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Feb 12, 2025

South Shore Press EXCLUSIVE: State Yanks "JIHAD123" License Plate

After numerous inquiries from the South Shore Press to officials at the NYS DMV pertaining to the validity and appropriateness of the plate, state officials confirmed it was an actual plate they issued, and promised to pull it based on questions and information from the South Shore Press.

Feb 11, 2025

Dems Cave on Delaying Special Election Start Date

It appears the plan hatched by Democrats in the State Legislature and halls of Congress to give Governor Kathy Hochul new powers to delay special elections in New York State is dead.

Feb 10, 2025

Black Conservatives Weigh in for Black History Month - There is no One Way to be Black

February is Black History Month and on the heels of the recent presidential election, The South Shore Press will be listening to the points of view of Black Conservatives and Republicans that are often overlooked, and even ridiculed, by the mainstream press.

Feb 9, 2025

Letitia James: Hospitals Must Perform Sex Change Operations on Kids

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called 'Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation'. The Order bans using puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and surgical procedures that cause permanent changes to a minor child’s body in the impossible effort to change a person’s sex. It applies to children and teenagers under 19 years old.

Feb 9, 2025

Threat to Democracy: New York Democrats Delay Special Elections

Word leaked a week ago that New York Democrats were working to delay the special election to replace Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-North Country).

Feb 9, 2025

Trump Bans Males From Competing Against Women and Girls in Sports

President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, banning males (transgender women) from competing against females in sports.

Feb 5, 2025

Trump’s Victory Pushing Leftists to the Side is “Political Lent for Conservatives” says Lawler

Congressman Mike Lawler (R,C- Hudson Valley) gave a fiery address at the New York State Conservative Party Annual Conference taking aim at Governor Kathy Hochul and relishing in President Donald Trump’s winning the White House.

Feb 4, 2025

GOP Wants the Feds to Launch RICO Investigation of NYS Lawmakers

A big topic that dominated the conservative conclave: grumblings that Democrats in the Assembly and Senate would pass legislation to give Governor Hochul more leeway in delaying the start of special elections in New York.

Feb 4, 2025

NYS Conservative Convention: Election Victories Being Too Big to Rig Shouldn’t be a Thing

Elections should not have to be “Too big to rig” as President Donald Trump said while he was running for president. Brianna Lyman, Elections Correspondent, The Federalist echoed this sentiment during her talk at the NYS Conservative Party Annual conference this week in Albany.

Feb 3, 2025

NYS Conservative Party Conference Talks About What to Expect in the 2025

NYS Senator George Borrello (R,C-Batavia) and Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh (R,C-Ballston) were featured in a session entitled ‘Surveying the Session: What Can New Yorkers Expect in 2025?’.

Feb 2, 2025

Garbarino Joins Trump as the President Signs Laken Riley Act Into Law

The Act includes language originally from the Protect Our Law Enforcement with Immigration Control and Enforcement (POLICE) Act that was first introduced by Congressman Andrew R. Garbarino (R-Patchogue) in 2021 and reintroduced at the start of the 119th Congress.

Feb 2, 2025

William Floyd’s Own Lee Zeldin is Confirmed by the US Senate

Suffolk County’s own, former Congressman Lee Zeldin, has been confirmed by the United States Senate and was sworn in as the EPA Administrator serving in President Donald Trump's administration. From William Floyd High School to the White House, Zeldin has led a life of public service.

Jan 31, 2025

SSP Poll Analysis: Dems Down in the Dumps as Trump Soars

A new Quinnipiac Poll shows the Democrat Party and its policy platform are the most unpopular they have ever been since the organization started asking about individual political parties in 2008.

Jan 30, 2025

New Tax Credit Could Aid Small Businesses to “Blow Their Own Horn”

Senator Monica R. Martinez and Assemblymember Jen Lunsford, with support from the Empire State Local News Coalition, introduced legislation to establish a first-of-its-kind tax credit for small businesses that advertise in local media outlets.

Jan 30, 2025

Hochul Pushes Plan for School Cell Phone Ban

“From parents and teachers to social justice and law enforcement leaders, New Yorkers agree that our young people succeed when they’re learning and growing, not clicking and scrolling,” Governor Hochul said. “Using the insights from my statewide listening tour, this comprehensive proposal to restrict smartphone use in schools will ensure that New York’s statewide standard for distraction-free learning delivers the best results for our kids and educators.”

Jan 30, 2025

SSP Analysis: Wind Energy May not be Worthy of the Bluster

“We have gone so far backward with this climate alarmism that now we're destroying millions of acres of land to build Chinese-made wind and solar farms that are just subsidy farms, as opposed to small nuclear footprint or natural gas or coal that take up fractions of the amount of land that solar farms do.”

Jan 30, 2025

Other Side of the State: Opposition Grows to Offshore Lake Erie Wind Turbines

Even before President Donald Trump took back the White House and signed an Executive Order stopping offshore wind energy projects, people around the country and in New York State have been working against wind turbines in their lakes, oceans, and on land.

Jan 29, 2025

"Promises Kept:" NYS Conservative Chairman on President Trump's Pro Life Pardons

As the March for Life Rally was held in Washington, DC. President Trump followed through with his campaign promise to pardon pro-life advocates who had been maliciously prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act.

Jan 27, 2025

Suffolk County Fireman Relates to California Wildfires

SSP spoke with Bill Biondi, Commissioner of the Mastic Beach Fire Department, about preparedness, forest management, physical demands, and family concerns for their loved ones as they are out there fighting the fire.

Jan 27, 2025

William Floyd School District Innovates in Teaching Civics and Government

William Floyd School District (WFSD) is a statewide leader in teaching government and civics from sixth through high school. Whether it is teaching the basics of how government works, the art of compromise, getting along with people with a different POV, or learning about media bias – WFSD is getting it done.

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Education

Stony Brook students blend fitness and ecology in 3K EcoWalk

Stony Brook University students participated in the "Running Wild 3K EcoWalk," a new Earthstock event conducted on April 21 at the Ashley Schiff Preserve.


Local

Brookhaven Leaders Visit Maryhaven’s Yaphank Business Center

Brookhaven Town Supervisor Dan Panico and Deputy Supervisor Neil Foley visited the Maryhaven Integrated Business Center (IBC) in Yaphank for a tour of its packaging and assembly operations and to meet with the individuals whose work powers the facility’s success.


National

Media’s Tariff Tiff Brushed Back by Trump’s Trillions in U.S. Investments

Forget the negative tariff talk, here’s what Trump’s policies have achieved so far.