There are all kinds of words that come to mind when we talk about our federal government and how it functions.
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6/6/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform commenced hearings to examine what went wrong when the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three others were killed in Benghazi last month.
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10/18/12
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Q. I went to a meeting of my Village Board of Trustees and wanted to speak on a particular item, but they wouldn’t let me. Don’t I have a right to speak at a public meeting?A. The right …
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By A. Thomas Levin
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9/28/12
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Long Island Bus riders and workers said they got angry when they were forced to wait more than two hours on Monday for a public hearing on a contract with Veolia Transportation, Inc. that would privatize Nassau’s public bus system. The crowd that convened at the county Legislature building catcalled at legislators to get under way and booed at County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, when he addressed the Legislature.
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Deirdre Krasula
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12/7/11
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How would you spend $10,000 improving Baldwin? How about $50,000? Would you renovate a park? Fund arts or sports programs at the schools? Would you buy new computers for the library? Although this may seem like a daydream of a question, it is one Baldwin may have to address next March. The money in question would come from the We Hear You America contest being sponsored by
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Chris Connolly
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11/30/11
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Modern technology has virtually obliterated all resistance associated with wearing a hearing aid. Whether the concern is vanity, comfort, ambient noise or simple reluctance to let others know you have a hearing issue, devices today address it all.
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Teri Ann Loeser
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6/2/11
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In a public hearing that turned raucous at times on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature heard testimony from a long line of speakers who charged that a Republican plan to redraw the lines of the county’s 19 legislative districts would, if passed, dilute the minority vote while shifting roughly half of the county’s population –– 576,000 people in all –– into new districts.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/9/11
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Those who have difficulty with hearing know it can affect many areas of life. It is not uncommon for a person to adjust to his or her hearing limitation, thereby allowing the real problem to go undetected and untreated.
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Teri-Ann Loeser
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4/20/11
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Professionals at Hearing & Speech Associates take pride in the fact that they truly care about their patients' hearing. They take the time to listen to each individual's particular hearing problems, lifestyle listening issues and specific needs, and then provide the best technology and the most appropriate counseling.
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Teri-Ann Loeser
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7/28/10
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