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New York State Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square) sent our paper a press release lambasting the  MTA’s most recent fare increase and calling upon the state legislature to support his legislation that seeks a forensic […]

By Steve Levy When I became a member of the state assembly in January 2001, I came in with a long list of bills I wanted to craft based on 15 years of service with […]

By Will Barclay New York has an energy problem, and it seems to be getting worse by the day. The latest setback for New Yorkers came by way of a recent court ruling clearing the […]

By Steve Levy Once again, we see a developer proposing the construction of a large housing complex on Long Island and local civic associations are coming out against it.  I am referring to the proposal […]

Just when you thought the state couldn’t get any crazier, the New York State Legislature is mulling a bill that would limit the number of cows that a farmer can have on his property.  Somehow, […]

Ugh, it’s summer on a Thursday. It’s almost the weekend. I should be happy, but with Thursday being the new Friday, it’s traffic day. Got to get past Thursday. Let me say it loud and […]

When we at Long Island Life & Politics editorialized about NSI Director Tulsi Gabbard’s report on the nefarious actions by Obama’s intelligence agencies and the Clinton campaign to derail the Trump administration, some readers questioned […]

A report just issued by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, concludes that former President Barack Obama and his team manufactured intelligence to embellish the 2016 Russian election interference […]

By Steve Levy It sure is interesting to see how the biased media deals with the Medicaid explosion. They publish one article after another with a negative slant as to how the administration and congressional […]

Millions of New Yorkers were in shock when 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist candidate who espouses communist principles such as abolishing private property, shot to the top of the heap and won the Democratic […]