To the Editor:
Following a number of significant Long Island Rail Road service disruptions and cancellations caused by Amtrak maintenance recently, I am calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to explore taking over maintenance of the rails in and out of Penn Station and the East River tunnels.
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5/16/11
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To the Editor:
Regarding Scott Brinton’s column, “Note to Birthers: Let it go” (May 5-11):
The Birthers will not, as Brinton suggests, let it go. Yes, they know the president is as American as they are. They knew that on day one. Regardless, they’ll continue with their campaign against President Obama as long as the media writes and speaks about it.
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5/13/11
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To the Editor:
In Al D’Amato’s anti-union, anti-collective bargaining rant (“The leadership in middle America should make us proud” March 3-9), he wonders, regarding the Wisconsin …
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3/9/11
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To the Editor:
In the wake of the horrific violence in Tucson, the newly installed House of Representatives temporarily set aside its effort to repeal the health care law that would provide …
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1/19/11
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To the Editor:
This month I received a four-page pamphlet in the mail from the county entitled “Nassau County News Network.” The first page is a letter from County Executive Ed Mangano. He …
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1/19/11
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Thank you very much for the incredible honor of being named the Merrick Herald’s Person of the Year.
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By Liz O'Shaughnessy
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1/10/11
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Recently, Nassau County superintendents of schools received literature from County Executive Ed Mangano regarding his 2011 “No Property Tax Increase Budget.” As part of this proposed budget, county legislators voted, strictly along party lines, to shift the financial expense of paying county assessment errors from Nassau County to the local school districts. We certainly agree that the assessment system is broken; however, shifting the responsibility to the school districts will not help fix it.
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12/16/10
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To the Editor:
As a Muslim American, I particularly enjoyed Scott Brinton’s column on American perceptions of Muslims, “When perception is reality in the Muslim world” (Sept. 16-22).
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Zachary Ibrahim
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10/4/10
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To the Editor:
As I look to our county's future, I believe that we are about to enter a time like no other in recent Nassau history. Our county executive, Edward Mangano, has started the ball …
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9/1/10
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To the Editor:
It's unbelievable that Jeff Toback just doesn't get it, and that makes me real mad, especially after our community spurned him for office last November.
He launches broadside …
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9/1/10
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