ...

Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale                                                                                 Be prepared to hunker down, residents of Salisbury, East Meadow and Uniondale.  Traffic will be a nightmare on Wednesday afternoon around the Nassau Coliseum. Three political rallies are planned: Former Republican President Donald Trump, who is running again for president this November, , will be be speaking at 7 p.m. inside the arena.  Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Cairo called an emergency meeting of GOP leaders last week to help prepare for the event.    ...

                                                                                        Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin and new town anti-semitism task force Is anyone not horrified by the growing antisemitism that has been publicly displayed --usually by protestors who hide their identities behind masks and keffiyehs -- on college campuses and city streets since Oct. 7 -- when Hamas terrorists massacred 1,200 Israeli civilians while taking more than 200 men, women and children hostage? Sure, there has always been antisemitism. But for decades. after the the World War II holocaust, the slurs were whispered behind closed doors or in private sanctums. It wasn't acceptable to be publicly anti-Jewish or to oppose the existence of Israel. But it's as though the gruesome Oct....

                                                                                Looks like former Nassau Republican Elections Commissioner Joe Kearney resigned a little bit too soon. Because the county legislature is set to boost the commissioner's salary by more than 16 percent as soon as they appoint Long Beach Republican Leader James Moriarty to replace Kearney on Sept. 23. A proposed ordinance was filed late today that will boost the Nassau elections commissioner's salary to $210,000 from the current $180,314 a year. That will be the commissioners' first salary boost in seven years, according to th...

There was a shake-up in leadership at the Nassau Board of Elections on Friday, which surprised some longtime political observers. Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Cairo submitted his recommendation for James Moriarty to replace Joseph Kearney as the GOP commissioner at the Nassau Board of Elections. According to state law, the political party leader chooses his party's elections commissioner; County legislators have no choice but to accept the selection. That means Moriarty, the Long Beach Republican leader, a former spokesman for the Republican controlled Oyster Bay Town and member of the Nassau Off-Track Betting board, is the party's commissioner, at least through the end of the year. Cairo's certificate notes that former GOP Commissioner Kearney has resigned, though he doesn't say when. Kearney has been a Nassau Republican stalwart for years, serving on the Hempstead Town board, then as a deputy county e xecutive for former Republican County Executive Ed Mangano, an...