The City of Long Beach has been planning to revitalize and improve the downtown and central business districts for some time, and work began in late spring. To aid in the process, the city has been …
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By Brendan Carpenter
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12/8/23
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There’s an invisible lifeline across Long Island that sustains us all — our aquifer system. These underground reservoirs — the source of every drop of water that flows from our taps . . .
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12/7/23
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The world of politics has never been an oasis of peace and harmony. By its very nature, democracy is a clash of ideas fueled by ambition. It is not an arena for the faint of heart.
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12/7/23
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Like most people, I awoke on Oct. 7 to news of Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel. The barbarism displayed by the Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians was enough to make anybody’s blood boil.
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By Anthony D'Esposito
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12/7/23
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I’ll never forget the last time I saw my stepmother, even though by then she’d already forgotten me. It was last year in the Florida hospice center Helen had lived in . . .
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By Michael Hinman
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12/7/23
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Atlantic Beach village has agreed to pay the Chabad of the Beaches $400,000 over four years to settle a 2022 federal lawsuit.
The Chabad of the Beaches, a Long Beach-based religious organization …
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By Hernesto Galdamez
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12/1/23
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Perhaps we Americans are overly confident in the belief that our constitutional rights, including the First Amendment right to free speech, are inviolate.
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By Chuck Lavine
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11/30/23
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What does it mean to be antisemitic? Can Jews do better in fighting against it? This is a complex issue, and a difficult one. It requires looking outside and inside our community.
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By Shai Beloosesky
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11/30/23
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The older you get, the more you think about the times when things were simple and pleasurable. That especially applies to my years in school, when my only cares were . . .
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11/30/23
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Realizing that I’ve been taking something for granted is never an abstraction. It generally happens by whack and wallop.
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By Robert C. Koehler
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11/30/23
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