Five Things: Tense Moments or Mother's Day

Good morning, Bayside. Here are Five Things for your Tuesday reading:

1. Department of Finance Commissioner David Frankel answered for his agency at a council hearing yesterday. Read what his explanation of how some drastic tax assessment increases .

2. If you have something to blog about, and you want to reach a wide audience of readers, Bayside Patch is accepting submissions from all sorts of folks for our community blog. The more opinionated, the better.. 

3. Our local politicians and leaders of Osama bin Laden.

4. The Huffington Post reports that—despite the fact that the president was unwinding with a game of golf just before the firefight that bin Laden fell to—watching the battle in real time tensed him with fear for the lives of the U.S. Navy SEALs. 

5. There's a lot going on in Bayside and the world, but if you're a dad, don't let that distract you from celebrating your wife on Mother's Day.