The Community Alliance Blog

Are Your Property Taxes Lower Today Than They Were One Year Ago? Dollars to doughnuts -- or to school districts, sanitary districts, towns...

Special District Elections (Fire, Water) Set For Tuesday, December 13 What if they held an election and nobody came? Well, here on Long ...

Where Is Albert Einstein When You Need Him? “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein, physicis...

A Call To Take Back The Turnpike Forget  Occupy Wall Street . Smack dab in the middle of the road, bisecting hamlets from Elmont to Wantag...

Election Day: Tuesday, November 8 Okay. You twisted our virtual arm. So, without further ado, here are our endorsements for the upcoming e...

Election Time In America's Largest Township. Oh Boy! In case you hadn't noticed -- and how could you not, what with all the lawn s...

Latest Plan for Nassau Hub Scrubs New Arena In the most recent twist along the aging Turnpike of dreams turned nightmares, developers -- u...

. . .It Feels Like 9/11 Ten years. A decade. And it seems like only this morning. The shock. The horror. The fear. The pain and sorrow. ...

Weathering The Imperfect Storm On Long Island First it was the property tax bill, exploding out of our mailboxes and burrowing into our wa...

Shake, Rattle & Roll Along The Turnpike The aftershocks of yesterday's 5.9 on the Richter (neither Mike nor Barry) Scale quake are...

So Much For "Holding The Line" On Property Taxes Well, those pesky property tax statements for Town of Hempstead and County of N...

The Abandonment of the Nassau Hub In case you hadn't noticed -- assuming you even care -- the deadline for new proposals for the redev...

Or Is It, Dawn? A hardly-noticed blurb, hidden in the hinter-pages of Newsday , chronicled, in short order, a motor vehicle accident invol...

Back To The Drawing Board At Nassau Hub Could it have been the VOTE NO robo-calls running 4-1 over the VOTE YES phone tags, with sponsors ...

Town GOP Key To August 1 Referendum Whether the Referendum to build a new home for the Islanders and a minor league ballpark at the Hub fl...

A "Thumbs Up" And A "Thumbs Down" On Nassau Hub Plan The vote is scheduled for Monday, August 1. The pols have spoke...

A New Beginning, Or The Beginning Of The End August 1 will either usher in a new era of engagement for America's first suburb, or the ...