Newsday Opinion received more than three dozen letters from Long Islanders over the initial refusal by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to lower the U.S. flag to half-mast to honor former ...

Flags have been lowered to half-staff at federal, state and local buildings around the country to memorialize former President Jimmy Carter — but not in Nassau County, where County Executive Bruce ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman ... Trump wrote that "because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President ...

United States flag code directs that American flags be lowered for 30 days after the death of a president, but thus far Nassau County has not taken part in the symbolic nationwide tribute to ...

During Biden’s administration, several embassies took advantage of his policy. For instance, the U.S. Embassy in Nassau flew ...

NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. (1010 WINS ... “The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration,” Trump wrote on ...

If you listen to Bruce Blakeman, you’d think that all is well in Nassau County and that he has kept taxes down and made us ...