This was a difficult column to write, but it’s a true reflection of my past two weeks of travel in Europe. Many people at my stage of life . . .
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7/6/18
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The local community newspaper is a beautiful thing, the living, breathing spirit of democracy. It follows, therefore, that an assault on the press is a grievous attack on the freedoms we cherish.
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7/6/18
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Immigration issues continue to be front and center in Washington, and for good reason. The Supreme Court decision affirming the ban on travel to the U.S. from a number of troubled foreign countries . . .
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7/6/18
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My brief viewer-host relationship with Anthony Bourdain took a nosedive in May 2013, a month after his CNN travel-food show, “Parts Unknown,” premiered.
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6/28/18
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After my mother died, my grown kids thought it would be good for me to have a couple of grandkids around for two weeks. You know, distraction and so forth. Let the young people lift my spirits and get me going.
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6/28/18
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The seemingly endless national dispute over immigration may be coming to a head. Images of children separated from their families at the U.S.’s southern border should be enough . . .
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6/28/18
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Nora Ephron said that everything is copy, and in the life of a columnist, that is especially true. You live your life and observe your life at the same time . . .
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6/21/18
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President Trump’s travels last week stirred the diplomatic world on two fronts. First, he stopped in Canada for the G-7 leaders’ conference, and held firm in his insistence . . .
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6/21/18
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One of the most valuable pieces of land in Nassau County is the Nassau Coliseum and its surrounding acreage. Since the doors of the arena opened in 1972 . . .
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6/15/18
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One of the most fascinating spaces to occupy is a boundary area, where one reality bleeds into the next. As I write, I’m on the border between my ordinary life and celebrity headlines. I’m struggling with the shocking suicides of two famous people . . .
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6/15/18
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