2/12 Sag Harbor Express: She’s a highly unusual chief deputy executive for Suffolk County. Regina Calcaterra is the first woman to hold the post. She’s an East Ender and thoroughly appreciative of life in eastern Suffolk. And her background growing up in Suffolk is extraordinary – living in foster homes and homeless shelters and worse. [...]
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Samantha Garvey is Finally Home NEWSDAY January 28, 2012 by KEITH HERBERT AND SARAH CRICHTON Intel competition semifinalist Samantha Garvey has a home again. Less than a month after she and her family had to relocate to a homeless shelter, Garvey moved Saturday into a new home in Bay Shore. At a ceremony in front [...]
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Bellone taps Calcaterra for deputy exec December 1, 2011 by RICK BRAND / rick.brand@newsday.com Suffolk County Executive-elect Steve Bellone has chosen corporate fraud attorney Regina Calcaterra, who as a child lived in homeless shelters and foster homes in the county, as his chief deputy. Calcaterra, 44, co-director of Bellone’s transition team and an unsuccessful candidate [...]
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TESTIMONY OF REGINA CALCATERRA BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE ON DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND REAPPORTIONMENT REGARDING REDISTRICTING October 5, 2011 Farmingdale, NY Mr. Chairman, Members of the Task Force: My name is Regina Calcaterra and I am a resident of New Suffolk in the Town of Southold, in the County of Suffolk, a county where I [...]
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Gerry Ferraro’s last book was written as a testament to her mother Antonetta Ferraro. Gerry chronicles the struggles and sacrifices that her Italian immigrant mother suffered to
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Richard Laermer’s trendSpotting tells the reader what to expect in the next decade from the economy, technology, entertainment, politics and society.
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Maurizio Molinari’s newly published book, Gli italiani di New York (The Italians of New York), chronicles historical and contemporary noteworthy Italians in New York.
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Political storm clouds are hovering around the process of redistricting both statewide – especially in regard to the State Senate and Congress and locally here on Long Island – in terms of the egregious overreach by the Nassau County Legislature.
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Painful property tax increases could cease if state legislators wholeheartedly enacted Governor Cuomo’s property tax cap that limits annual property tax increases to 2 percent.
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After months in the political spotlight, the 44-year-old attorney and New Suffolk resident, who grew up in poverty in an abusive family environment, is now spearheading an effort to get the word out about You Gotta Believe
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