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There are big-picture issues that the town of Hempsteand and Nassau County will have to tackle together. Foremost among them is the Lighthouse project, a sweeping proposal to transform 150 acres surrounding the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale from the barren asphalt of a parking lot to a residential and commercial zone.
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1/7/10
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Thanks for caring To the Editor: It was simply overwhelming! That is the only way possible to describe the level of generosity of the volunteers of the Long Beach Waterfront Warriors, the Long Beach …
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1/7/10
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12/31/09
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As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts.
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12/24/09
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I am so not in the mood for an emerald necklace this year. I thought I’d get that out of the way first. In this post-recession interlude, I’m thinking more along the lines of the best things in life are free or at least quite reasonable.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/24/09
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All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth ...” Well, I suppose that wouldn’t be on my Christmas wish, but I know my young son would appreciate some more teeth.
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Al D'Amato
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12/24/09
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DWI crash victims can turn to us To the Editor: “Tis the Season” has an entirely different meaning for victims-survivors of drunk driving-related crashes. Traditionally a time of …
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12/24/09
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Perhaps you heard the ambulances racing through our streets in the wee hours of Dec. 12. Emergency rooms were flooded with people suffering chest pain and abdominal spasms. The volume of cases quickly overwhelmed physicians and nurses who were mystified by the epidemic.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/17/09
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The Nassau County Legislature is on the verge of repealing the controversial energy tax, which adds 2.5 percent to the cost of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, propane and firewood. Most Republican candidates vowed during their election campaigns that they would eliminate this tax if they won.
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12/17/09
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World leaders — and a throng of environmentalists and reporters — descended on Copenhagen last week for the 2009 Climate Conference convened by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what a raucous show it was, with 1,000 black-masked “protesters” getting arrested after hurling bricks through windows and battling police.
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Scott Brinton
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12/17/09
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