It’s easy to get complacent about our nation’s economy right now. We’re in the longest modern-day recovery from a recession. The stock market has soared past 22,000. Unemployment is low.
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8/24/17
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Former Woodmere Rehabilitation and Health Care Center nurse Riadel Manzano, 45, of East Williston, was sentenced to a conditional discharge by Nassau County Court Judge Meryl Berkowitz on Aug. 15.
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By Jeff Bessen
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8/16/17
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Since 2012, when New York state adopted the Common Core State Standards, many students with special needs have received certificates rather than diplomas when they completed high school.
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8/3/17
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New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core.
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6/1/17
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A former commissioner at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman said that having an inspector general would be a good way to safeguard against wrongdoing.
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/4/17
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Woodmere resident Cindy Grosz, who heads, Cindy’s Corners, a full service media and consulting company, will join forces with the Tahor Group, a New York-based consumer marketing advisory firm for the second annual TLV Runway NYC this coming September 2017 during New York Fashion Week.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/30/17
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It’s amazing what President-elect Donald Trump can accomplish with just 140 characters. His use of Twitter has drawn criticism from the mainstream media as well as Democrats on Capitol Hill, but . . .
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1/13/17
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To have predicted Donald Trump’s stunning Nov. 8 victory, one only needed to rewind time 22 years, to 1994 –– the year low-fi-alternative musician Beck released “Loser.” Most folks probably don’t recall . . .
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1/5/17
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Chooga chooga chooga. Here we come, ready or not. We are the baby boomers, and there are 74 million of us . . .
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11/10/16
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Nassau Community College is something of an oasis in the county’s heavily developed and industrialized hub. Venerable sycamore and maple trees line its narrow roads. In its center is . . .
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6/9/16
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