Joye Brown
Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer.
"I have had some exposure to the culture of government and politics in Nassau County during the years that you were in government," U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack said to Rob Walker.
3m readThe Republican victories across Long Island on Tuesday could boost the party in the 2022 elections.
2m readIn less than a half-hour, Nassau County legislators killed $106 million in unpopular fees — and opened a sizable hole in the 2022 budget.
2m readThe Republican leader of the Nassau County Legislature is the latest in a long line of county officials to try to curb taxpayer-funded mailings at election time.
3m readNo one party has a lock on Long Island, which leaves major parties pitching for every vote they can get.
3m readHuntington Town officials have offered a bare-bones account of an accident in which Supervisor Chad Lupinacci hit a utility pole, sustaining $22,000 in damages to his sedan.
2m readOfficials and anti-drug abuse experts say they will try to ensure that millions of dollars Nassau and Suffolk will get in opioid settlement money goes toward drug treatment and prevention.
3m readThe former Suffolk County district sat at the defendant's table, where he'd spent six weeks from the start of his trial to the day he'd been convicted by a jury of his peers.
3m readLegislation passed by Nassau County lawmakers would tie the potential for legal action to every interaction between police and other emergency responders and the public.
3m readCuomo is asking New Yorkers to believe, basically, that he's the victim, and that allegations of sexual harassment are distorted and politically motivated.
2m readNassau County Executive Laura Curran wants to send $375 payments to 300,000 homeowners. Who doesn't love a little cold, hard cash?
3m readA push for accountability, transparency and reform of policing practices on Long Island has been spurred by national revulsion at George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.
3m readWho ruined the Nassau County assessment system? It's a debate that apparently will never die.
3m readLong Island officials already are dealing with issues including how to determine when drivers are impaired by marijuana.
3m readCommunity activists continue to push for outside oversight of complaints about police conduct.
3m readBlakeman, the GOP candidate for Nassau County executive, is no stranger to bucking his party's leaders. Asked if he has made peace with them he says: "I'm the top of the ticket, aren't I?"
3m readRelease of body-cam footage of Suffolk County police officers cursing and kicking a suspect comes as Suffolk and Nassau officials ready police reform plans.
3m readThe Suffolk County term-limit law, which passed via voter referendum, states simply: "No person shall serve as a County Legislator for more than 12 consecutive years."
3m readTwo different plans for police reform are headed toward the same destination: reviewing and reforming police practices in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
4m readNassau's crazy popular bond offering provided the county with a $1.1 billion cushion as it struggles with budget deficits resulting from the pandemic.
2m readThe Nassau County Legislature offered a sobering look into the guts of Long Island's vaccine distribution system.
3m readFor days, it was like "The Hunger Games" meets "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" out there as Long Islanders scrambled to find vaccines.
3m readOn election night, Long Islanders appeared to have soundly supported the reelection of Republican President Donald Trump. But that was a red mirage.
2m readIn Oyster Bay, an attempt to balance decorum with freedom of speech at public meetings has landed the town in federal court.
3m readArmageddon, defined, is a final destructive battle or conflict. In Suffolk, at least, the meaning could be stretched to, well, hoping to avoid all hell breaking loose.
2m readJesse Garcia, Suffolk's GOP chairman, and Joseph Cairo, head of Nassau's Republican Party, are old hands at getting out the vote.
2m readYoung people between the ages of 18 and 34 represented the largest group of new voter registrations in Nassau and Suffolk this year.
3m read"We're walking and chewing gum," said Nicholas LaLota, Suffolk's Republican elections commissioner. That's one way of putting it.
2m readThe Suffolk County executive had hoped the federal government would come through with millions of dollars in pandemic disaster aid.
3m readThe most asked question of the Nassau and Suffolk boards of election this year is, "How do I get an absentee ballot?"
3m readThe one thing about Alicia Patterson, Newsday's oh-so-very prim and proper looking founding publisher, that's always captured my imagination was her childhood nickname, Roughneck.
4m readLong Island party leaders hope the national political conventions will energize their supporters for the Nov. 3 elections.
3m readA Democratic delegate from Suffolk voted by PDF email. But a Republican from Nassau is thrilled to be one of 336 delegates to be voting in person at the GOP convention.
4m readAlyssa Nightingale, of Cold Spring Harbor, made 48 phone calls to PSEG LI after losing power in Isaias. On Aug. 11, the lights finally came back.
4m readSuffolk County Executive Steve Bellone proposes another tap Peter to pay Paul move to plug massive deficits caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
2m readUnder an order by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, every municipality must submit a plan that "reinvents and modernizes police strategies and programs ... based on community input."
3m readNassau's police commissioner, Patrick Ryder, says protesters are having a big impact.
3m readFor the first time in decades in New York, there could be greater public scrutiny on how police discipline is handled.
3m readA course for contract tracers emphasizes it takes just two days for someone who's had contact with an infected person to be able to transmit the coronavirus to others.
2m readLike Mary Mallon, we're all caught up in an iteration of the conflict between public health and individual rights that played out in her case.
4m readIn a ruling, Justice David T. Reilly managed to resolve the long-running discussion about whether red-light cameras were created for safety, or to raise revenues.
2m readZeldin (R-Shirley) helped make a call happen last week between Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
3m readSuffolk town supervisors want residents to get an extension on property tax payments. But could a freeze in payments cripple the county budget?
3m readThey've closed playgrounds, beach parking lots and tennis courts — and residents still find ways to gather.
2m readAfter the virus crisis passes, the county will have to address concerns about construction contracts raised by Nassau's inspector general, Jodi Franzese.
2m readBellone went into voluntary quarantine after Deputy Suffolk County Executive Peter Scully tested positive for coronavirus.
7m readThe Suffolk DA and the county legislature plan to dig deeper into the system that failed 8-year-old Thomas Valva.
3m readFor Long Beach, Moody's "Credit Outlook" is not so good.
2m readIn Huntington, residents questioned Supervisor Chad Lupinacci's decision to put forth only one candidate to head a new bureau that will enforce some town codes.
3m readThe documents provide a rare look at the actions of CPS, the police and courts -- an inside view of a system shielded even from experts.
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