Four years ago, this newspaper endorsed Lee Zeldin for Governor, arguing that Kathy Hochul’s dismal record as the sycophantic Lt Governor to disgraced ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo - a serial sex abuser and the killer of 15,000 nursing home patients through his horrible nursing home orders - made her grossly unqualified to be elected Governor. She has been worse than we ever expected. Hochul has used her office for a series of partisan political moves to “change the rules” to

By Leader Staff The Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Buffalo)-controlled Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) has blown past its filing deadlines, and appears to be withholding financial reports that would be embarrassing to Governor Hochul. Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill) blasted Hochul and her team for burying the financial reports, and putting Nassau County's finances in jeopardy, because the NUMC finances are a significant part of Nassau County'

By Thomas Nothel A 16-year-old Friends Academy student from Old Brookville, raised over $20,000.00 to start-up a Tennis Youth Clinic in partnership with the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club. Olivia Lichota is a Junior, a varsity tennis player, and a participant in the Entrepreneurship Program and Social Innovators Program at Friends Academy. The new Tennis Clinic, comprises of twelve children, ages 8 to 12 from the Glen Cove Boys and Girls Club. The four-week Clinic provides t

By Steve Levy In a recent column, I spoke a great deal about our nation’s glorious 250-year history and questioned whether we could exist in our present form for even another 25 years. There are nefarious actors at play actually seeking to do away with this amazing American republic. And the scary part is that the American people are allowing it to happen from within via our complacency, and at times, our compliance in facilitating a national suicide. There is a very d

By Steve Levy Our nation’s debt just hit $40 trillion and our yearly $2 trillion deficits are now the new normal. There seems to be no serious appetite on either side of the aisle to tackle these daunting issues. Our younger generation that obsesses over trans bathrooms should instead be demanding that their elders do the moral and responsible thing and get these budgets under control so they are not paying for it for the rest of their lives. Make no mistake, it is the re

By Dagmar Fors Karppi The Locust Valley Garden Club recently presented a program on the ancient Japanese gardening art of Bonsai. Tom O’Connor of the Long Island Bonsai Society was the presenter and discussed “Saikei” - the creation of a living miniature landscape in an artform that includes plants, trees, rocks, and soil in a shallow tray or container to recreate a full scene from nature, such as mountains or forests. “It was amazing seeing him create the scene, of a s

By Nolan Cleary In Christoper Nolan’s latest adaption of The Odyssey, there is a scene where the character Calypso, played by Charlize Theron, uses her Island to distort time, allowing the film’s protagonist, Odysseus to stay without realizing he has been trapped there for years. This moment serves as the perfect analogy for the strengths and weaknesses of the latest film adaption of Homer’s classic. The plot of the 2026 adaption of The Odyssey doesn’t stray too far from its

By Leader Staff Huntington Supervisor Ed Smyth (R-Halesite) has declared it to be "fiscal suicide" unless the town increases 2027 taxes - by piercing the state's 2% municipal tax cap. Smyth sprung this "crisis" on the town board in August, just two months after his Comptroller declared the town's finances in good order. Smyth now claims that town departmental budgets will have to be cut by 16% - unless taxes are raised far above the 2% tax increase allowed by the state

By Leader Staff New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D-Buffalo) - following the political lead of her NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) - has now made it "illegal" for local officials in New York to detain or turn-over violent criminal aliens to ICE. And Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has blasted Hochul for unleashing a public safety nightmare - empowering violent criminals while threatening and handcuffing law enforcement. "This law is completely misguided and will make

By Steve Levy Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed into law a bill that requires high school students to be taught about the evils of communism as practiced in China, Cuba, Venezuela, and the former Soviet Union. This is a long-overdue reform, taken to counter the infiltration of anti-American critical race theory that has been placed in our classrooms over the last decade by a woke Marxist element that has gained tremendous influence on our school boards. This anti-Am