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                                                                               Nassau County-owned Gold Coast mansion "Mille Fleurs" from OldLongIsland.com Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat running for re-election this Nov., reported more than $2 million in her campaign committee bank account two weeks ago. (see previous Jan. 18 item). The two largest contributors to "Laura Curran for Nassau" in the past six months were the Simon Property Group, which gave $25,000 on Sept. 18, 2020 and Karli Hagedorn, chairwoman of the non-profit Friends of Sands Point Preserve, a county-owned park along N...

                                                                                       It seemed a bit clueless when Nassau Democratic County executive Laura Curran on Jan. 28 tweeted an attack on the "Cuomo Watch"-- a twitter account critical of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  Doesn't Curran ever watch the news? The tweet she was complaining about was obviously satirical: It was the very same words U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, had used at a rally in Los Angeles on June 2018 about the Trump administration. Except Cuomo Watch substituted  "the Cuomo administration" for the words "that (Trump) Cabinet." If that wasn't enough to emphasize the satire, the quote was attributed to "Maxine CuomoWatch." But no, Curran, a strong Cuomo supporter, didn'...

Although Nassau County Executive Laura Curran promised a "transparent" administration when she ran for election in 2017, transparency has been a continuing problem for her administration. During her first year in office, deputies for Curran's County Attorney Jared Kasschau, a former partner in the Harris Beach law firm, wrote in response to a reporter that Nassau County "as a whole" is not subject to New York's Freedom of Information law. Requests for county records not physically held in Curran's office would be denied, they decreed -- an edict they later withdrew. But a Curran spokesman last year used the same excuse to deny a different request for information. In addition, numerous private citizens had to sue Nassau County over the past two years to find out how their home's value was developed under Curran's 2018 reassessment.  After months of litigation over one reassessment lawsuit -- racking up legal fees that will cost taxpayers at least ...

                                                                                      Atlantic Beach Bridge (source:Nassau County Bridge Authority) (   While the MTA is considering fare increases or service cuts,  crossing the the Atlantic Beach Bridge will still cost $2 -- the same price drivers have paid since 2008. Vincent Grasso, executive director of the Nassau County Bridge Authority said in an email yesterday:   "I am very pleased to announce that for the 14 th Straight Year, the Atlantic Beach Bridge will NOT be increasing the toll." Grasso said ...

                                                                               Gov. Andrew Cuomo When County Executive Laura Curran on Monday called for the general tax payment deadline to be extended from Feb. 10 to March 12, it was pretty certain that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was going to do just that.  Democrat Curran has a pretty tight connection with the Cuomo forces. Cuomo yesterday issued an executive order amending various laws, ordinances and rules including: "Nassau County Administrative Code § 5-17.0(1) to the extent necessary to extend the deadline to pay 2021 first half general taxes ap...

                                                                                   Republican news conference alleging $13.7 million in assessment errors Whoops. Nassau Republicans today alleged another $13.7 million in property tax overcharges due to errors in Democratic Nassau County Executive Laura Curran's reassessment. At a news conference attended by Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin, Tax Receiver Jeanine Driscoll and Nassau Legis. John Ferretti and Steve Rhoads --  all Republicans --  Driscoll announced that her office had discovered that the county's Assessment department had incorrectly calculated school tax exemptions for  28,500 veterans, undercharging them by $13.7 million. Driscoll said the assessor's office had used a outdated statistic, called the leve...

Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D'Esposito Hempstead Town councilman Anthony D'Esposito today called on County Executive Laura Curran to give the Island Park community "a seat at the table" before agreeing to cut payments by the Long Island Power authority on its E.F. Barrett power plant. D'Esposito, a Republican from the South Shore village, said the county executive has kept Island Park "in the dark" since last January about her proposed deal to settle long standing tax challenges on the power plant  in Island Park and another power station on the North Shore in Glenwood Landing. "I am writing as a Hempstead Town Councilman and an Island Park resident to demand that your administration provide a 'seat at the table' for members of the Island Park School District, the business community and local neighbors before proposing the ratification of any settlement agreement. They don't deserve to be blindsided with an agreement that could hav...

                                                                                                                                                     While Nassau legislators on Monday spent hours asking about $5.5 million in assessment errors affecting some 4,700 veterans and clergy in Nassau, County Executive Laura Curran was tweeting and emailing constituents and contributors. Several of her tweets promoted Long Island restaurant week, including the above. But...

                                                                                          Legis. John Ferretti                                                                         Legis. Arnold Drucker      About 4,500 Nassau veterans and 800 clergy were overcharged more than $5 million in general property taxes this month because the county did not apply valid exemptions in its ...