The June 6 Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education meeting was an evening for awards and accolades.
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By Scott Brinton
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6/13/12
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Barack Obama is, of course, our first African-American president. According to the birthers, he is also our first foreign-born president.
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5/24/12
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In case you haven’t been paying attention, something big has been stolen right out from under our noses.
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5/17/12
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In a surprise turnabout, the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was Mitt Romney. Or at least he should have been.
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4/26/12
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Time does go by quickly. Our children grow up and finish college in the blink of an eye. Our time at work passes just as rapidly, and before we know it, we’re talking about retirement.
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4/19/12
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Feeling threatened by the Supreme Court’s diligent and persistent questioning of the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), President Obama referred to the court as an “unelected group of people.”
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4/12/12
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Walter Mintz, a longtime Merrick Library trustee who played an instrumental role in development of the new library on Merrick Avenue, has died, library officials are reporting.
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3/21/12
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Last week I woke up with the weight of the world on my shoulders. I soon realized that it was the weight of Big Brother government, and I never realized it would get so heavy.
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2/16/12
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Last Tuesday, President Obama delivered his third and perhaps final State of the Union address. Given that we’re in an election year, it was understandably more of a stump speech than a major policy address.
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2/2/12
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Can recess appointments be legal when Congress isn’t in session?
Conveniently, while Congress was enjoying its holiday recess, President Obama was hard at work.
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1/12/12
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