As expected, hundreds of students from across Nassau County took part in Wednesday’s planned National School Walkout to remember the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School a month ago and to call for stricter gun controls, according to student activists and educators.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/14/18
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As expected, hundreds of students from across Nassau County took part in Wednesday’s planned National School Walkout to remember the 17 victims of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School a month ago and to call for stricter gun controls, according to student activists and educators.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/13/18
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When acclaimed poet and memoirist Maya Angelou described the makings of a great woman in her 1995 poem “Phenomenal Woman,” she wrote of a female spirit that . . .
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3/2/18
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The South Shore Women’s Caucus held a moment of silence for the 17 children killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., at the beginning of their Feb. 21 meeting at the Merrick Golf Club Clubhouse.
“We cannot sit back and do nothing about this,” Claudia Borecky, caucus chairwoman, said. “We can’t let . . . [another] mother’s child die.”
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By Alexandra Ramey
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3/1/18
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An estimated 200,000 men, women and children took to the streets of Manhattan for the second Women’s March, held on the first anniversary of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen, Melissa Koenig and Nakeem Grant
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1/21/18
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People like to think the best of others, including elected and appointed officials at all levels, from your local village to the high hills of Albany or D.C. Our confidence is almost always affirmed, because most local public servants are . . .
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9/22/17
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What Women Want, a female-oriented networking organization with 20 chapters across the country, will be holding its first national conference, Spirit of Women, from Oct. 7-8 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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9/14/17
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Over the past several decades, women have made tremendous strides in the workforce. Working mothers are now the single or primary source of income in 40 percent of . . .
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4/20/17
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The League of Women Voters of East Nassau's next meeting, will take place on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Levittown Public Library, 1 Bluegrass Lane, Levittown. The program is being co-sponsored by the library.
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4/12/17
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Nassau County residents coalesced along Old Country Road in Carle Place in honor of International Women’s Day, known this year as A Day Without Women, on March 8.
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By Brian Stieglitz
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3/17/17
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