Judge Delivers Blow to Poospatuck Reservation Smoke Shops

A federal judge has issued a ruling that could doom an Indian reservation’s booming business in tax-free cigarettes and spell trouble for other native American tobacco dealers in the state. In a decision announced Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in Brooklyn barred a group of smoke shops on Long Island’s  reservation from selling [...]

Nassau County’s Doomsday Budget Deadline Pushed Back

For the Nassau County budget, Doomsday seems to be a movable deadline. County Executive Thomas Suozzi had hoped to have his $130 million budget-balancing plan, announced Feb. 2, completed by now. July 1 was a semiofficial deadline, and Suozzi aides declined yesterday to discuss specifics about how he would implement his plans for layoffs, closing [...]