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Think about what you know now, January 2010, that you didn’t know a year ago. Standing on the threshold of the new year, we have a moment to look back at how those 365 days changed us, as individuals and as a people and as paid-up members of the human race.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/7/10
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Like many of you, I had a Christmas Day that wasn’t completely filled with merry joy and ho-ho-ho. I got flipping mad when I learned of the botched terror attempt on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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Al D'Amato
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1/7/10
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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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12/31/09
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As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts.
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12/24/09
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I am so not in the mood for an emerald necklace this year. I thought I’d get that out of the way first. In this post-recession interlude, I’m thinking more along the lines of the best things in life are free or at least quite reasonable.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/24/09
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All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth ...” Well, I suppose that wouldn’t be on my Christmas wish, but I know my young son would appreciate some more teeth.
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Al D'Amato
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12/24/09
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Perhaps you heard the ambulances racing through our streets in the wee hours of Dec. 12. Emergency rooms were flooded with people suffering chest pain and abdominal spasms. The volume of cases quickly overwhelmed physicians and nurses who were mystified by the epidemic.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/17/09
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The Nassau County Legislature is on the verge of repealing the controversial energy tax, which adds 2.5 percent to the cost of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, propane and firewood. Most Republican candidates vowed during their election campaigns that they would eliminate this tax if they won.
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12/17/09
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