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Assemblywoman Sandra Galef, D-Ossining, says the state should take over health care costs for school employees to help alleviate the property tax crisis.

Under the plan, school employees would be included in the Empire Plan used by other state civil servants. This would enlarge the [...]

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Bill Gouldman, Republican challenger for the 90th Assembly District seat, had some advice this morning on how to solve New York’s fiscal woes: lower taxes and spend less.

Gouldman, who is running against longtime Democratic incumbent Sandy Galef, D-Ossining, unveiled his proposal [...]

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Candidates for Putnam County Legislature are invited to participate later this month in a forum organized by the Putnam County League of Women Voters.

The forum, scheduled for Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Mahopac Public Library, is free and open to the public.

Among [...]

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Kieran Michael Lalor, the Republican candidate seeking to unseat freshman Democratic Congressman John Hall, launched a website today dedicated to the the energy crisis.

Here are some of the solutions Lalor proposes:

“To lower gas prices we need to drill more, refine more, tax less, regulate less, [...]

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A spokesman for the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee is charging longtime Democratic Assemblywoman Sandy Galef with trying to muscle challenger William Gouldman out of the race by lodging an objection to his petitions for the Republican and Conservative lines.

Adam D. Kramer called Galef’s objection [...]

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Democratic Congressman John Hall’s daughter Lillian Sofi, 28, was married Saturday to Avi Klein, 29, a reseracher for Public Campaign, a nonprofit organization in Washington that promotes public financing of political campaigns.

Ms. Hall teaches Spanish at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, [...]

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Republican State Assembly candidate Bill Gouldman says America’s first responders should get the same IRS mileage reimbursement as people who drive for business.

Gouldman wants New York’s delegation in Washington to help convince the IRS to change their formula so firefighters and other first responders [...]

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U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, plans to spend Monday morning helping to install a geothermal system at a new environmentally sustainable housing development in Cold Spring.

Contractors from Altren Renewable Energy are doing the heavy lifting at Glassbury Court along Route 9 [...]

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Kieran Michael Lalor, the Republican candidate for Congress challenging Democrat John Hall in New York’s 19th Congressional District, today announced the backing of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association which has 11,000 active and retired members.

In December 2007 Lalor was endorsed by the [...]

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U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, said once again a Republican presidential candidate is ripping off his song for use in their campaign.

Last week John McCain’s campaign started using “Still the One” without asking permission of the writers and performers who own the copyright, [...]