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New York’s Family Leave Act could use tweaking
New York’s Family Leave Act will take effect Jan. 1, giving employees one of the strongest family leave laws in the nation. That’s a good thing. All New Yorkers who work 20 hours or more . . . more
'Growing Up in a Fishing Family' lecture
Robert Doxsee, Jr. will present his lecture “Growing Up in a Fishing Family” on June 12 at 7 p.m. at the Lynbrook Public Library. more
Paying too much attention to the first 100 days
For decades now, at the beginning of every presidency, the media and even the president himself have become obsessed with . . . more
Watching soldiers fall from the sky
I lay on my back in the tiny concrete courtyard of my childhood home in El Salvador, in the cool shade cast by long tin panels that extended from the roof. A few times a week at around noon . . . more
Nearby things to do this week
The Lynbrook Public Library will host Bill Bleyer, the co-author of the book “Long Island and the Civil War: Queens, Nassau and Suffolk During the War Between the States” on March 13 at 7 p.m. more
We need Black History Month now more than ever
We were supposed to have been healed by now, right? With the first African-American president finally elected not once but twice, the nation was supposed to be . . . more
Temple Avodah seeks ‘Seeds of Hope and Peace’
Roughly midway through a presentation at Temple Avodah in Oceanside on Dec. 19, a man sitting in the audience raised his hand and asked, “What exactly are you asking us to do here?” The … more
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O’siders step back to the Civil War at Old Bethpage
They don their uniforms, take up their muskets and head off to the famous battles of the War Between the States. They are Civil War reenactors, a passion that takes men from 2016 and sends them back … more
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When closed minds creak open, light floods in
Remember Pat from “Saturday Night Live”? In 1990, when the character debuted, I laughed along with everyone else . . . more
Make Red Cross’s month: get involved
March is the month we recognize the American Red Cross for all it does, as we have since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it so in 1943: “I request that during that month . . . more
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