Along long islands south shore is alarming and deadly. News4 is aggressively tackling the issue. Cops making a heroin bust in four communities, making arrests in all four. Greg siegel takes a look at the arrests. Greg . Reporter police said they used wire taps during a roughly twomonth investigation that led to the arrest of an alleged brulonx supplier and six other men. The Police Commissioner reaffirming today that ending the heroin epiotmic is priorit one for his department. The question tonight is, is that tenough . These heroin packets came from a stributor in the bronx, police say, and six men, including a father and two sons then sold up tond 10,000 a week in four south ore communities in nassau county. This is a significant Drug Distribution ring. Reporter Police Say One from his freeport c is a former heroin user and drug dealer. She didnt buy from this man, but her use led to jail time before she fin ly decided to get help. Theyre controlling me, i cant control this. Reporter
Sometime it is creates tension. Its not always a bad thing. I think you want to see behind the curtain. I think we want transparency as far as what the federal government is doing. And ed certainly has an opinion on it. But its, in fact, there are things going on in your city then your mayor and your police chief or Police Commissioner should know about from the federal government. There should be a regular change. I agree completely. But ed, what commissioner kl kelly has done is expand more than most of the plaid counterterrorism unit of your own. Even do interview say in new jersey, famously enough. Have you learned from that . Do you think you ought to expand your counterterrorism in boston so you doing things normally given to the fbi do . I think as it relates to home grown violent extremists, yes . I think there are people in the community we should be working with and, you know, sort of keeping an eye on. If they pose a threat. That is part of our responsibility is to keep our
With that has come incredible demands on bandwidth. The kids were telling us stories about how they would hit enter, and if it was simultaneously, everything would choke. Okay . They were telling us about taking their computers and Walking Around the room until they could get, you know, a good signal. Ask, you know, the president and, you know, the president has said, he said back in june that we need to connect 99 of the schools within five years to at least 100 meg per thousand students going to a gig, okay . And the only thing that i would add to that is five years or less. We have responsibility through the Erate Program to fund schools. Heres the interesting thing that ive learned. Our great team that weve got at the commission, john wilkens is our new managing director. And he came from that ken si and working with julie veep whos the head of our wire line bureau, they have applied businesslike cash Flow Management concepts to the erate fund. That is going to enable us to double
Stephens’s Government Efficiency & Transparency Bill heads to governor for signature
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COLUMBUS The Ohio House this week concurred with Senate amendments to House Bill 450, legislation sponsored by State Representative Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill). It will now go to the governor’s desk for a signature.
According to a news release from Stephens’ office, House Bill 450 creates a Certificate of Transition aimed at ensuring a more transparent and efficient exchange of information between outgoing and incoming fiscal officers. County Auditors, County Treasures, Townships Fiscal Officers and School Treasures will have a voice in establishing the prescribed checklist needed to complete the Certificate of Transition.