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It is a commonly held frustration of Long Island residents that our governments seem to always be behind the curve as opposed to ahead of it. Quite regularly we hear the phrase uttered that government “must become proactive rather than reactive.” As […]

For several months, Long Island Life & Politics has been sounding the alarm that Suffolk County is seeking to raise the sales tax at the same time it is sitting on a record $700 million […]

A federal District Court judge has once again declared President Obama‘s 2012 executive order seeking to legalize over one million undocumented youth in this country illegal.  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-declares-daca-illegal-again-issue-likely-to-be-decided-by-supreme-court. Democrats responded by saying, “So what? What are […]

By Steve Levy If you listened to the Secretary General of the United Nations last week, you would have thought that the human species is doomed in the next few decades due to climate change. […]

By Steve Levy Back in May, Long Island Life and Politics was the first to expose the fact that the Bayport-Blue Point Board of Education approved pornographic books to be placed on the high school […]

A recent Siena College poll showed that Joe Biden retains a 50% favorability rating among New Yorkers (up from 46% just a month ago), and would win the state by a factor of 52-31% in […]

By Delia DeRiggi-Whitton As our children return to classrooms and the leaves begin their autumnal change, our nation is highlighting another vital milestone as we observe September as National Recovery Month. Since being established in […]

Question: Should a district attorney take campaign contributions from the union for a police department that he or she oversees? Current Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney is the first district attorney to our knowledge […]

New York City just gets crazier by the moment. First, the city stupidly settled with Black Lives Matters protesters to give the rowdy agitators up to $10,000 per person under the justification that the police […]

You heard it here first in Long Island Life & Politics months ago, when we exposed that Suffolk County was sitting on over $700 million in surplus funds at the same time it was pondering […]