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                                                                                  Kevan Abrahams Nassau Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) today asked Republican County Executive Bruce Blakmean to extend to May 2 the current March 1 deadline for county property owners to file challenges to their property tax assessment. In a letter hand-delivered to Blakeman, Abraham said he was asking on behalf of all seven Democrats on the 19-member County legislature. "As residents continue to emerge from the myriad of economic challenges that have been caused by COVID-19 and the ongoing disruption to the housing market because of the pandemic, it is essential to provide property owners with every opportunity to challenge the assessed value of their property and ensure that they pay only their fair share of taxes, " Abrahams wrote. He notes that past county executives have extended the deadline.  Only former Democratic County Executive Laura Curran claimed she did not have the pow

Nassau County government workers apparently do not get enough paid days off. Besides sick days, vacation days and personal days, they currently are entitled to 13 paid holidays each year. Try to guess what they are. You can check your answers in the county official holiday calendar for 2022:   Now Legis. Joshua Lafazan, a Woodbury Democrat who is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for Congress this year, introduced legislation today that would add three more holidays to the county work year: the Lunar New Year, Eid al-Adha and Diwali. The Lunar New Year is an important Chinese holiday that celebrates the New Year. Eid-al-Adha is a Muslim holiday that, according to Wikipedia involves slaughtering an animal and sharing the meat in three equal parts – for family, for relatives and friends, and for poor . Diwali is a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs, again according to Wikipedia.  Adding those holidays would bring the total paid

                                                                                        As mourners gathered in Manhattan for a New York City police officer killed in the line of duty, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder on Thursday gave his first report on police reform efforts in Nassau County. The headline was body cameras. "As of Jan. 1, (2022) as we promised, every officer on patrol has a body-worn camera,  every supervisor on patrol has a body-worn camera; all the management team have a body-worn camera, " Ryder told members of the legislature's Public Safety Committee. Except for undercover officers and recruits in the police academy, "everybody is wearing a body camera," Ryder said. Body cameras for police was one of the steps taken to reform policing after George Floyd, a black man, died under severe restraint by white police officers in Minneapolis in May, 2020. Protests--that sometimes turned into violent riots -- erupted out throughout the na