Nassau County voters have a special reason this season to look past the partisan divide. Republican County Executive Bruce A. Blakeman's governance since 2022 has been inadequate to meet the challenges necessary to maintain services in one of the nation's premier suburbs while keeping it affordable.

Blakeman's Democratic challenger, Seth I. Koslow of Merrick, is a freshman legislator. Koslow, 43, bases his appeal to voters on the promise of a far less performative and far more common-sense way of running the county government.

The county's out-of-whack tax assessment system, for which Blakeman attacked his opponent and predecessor Laura Curran four years ago, remains essentially unchanged despite his claims to the contrary.

Nor has Blakeman, 70, of Atlantic Beach, acted to assure fisc

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