A new program is aiming to help Long Islanders save on energy bills as winter nears.
Power Up Communities, a project run by the Long Island Progressive Coalition, helps connect homeowners to contractors who will offer a free audit of their homes to identify any drafts or insulation work that can be done to make their [...]
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Power Up Communities offer free LI residents free energy audit
Tuesday, September 25th, 2012Protesters To Disrupt Koch Brothers’ Romney Fundraiser On Long Island
Friday, June 29th, 2012Last week Mitt Romney held a $50K/ticket fundraiser in Park City, Utah that gave donors “an extraordinary level of access” to the candidate and other top Republicans. But Romney was apparently miffed because the Koch brothers had a fundraiser for conservative causes at the same time: “As one fundraiser noted, Mr. Romney is, after all, [...]
Protest Plans for Romney’s Visit to David Koch’s Long Island Home
Thursday, June 28th, 2012By AZI PAYBARAH, Capital NY
Here’s a map indicating the locations of planned protests of a Mitt Romney fund-raiser on July 8 at the Southampton home of billionaire David Koch.
The first protest location “is basically at the foot of his driveway,” and the second protest site is about a third of mile down the only road that [...]
Progressives Plan to Crash Romney’s Fundraiser at Koch’s Southampton Estate
Thursday, June 28th, 2012By Brendan J. O’Reilly, Southampton Patch
Billionaire industrialist and frequent donator to conservative causes David Koch is planning a fundraiser at his Southampton estate for GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney on July 8 for $50,000 a head — and a number of uninvited guests plan to crash the party.
The Long Island Progressive Coalition said Thursday it will [...]
Meeting with Long Island Progressive Coalition
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012By: Virginia Gerardi
Topic: Reviving the co-housing initiative. Years ago, a group of coalition members formed to explore reclaiming the Bulova Watch case factory as a co-housing community. As often happens, lack of human resources and other obstacles resulted in the group disbanding. Once again, a property has been identified with community development potential. Bill Chaleff, [...]
Message to Lawmakers: Stick with What Works for Youngest New Yorkers
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012By: Mike Clifford, Public News Service – NY
Governor Andrew Cuomo has been using competitive grants to spur competition among school districts, but today lawmakers are being urged to not rely on that approach for early education funding. The jury is out on competitive grants, according to Danielle Asher, early childhood education campaign coordinator with the [...]
Update: Protest at Verizon Store
Friday, February 17th, 2012Long Island Progressive Coalition holds rally on economic fairness.
By: Deirdre Burns
Protestors in Massapequa Park want Verizon to give them better reception on the issue of corporate responsibility.
Several dozen people held a rally outside the Verizon store in Massapequa Park Thursday claiming the phone company is pocketing large profits without paying a fair amount of tax.
The [...]
Calls for Equal Funding in High-Need Schools
Friday, February 3rd, 2012By: Rashed Mian
Amparo Sadler, a grandmother from Central Islip, stood across the street from the Martin Luther King Jr., elementary school in Wyandanch on Wednesday and called on New York State legislators to equally allocate more than $200 million to more than two dozen high-need school districts, instead of forcing them to compete for the [...]
Residents Seek to End Sanitation District
Monday, January 16th, 2012By: Aisha Al-Muslim
Those circulating a petition to dissolve the sanitation district based in Baldwin hope to trim property taxes, but district representatives say the change would cost jobs and save little money.
Spearheading the effort with taxpayers in the district are two grassroots groups: Residents for Efficient Special Districts (RESD), based in Baldwin, and Long Island [...]
