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                                                                                 Nassau University Medical Center A Nassau Supreme Court judge yesterday declared that Democrat Ann Kayman "was properly and duly appointed" to serve as a director on the board of NuHealth, the public benefit corporation that runs the Nassau University Medical Center and related facilities. The decision seals a 7-7 Democratic-Republican split on the East Meadow hospital's governing board, maintaining an impasse in a political power struggle that has raged over NUMC -- with its many contracts and jobs -- since Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman took office a year ago. Justice Randy Sue Marber, a Democrat cross-endorsed for re-election in 2020, yesterday affirmed the temporary restraining order she...

                                                                                     Like most other county executives before him, Republican Bruce Blakeman campaigned for office last year on fixing the "broken" assessment system, which, in Nassau, has been "broken" for decades. It has yet to be fixed. And the same errors appear to be cropping up. Scott Diamond, moderator of the 35,000-member Facebook page group "Nassau Grieve your Tax Assessment - Free", has posted that the Nassau Assessment Department has made the same error in calculating the January general tax bills for 842 taxpayers as it made in October school tax bills. The county then admitted it miscalculated an exemption for those taxpayers, resulting in an about $1.5 million in tax refunds. Now Diamond asserts th...

                                                                                   George Santos This blog tries to write news that is not covered by other media: Hence the name: Liuncoverednews. But finding something new to write about Congressman-Elect George Santos is hard. It seems that every news outlet in the nation is now writing about every aspect of the strange Republican's life since the New York Times revealed two weeks ago that Santos' public resume is filled with lies and misrepresentations. It's not even certain where he lives. Queens? Huntington? It was obvious to old-timers in the news business that the New York Times story was an orchestrated political hit against a member of the slim new Republican majority U.S. House. Otherwise, why didn't the Times --  or...

                                                                              Nassau Legislature today as police officers are honored. Josh Lafazan seat, second chair from the far right,  is empty. Democratic Legis. Josh Lafazan of Woodbury earns $81,125 from Nassau County. In two weeks, his salary jumps to $84,370. Pretty good pay for a part-time job. Yet Lafazan seldom shows up for his official county duties, such as attending county legislative sessions, even though they are generally held only twice a month. While he was running unsuccessfully for Congress this year, Lafazan was nowhere to be seen at...

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                                                                             Paolo Pironi Josh Lafazan It may still be 2022 but the 2023 county election campaign has begun. Last week, Republican Paolo Pironi, a businessman who came close to beating incumbent Legis. Joshua Lafazan of Woodbury last year, announced he is back in the race for the 18th legislative seat. And he demanded that Lafazan, who switched his voter registration from non-affiliated to Democrat before he ran unsuccessfully for Congress this year, give back the tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations he received from a PAC bankrolled by ...

                                                    Nassau Legislature Payroll                                      At least one Nassau County legislator -- Democrat Arnold Drucker of Plainview  -- contends that Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman should not have taken his ordinance-ordered salary increase this year along with retroactive pay hikes turned down by his Democratic predecessor. "We don’t need to increase salaries at a time when taxpayers and residents need relief from the county," Drucker told Newsday. "That should come in the form of a tax reduction, not a salary boost.”  Arnold Drucker But Drucker and his legislative colleagues had no problem taking their ordinance-ordered pay increases this year and will take a four-percent...