Despite being four months late, announcement of the New York State educational aid package last week provided the Massapequa Board of Education an opportunity to further reduce the burden on taxpayers. FULL STORY

Nassau County's new independent Audit Advisory Committee, including Massapequa resident Manny Mosquera, is actively monitoring the county's progress in implementing financial reforms, according to the Committee's first interim report, released recently by Comptroller Howard S. Weitzman on behalf of the committee and its chairman, Ralph S. Polimeni, dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. FULL STORY