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1 week ago |
newsday.com | Dan Janison
By itself, the statement by Elon Musk that he’s "disappointed" in President Donald Trump’s massive budget bill headed for the Senate has little practical effect. Musk’s governmental clout, after all, derives from Trump. But he may encourage GOP lawmakers who said similar things before and after the measure cleared the House last week and was en route to the Senate.
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2 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Dan Janison
The only legislative news that seems to get hailed as positive in these days of nasty and deliberate partisan division results when elected officials tentatively inch away from entrenched stances that have already prompted backlash from key constituencies. Such backtracks are as good as it gets for what the optimists among us would like to call productive partisan compromise.
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3 weeks ago |
newsday.com | Dan Janison
Two distinct news items this week show in stark terms the generational civic dilemma that the Democratic Party faces from state to state, county to county, and coast to coast. Both involve the matter of age and the comfort in office of the powerful — and arguably, the hazards of voters yielding their judgment to a single party boss. One item is the publication of the new book "Original Sin," by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Dan Janison
The Village of Atlantic Beach had 1,700 residents counted in the 2020 census. Overall, Nassau County has 1.4 million people. So how could the finances of this small seaside burg — with the median listing price of homes at $1,750,000, according to Zillow — cause waves in Long Island’s greater political ecosphere? The ripples stem from an action taken April 30 by village trustees to approve a 2025-26 budget that includes a property tax hike — an eye-popping, onetime 87%.
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1 month ago |
newsday.com | Dan Janison
The big national election to the north this week wasn’t the first time Donald Trump tanked the ballot chances of a bona fide conservative populist. This sort of thing has been known to happen in elections and primaries within the U.S., where a president’s embrace proves unhelpful, or even counterproductive.
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