We offer sincere congratulations to former Vice President Joe Biden for winning the presidency last week . . .
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11/12/20
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My soul is aching. As the Covid-19 death toll surpassed 200,000 last week, we mourned Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of America’s greatest daughters — an incredible mind with a voracious appetite for learning . . .
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10/1/20
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U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice and Rep. Tom Suozzi on Wednesday called on Republican senators to work with the Democratically led House of Representatives to pass another round of economic stimulus, only …
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By Scott Brinton
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7/29/20
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I was asked recently why university presidents aren’t speaking out about the state of affairs in our country. Of course, the issue of the moment is the lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic . . .
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By Robert A. Scott
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5/8/20
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As we suffer through pandemic-mandated home confinement, the media becomes more and more important to us each day. We follow it for information, for comfort, for life-saving advice and for ways to keep us from having nervous breakdowns.
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5/1/20
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Governor Cuomo, speaking deliberately during his daily briefing Tuesday, responded to President Trump’s assertion that he has “total authority” over reopening of the economy, which …
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By Scott Brinton
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4/14/20
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Repeating its opposition to a Raymour & Flanigan warehouse receiving a 10-year PILOT plan from the Town of Hempstead Industrial Development Agency, the Lawrence School District Board of Education voted on Feb. 3 to oppose the 20-year plan requested by JFK Logistics Center LLC.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/20/20
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By the time you read this, the impeachment trial of President Trump will be well on the way to completion. Absent a miracle — perhaps the leaking of John Bolton’s manuscript as we went to press? — the Republican-controlled Senate will have . . .
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1/31/20
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Beginning the 2021-2021 school year before Labor Day and having a two-week holiday break for Christmas and New Year’s garnered mixed reaction from a portion of the Hewlett-Woodmere School District community, when the proposed school calendar was unveiled earlier in January.
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By Matthew Ferremi
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1/30/20
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And so it began — the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump opened on Tuesday. If ever there were a Shakespearean moment in American political history, this would be it.
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1/24/20
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