Letter: Disturbing revelations about local gov’t
North Hempstead Highway Superintendent Thomas Tiernan with a snow-melting machine in Port Washington on Feb. 6, 2015. Credit: Ed Betz
Thanks for the story on the North Hempstead highway superintendent [“Highway chief’s OT at issue,” News, March 14]. It’s heartwarming to see that this abuse is attended by family participation. Of course, the family member who was charged with stealing $98,000 from an agency isn’t quite what one would hold up as something positive, but things can’t be perfect, can they? Got to take the bad with the good, I guess.
Keep up the good work. These revelations of corruption and abuse in Newsday serve the public interest, even if the chances of true reform seem remote.
Bob Boos, Plainview
