Thursday, October 1, 2026
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The way to reverse higher taxes is to identify the primary causes of the dramatic rise in spending over past decades and to promote legislation to reverse course. Our center’s white paper highlights the “dirty dozen” laws contributing to the affordability crisis.
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By Steve Levy
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7/24/26
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Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I remember a year-long excitement that captured the imagination of the entire country. The commercials on TV, the products in the stores, sports teams — even our local grocer was in on the action. And it wasn’t just the tall ships in the harbor or the red, white and blue decorations that adorned every inch of our neighborhoods. There was genuine excitement about our country and its story.
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By Jack Martins
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7/24/26
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Recently we have seen a necessary, intentional pushback against this saturation. Every moment of a child’s learning life does not require a digital solution, and schools are finally confronting the part we play in facilitating the tech takeover, especially in the lives of early learners.
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By Monique Darrisaw-Akil
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7/24/26
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In Valley Stream UFSD 13, our districtwide Technology Committee will be exploring this important issue, and considering how we can balance the best uses of instructional technology with age- and developmentally appropriate device use at school.
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By Judith A. LaRocca
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7/24/26
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You might imagine that becoming a despot requires tanks, secret police and a balcony from which to wave at enormous, inflamed crowds. You might believe you need a special degree or a fake Nobel Prize. But the road to becoming a despot is surprisingly well-traveled.
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By Michael Blitz
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7/24/26
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Competency-based learning isn’t new territory for our schools. In many respects, it’s already woven into our strongest instructional practices. Our 11th-graders take on a Performance-Based Assessment Task, an assignment that pushes them to build and deliver a coherent argument while adjusting tone, structure and evidence to fit their audience and purpose.
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By Daniel Rehman
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7/24/26
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Long Islanders pay among the highest utility rates in the nation, and the cost of power has risen 20 percent since January. This has pushed the cost of living even higher, and made it more difficult to get by. Inconsistent and partisan energy policies, repeated price hikes by utility companies and cuts to assistance programs have sent utility bills soaring. I’m doing everything I can in Congress to lower these costs.
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By Laura A. Gillen
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7/24/26
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Student debt makes the American dream unattainable, or, at best, greatly deferred. Gallup reports that 71 percent of student borrowers delay major life milestones — homeownership, parenthood, starting a business, retirement — because of their debt. On Long Island, those delays have a geographic consequence: 22 percent of residents between ages 25 and 34 have left the region over the past eight years. Student debt and housing costs are inseparable drivers of that exodus.
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By John Scully & Samantha Park
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7/24/26
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Long Island has no alternative water supply. We rely entirely on a vast but finite underground aquifer system that must meet all residential, commercial and public needs. That makes water conservation not just a seasonal suggestion, but a long-term necessity.
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By Brendan Warner
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7/24/26
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Every day, hospitals across Long Island and around the country rely on a steady supply of donated blood to care for trauma victims, cancer patients, premature infants, people undergoing surgery and those living with chronic blood disorders. When blood is needed, there is no time to wait for donors to come forward. The blood must already be on the shelves.
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7/24/26
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