When I was elected to the Nassau County Legislature last fall, I pledged to make it my mission to champion the rights of people with disabilities on the local, state and federal levels to the best of my ability.
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By Michael Giangregorio
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3/8/24
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Reading the Newsday obituary about the passing of a beloved member of the Lattingtown community who was born with a developmental disability got me thinking about how far we’ve come in terms of helping people with disabilities, yet at the same time how much more we must do.
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By Charles Lavine
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1/12/24
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In the realm of education, have you ever found yourself in a classroom where the teacher discussed a topic that left you utterly bewildered? I certainly have.
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By Taylor Darling
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10/19/23
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My friend Judy Heumann died March 4 in Washington, D.C., where she lived. Her name might not mean too much to many of you. But to thousands, and I do mean thousands, of people who struggle every day with physical disabilities, her name is gold.
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By James Bernstein
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3/23/23
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The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour for 14 years — a time period during which mere adjustments for inflation would now have it over $10.
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1/12/23
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hen George Catalanotto, a distinguished U.S. Army veteran who served for 13 months in Vietnam as a combat engineer, enters a classroom for one of his teaching presentations about veterans, he …
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By Juan Lasso
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12/29/22
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The Federal Aviation Administration has just closed the comment period for the flying public regarding the size of airline passenger seats. They were focused on the wrong seats.
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By Ronald J. Rosenberg
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11/10/22
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The Oyster Bay Rail Road Museum has unveiled a new internship program in partnership with the Center for Developmental Disabilities in Woodbury. Known as the Vocational Internship Program, it has …
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By Will Sheeline
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6/3/22
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In the waning weeks of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln realized that sooner rather than later, the tens of thousands of Union soldiers returning from the battlefield would be forced to fend for themselves.
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4/21/22
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After watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard.
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By Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez
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11/25/21
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