As I look back on my New Years’ columns over these last many years, I might as well have been writing in disappearing ink. Pretty much nothing I expected came to pass . . .
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1/12/23
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The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 14 years — a time period during which mere adjustments for inflation would now have it over $10.
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1/12/23
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New York state’s missing U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, recently surfaced on Long Island. That must mean that Gillibrand finally got around to analyzing November’s election results . . .
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By Ronald J. Rosenberg
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1/5/23
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As the new year begins, let us look up to the stars that light our winter nights. The transition from 2022 to 2023 has been showered with starlight.
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1/5/23
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Politics were at their ugliest. The world was in turmoil. War raged in the Ukraine. Overall, it was a tumultuous year.
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1/5/23
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Many people woke up a couple of days before Christmas to heavy rain and wind that flooded residential streets and primary roadways, and may have left them wondering, “Where are all those Sandy flood-mitigation projects we were promised?”
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1/5/23
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John Lennon asked us all a question many years ago: So this is Christmas, and what have you done?
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By Michael Malaszczyk
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12/22/22
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It takes lots of elbow grease to wipe away all the hype, scandal and five-alarm headlines about Britain’s royal family, and finally hit the spots that shine.
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By James Bernstein
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12/22/22
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For my 50th birthday in 1997, my husband invited our friends and family to celebrate at Toledo Restaurant in Manhattan. It was a bash.
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12/22/22
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If you think breathing on the streets of a large city is difficult now, imagine what it was like 50 years ago, when vehicles guzzling lead-based gasoline spewed poison from their tailpipes . . .
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12/22/22
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