President Trump has both a challenge and an opportunity with his search for a new FBI director. The challenge is to find someone who . . .
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5/18/17
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And not a moment too soon. Did you hear it land on our doorsteps? Monday, at 6:29 a.m., spring actually sprang into our lives. No matter the temperature, no matter the down coats in the front closet . . .
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3/23/17
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson finished his trip to Asia by meeting with President Xi Jinping of China in what has been described as a public display of cooperation between the two nations. The leaders had much to discuss . . .
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3/23/17
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Even though I’ve always been involved in politics, I don’t come from a family where politics dominated the nightly dinner-table discussions.
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3/23/17
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Sometimes people ask me what it’s like to write for a weekly newspaper — specifically, what it’s like to write an opinion column. I’ve been fascinated by . . .
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8/17/16
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Thousands of Donald Trump supporters cheered and held up signs as their favorite “politician” took the podium at Grumman Studios in Bethpage for Trump’s first Long Island rally.
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By Stephany Reyes
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4/20/16
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I have a thesis that will be highly unpopular among –– and wildly derided by –– 30 to 40 percent of the liberal left: Sen. Bernie Sanders is out of touch with reality.
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4/20/16
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There are seven months left until the Nov. 8 presidential election. That’s more than 5,000 hours of broadcasting available to the public at a finger’s length, with the potential to be filled with enough crass mud-slinging and campaign boasts to make you lightheaded.
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By Nick Ciccone
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3/24/16
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Last week I returned from my second Burning Man festival, the annual weeklong gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The impromptu city created by 70,000 people camping and RV’ing on the vast, flat former lakebed was a little dizzying the first time, but this year I did some ruminating on what the event is about and why I take part.
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By Micah Danney mdanney@liherald.com
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9/16/15
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Q. We’re in the middle of a construction problem, and hope you can help. Our contractor put wood columns in our house so it was easier to attach the sheetrock, he says.
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By Monte Leeper
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9/2/15
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