New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has rejected a plan to build a liquified natural gas terminal 13 miles off the shore of Long Beach.
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Sari Zeidler
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4/29/10
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A year ago, Long Island legislators dismissed Albany as the home of a government not of the people, but of “three men in a room.” And that wasn’t the first time that criticism was leveled; it’s been a perennial complaint. But now we’re lucky if we can get that many in a room, and even luckier if we know which three they are.
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4/8/10
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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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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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Holiday-season retail sales across the country rose about 5 percent over their 2008 levels, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And there are signs of recovery in the Bellmore-Merrick area as well. Many businesses have seen their sales improve since the bleak climate of 2008, but few have matched the level of activity five years ago, a Herald survey indicates.
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Deirdre Krasula
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3/10/10
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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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Autumn Delights
Trail HikeJoin the Friends of Norman Levy Preserve on a spectacular hike to the 125-foot “peak” of the planned Meadowbrook Parkway Trail, sponsored by the Long Island …
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by Karen Bloom
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10/15/09
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