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Long Beach ends payout scandal by paying $250,000 to key player

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From www.LongBeachNy.gov                                                       The scandal over excessive separation and drawdown payments that roiled the City of Long Beach from 2018 through 2020 is over. It ended not with a bang or even a whimper.  It concluded last Tuesday night with a slap in the face to the many city residents who uncovered and protested excessive payouts to high-level political appointees during the Democratic administration of former City Manager Jack Schnirman and former corporation counsel Rob Agostisi ,who also served briefly as acting city manager. The current City Council -- which has a new Republican majority -- voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Agostisi against Long Beach af...

Democrats again oppose Blakeman but didn't support union protests

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                                                                      Planned Democratic rally against Blakeman militia proposal (Postponed due to rain) It doesn't seem to matter what Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman supports or proposes, Nassau Democrats are against it. Legislative Democrats have actively opposed and protested about a half-dozen Blakeman schemes in the last few months. In contrast, they not only didn't support but essentially ignored a usual bread-and-butter Democratic issue last week --  union workers protesting non-union work on a massive Nassau County-sponsored project. Picket lines and the inflatable unio...