County Executive Ed Mangano isn’t the only leader in the metropolitan area who is under pressure.
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12/12/13
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When the news broke last month that a comprehensive new medical study indicated that cholesterol-lowering drugs should be prescribed for millions more Americans between the ages of 40 and 70, I didn’t believe it.
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12/5/13
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Obamacare, the cornerstone of President Obama’s legislative agenda, is quickly becoming the epic failure of his legacy.
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11/21/13
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When you decide what to write in a column, there are many subjects that you could cover. There’s only one problem.
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11/21/13
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Last week, life and art and politics collided, not for most folks, but for me as I moved through my days.
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11/7/13
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It’s been a month since the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace opened to the public, and it has been nothing short of a train wreck.
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11/7/13
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So let me get this straight. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted more than 40 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, but failed to do so.
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10/17/13
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The first federal government shutdown in 17 years has reached Week 2. The catalyst? The debt limit. The accelerant? Obamacare.
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10/10/13
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Government shutdown. The term sounds so ominous. A temporary end to all government services. How long will it last?
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10/3/13
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The Bronx-based Simone Healthcare Development, the company that made a deal with the Lawrence Board of Education to buy the Number Six School property last January, but lost the public referendum on the sale, has bought the 12,000-square-foot Verizon building at 1436 Broadway in Hewlett for about $1.38 million.
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By Jeff Bessen
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10/2/13
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