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Surprise, surprise! It’s an election year, and Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, who is up for re-election, is promising not to raise property taxes in 2010.
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9/24/09
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A fourth-grade teacher tells me this story:
She advises an after-school club for children who want to work on a special project for a science fair. She can only accept 10 students, and she chooses those who step up first with their plans. They set a due date for completion. Part of the project requires the students to interview a science teacher and write up the Q & A.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/17/09
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The Hon. Al Smith, former governor of New York, always urged people to “look at the record.”
Average Americans want to know the basics about health care reform — specifically, how it will affect them. Will they have to pay more taxes? What will the impact be on their current health insurance plan, and will some government medical board curtail their coverage? The American people are entitled to clear answers on these questions.
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Alfonse D'Amato
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9/17/09
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Updated: Dec. 10, 12:24 p.m.
No doubt, the current recession is an equal-opportunity offender, battering rich, poor and everyone in between. According to a recent report, …
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Scott Brinton
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9/17/09
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Nationally, the unemployment rate remains below 10 percent — thank goodness. But among 16- to 24-year-olds, unemployment hit an astonishing 18.5 percent in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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9/17/09
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With school back in session, many are concerned that another outbreak of the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, is just around the corner. An outbreak in the New York area in the spring spread fear about this new, unknown disease. Many parents kept their children home from school when cases were confirmed, leading to high absentee rates. Some schools closed entirely.
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9/17/09
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I remember driving west on Park Avenue in Long Beach with my then 1 1/2-year-old daughter tucked in her car seat behind me. It was midday, and the sun shone so brightly. There was a break between the buildings, and through it I could peer toward the destruction.
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Scott Brinton
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9/10/09
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Sometimes silence is not golden. As Republicans and conservatives have embraced the mantra of “just say no” to anything Obama, they have failed to address in any positive way the critical problems we face. Where are the thoughtful, challenging alternative Republican plans to the Democrats’ economic stimulus package, proposed health care bill and foreign policy initiatives, especially in Afghanistan?
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Randi Kreiss
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9/10/09
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Eight years after the horror of seeing thousands of people die, towering buildings crash to the ground and a war declared on terrorism, we must not let our proclivity to move on eclipse our need to remember the victims, the heroes and the enemies of our way of life.
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9/10/09
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Millions of iPhones and BlackBerrys are being used every second, and few adults in Nassau County are without a cell phone of some kind. These devices enable more than phone calls. We can type text messages, read e-mails, connect to the Internet and type Twitter messages and Facebook updates. We can find out where the nearest pizzeria, gas station or hospital is. We can check the weather. We can get a movie review, find the closest theater where that movie is playing and when the next show starts, and then get directions to the theater. All on the phone.
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9/10/09
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