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With just a week left before the 1980 presidential election, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan asked Americans whether they were better off than they were four years earlier.
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9/13/12
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Although Isaac threatened some of the events of this year’s Republican National Convention, the rain could not dampen the mood of a re-energized Republican Party.
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8/30/12
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Can recess appointments be legal when Congress isn’t in session?
Conveniently, while Congress was enjoying its holiday recess, President Obama was hard at work.
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1/12/12
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It's time for some music, with a range of performances to suit all ages and tastes, from some classic big band swing tunes at Hofstra, to a performance by Long Island-based pop-rccker Freddy Monday at East Rockaway's The Fishery.
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7/20/11
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Seattle’s celebrated band of teacher-rockers – known as Recess Monkey – makes their Long Island debut at Long Island Children’s Museum later this month.
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7/15/11
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When I first ran for the Senate in 1980, the middle class was going through one of its most trying times in history. People were frustrated. Inflation had skyrocketed. Crime was infiltrating our suburban neighborhoods. Property taxes were becoming stifling.
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Al D'Amato
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10/15/10
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Last week, Comedy Central newsman Jon Stewart announced a March to Restore Sanity, to be held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 30. And . . . he wasn’t kidding.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/24/10
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Economists tell us that the Great Recession of recent years is over. The economy is growing again, albeit ever so slowly. Long Island’s jobless rate has dropped to below 7 percent. Housing prices in a number of area neighborhoods are starting — mind you, starting — to creep up. And we hear anecdotal evidence that people are beginning to spend again.
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7/30/10
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In recent months, critics of the Obama administration have lambasted the president’s $787 billion stimulus plan, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed in February. Sure, they say, the stock market is soaring and the real-estate market is steadily climbing. But America is still shedding jobs. Ergo, the stimulus must have failed.
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Scott Brinton
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12/10/09
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George Maragos, CEO of a financial services business, is challenging two-term incumbent Howard Weitzman in the race for Nassau County comptroller. Maragos said that the county’s finances have been poorly managed for the past eight years, and he believes his experience can bring needed change.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/8/09
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