2025 - Page 158 of 288 - Long Island Life & Politics

Budget Audit: More Spending, Less Revenue

June 10, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

The Enacted Budget for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 is projected to total $254 billion, a 5.2% increase in spending at a time when new federal actions on funding and policy may change the relationship […]

Community: School Name, Logo ‘Is Who We Are’

June 10, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

Defiant Massapequa Residents Vow to Keep ‘Chiefs’ By Hank Russell “Once a Chief, Always a Chief” — that was the common theme at the June 7 “Save the Chiefs” Festival Fundraiser that was held at […]

Cuomo’s Shameless Pandering on Pensions

June 10, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

Over the last few months, we’ve seen how hard it is through efforts by the DOGE team and some Republicans in Congress to cut anything — anything at all — in government budgets. It’s because […]

No ‘Interest’: Credit Card Rate Bill Fails in Assembly

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

Previously Published in The Messenger Assemblyman Doug Smith (R–Holbrook) slammed Assembly Democrats after they voted to kill his legislation (A.7020) in the Assembly Banks Committee that would have capped credit card interest rates at 10% […]

Hogg May Fall Victim to His Own Woke Ideology

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

David Hogg, the brash, egocentric, uber-leftist firebrand who climbed to fame as a student at Parkland High School during its deadly shooting tragedy may be on the verge of being dumped by his fellow Democrats […]

Dems Call on FBI to Investigate Blakeman: ‘Obstruction 101’

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

By Hank Russell Democratic members of the Nassau County Legislature gathered on June 9 at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building to demand an immediate FBI investigation into what they call a series of […]

Long Beach Man Arrested for DWI Crash in Island Park

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

A Long Beach man has been arrested for a DWI Crash in Island Park. On June 3 at 12:33 a.m., Fourth Precinct officers responded to 4540 Austin Boulevard for an automobile accident into a building. […]

Dix Hills Man Charged with Conspiracy in Kidnapping, Murder-for-Hire Plot

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

A Dix Hills man was charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation for allegedly plotting to kidnap and kill a man and promising to pay a hitman $100,000 and 10 acres of land in India to […]

Police Seek to ID Drowning Victim in Nissequogue

June 9, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a man who was pulled from the water in Nissequogue. Fourth Precinct and Marine Bureau officers responded to a report of a swimmer in […]

Replica Pistol Stolen from Old Bethpage Museum

June 8, 2025 Hank Russell Comments Off

Nassau County police are asking for the public’s help in locating and identifying the man who allegedly stole a replica pistol from a museum in Old Bethpage. The Museum of American Armor, located at 1303 […]