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Getting rid of snow is an expensive proposition, and the price is rising. Cleaning the roads after a storm requires salt, sand, vehicles to spread them and then plow the snow, and manpower.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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2/11/15
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As we ring in the New Year, let’s reflect on the important issues and challenges our state and county faced in 2014. I believe 2015 will be a good year . . .
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12/24/14
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New York state has been presented with a unique opportunity. For once, rather than being faced with a multi-billion-dollar deficit . . .
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12/11/14
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Yves Laurore, a 60-year-old Freeporter and president of YLR Home Improvement, was forewarned by family and friends before becoming a foster parent. Their collective advice was the same: “Kids in the foster care system can’t be trusted. Sooner or later they’ll turn against you.” Laurore, however, was determined to open his home to Long Island children in the foster care system.
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By Stapha Charleme
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10/28/14
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It was the summer of 2012. Madeleine Petrara Perrin, an attorney from Bayville, couldn’t get over how much Joe had changed. She had last seen Joe, a Bayville native who was 56 at the time, at his apartment a year earlier when she was volunteering for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charitable group committed to ending poverty.
Joe was a shell of his former self.
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By Laura Lane
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10/2/14
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On Sept. 11, 2001, many professional, well-trained and dedicated police officers, firefighters and EMS workers lost their lives at the World Trade Center because, in addition to the other tragedies that day, their radios were not “interoperable.”
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9/3/14
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Three years ago last weekend — on Aug. 28, 2011 — Tropical Storm Irene touched down in Brooklyn before raging across the South Shore of Long Island and causing massive flooding, downing thousands of trees and leaving behind widespread property damage.
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By Tom Jordan
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9/3/14
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United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, in a disgusting display of political favoritism, pitted his union’s members against New York City police officers . . .
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8/27/14
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Part two of an occasional series about the challenges that people face making ends meet in Nassau County.
By 8 a.m. on July 3, many, if not most, of the 3- to 5-year-olds in Jazmin Torres and …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/30/14
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For decades, the U.S. has failed to address one of its core problems: securing the nation’s borders.
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7/23/14
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