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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One half of the Five Towns Community Center gymnasium was transformed into a faux campground with Cub Scout Pack 20 as the intimate group of eight scouts learned how to pitch a tent during the weekly meeting on Feb. 17.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/24/22
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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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Updated June 17 at 7:15 a.m.
In what is considered the most unprecedented school election; voting by mail-in ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Lawrence School District budget was approved by a count of 3,906 to 1,461, after hand counting the ballots began at 5 p.m., on Tuesday.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/17/20
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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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With much less people purchasing merchandise in the brick and mortar stores as online shopping rises in popularity, more people are relying on delivery services and the United States Postal Service …
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By Tyler Marko
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12/20/18
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After years of receiving their mail between noon and 1 p.m., some Woodmere residents have had to adjust since the Long Island District of the U.S. Postal Service altered their route in late July, causing deliveries to be much later in the day.
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By Tyler Marko
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8/31/17
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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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