For all related articles, please go to: Giving Thanks Where’s Cuomo? Heard Around Town, Nov. 14, 2011 Suffau County? Nassolk? Or how about just “Long Island County”? The name has yet to be worked out, but that hasn’t stopped Kevin Law, the president and CEO of the Long Island Association, from pushing a long-shot plan to combine Suffolk and Nassau counties into a single behemoth. Suffolk and Nassau are already two of New York’s biggest, richest, most powerful counties, and… [More]

CITY & STATE FIRST READ is our morning email roundup of New York politics and government. Every day before 7 a.m. we deliver daily exclusives from City Hall and The Capitol, a curated summary of the day’s headlines, editorials, schedules and milestones – and short tidbits like the “Heard Around Town” items below. Not getting City & State First Read each morning? Click here to subscribe. * Since the departure of Kenneth Adams eight months ago, the New York State… [More]

CITY & STATE FIRST READ is our morning email roundup of New York politics and government. Every day before 7 a.m. we deliver daily exclusives from City Hall and The Capitol, a curated summary of the day’s headlines, editorials, schedules and milestones – and short tidbits like the “Heard Around Town” items below. Not getting City & State First Read each morning? Click here to subscribe. * Since the departure of Kenneth Adams eight months ago, the New York State… [More]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has blasted the Long Island Power Authority for its frustratingly slow efforts to restore power after Tropical Storm Irene, but the governor hasn’t been so quick to exert his own power on the public authority. But the governor’s delay in installing new leadership at LIPA may give him greater freedom to criticize the public authority since he is not responsible for any of its appointees, some observers say. Even before the storm hit, LIPA’s debt woes and… [More]