Nassau lacks time, excuses on budget crisis
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau Comptroller George Maragos. (March 28, 2011)
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Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano
Nassau County ended last year with a more-than-$50 million hole in its budget, the county comptroller announced Friday.
To fill that hole, the county used more than half of its $90.9 million in reserves -- bringing the rainy-day fund down to less than county policy says it should be.
But there's more.
Nassau, which is more than halfway through the 2012 budget year, now faces the...
