On Monday, New Yorkers — in particular, state workers — anxiously awaited news on whether the state Legislature would pass a series of emergency bills to cut spending and stave off a government shutdown.
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6/20/10
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We Americans know some things about ourselves. It’s part of our narrative. We are winners. We are optimists. We have a “can do” attitude that allows us to smite our enemies and solve our problems. We invent things, fix things and help others.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/20/10
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If you’re a political junkie like me, you love a good knock-down fight. In the political record book, June 8 will go down as the day when women, particularly Republican women, scored a knockout, and boy, did they roar!
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Al D'Amato
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6/20/10
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One of my favorite activities during a recent family vacation in St. Augustine, Fla., was sitting in a lawn chair on the white, sandy beach and watching flocks of pelicans streaking above the Atlantic Ocean like squadrons of jetfighters.
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Scott Brinton
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6/20/10
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It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/14/10
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As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico and now threatens the Florida Panhandle, the blame game has begun.
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Al D'Amato
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6/14/10
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At the beginning of the year, Republicans from Washington to the far-off hustings were toasting the coming November election with predictions of a mass wipeout of incumbent Democrats.
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Jerry Kremer
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6/14/10
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While driving down a dark street you see flashing lights in your rearview mirror. It’s definitely not a patrol car, and it doesn’t appear to be the typical model used as an unmarked police vehicle.
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6/14/10
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Though the temperatures fluctuated wildly last month, summer unofficially kicked off last weekend, and the hottest days of the year are fast approaching. Before you take off for the beach or the park, it’s important to take precautions.
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6/4/10
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My father served as a union president — a teachers union president — in Suffolk County nearly four decades ago, in the days when educators like him were given little respect, and even lower wages.
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Scott Brinton
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6/3/10
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