The clarion call has grown louder since Superstorm Sandy: We must beat a “managed” retreat from the coast, or face certain peril as global warming takes hold and sea levels rise.
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1/9/14
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In a New Year’s Eve surprise, State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a popular Republican from Merrick, announced that he would step down at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31 to become chief executive officer of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/31/13
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On Dec. 3, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, a set of three tests — in literacy, science and math — which is given every three years to 15-year-olds in 65 nations.
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12/12/13
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In the days after Super Typhoon Haiyan slashed and burned the Philippines on Nov. 12, two New York Times reporters and a photographer traveled over treacherous roads to Guiuan, on Samar Island, where the storm’s epicenter made landfall.
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11/27/13
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Democrat Tom Suozzi, Nassau’s former two-term county executive, seemed to believe he had a genuine shot at beating the current county executive, Republican Ed Mangano, in this year’s election.
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11/14/13
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There is an image of Superstorm Sandy –– or, rather, its aftermath –– that is seared in my mind: I’m driving a rented black Jeep, rounding a bend in the road near my home in south Merrick.
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10/31/13
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The race for Town of Hempstead supervisor pits two 51-year-olds — one a longtime politico and attorney, the other a former electrical engineer turned computer programmer — against each other in a race that centers on two key issues — the town budget and the environment.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/24/13
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So let me get this straight. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted more than 40 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare, but failed to do so.
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10/17/13
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When Superstorm Sandy submerged Len Drive in south Bellmore last Oct. 29, it was particularly cruel to the home of David and Rona Weiss, who are in their mid-60s and bought their 2,450-square-foot high ranch in 1983.
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By Scott Brinton
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10/9/13
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The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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