Candice Ferrette

The county will take resolutions transferring the lease of Nassau Coliseum to Las Vegas Sands back to the planning commission and legislature.

For speech, occupational and physical therapists serving preschoolers with special needs, the average half-hour rate would rise to $50 from $40, set in 1999.

At a meeting of the Nassau legislature, residents urged the lawmakers to examine plans to recruit gun owners to become provisional special deputy sheriffs.

Several candidates have petitioned to get on their respective Republican and Democratic ballots, setting up potential primaries on June 25.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said the deputies would secure “critical infrastructure” in emergencies and aid police but would not go on patrol.

The Nassau County executive wants to build a reserve of gun-licensed residents to deputize in emergencies. Some experts say Nassau, with plentiful law enforcement resources, may not need it.

The county executive is asking residents with gun licenses “for the protection of human life and property during an emergency.”

Bruderman, chairman of the public benefit corporation that runs NUMC, accused Gov. Kathy Hochul and state and Nassau County Democrats of “defunding” the safety net hospital.

The “safety net” hospital in East Meadow is seeking $83 million in new state aid in order to keep operating.

Nassau and Suffolk officials say plans largely have been implemented, but advocates say too little progress has been made.

The legislation would include the strips inside thousands of kits currently distributed in the county.

Reimbursement rates for therapists treating Nassau preschoolers with disabilities in Nassau among the lowest in the state, and stagnant since 1999.

Margolis served as Albany bureau chief and covered the deadly uprising at Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo in the early 1970s.

The largest award will be used to expand a drug treatment program at the county’s safety-net hospital.

Republican nominee Mazi Melesa Pilip and Democrat Tom Suozzi are facing off in the 3rd Congressional District special election on Feb. 13.

Legislators voted on the county’s remaining federal pandemic funds, a contract for Nassau Community College faculty and a district court judge appointment.

A resolution obligating more than $262 million in federal pandemic aid cleared two Nassau legislative committees Monday, with the bulk of it going into the county’s general fund.

More than 300 attended a hearing on Hempstead’s environmental study for a proposed $4 billion casino resort.

Hempstead is studying potential impacts of Las Vegas Sands’ $4 billion proposal.

Denenberg, a Merrick Democrat and eight-term legislator who stepped down in 2015 to plead guilty to felony mail fraud, has declared his candidacy in the 4th Congressional District.