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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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In two weeks, the New York State Legislature must adopt a budget and fill a $9 billion gap. As our legislators continue to face a fiscal crisis of historic proportions, wrangling with creative math, they are still failing to propose budget cuts substantial enough to close the budget gap.
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Al D'Amato
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3/18/10
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How strange. On April 18, 1955, he was alive. He had mass. He lay in a bed, frantically plotting equations with pencil and paper in neat handwriting, attempting to piece together a unified theory to explain the connections between all forms of matter in the universe. And then he was dead, killed by an aneurysm that had festered for years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/11/10
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On March 1, federal unemployment benefits for over a million Americans expired, despite numerous attempts by Congress to extend them.
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Al D'Amato
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3/11/10
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Please don’t tell me we are what we eat, because that would mean a guy I read about is actually a USB storage device. He was in the process of using a flash drive to steal information from an ATM when the cops broke in. He swallowed the device and had to give it up the hard way at the insistence of police.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/11/10
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The state of New York’s economy is precarious. Battered by a recession that saw Wall Street implode — and tens of thousands of workers in the finance industry laid off — the Empire State has been hurting since mid-2008, if not before.
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3/10/10
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The New York Times nailed Gov. David Paterson last week in an alleged abuse-of-power case, so much so that he was forced to drop out of the 2010 gubernatorial race. Yet there was Paterson, in typical fashion, denying culpability.
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Scott Brinton
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3/10/10
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I don’t know how they do it, but the prognosticators at the Farmers’ Almanac were right again this winter. Back in August, they predicted a winter of “numbing cold” and “record-breaking” snow.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/10
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Readers, we finally have some clarification on the prosecutions of detainees housed at Guantanamo Bay. As it turns out, as many as nine lawyers who work at the Department of Justice specialize in terrorism and related issues and have represented or advocated on behalf of Guantanamo prisoners. Now these very same lawyers, who were appointed to the Justice Department by President Obama, are in charge of deciding whether the Guantanamo prisoners should be freed.
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Al D'Amato
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3/10/10
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To the Editor: “Who can blame Bayh for quitting” former Senator D’Amato asks in his recent opinion piece (“The rewards of being in the elite class,” Feb. 25-March 3). Well, to be honest, I can, and I would imagine most of the country’s unemployed can as well. I own a small company and we have dropped from 15 to nine employees over the past two years.
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3/3/10
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