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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 after the city in 2020 sued both Agostosi and Schnirman, demanding return of some $2.4 million in excessive payouts made with their approval. There was no mention on Tuesday that the city had already discontinued its lawsuit against Schnirman on Dec. 29, 2023 -- three da

                                                                      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 union rat were up in Eisenhower Park as members of the General Building Laborers Local Union 66 protested the use of non-union workers on the construction of a 34,000 seat temporary cricket stadium on 19 acres of county land.  T20 World Cup USA, a non-profit hosting US. cricket games this summer, is responsible for all stadium construction and