Candice Ferrette
Reporter and Staff Writer at Newsday
Reporter/staff writer @Newsday. Story tips to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Candice Ferrette
Nassau County is expected to be among the last municipalities on Long Island to operate government buildings and agencies on Juneteenth this Thursday, despite Democrats' five years of effort to get the Republican-controlled legislature to recognize it as an official public holiday.
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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Candice Ferrette
Las Vegas Sands this week secured nearly all the land-use approvals for a $7.6 billion casino-resort at the Nassau Coliseum company executives lobbied for years to build — two months after they've decided not to build it. Sands officials in April announced they would not pursue a state gaming license and scrapped the plan they pitched to the county in January 2023.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Candice Ferrette
Nassau County lawmakers on Monday accepted the final environmental impact statement that studies the now-defunct, casino-resort proposal at the Nassau Coliseum. The vote by the legislature to accept the findings officially ends its involvement in a court-ordered, state environmental approval process for a plan first pitched by Las Vegas Sands in 2022. Sands had proposed to build an "integrated resort" on the 72-acre, county-owed Coliseum property in Uniondale.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Candice Ferrette
Nassau University Medical Center's new board chairman, Stuart Rabinowitz, says he will "move ahead" with plans for a forensic audit to dive more deeply into the East Meadow hospital's finances and launch a national search for a new CEO, despite resistance from County Executive Bruce Blakeman who alleges an "illegal state takeover" of the board.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Robert Brodsky |Candice Ferrette
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said hewill not make his appointments to the board overseeing the financially troubled Nassau University Medical Center, calling it a state-led "charade" that fails to prioritize patient care. Blakeman accused Gov. Kathy Hochul with orchestrating a "takeover" of Long Island's only public hospital — now composed of an 11-member board—at a news conference Tuesday alongside NUMC staff.
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