A massive earthquake hits Charlotte, N.C. Mountains of earth collapse schools, crush hospitals and homes. Hundreds and then thousands of bodies fill the morgue, spilling into the surrounding streets.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/21/10
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I imagined the liberal lion, Senator Ted Kennedy, rolling over in his grave at the thought that his old Senate seat could actually go to a Republican.
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Al D'Amato
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1/21/10
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I've covered government at all levels for nearly 17 years, and never during that time have I heard “socialist” and “communist” pop up more in our national political conversation than I have in the past 12 months.
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Scott Brinton
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1/14/10
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On New Year’s Day, I proudly watched the swearing-in of Nassau County’s next leader. Many cheered loudly for Ed Mangano, a candidate who stood for change and overcame great odds to become our new county executive.
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Al D'Amato
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1/14/10
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No American could possibly take much comfort in the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack by a wannabe airplane suicide bomber. The good news was that the attacker was even more incompetent than our security services. His bomb misfired. Brave passengers wrestled him to the ground.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/14/10
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Think about what you know now, January 2010, that you didn’t know a year ago. Standing on the threshold of the new year, we have a moment to look back at how those 365 days changed us, as individuals and as a people and as paid-up members of the human race.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/7/10
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Like many of you, I had a Christmas Day that wasn’t completely filled with merry joy and ho-ho-ho. I got flipping mad when I learned of the botched terror attempt on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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Al D'Amato
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1/7/10
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My colleagues Randi Kreiss and Alfonse D’Amato each published year-end lists two weeks ago, with Randi offering a holiday shopping list and Alfonse, a list of all the political issues he’d like resolved. I thought, how’d I miss the memo? Where was my year-end list? I must have been too busy looking back on the decade that was.
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Scott Brinton
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1/7/10
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What are the editorial pages about?
Who writes editorials?
How do letters and guest columns get published?
These graphics offer some answers.
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12/31/09
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In a recent Time magazine column, Andy Serwer labeled the 2000s the “decade from hell.” I’d be more inclined to call it the decade from purgatory.
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Scott Brinton
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12/24/09
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