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Nassau hosts federal Sandy task force meeting
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano told President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force on Thursday that federal programs need to be adjusted to assist residents whose homes were destroyed in last year’s storm.
During the county’s first meeting of the task force at the Nassau Office of Emergency Management in Bethpage, Mangano proposed allowing residents to remain indefinitely...