Suffolk County Democrats
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone was sworn in for a second term Wednesday, promising to press for major redevelopment projects to make the county attractive to young people.
Bellone, with his wife Tracy next to him and their three small children with their hands on their family Bible, took the oath of office administered by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at Suffolk Community College’s Brentwood campus.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.),...read more
Four afternoons a week, Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer drives to a warehouse gym in Farmingdale, where, in the company of mixed martial arts fighters, he sweats and punches through a 90-minute workout that would leave many a younger man gasping for breath.
The gym is called the Long Island Mixed Martial Arts and Fitness Center, a sparsely decorated space that draws amateur and professional fighters from around Long Island for...read more
In a major victory for ailing first responders, congressional negotiators included an $8.1 billion measure to renew the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package that was finalized and released Tuesday night, lawmakers said.
The measure would extend the World Trade Center Health Program for 75 years with $3.5 billion in funding to monitor and care for 73,000 responders and survivors. It also...read more
Suffolk officials will install a high-tech wastewater treatment system at Meschutt Beach County Park in Hampton Bays to remove nitrogen from waste before it pollutes nearby Peconic Bay, County Executive Steve Bellone said Thursday.
Bellone said the technology, the first of its kind to be installed at a Suffolk facility, is central to a countywide campaign to reverse decades of decline in water quality attributed to nitrogen from...read more
It's grand that cleanup is slated to begin this week at a contaminated dump site in Central Islip.
But the fact that most of the tainted material will be trucked off Long Island -- because hydrocarbons, pesticides and metals found in the material represent a danger to groundwater -- makes the dumping all the more outrageous.
Under an agreement between state environmental officials and the site's owner, as much as 35,000 cubic...read more
Southampton Town officials say a new shift schedule will free more officers to combat a crime wave that has alarmed residents of the town's middle- and working-class northwestern neighborhoods.
Town and PBA officials have agreed on a new schedule that will assign most officers to 12-hour day or night shifts beginning in mid-January. Officers will consistently work during the day or night, instead of cycling every four days between day...read more