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President Obama appointed a second Presidential Emergency Board on March 21 in resolving the MTA's longstanding contract impasse with LIRR union workers, whose action to strike could now be pushed back to July.
Obama appoints second board for LIRR dispute
President Barack Obama has appointed a second board of mediators to intervene in a longstanding contract impasse between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its Long Island Rail Road … more
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We have the right to call the president names. Should we?
We Americans are pretty lucky people. Whether you live in Bellmore, Brooklyn or Boston, you enjoy many rights and privileges that few other people on this planet can boast about. more
Obama hasn't earned a second term
Nassau County is no longer home to the New York Islanders, and the Nassau Coliseum has lost its biggest tenant. more
An open mind to Romney, but he didn't measure up
The 2012 election is one of the strangest ones in my lifetime. more
Presidential candidates past and present
There are advantages and disadvantages to being a senior citizen. more
About 50 people gathered at the Obama call center on Brooklyn Avenue in Valley Stream to watch the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on Oct. 3.
Local Dems watch candidates square off
While tens of millions of Americans gathered around their living room televisions to watch the first debate between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, a group of about 50 people took a chair in the Town of Hempstead Democratic Committee headquarters in Valley Stream. more
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Bestselling author and Ivy League scholar Dr. Cornel West was one in a long line of speakers from both sides of the political aisle who have appeared at Hofstra University leading up to the second presidential debate, to be held on the Hempstead campus on Oct. 16.
Hofstra preps for debate with speaker series
A reporter from the student-run Hofstra Chronicle newspaper stood to ask a question of Dr. Cornel West, the intellectual provocateur, New York Times bestselling author, and Ivy League African-American studies and philosophy professor best known for his defense of America’s poor. The young woman said she had recently conducted an informal survey in which 6 of 10 Hofstra students said they did not believe poverty was a relevant issue for them as college students this election season. more
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When you need a timeout, what do you do?
Sometimes you just have to get off the grid. Deadlines loom, tension builds, phones keep ringing and, if you’re in an office, the stuff in the inbox keeps piling higher and higher. more
Our first black, foreign-born, gay president
Barack Obama is, of course, our first African-American president. According to the birthers, he is also our first foreign-born president. more
How Barack Obama is channeling Ronald Reagan
I ran across an amusingly insightful postcard on my Facebook news feed last week. It featured a quadrangle with head shots of the four remaining contenders for the Republican presidential nomination –– Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. Below it, the caption read, “The Committee to Re-elect Barack Obama.” more
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