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By Delia DeRiggi-Whitton  Three years into Nassau County Executive Bruce A. Blakeman’s administration, nearly $100 million in opioid settlement funds sit mostly untouched. Meanwhile, lives are being lost. The money is stuck in limbo – […]

Trump and Hochul Should Make This Deal New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been meeting with President Trump regarding New York’s infrastructure and other important issues. There’s a very easy solution for what is troubling […]

By Ed Romaine  When a person signs up to become a volunteer firefighter, they commit to the potential that, one day, they may be putting their lives on the line. When an alarm sounds, our […]

The head of a noted nonprofit environmental group on Long Island recently issued a blistering opinion piece in Newsday against Long Island’s own former congressman, Lee Zeldin, who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency. The […]

National Suicide If historians look back on a downfall of the U.S. that can be traced to our present time, they may note how it was helped along by a policy of national suicide going […]

By Steve Levy In 2020, I published my book, Solutions to America’s Problems, a section of which was devoted to the need for a bill to be passed by Congress that would prohibit activists from forum […]

By Keith Brown From my first one-house budget proposal in 2021, which was $208.3 billion, spending in our state has increased by more than $48 billion — approximately 26%. The Assembly one-house budget proposal for […]

Does a foreigner have a right to come to the United States on a visa and thereafter support terrorist organizations that are holding Americans hostage? The answer is no from both a legal and moral […]

By Nick LaLota The extraordinary dedication of Long Island’s first responders was on full display during the recent brush fires that tore through parts of Brookhaven and Southampton Towns. Their swift and selfless response not […]

By the Assembly Minority Conference New York’s local roads and bridges have been severely neglected for years. Investments in these critical arteries consistently fell short of what is needed to ensure safe, reliable travel for […]