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AJ Carter Responds To The Recording

November 3, 2011 7:27 pm 2 Comments

(Letter from AJ Carter to the Huntingtonian)
To the Huntingtonian:
I must ask that you correct willful inaccuracies in your article about the message left on the telephone of your editor, Nicholas Wieland.
In particular, at 1:07 into the recording, you will hear me say, clearly and unambiguously, “Frank wants me to respond to these FOILs right away.” This […]

Were Laws Broken? Sounds Like Back Room Deals? Caught on Tape

November 2, 2011 10:00 pm 6 Comments

The Huntingtonian was trying to obtain information regarding the rental registration law as required by Town Code (see below). We believe the law was passed with legislation in 2002 and recently amended to include Section 8 dwellings which were previously excluded. We were under the impression that there was supposed to be some sort of […]

Questionable Use of Millions of Our Tax Dollars

November 2, 2011 9:20 pm 1 Comment

We recently questioned why another local newspaper spent 4 weeks investigating $1300 in expenses. These are some expenses and other uses of public money that we feel are important for tax payers to know more about. We are investigating several of them and we encourage other media and tax payers to do the same.
Had Stu Besen […]

HART Bus – Worth the money?

November 2, 2011 2:38 pm 1 Comment

The Town of Huntington 2011 Adopted Budget says there were 251,350 riders of HART Bus in 2010 and the 2012 Preliminary Budget says there are expected to be 240,000 this year. So if each rider goes round trip HART Bus is serving about 500 distinct riders a day. The budget for HART Bus (pg. 136) […]

Meet The Candidates – Gene Cook

November 1, 2011 8:08 pm Comments Off

Gene Cook (Rep, Con, Ind) running for Town Board

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Next Time You See Herb Morrow…Say Thank You

November 1, 2011 11:09 am Comments Off

Several weeks ago, another local newspaper ran a story questioning Huntington Bay Mayor Herb Morrow about $1300 worth of expenses. While we encourage all expenses of public money to be questioned and investigated, we wonder why the facts surrounding these expenses was not published. After an investigation into this $1300 of expenses, we encourage our readers […]

Letter To The Editor, Huntington Resident Michele Kustera

October 26, 2011 1:26 pm Comments Off

During the past several weeks I have received several mailings related to the candidates in the 18 Legislative District of Suffolk of which I have been a resident for the past 8 years. If I hadn’t been following the race closely I would think that Candidate Spencer was running for a seat on the Board […]

The Birth of “Dr. Density” etc.

October 22, 2011 3:18 pm 1 Comment

If you read the current online commentary on various news and social media sites you will see the mention of the phrase “Dr. Density” in regard to Dr. Spencer who is running for Suffolk County Legislature for the 18th District.We wanted to clarify what this phrase means and explain why some are using it.
Shortly after […]

Letter To The Editor From Rich McGrath

October 19, 2011 8:20 pm 1 Comment

October 18, 2011
Letter to the Editor:
The New York State Democratic Committee continues their daily mailers to try to convince me that my school taxes are going up because of one person, Huntington School Board member Liz Black.
I am told the “solution” is to elect their candidate Democrat William Spencer to represent me in the Suffolk […]

The 3rd Silly Season Award Goes To…

October 18, 2011 11:03 am Comments Off

(You knew it was coming, didn’t you?)
Susan Berland for holding a press conference called “Adopt A Hydrant”. We received an anonymous tip that this was coming, but we thought it was a joke and never followed up on it. Much to our surprise, The Huntingtonian was not invited to the press conference or given the press release.
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