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                                                                                 Nassau Health Commissioner Larry Eisenstein to the left of former County Executive Laura Curran Though it was all around Nassau County for the past two weeks that Health Commissioner Larry Eisenstein was leaving, Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman did not confirm his departure. Until today. After an advertisement appeared in the Wall Street Journal, page B7, seeking applicants for a new county health commissioner, Blakeman announced Eisenstein was leaving. Here is a badly copied image of that advertisement:                                 ...

                                                                                   Looks like former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran got the  on-air NYC job she was looking for when her county term expired Dec. 31 --  after the Democrat lost her bid for re-election to Republican Bruce Blakeman. Curran tweeted today: "Check out my new podcast!"  Sure enough. Curran's "Cut to the Chase" is listed among one of  Talk Radio 77 WABC podcasts. The radio station says Curran's first podcast is with former Newsday reporter, Gus Garcia-Roberts, now with the Washington Post, who wrote a book about former Suffolk cop James Burke, " Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice and the Reign of a Dirty Cop." According to "Linked In", "The station’s on-air lineup includes some of the...

                                                                                 Left to right: Rob Astorino, Harry Wilson, Lee Zeldin, Andrew Guiliani (from CBS News gop debate coverage) An Albany Supreme Court judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by GOP outsider Harry Wilson against party-backed candidate U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin just as early voting in the gubernatorial primary begins tomorrow. Justice Richard J. McNally Jr. slammed claims by Wilson, a millionaire businessman, that Zeldin violated campaign finance laws in seeking the party's nomination for governor. He wrote in a  7-page decision that Wilson's charges were baseless on procedural grounds, have "no basis in law and fact" and were "without merit." He said to agree with Wilson's baseless claims would turn the court i...

                                                                                 Moody's Investor Services last month raised Nassau's credit rating to A1 from A2, giving the county a positive outlook for the future. This is the second upgrade that Nassau has received from a large Wall Street rating agency. Last month Standard and Poor's upgraded Nassau's credit to AA- from A+, with a stable outlook. Wall Street firms have different ranking systems, but essentially, Nassau's ratings from both companies are at the same level. Moody's wrote that its upgrade for Nassau "reflects a significantly imp...

                                                                                  Gov. Kathy Hochul Wonder why people are ignoring pleas to return to the office to work? You can thank Gov. Kathy Hochul for encouraging their hesitancy. Democrat Hochul just signed yet another order on Tuesday extending for another month a "disaster emergency" in New York because of the Covid-19 pandemic. And that order...just like all others she has signed since the former lieutenant governor from Buffalo was thrust into the governor's job when Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned last August -- allows lawmakers and p...