I applaud the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent guidance update recommending that people who are fully vaccinated not be confined to quarantine after exposure to a case of Covid-19.
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By Lawrence E. Eisenstein
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2/25/21
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I was in Ryann’s Wines in East Meadow around the holidays, standing at the checkout, when a fellow customer, a man in his 70s, called out to a 20-something employee from across the store.
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By Nick Buglione
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2/25/21
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I admired Gov. Mario Cuomo so much that I actually bought an old CD of his speeches some years ago, and I actually listened to them. So I am educated in the successes and rhetorical and political skills of the Cuomo boys.
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2/25/21
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There are many benefits to getting older, although I often wish that I were a lot younger. When it comes to Long Island politics, I have pretty good recall going back to the mid-1950s.
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2/18/21
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We lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we? Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to . . .
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2/18/21
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This column is back by popular demand. Well, in truth, only one reader, shivering through the freezing weather, remembered that I once wrote about winter soups, and asked me to do another one.
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2/18/21
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The new year is off to a promising start in the effort to eliminate housing discrimination, with significant actions taken by the federal and state governments. Those actions, and related ones that are brewing . . .
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By Elaine Gross
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2/11/21
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It happened as, I assume, many of these things do: It was a busy day, I was working at home, and the cellphone rang.
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By James Bernstein
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2/11/21
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We need to let teachers play through the vaccine line. Single parents should be prioritized as well.
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2/11/21
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Four hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun . . .
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By John O'Connell
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2/4/21
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