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                                                                                        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 home rule voting schedules because elections are a "state concern."  But "the mere statement by the Legislature that subject matter of the statute is of State concern does not in and of itself create a State concern," Neri wrote, citing legal precedent. He noted, "Further distinguishing state from local concern is the fact that none of the affected offices are state offices. There is simply no s

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.                                                                      Outside the Coliseum, Legis. Carrie Solages, an Elmont Democrat of Haitian descent, has called for a 3 p.m. rally to "end hate" against Haitians and migrants. He cited Trump's allegations during last weeks debate between Trump and Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, who is seeking to be elected president in November, that Haitian migrants

                                                                                        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. 7 attack made Jewish hatred acceptable again as pro-Hamas, anti-Israel rallies fill streets and campuses. Matthew Schweber, a lawyer with the Columbia University Jewish Alumni Association, told the New York Po

                                                                                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 the bill. The legislature has no choice but appoint Moriarty: state law requires the commissioner be selected by the political party leader and Nassau Republican chairman Joe Cairo submitted his recommendation of Moriarty last week. So Moriarty will get the salary bump as will Nassau Democrat elections commissioner James Scheuerman. And that means there is an agreement between

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

                                                                                        Masked Anti-Israel protestors occupy Columbia University building in April (from the Forward) Remember several years ago when you were scolded and shunned if you didn't wear a mask in public? Now, you could be fined as much as $1,000 and jailed if you do.  The 12-member Republican majority on the Nassau legislature has submitted a bill banning the wearing of masks or other face coverings in public except for medical, religious or "celebratory" purposes (presumably referring to Halloween.) The Nassau Republicans are following the example of several Albany Democrats, civil rights groups and Jewish organizations who have proposed mask bans after dozens of mostly in Pro-Palestine, anti-Israel rallies erupted across the state after the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Jewish civilians by Hamas terrorists. Most of the protestors hid their identities by wearing masks or keffiyehs, which are tradition