Dan Janison

1 week 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%.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Dan Janison

Don’t be shocked if you see the name Felix Sater, a Sands Point resident until a few years ago, dropped into uncorroborated reports about President Donald Trump or the Trump Organization doing future business in Russia. The Moscow Times, an independent English and Russian language news site, this week quoted unnamed Kremlin sources saying that government officials there have discussed reviving abandoned plans for a Trump Tower skyscraper in their nation’s capital.

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | Dan Janison

U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert is scheduled on April 25 to sentence disgraced former Rep. George Santos on the felony wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges to which he pleaded guilty last August. The Justice Department asks that the shady 36-year-old Republican serve seven-plus years in prison. Santos, of course, is likely to be remembered on and off Long Island as an impostor who faked not just his finances but the very facts of his life story.

1 month ago | newsday.com | Dan Janison

Nearly a month into his first term, in February 2017, President Donald Trump displayed a casual lack of concern for long-established White House security protocols. At his “winter White House” in Mar-a-Lago, dinner guests and waiters got to watch and listen as the new president consulted Japanese officials who happened to be on hand about a worrisome rocket launch by North Korea. Seasoned Washington security experts called it a dangerous little exhibition.