Part three of an ongoing Herald series on heroin addiction.
Mary dressed in a well-worn sweater and jeans for her interview in a conference room overlooking the bay at Long …
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By Scott Brinton
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4/2/10
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“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the …
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3/27/10
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The sound started as a slow creaking, which quickly became a wrenching noise, as if sheet metal were being folded back and forth violently.
Then, snap!
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Scott Brinton
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3/26/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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How strange. On April 18, 1955, he was alive. He had mass. He lay in a bed, frantically plotting equations with pencil and paper in neat handwriting, attempting to piece together a unified theory to explain the connections between all forms of matter in the universe. And then he was dead, killed by an aneurysm that had festered for years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/11/10
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The New York Times nailed Gov. David Paterson last week in an alleged abuse-of-power case, so much so that he was forced to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. Yet there was Paterson, in typical fashion, denying culpability.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/10
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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Before President Obama meets with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at Blair House Feb. 25 to hammer out a bipartisan health reform agreement — or at least to argue over one — I would suggest that he first hold a news conference to reframe the health care debate.
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Scott Brinton
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2/18/10
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President Obama pulled a big no-no last week. He insulted an all-American institution, the fine city of Las Vegas, daring to suggest that people should save their money rather than “blow a bunch of cash” on gambling in Sin City if they want to help fund their children’s college education.
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Scott Brinton
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2/11/10
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Art Rosenthal, executive director of the Confide Inc. drug treatment center in Rockville Centre, described childhood these days as a dark tunnel. What a depressing metaphor, I thought, but I couldn’t argue with its accuracy.
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Scott Brinton
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2/4/10
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