I received a call from a police friend and was told about the opt-out form, the form for gun owners who do NOT want their names and addresses published in Newsday or the NY Times and so on. If you don’t opt-out of the Pistol Permit List (NY SAFE FOIL), you could very well find…
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Roslyn Heights) spent his career wasting taxpayer money to keep the votes coming his way. He is finally retiring after 30 years. Newsday praised him today for the “gift” he left behind for staff members. Ackerman gave them bonuses so big they nearly doubled their pay during the previous quarter. He is…
The fraud is probably more than $750 million a year – this is what we know about. The left has given them credit cards and allows them to apply online to make the fraud easier to commit. via CNS News In 2012, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said that food stamp fraud totals $750 million…
Riverhead is becoming Nannyville. Competition for Nanny Bloomberg’s NY? The public is no longer allowed to make distracting sounds at their town board meetings. Booing or hissing are out as are any distracting behaviors. Free speech and freedom of behavior are gone, out, done and gone in Riverhead town. It’s okay though – I’m sure…
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer…
It was 1973, and I remember telling my father-in-law that we had just bought a home in Great Neck for the “astronomical” price of $64,000 dollars. If that alone wasn’t bad enough , we also had to pay $4,700 dollars in real estate taxes! After CPR brought him back, he just kept “mumbling,” over and…
According to Newsday, a study released last week confirmed what an independent panel of health experts, appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services concluded in 2009. Paying for health care practices that don’t help, and even do harm, is a cost we cannot bear, like mammograms. Women 50 and older should only have…
Having felt the sting of trying to live with less (like most of us), the New York State Teacher Union Leaders find they can’t hack it. So they decide to take the N.Y. taxpayers to court. The object of their wrath, the 2% property tax cap (which over half the States have in place, and…
We need to get rid of the crooks in Congress and stop ignoring their “indiscretions.” Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens, Long Island, forgot to report a $40,000 “loan” on his financial disclosure reports. The loan was from a real estate broker now convicted of fraud. Meeks claimed that he had an agreement to pay it…
If you want to know what is wrong with our government, you don’t need to go as far as DC to figure it out. Just go to Huntington Long Island where one town Supervisor voted himself a really nice pay raise while freezing the pay of the $38,000-a-year white-collar workers. The workers happen to be…
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