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To the Editor: At the recent Hempstead Town Board meeting, I attended to express my opinion on the salary increases they gave themselves. The manner and timing of the increases was disingenuous at best, showing a lack of regard for the poor economy.
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3/3/10
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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Evan Bayh sent shock waves through Washington last week when he announced that he would not run for a third term as Democratic senator from Indiana, citing “brain-dead partisanship” in Congress.
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Al D'Amato
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2/25/10
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In the unwritten political bible, it is said that there’s a time to speak out and a time to remain silent, a time to tear down and a time to build up, a time to stay and a time to go. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is speaking out and tearing down when he should remain silent. And clearly, his departure from the public scene is long overdue.
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Randi Kreiss
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2/25/10
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli recently completed audits of New York’s 733 public school districts and BOCES. The audits were part of a series of legislation following a scandal in the Roslyn School District in which administrators embezzled $11 million.
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2/25/10
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"The name is Spenser, with an ‘s’, like the poet.” That’s how the detective introduced himself. The creation of author Robert B. Parker, Spenser (no first name) is featured in 37 novels, about half of them written by the prolific Cambridge-based writer.
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Randi Kreiss
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2/19/10
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Before President Obama meets with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders at Blair House Feb. 25 to hammer out a bipartisan health reform agreement — or at least to argue over one — I would suggest that he first hold a news conference to reframe the health care debate.
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Scott Brinton
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2/18/10
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For years, the common wisdom has been that American industry is in an irreversible decline. As the reasoning went, our shrinking industrial base would be somehow magically replaced by “service industries” like insurance, finance, consumer retail and a big real estate boom.
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Al D'Amato
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2/18/10
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As Charles Wang and the Lighthouse Development Group tried to prove, silence can be deafening. Wang wanted the Town of Hempstead to give him an answer — yes or no. It appeared that the town carried the keys to his development dreams.
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2/18/10
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The problem with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rules on gays in the military is that the moral underpinnings of the policy are rotten.
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Randi Kreiss
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2/11/10
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