"AIDS groups don't say very much positive about government, but this is a big change," said Jeffrey Reynolds, LI Association for AIDS Care, whose organization sees 1,200 patients a month. Reynolds was referring to the new Health and Human Services Center at 60 Charles Lindbergh Boulevard where in September 2005 eight agencies countywide moved into one centralized location from five disparate sites. FULL STORY

Nassau County Comptroller Howard Weitzman has predicted the county will close 2006 with a small operating surplus of approximately $16 million but warned that the county's structural deficit - the extent to which recurring annual expenses exceed recurring annual revenues - is more than $100 million and growing. FULL STORY