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The new SST’s future depends on Kennedy Airport

Here’s a quick note to United Airlines. You know that deal you recently announced with Boom Supersonic that has you placing options to purchase 15 Overture aircraft, the still-to-be-built supersonic transport planes? more

By Ronald J. Rosenberg | 7/29/21

Climate change is here — and it’s uglier than we thought

The New York Times published a number of articles on July 10 on the impact of climate change on our lives today. Collectively, they were frightening . . . more

By Alan Singer | 7/22/21

Remembering the massacre in Tulsa

One hundred years ago, Memorial Day was the start of perhaps the worst anti-Black racist violence in the history of the United States, in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla. more

By Alan Singer | 6/3/21

When technology exposes institutional racism

Zoom and other online video conferencing applications are exposing the underlying racism that infects American society, including in its schools. more

By Alan Singer | 5/20/21

Saying farewell to a president who put Hofstra on the map

I take note of the impending retirement of Dr. Stuart Rabinowitz, the president of Hofstra University. Having been a trustee of the university for almost 30 years, I have come to understand . . . more

5/13/21

Maintaining a teacher’s freedom to teach

It was recently reported that a group of Rockville Centre parents accused a high school social studies teacher of criticizing police during class, and wanted her to be reprimanded. The district superintendent . . . more

By Alan Singer | 5/6/21

John F. Kennedy High School seniors, from left, Danielle Kacaj, Julia Levine, Callie Burns, Tara Fusillo and Jordyn Krinsky were named semifinalists in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search competition last Thursday.

Bellmore-JFK boasts five Regeneron semifinalists

John F. Kennedy High School’s most recent crop of Regeneron Science Talent Search semifinalists was announced on Jan. 7 by the Society for Science. Seniors Callie Burns, Tara Fusillo, Danielle … more

By Alyssa Seidman | 1/12/21

I’m smitten with Smitten and coveting Envy

My go-to source of comfort at this time of year is apples, particularly apples born and bred in New York state. One of the sweetest compensations for the end of summer and the turn toward winter . . . more

11/5/20

Molloy College CAP21 theater students stage "Urinetown" on Saturday and Sunday.

What's happening on Long Island this weekend

Performances/On Stage Million Dollar QuartetThe musical about a recording of an impromptu jam session involving Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash in 1956, Thursday and … more

3/5/20

John F. Kennedy High School Advanced Science Research students Andrew Brinton, second from left, and Katherine St George, second from right, were honored at the Nassau County Legislature for becoming finalists in the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search. They were joined by Kennedy Principal Gerard Owenburg, far left, Legislator Steve Rhoads and ASR teacher Barbi Frank.

Regeneron gala postponed as threat of coronavirus mounts

Forty finalists in The Society for Science & the Public’s 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search were notified this week that the final stage of the national competition, which was scheduled … more

By Alyssa Seidman | 3/5/20

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