All Entries Tagged With: "Town of Hempstead"
SPECIAL COMMENT: Joe Conte Writes “The Islanders are not done in Nassau County”
Today I lend the HockeyIndependent.com Isles floor to Joe Conte, an activist who has been a firm supporter of the Lighthouse Project, an outspoken critic of the Town of Hempstead… who infamously made Republican boss Joseph “Backroom Deal” Mondello break out his anti-Islanders stance in mere seconds as he shout: “Blow it out your duffel [...]
IS IT FEAR & LOATHING ON LONG ISLAND? BD on the August 1st Vote and Endorsement
Editors Note: B.D. Gallof has not been seen since Sunday am, when his pictures from his ipad were uploaded to his Facebook page of him smoking a cigar and drinking a bottle of Whiskey. Late tonight we received an email from him asking us to place this up on the site. It has not been [...]
REALITY CHECK – New Coliseum No Sure Thing On Long Island
I think the most annoying thing about the press conference yesterday was the media, who seemed to be present in higher numbers than the union, politicos, and fans. Many of them stopped by the handful of Isles fans telling them: “Congratulations, you got your arena!” Ummm, not quite. Clearly most of the media is just plain [...]
Press Release on Mangano’s Plan that has Charles Wang & Kate Murray Onboard
(will give my own take on things later tonight) Plans for new arena announced Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano announced today a plan for a new Coliseum; public vote to be held August 1 (This press release was issued by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano’s office today.) For Immediate Release: May 11, 2011 MANGANO ANNOUNCES [...]
DIRE STRAITS ON LONG ISLAND? Part 2 of a Series. Today BD & Joe Conte Shed Light On Isles Org and Lighthouse
Tough to be an Isles fan these days, huh? Everyone is feeling the pain it seems. My own belief is we are in the middle of a media pile-on, and some facts and realities have gotten a bit lost. Just my take, and fine if nobody agrees. I think the pile-on has upset the fanbase [...]
DIRE STRAITS ON LONG ISLAND – Is The Latest News Reason To Hit Panic Button? A Blog Roundtable Takes This On …
Tough to be an Isles fan these days, huh? Everyone is feeling the pain it seems. My own belief is we are in the middle of a media pile-on, and some facts and realities have gotten a bit lost. Just my take, and fine if nobody agrees. I think the pile-on has upset the fanbase [...]
COMMENTARY: Word-For-Word, Lighthouse Project Starting To Fall Flat
If there is one thing to be seen in this new scuffle over the Lighthouse Project, is that the newest wrinkle to it all has very much splintered the fanbase. We can certainly glean the Lighthouse Project’s own take in one read. Meanwhile wordage of the ToH press release is loose enough to drive truck-wide [...]
Murray and Goosby Produce Alternative Development Zone For Lighthouse Site
The following is the Press Release from the Town of Hempstead. No text has been changed. Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray and Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, along with Council Members Anthony Santino, Angie Cullin, Gary Hudes and James Darcy, Town Clerk Mark Bonilla and Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin, released details of a new development zone [...]
THE FATAL THREE WAY BATTLE OVER NASSAU COLISEUM: Mangano, Wang & Town of Hempstead
Welcome to the new chapter in the battle! Mangano is pushing a casino, despite his group not having any studies, research nor solid footing besides just trying to attract Shinnecock attention. Ed has been staring at an almost $300 million gap which his TAX REVOLT strategy seems to put him in a corner on [...]
BULLSH*T: My Take On Kovalchuk, The Isles & The Insult To The Rebuild
BULLS*T. Wait, don’t get me wrong, I do think Snow’s interest, talk and the chasing is legit. I just don’t buy it. I don’t buy it as a solution, option or a good move. But let’s start at the beginning…. Let’s take a moment to climb inside the structure of Long Island’s rebuild. It [...]
DEATH OF THE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: Suicide Is Painless
DEATH OF THE LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: Suicide Is Painless (or) In a news vacuum, nobody can hear Isles fans scream There is a scene in M*A*S*H, and when I say MASH, I mean the original movie, not the TV show, where “Painless” the dentist is given a fake funeral as the doctors give him sleeping pills [...]
THE NY ISLANDERS CHINESE FIRE DRILL
From Wikipedia: A Chinese Fire Drill is a pejorative expression usually referring to a prank, or perhaps an expression of high spirits, that was popular in the United States during the 1960s. It is performed when a car is stopped at a traffic light, at which point all of the car’s occupants get out, run around [...]
Comeuppance: Charles Wang and NY Met’s Wilpon ARE Talking
Early-morning on a bathroom jaunt, I checked my phone messages, and there is was…Newsday was spoon-fed that Charles Wang has indeed been talking to Wilpon. Of course, you get the obligatory commentor on the site acting like any Isles blogger has this in their side pocket, and did not run errant for days/weeks/months…me questioning THN’s [...]
D’AMATO FINALLY ATTACKS LIGHTHOUSE: Entering The Dirty Endgame
On the LI Herald page is the face of Joe Pesci Alphonse D’Amato, the fierce specter that has been connected to the political frictions of the Lighthouse due to a falling out between he and Charles Wang years ago. Newsday, in their one fair and well-done piece, alluded that the falling out stemmed from Wang’s [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Town Of Hempstead Reaction To Casino
I tracked down a ToH source who would give me a straight answer about yesterday’s Nassau County bombshell which ended up on the front page of Newsday. Source: “No conspiracy here, BD. She found out same as you did. She was caught off-guard.” Was she pissed? After all, the Town of Hempstead put a lot [...]
LONG ISLAND’S REALLY BAD IDEA: Mangano Pushes A Casino Into The NY Islanders Fray
Back about a year ago, the Nassau County Young Republicans met using the conference space of the office area of Nassau Coliseum. One of the main issues that they discussed was how Long Island was losing tourism dollars to places like Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City. Addressing this group primarily was Michael Picker, [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Questioning the Status Of The Lighthouse Project
(This is not an April Fools) April 1st, 2010 What began with a song and greeting: “Meet Me at the Lighthouse!”, which even blared from a holiday card they sent us at the end of 2008, has turned into a whimper. As the lights have gone dark from some shake-up, more is coming clear… The [...]
Musings, Marlarkey and a Bit of Conjecture
There seems to be some revisionist history going around post-trade deadline that Garth Snow stood pat due to DP’s injury, holding on to two starting goalies. As with any public relations front, you don’t want to look bad nor seem ineffectual. However, bottom-line was the Islanders did not get what they wanted out of the [...]
BETTMAN WEIGHS IN ON LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: And Takes Air Out Of Some Tires
In what is streeeeeeeeeetched to a feature in today’s Newsday is a riff off Gary Bettman’s comments from his radio show. Bettman hit on the “Town of Hempstead” with this blistering remark that must be why Newsday threw it in the front of the paper: “I can’t see why the governing bodies on Long Island [...]
(Small) Movement on Lighthouse Project
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Yesterday at Town Hall, before a “roll back the raises” protest began, the Town of Hempstead voted unanimously to authorize its environmental consultant, Frederick P. Clark Associates, to prepare an alternative zoning plan for the Nassau Coliseum property. This represents a major reversal for the Town of Hempstead, which has since [...]