Anyone who’s read “Lord of the Flies” knows the great capacity children have for savagery. Still, the recent suicide of a 15-year-old high school girl, following months of brutal bullying, shocks us — hopefully into action.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/8/10
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Ford is dedicated to Long BeachTo the Editor: I disagree with Ruth Bernstein's letter “Denise Ford is a political turncoat” (March 25-31). My first reaction was that it had the earmarks …
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4/8/10
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Ah, spring! The weather warms. The robins return. People plant pansies. And the whir of lawnmowers can be heard for miles around. Yes, folks, it’s that time of year again to start caring for …
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4/3/10
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Anyone can have a change of heart and mind. Just after the health care reform bill passed last week, I realized the critics were right: Why should we provide insurance for 30 million uninsured …
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Randi Kreiss
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4/3/10
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I trust you haven’t forgotten the famous slogan Gov. Hugh Carey used during New York’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s: “The days of wine and roses are over.”
Unfortunately, the …
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Al D'Amato
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4/3/10
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As the health-reform merry-go-round wound down last week, I was struck by an Associated Press photo of a reform protester at an Iowa City rally last Wednesday.
He was a middle-aged man wearing a …
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Scott Brinton
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4/3/10
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Many years ago Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was one of the most powerful men on earth. A Russian Communist leader, he took part in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. He was the editor of the Soviet …
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Father Chris Nowak
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4/1/10
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Police contract should consider our children
To the Editor:
As the City of Long Beach negotiates a new police contract, it must be mindful not only of the short-term financial obligations …
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4/1/10
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Only a year ago, the New York State Legislature was wrangling behind closed doors over a deal to bail out the fiscally troubled Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The agreement, which imposed a commuter payroll tax on counties served by the MTA, including Nassau County, was supposed to put the authority on a sound financial footing.
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3/26/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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