The war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections.
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By Alan Singer
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12/23/21
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Last Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul reaffirmed a state mandate requiring mask use in public spaces such as stores and restaurants
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12/16/21
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The Herald has editorialized a half-dozen times on Long Island’s desperate need to restore the federal income-tax deduction for state and local taxes . . .
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12/9/21
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"The Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad . . .
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11/25/21
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New York is headed in the wrong direction on solar power.
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11/18/21
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Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park, named for Cedarhurst’s longtime mayor who was a military veteran, was the site of the annual Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post 339 Veterans Day ceremony …
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By Lisa Margaria
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11/12/21
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Administrators, students and teachers from The Brandeis School in Lawrence lined up outside the Harry Laufer Educational Campus on Frost Lane for the school’s first-ever Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/11/21
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The photograph and Facebook post of a volunteer from Chaverim of the Five Towns and Rockaway — an emergency roadside-assistance nonprofit — who stopped to change a motorist’s flat tire last month went viral, with more than 2,200 likes and nearly 1,000 shares on the social media platform.
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By Lisa Margaria
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9/23/21
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After a harrowing 18 days in Afghanistan last month, a woman from Westchester County, traveling with two of her three children, returned safely to the U.S., after an experience that could have been a plotline for a Hollywood movie.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/1/21
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New York’s new governor, Kathy Hochul, made it clear in the days leading up to her ascension to the state’s highest office that she would like to see a statewide mask mandate for schoolchildren and their teachers. Thank you, Governor.
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8/26/21
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