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U.S. Reps. Grace Meng, D-Flushing, and Steve Israel, D-Great Neck, held a press conference Tuesday afternoon in Bayside to call on the Federal Aviation Administration to exempt Queens' airports from a new rule that would allow the agency to initiate new flight patterns without environmental reviews.
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The New York Board of Regents is pushing forward with a plan to require all high school students to complete a 1,250 word research paper in order to earn a diploma.
The details of the proposed essay requirement will soon be reviewed by educators statewide after a Board of Regents committee considered the proposal at a meeting Monday. Final approval of the proposal could come as soon as November.
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Jon Kaiman will be heading up a second state-run agency – the one overseeing Nassau County's finances.
The outgoing North Hempstead town supervisor will be formally stepping down on Monday morning to assume a state position as special Long Island adviser with the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program.
In addition, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has tapped Kaiman to also head up the seven-member Nassau Interim Finance Authority, the state control board overseeing the county's finances, replacing outgoing chairman Ronald Stack.
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