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Political campaigns are like wars. At some time during a skirmish, the generals declare that they’ve reached the key stage in the battle, and that all they have to do is keep up the momentum.
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8/23/12
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The student, all of 12 or 13 years old, slammed my already broken left hand against the cinder-block wall. Pain shot down my plastered skin. The boy then ran out of the suspension room, pursuing another student with whom he had gotten into a fistfight.
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Scott Brinton
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4/7/11
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It’s not even February yet, but so far it looks like 2011 will finally be the year New York gets moving in the right direction.
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by Al D'Amato
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1/27/11
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Recent polls show popular three-term New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s approval ratings declining as a result of his continued support for the proposed mosque near ground zero. But in my book, Bloomberg will always be top-notch for his willingness to fight for what he believes in, even if it’s not always popular.
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Al D'Amato
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8/20/10
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Not every controversy is resolved with an easy thumbs-up or thumbs-down — not if you try to use your heart and soul rather than the knee jerk. And if you add your brain, the decision-making becomes even more prickly and challenging.
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Randi Kreiss
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8/12/10
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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On May 1, a Pakistani-born American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. His intent was simple — to kill innocent American citizens and create economic chaos.
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Al D'Amato
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5/13/10
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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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Last week, the biggest loser wasn’t Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley or the Democratic Party or President Obama. The biggest losers were New York schoolchildren, who were sold out by the state Legislature in favor of the tremendously powerful teachers unions.
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Al D'Amato
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1/29/10
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