I implore readers to watch the new six-hour, three-part series on PBS, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.
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9/29/22
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"The pandemic is over.” With those words last weekend, President Biden declared . . .
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9/22/22
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Most New Yorkers want the same thing: a safe, affordable place to raise a family, one where our children can play outside without worry.
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By Christopher Carini
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2/3/22
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I hate to even appear to disagree with the pope, but not everyone wants to have children these days.
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2/3/22
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The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America Lodge 2245 held a celebratory dinner on Sept. 26 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Elmont-Franklin Square lodge.
The dinner, said lodge President Andrew Monteleon, was held for “people who believe in the lodge” and its mission to bolster Italian-American pride and serve community members.
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By Robert Traverso
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9/30/21
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Birds have fascinated me since I was a boy growing up in Yaphank, in Suffolk County, in the 1970s. My parents spread birdfeed on our slate-covered cement patio in winter . . .
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7/1/21
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Recalling the events of 9/11 to children who were unborn at the time of the terrorist attacks, memories resurfaced of her elders recalling to her the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
“We try to relate to the kids that history is a moving thing, and that it means something special to each one of us,” said Kathy Musgraves, advisor to the Franklin Square and Munson Explorer Post 710 of the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department.
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By Robert Traverso
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6/18/21
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America has been fertile ground for conspiracy theories. Some social scientists say that the conspiracy world began to flourish with the Kennedy assassination in 1963.
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3/11/21
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If time is really relative and there are time travelers out there from the future thinking about where to visit, do not, I repeat, do not go back to 2020.
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2/4/21
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