Over the past 20-something years, election integrity has become a hot-button issue in our country. In 2000, Democrats claimed that George W. Bush was an illegitimate president . . .
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By Brian Curran
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7/27/23
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Meet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to . . .
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By Randi Kreiss
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9/11/20
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Let us assume that we all have first-rate intelligence. It’s a bit of a leap, because many Americans are wedged into a rigid binary belief set, either blue or red . . .
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8/21/20
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The U.S. Postal Service is older than the United States itself: Benjamin Franklin appointed the first postmaster general in 1775, a year before the Revolution against Great Britain erupted. Ever since, the Postal Service has been woven into the very fabric of our democracy . . .
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8/21/20
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I get plenty of letters, but only a few of them get published, so I thought you’d like to see some samples of the mail I get day in and day out from supporters and critics, the thoughtful, the loonies and the insightful.
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1/10/20
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Dozens of Lynbrook residents have complained that they have experienced issues with getting their mail late, or not getting it at all.
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By Melissa Koenig
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2/15/18
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My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Heller, told me that I needed to grow an “elephant skin.” She advised toughening up if I wanted to survive elementary school trash talk.
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3/31/17
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There’s a perverse irony in the fact that negotiations about ethics reform in the corruption-stained state Capitol are conducted in secret. Time and again we’ve seen the governor, the Assembly speaker and the Senate majority leader . . .
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3/18/16
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At a candidates’ forum in Franklin Square last week, commuter parking in southwestern Nassau County and political mailings distributed by the Town of Hempstead were the focus of extensive discussion by a county legislator, two Town of Hempstead councilmen, their three challengers in next month’s election and residents who attended.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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10/21/15
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A federal judge last Friday sentenced Dave Denenberg, the former Nassau County legislator who pleaded guilty to cheating a law client out of $2.3 million and resigned from office earlier this year, to three months in jail and three months of house arrest.
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By Brian Racow
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6/5/15
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