The Long Beach Medical Center board of directors and the state Health Department argue about the hospital’s viability while tens of thousands of residents and visitors live and play in Long Beach without the benefit of access to an emergency care center in the event of sudden illness or injury.
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7/31/13
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As we all learned in driver’s ed, operating a motor vehicle is not a right, like voting or publicly speaking your mind. Driving is a privilege.
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7/29/13
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We live in a world that thirsts for energy. As the population rises, the need for energy grows ever greater.
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7/17/13
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The state’s new Commission to Investigate Public Corruption has the potential to finally address, in an organized and effective manner, the illegal and unethical practices of too many elected public officials in New York.
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7/10/13
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another . . .
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7/3/13
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Long Island’s high schools have finished honoring the members of the class of 2013, and many of those newly minted graduates are now looking toward college in the fall.
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6/26/13
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Now that school is over, the action will ramp up at backyard and public pools as well as Long Island’s beaches.
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6/20/13
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High school seniors will soon face a potentially life-altering decision only days before they graduate –– to drink or not to drink on prom night.
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6/13/13
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The American flag exists at the periphery of most our lives. It takes on significance mainly at events kicked off by the playing of the national anthem, at parades and during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankees games.
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6/13/13
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Last Oct. 29, Hurricane Sandy drowned the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant in East Rockaway with more than nine feet of saltwater, destroying its pumps, shutting down its operating systems and overwhelming the already weak facility.
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6/6/13
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