Politics NY News Headlines Archive for May 5, 2025

Dave Kerpen (L.) co-founded the Moderate Party, which seeks to reject political extremism.

Nassau

Moderate Party launches in Nassau County to reject extremism

By Cameryn Oakes

Correction officers union and public advocate dispute Rikers Island conditions

Queens

War of words at Rikers Island: Public advocate, correction officer union boss clash over conditions at jails

By Dean Moses

Editorial: Ending the mayhem on the roadways

By Schneps Media LI

NY: Mayoral Mental Health Town Hall

Brooklyn

Mayoral candidates outline mental health reform plans at Brooklyn town hall

By Gabriele Holtermann

Michael Schindler and James Rickard (L. to R.) are running uncontested in the Oyster Bay-East Norwich school board race this month.

Nassau

2 run in uncontested Oyster Bay-East Norwich school board race

By Hannah Devlin

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Queens

Navarro and Monserrate disqualified from ballot as District 21 field narrows to 4

By Shane O’Brien

Herricks board president standing in front of a blue background.

Nassau

Herricks Ed Board President Chin runs unopposed for 5th term

By Isabella Gallo

Glen Cove High School

Nassau

3 vie for 2 seats on the Glen Cove school board

By Hannah Devlin

Wantagh School District has three candidates running for its board of education

Nassau

Wantagh has three candidates for the Board of Education

By Grace Olinkiewicz

Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul can't agree on funding a popular childcare voucher program which could end affordable childcare for tens of thousands of families unless City Hall and Albany can close the funding gap.

Childcare voucher crisis puts over 60,000 families in limbo amid NYC-Albany budget feud

By Sadie Brown

Brian Hanley (L.), James Svendsen (LC.), Lisa Cashman (RC.), and Jessica Dillon (R.) are running unopposed for trustee positions on the North Shore Board of Education.

Nassau

Four school board candidates run unopposed in North Shore School District

By Connor Patton

David Ginsburg, Inna Choi, Jack Ostrick, Tom Rotolo and Lynn Abramson (L. to R.) are the five candidates on the ballot for the Syosset school board this May.

Nassau

5 vie for 3 seats on the Syosset school board

By Hannah Devlin

Petros Krommidas, a Democratic Nassau County Legislature candidate, has been reported missing. He was last seen on Wednesday, April 23, according to police.

Nassau

County mobilizing search teams for missing Dem

By Casey Fahrer

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi holds press conference with business leaders as tariffs cause companies financial trouble

Nassau

LI businesses say tariffs may cause them to close

By Casey Fahrer

Japneet Singh, candidate for New York City Council District 28, second from left wearing his religious Sikh turban, as he served the long line of kids at Police Officer Edward Byrne Park, in South Ozone Park, at an Easter Egg Hunt on April 19, 2025.

Politics

Young and Visionary: Japneet Singh runs for NYC Council District 28

By Tangerine Clarke

Westbury Mayor Peter Cavallaro looking at Cena 081's revised site maps during Thursday's meeting.

Nassau

Still no decision reached on Westbury’s Cena 081 cabaret permit

By Isabella Gallo

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn residents step up war against homeless shelter plans with latest protest

By Lloyd Mitchell

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Bronx middle school principal Doreen Kendall, demoted after hiring her sister as a teacher

Jason Collins at the opening of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center on June 28.

Jason Collins, NBA’s first out gay NBA player, dies at 47

Rodolfo Lopez-Porillo of Hollis was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for beating a pawn shop owner to death during a March 2022 robbery.

Hollis man sentenced for brutal murder of pawn shop owner before fleeing state: DA

NY: The Great Israeli Real Estate Event Protest

Dueling protests erupt in Midwood over controversial Israeli real estate expo