Long Island News
Pedestrian Killed in Selden Hit-and-Run
Dangerous Roads
Suffolk County Police Major Case Unit detectives are investigating a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in Selden. On November 5, Victoria Hutson was walking on the northbound shoulder in front of 53 Boyle Road [...]
Few Surprises in Off-Year Election
Politics
Blakeman, Donnelly Re-Elected in Nassau Republican Majorities Shrink in Huntington and County Legislatures By Hank Russell This Election Day saw most of the incumbents re-elected, with a few surprises. Both the Suffolk County and Nassau [...]
Op Eds
Takeaways from This Election
It was a big week for Democrats nationwide, which should have been expected from the start, given that the party in power during an off-year election traditionally gets slaughtered. And that was the case, in [...]
Op Eds
Medical Aid in Dying Act Should Become Law
By Paul Carpentier, MD Steve Levy recently wrote a concise opinion letter (“Governor Should Sign the Medical Aid in Dying Act,” Oct. 14, 2025). He did an amazingly good job of demonstrating several mistaken assumptions that many [...]
Non-Profits
County Provides Nonprofits with Emergency Funding during Shutdown
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman recently joined Long Island Cares CEO Katherine M. Fritz, Island Harvest CEO Randi Shubin Dresner, and other Nassau officials to declare a state of emergency and announce that the two [...]