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As I’ve mentioned in my four prior columns, our state authorities and agencies are not sufficiently accountable to the public. In the past decade alone there have been multiple reports by the state Comptroller’s office, governors’ commissions and public sector watchdog groups about this. Efforts to legislate greater accountability by officials who have focused their attention on authorities have met with limited success.
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Hal Peterson
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10/27/10
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The recent attack of a 14-year-old student on a Nassau BOCES school bus reminds us that anti-gay hate and bullying is as big a problem locally as it is across the country.
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Andy Peters
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10/21/10
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The story should have ended when the last miner stepped from the Phoenix escape capsule back into the world. It was a perfect moment, and how many of those do we get? It was a happy ending, also in short supply.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/21/10
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While watching “The Social Network” last week, I was stunned — not by the movie, but by the audience. As the theater went dark, a thousand points of light beamed out from cell phones. Well, not a thousand, but a lot.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/15/10
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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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So there we were — my wife, kids and I — trapped last Friday in our Subaru somewhere south of the New Jersey/Delaware border, crawling along in traffic on Route 95.
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Scott Brinton
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10/15/10
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As hard as it may be to believe, that’s what State Senator Eric Schneiderman, the Democrat running for state attorney general, would have you believe.
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Al D'Amato
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10/7/10
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The stakes in this election are too important to accept at face value the slick and often alarmist advertising that candidates put forward as Election Day nears.
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10/7/10
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These days almost everybody has a complaint about the government. In Washington it’s about health care, taxes, over-regulation and bailouts. Here at home the complaints deal with the economy and real estate taxes, but mostly taxes.
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Jerry Kremer
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10/7/10
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All the time, teenagers prove how irresponsible they can be, driving and texting, drinking and driving, acting on impulse and without thought to the consequences.
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Randi Kreiss
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10/7/10
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