In a series of budget/input meetings, the New Hyde Park/Garden City Park Board of Education has been wrestling with paring down the budget presented at the beginning of the month by School Superintendent Joseph Rudaitis and the administrative staff. FULL STORY

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi visited the offices of Anton Newspapers recently to talk to the editors about his State of the County talk given on March 10. He discussed the need for educating the public to be able to envision the Nassau County Hub, which he hopes will raise the county out of its "mid-life crisis." He hopes to increase the tax base in this suburban landscape that has come to a standstill in terms of growth to create what he calls, "a new suburbia." FULL STORY