One of my all-time favorite comedians was Groucho Marx. He always had the right response to the question of the moment.
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1/19/23
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If you are receiving Social Security retirement or disability benefits, Supplemental Security Income. Railroad Retirement benefits, or Veterans Administration benefits, the Internal Revenue Service announced that people in those groups who do not file a tax return would automatically receive a $1,200 stimulus check.
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By Jeff Bessen
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4/21/20
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed the aptly named Green Light Law, which will allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. This isn’t a new law. If anything, it takes New York back to the more trusting years before Sept. 11, 2001.
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7/10/19
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A 76-year-old Lawrence resident allegedly had $296,000 stolen from him through a scheme that had him transferring money into several fraudulent accounts, police said.
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By Jeff Bessen and Matthew Ferremi
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5/16/19
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The economic news coming out of Washington has been very good lately. The economy is growing at a brisk pace, and unemployment is the lowest in decades. Some of the best news is . . .
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6/15/18
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When Medicare and Medicaid were created in the 1960s, they received strong support in Congress from both parties. Then, in the 1990s, a bipartisan coalition added the Children’s Health Insurance Program . . .
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1/25/18
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It’s easy to look at the nation’s capital these days and conclude that the place has deserted reality, to put it mildly. While everyone obsesses about tax reform and whether that will be a net gain or loss for taxpayers . . .
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11/30/17
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Even though I’ve always been involved in politics, I don’t come from a family where politics dominated the nightly dinner-table discussions.
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3/23/17
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Petit larceny
LAWRENCE-Between 7:10 and 8:40 p.m. on March 7 at a gym on Mill Street, a man’s personal property was stolen from his locker, officials said.
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3/16/16
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The Keren Eliana Parent Advocacy and Resource Center (PARC), founded in 2000, is part of the Kulanu Academy on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst that has assisted special needs children for the past 14 years.
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By Vanessa Parker
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9/24/14
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