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Dec 11, 2024

Hochul Signs Law Allowing Absentee Ballot Boxes in New York

The big election is over, but fiddling round with how the vote is cast and safe guarded is far from over. New York Democrats continue to whittle away at election integrity.

Dec 11, 2024

Hochul Proposes Tax Rebate for 8.6 million New Yorkers – over 1.3 million Long Islanders

Governor Kathy Hochul has made her first priority for the 2025 State of the State a proposal for New York State’s first-ever Inflation Refund.

Dec 6, 2024

New York’s Businesses Being Socked with Costly Mandates in the New Year

New York State is already home to high taxes and onerous regulations and now two additional burdens to New York’s businesses will be added to the pile.

Dec 4, 2024

Pet Shops Sue to Stop the Puppy Mill Pipeline Act

A lawsuit has been filed claiming the Puppy Mill Pipeline Act set to go into effect across New York State on December 15 is unconstitutional.

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Investors Throw Millions at Suffolk

The sale of $350 million in Tax Anticipation Notes at 2.94% and $46.4 million in Refunding Serial Bonds at 2.66% was reported by Comptroller John Kennedy. He attributes the impressive number of bidders to the county’s improved credit ratings which resulted in healthy competition, and significant cost savings for the residents of Suffolk County.


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History Comes Alive at Military Museum

The museum is the dream of the nearby Rocky Point VFW Post 6249 membership, whose stories are befitting of the many heroes depicted in the gallery’s hallowed halls. There’s museum advisor Joe Cognitore, the post’s commander, whose Army service in Vietnam earned him a Bronze Star with a “V” for Valor.


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Fort Sumter Pilgrimage Explores Family’s Civil War Legacy

Following the War of 1812 with Britain, President Andrew Jackson realized the need to strengthen the new nation’s coastal defenses, especially to protect the Atlantic entrance to Charleston, the south’s busiest port. Millions of tons of Massachusetts granite created an island at the confluence of the Ashley and the Cooper rivers where none had been before