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More than 63,000 Long Islanders will lose their state Essential Plan healthcare coverage on July 1.

The new four-year pacts — achieved after a three-day work stoppage involving about half the railroad’s 7,000-member organized workforce — give employees at the five unions annual raises of 3% in the first two years, 3.5% in the third and 4.5% in the fourth.

More than 40,000 people of Haitian descent and 1,300 of Syrian descent live on Long Island, census figures show.

First, Charter schools are private entities funded with public dollars. Is there a public vote to establish a charter school in a community? No. Is there a public vote on the annual budget of a charter school? No. Is there a publicly elected board of education? No.

Data centers create long-term, high-paying jobs across engineering, technology, operations, cybersecurity, midterm engineering, infrastructure and construction. The multiplier effect includes retaining and attracting major employers in AI, biotech, fintech, media production, and research.

Voters in five Long Island districts approved budgets for the 2026-27 school year after the first spending proposals failed, according to early returns Tuesday night.