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Amid budget gaps, Long Island needs change

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, above, backed Anthony

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, above, backed Anthony Manetta, a political strategist and fundraiser, for IDA chief executive. (Dec. 20, 2011)

Is it time to hit the reset button on suburbia? The question is key, as cash-starved Nassau and Suffolk grapple with growing deficits in their budgets.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone last week promised to reimagine what county services should be, while in Nassau, County Executive Edward Mangano already has begun the process of trimming expenses.

So far, Nassau significantly has...

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