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The newly announced candidate for the Republican presidential primary, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, has created media buzz. According to the most recent Rasmussen poll, Perry was leading fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney by 13 points just days after confirming his presidential run.
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Al D'Amato
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8/25/11
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As ideas go, we think Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order, announced last week at SUNY Old Westbury, creating 10 state regional economic development councils, including one for Long Island, is brilliant. The concept of streamlining the development process — now a byzantine maze of bureaucracy — may be of great value.
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8/4/11
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The summer months tend to make all of us very lazy. Our minds wander, avoiding any kind of deep thinking. We focus on the hot weather, planned vacations, cookouts, sports and dozens of other mindless things. But whether we like it or not, the world around us continues to change, and we can’t ignore those changes.
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8/4/11
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The stakes in this election are too important to accept at face value the slick and often alarmist advertising that candidates put forward as Election Day nears.
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10/7/10
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The state of New York’s economy is precarious. Battered by a recession that saw Wall Street implode — and tens of thousands of workers in the finance industry laid off — the Empire State has been hurting since mid-2008, if not before.
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3/10/10
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For years, the common wisdom has been that American industry is in an irreversible decline. As the reasoning went, our shrinking industrial base would be somehow magically replaced by “service industries” like insurance, finance, consumer retail and a big real estate boom.
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Al D'Amato
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2/18/10
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