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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:                                                                               Though difficult to read, it says the county is looking for a medical physician licensed to practice in the state of New York with a Master's Degree in public health or two years experience in medical administration. Soon after Journal readers could have seen the ad, which makes up a quarter of the newspaper page,

                                                                                   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 biggest names in media and politics, including Mark Levin, John Batchelor, Rudy Giuliani, Bill O’Reilly, Bernard McGuirk and Sid Rosenberg, Curtis Sliwa and Juliet Huddy, B

                                                                                 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 into "a pawn in the politics of a given election." Wilson, former Westchester county executive Rob Astorino, Andrew Guiliani and Zeldin are vying for the party's no

                                                                                 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 improved financial position that is likely to continue through 2022 given conservative budget management. The county was also able to eliminate or reduce a number of liabilities, significantly reducing recurring expenses. "Given the substantial improvements in budget management over the past three years, governance is a driver of the rating action." Hmm. That l

                                                                                  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 public boards throughout New York at all levels to continue through July 14 to appear remotedly at their governmental or agency meetings and vote. Except for "extraordinary circumstances," lawmakers are mandated by state law to be physically present when voting to dispel any suggestion of behind-the-scenes coercion in their decision making.    Hochul and New York City mayor Er