If you compiled the names of the most impactful Long Islanders in our history, you’d surely start off with the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Marie Colvin — and in my estimation, Harry Chapin . . .
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By Arnold W. Drucker
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7/13/23
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Congressman Gregory Meeks, a Democrat who represents southwest Queens, Elmont, Inwood and north and south Valley Stream, the senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was elected to chair the committee. Meeks is the first African-American chair in the committee’s history.
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By Jeff Bessen
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12/4/20
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I’m seeing good news on all fronts this week, primarily because I choose to. This is a quest: I am seeking the comfort of upbeat stories.
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8/5/15
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When you went to your grandson’s Christmas pageant two weeks ago, did you actually see his performance, or were you too busy recording it for posterity on your iPhone?
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1/8/15
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If we wait for peace to break out, we won’t ever leave home. As we stand on the threshold of a new year . . .
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12/24/14
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For more than 40 years, my family has gathered around the same table on Thanksgiving to overdose on tryptophan, share the news of our lives, watch the kids wreck the house . . .
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11/20/14
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Our local governors are faced with a challenge they never dreamed of: infectious disease. Ebola is no longer just running rampant in West Africa. It has made its way to New York City.
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11/6/14
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I have begun to worry about malaria, and I’m taking malaria prophylaxis, even though I’m not about to leave for a safari or the wilds of Myanmar anytime soon.
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9/4/14
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A dozen students from Valley Stream traveled across the world last week, and they only had to go as far as a local college campus to do it.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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6/18/14
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The death last week of former South African President Nelson Mandela sparked a worldwide outpouring of sorrow, respect and remembrance of a man many considered one of history’s great heroes — a …
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By Brian Racow and Emily Webb
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12/11/13
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