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Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Nassau County Department of Public Works is trucking up to 80,000 gallons of raw sewage each day from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway through Baldwin and Freeport to a red brick pumping station in Merrick.
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David Weingrad and Scott Brinton
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12/17/10
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Suddenly, I was captivated by the darkness below on a steamy August day. I could only stare as tiny gray pill bugs crept up from the recesses of the decaying leaf pile. Then I noticed an earthworm slithering to the surface and looping back to the underworld. This place was alive.
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Scott Brinton
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8/20/10
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It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/14/10
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So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely?
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Scott Brinton
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4/23/10
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It was, for me, what Henry David Thoreau might call a transcendent moment, when the world suddenly turned still and time seemed to slow.
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Scott Brinton
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4/8/10
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Q. I listen to radio talk shows, and John Gambling was going on about LEED-certified homes and how he doesn’t believe in global warming. What does LEED mean and how do you get it? Does it help to have it?
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Monte Leeper
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1/21/10
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My colleagues Randi Kreiss and Alfonse D’Amato each published year-end lists two weeks ago, with Randi offering a holiday shopping list and Alfonse, a list of all the political issues he’d like resolved. I thought, how’d I miss the memo? Where was my year-end list? I must have been too busy looking back on the decade that was.
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Scott Brinton
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1/7/10
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There are big-picture issues that the town of Hempsteand and Nassau County will have to tackle together. Foremost among them is the Lighthouse project, a sweeping proposal to transform 150 acres surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale from the barren asphalt of a parking lot to a residential and commercial zone.
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1/7/10
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It’s a truism of politics: In times of economic collapse, hard-liners seek scapegoats to blame rather than bipartisan solutions to offer hope.
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Scott Brinton
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12/3/09
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The following are profiles of candidates running for seats on the Nassau County and district court.
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Stephen J. Bronner, Ariella Monti, Sari Zeidler
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10/29/09
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