By Leader Staff A "Blue Tide" swept out Republicans nationally in the mid term elections, but that tide was much blunted by the strength of Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman here on Long Island. The incumbents split the north shore congressional seats, with both Nick LaLota (R- NY1) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY3) winning; Republicans won both north shore NYS Senate seats, with Mario Mattera (R-Smithtown) winning re-election, and Jake Blumencranz (R-Oyster Bay) winning the op

By Seymour Bonneau Long Island does not have to choose between clean drinking water and healthy bays. It needs the infrastructure that will protect both. Excessive sewering - that does not recharge fresh water into the aquifer - can destroy Long Island's fresh water aquifer. The answer is to balance sewering, cesspools, waste water treatment and purification, and recharge basins to recharge the fresh water table, and allow a mixing of fresh and salt waters in our bays and

By Steve Levy As the dust settles on this monumental midterm election, we look at the winners and losers of this historic day. THE WINNERS: 1…Iran With anti-war Democrats solidly empowered in both chambers, Iran may have won its conflict with the U.S. without firing a shot. The ability of the president to get additional funding to win this war has been severely hampered. 2…China Democrats not only promised to end the war in Iran, but also to reverse Trump‘s tariffs. C

Elected just five short years ago, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena has transformed the Town into serving our homeowners and residents first. When DeSena took over, North Hempstead was mired in decades of Building Department corruption so bad that businesses just stayed away. And taxes just went up - year after year - to fund the Democrats' self-serving patronage swamp of highly-paid, do-nothing political hacks. DeSena has been a burst of sunlight and fres

“Long Island is not your money tap” declared North Hempstead Supervisor Jen DeSena and Oyster Bay Supervisor Joe Saladino in denouncing Governor Kathy Hochul for hitting Long Islanders with another massive increase in water rates. DeSena and Saladino were joined by Hempstead Town Supervisor John Ferretti and many other Long Island officials gathered to denounce the latest rate hikes from Liberty Water, which are being fast-tracked by the Hochul-appointed NYS Public Service

The open NYS Senate election in the north shore 7th Senate District (North Hempstead and northern Oyster Bay) has attracted two experienced candidates. But that’s where the similarity ends: Jake Blumencranz is the current Assemblyman from northern Oyster Bay. A moderate Republican, who grew-up locally, he has served since 2022, and earned a bipartisan record of building bridges and getting things done. He stands for lower taxes, making our lives affordable and safe. The

By Steve Levy Governor Kathy Hochul is lying when she falsely claims that New York is not a sanctuary state. The state has refused to work with the federal government on 16,000 cases to deport criminal illegal aliens within our midst. But that’s what a sanctuary city does: it gives sanctuary to people here illegally, even those who are violent criminals and threats to our communities. We are talking about 16,000 specific instances of illegal aliens with criminal records

With Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz running for the open NYS Senate seat in Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, the Assembly seat is open, and a heroic local firefighter, Paolo Pironi has stood up to run for the seat. Pironi pledges to make Long Island more affordable, by working to lower taxes, controlling NYS runaway spending, and fighting the out of control costs of local utilities - electricity and water. He is the only candidate in the race backed by all Nassau county law

Supervisor Joe Saladino and his team on the Oyster Bay Town Board -have done great things - once thought to be impossible. He has cut taxes or frozen taxes every year he has been Supervisor - while providing better outstanding services to residents. Saladino has launched bold initiatives - like the Hicksville Renaissance to clean up a scruffy and blighted downtown and turn it into an attractive shopping and entertainment hub - while having the good government patience and i

By Leader Staff Huntington homeowners are facing a massive 19% tax increase in the 2027 Budget submitted by Supervisor Ed Smyth (R- Halesite). The tax increase was demanded by Smyth, after he refused to cut what he called "essential services." Smyth claimed it would be "fiscal suicide" for Huntington - or any town - to not impose a huge tax increase. "Piercing the tax cap this year was publicly predicted by me for several years," claimed Smyth. Smyth doubled-down on h