Keyword: Scott Brinton
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My wife and I were scanning the cages full of kittens at the North Shore Animal League in Port Washington when, from an open cage, this little gray fur ball leapt onto my arm, scurried over my shoulders, jumped onto my wife and ran up and down her arms.
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1/5/12
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A year before the American Revolution’s first shots were fired, another revolution was already well under way in Great Britain.
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12/15/11
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I was shocked to see myself in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch last summer. I wasn’t literally in the newspaper, but I saw myself reflected in the parents profiled in the brilliant investigative piece “Children may be vulnerable in $5 billion youth-sports industry: Parents and athletes feel the pressure to compete at all costs” (Aug. 29, 2010).
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12/1/11
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With the race for control of the Nassau County Legislature as tight this year as any in recent memory, we now understand why the Republican majority hurried this spring to redraw district lines, attempting to gerrymander them in the GOP’s favor.
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11/17/11
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Thank goodness for the Nassau Interim Finance Authority. The state fiscal control board that oversees the county budget recently rejected an $8.1 million contract to install artificial-turf fields at Cantiague Park in Hicksville and Bay Park in East Rockaway.
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11/3/11
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A Nassau legislative hearing to review the county’s $2.6 billion 2012 budget turned chaotic early Friday afternoon when residents and MTA Long Island Bus drivers refused to cede the floor, demanding more time to be heard during a 30-minute public comment session.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/28/11
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Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, a Republican from Levittown, faces a stiff challenge by West Hempstead attorney and business/civic activist Gary Port, a Democrat, in this year’s election.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/27/11
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Italian physicist Enrico Fermi fired up the world’s first nuclear reactor on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court beneath Alonzo Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Fermi achieved what scientists call “criticality” –– a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction –– at 3:52 p.m. His graphite-pile reactor, dubbed Chicago Pile-One, ran for 28 minutes and produced enough energy to power a flashlight.
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10/20/11
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Coloki, Inc., a nonprofit group set up by Merokean Liz O’Shaughnessy to run the Freeport Work Hiring Trailer that aids impoverished day laborers, will host a benefit fundraiser at Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 5 to 9 p.m.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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10/10/11
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In my middle school years, 1979 to 1981, the biggest band in the U.S., and perhaps the world, was Kiss, comprising four heavy-metal imps decked out in black-and-white war paint and rhinestone-studded body suits, breathing fire and spitting blood in their phantasmagorical stage show, replete with rocket fire and levitating drums.
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10/6/11
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