On Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday October 27 Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon, Jr. held the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office 14th Gang Conference, bringing together nearly 500 law enforcement professionals from around the Country to hear from esteemed speakers on the state of gangs and current crime topics including unserialized firearms also known as ‘ghost guns’, human trafficking and auto thefts.
Featured speakers...read more ››
New York’s 1st Congressional District is perennially considered one of New York’s — and the nation’s — real swing regions. It is a place of contrasts, between hard right and deep blue, between Hamptons wealth and people striving at the poverty line. In its current configuration, it stretches from the easternmost forks of Long Island to the Nassau County line. It includes farmland, town and village centers desperately in need of housing, and...read more ››
Timing is everything.
Susan Berland says that it "wasn't the plan" for her to run for State Senate; her candidacy emerged after redistricting and outgoing Sen. James Gaughran's decision not to run. But the Dix Hills Democrat has picked the right time to make a bid for Albany.
Berland is challenging Mario R. Mattera, who is completing his first term. The Saint James Republican rightly points to important successes such as his...read more ››
Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr. was appointed to the board of directors of Fighting Chance, a Sag Harbor-based nonprofit that provides free professional counseling services to cancer patients and caregivers on the East End.
He will be able to share unique insights as a two-time cancer survivor, having successfully battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma and pancreatic cancer.
“This is known as peer-to-peer counseling, and we see this...read more ››
Letitia A. James is a talented politician. Her terrific interpersonal skills, keen eye for the camera and ear for messaging, and a preternatural instinct for navigating the state’s cutthroat politics have served her well. Leveraging her base in Brooklyn and her background as a public defender, she won a seat on the New York City Council, and then, as the city’s public advocate, springboarded herself to statewide office. In 2018, she became...read more ››
New York’s 1st Congressional District is perennially considered one of New York’s — and the nation’s — real swing regions. It is a place of contrasts, between hard right and deep blue, between Hamptons wealth and people striving at the poverty line. In its current configuration, it stretches from the easternmost forks of Long Island to the Nassau County line. It includes farmland, town and village centers desperately in need of housing, and...read more ››
Shortly after Kathy C. Hochul took office 14 months ago, it became clear that New York's first woman governor would have to face multiple state crises in short order. Continuing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, declining revenue from a sprawling transit system, housing shortages, sharing the burden of migrants crossing faraway borders, and a disturbing uptick in violence of different kinds all greeted her.
Hochul rose to the office...read more ››
Includes central section and most of south sections of Town of Huntington and a small section of central east of Town of Oyster Bay
Steve E. Stern understands the needs of his district and the region. And he's willing to lead on both.
The Dix Hills Democrat rightly spotlights improvements to sewer infrastructure in Huntington Station and the need for a new academic building at Farmingdale State College. He also wants to ease the...read more ››
Steve E. Stern understands the needs of his district and the region. And he's willing to lead on both.
The Dix Hills Democrat rightly spotlights improvements to sewer infrastructure in Huntington Station and the need for a new academic building at Farmingdale State College. He also wants to ease the region's building permitting process and allow small businesses to create tax-deferred savings accounts to store income for future needs...read more ››
Sen. Chuck Schumer's stature and power has grown with the majority leader title that now precedes his name.
But he hasn't forgotten the communities that brought him to that place, including those on Long Island, and the ones that depend upon him for resources. The state and the region are better off with him in the U.S. Senate's leadership, currently as majority leader and before that minority leader.
It's that mix, combined...read more ››
