In jumping into the teacher-tenure debate, I know I’m stirring up a hornet’s nest. But who doesn’t like a little danger now and again? So here goes.
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7/16/14
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Q: We planned on buying a home in a particular school district, but the sale fell through and we are still in our old home. Our children have already started school in …
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By Lynn M. Brown
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11/11/13
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There are all kinds of words that come to mind when we talk about our federal government and how it functions.
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6/6/13
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On May 13, the village is set to decide whether to give Village Car Service a license to operate here.
This will actually be Village Car Service’s appeal. In January, the company’s …
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5/9/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform commenced hearings to examine what went wrong when the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three others were killed in Benghazi last month.
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10/18/12
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Q. I went to a meeting of my Village Board of Trustees and wanted to speak on a particular item, but they wouldn’t let me. Don’t I have a right to speak at a public meeting?A. The right …
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By A. Thomas Levin
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9/28/12
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Long Island Bus riders and workers said they got angry when they were forced to wait more than two hours on Monday for a public hearing on a contract with Veolia Transportation, Inc. that would privatize Nassau’s public bus system. The crowd that convened at the county Legislature building catcalled at legislators to get under way and booed at County Executive Edward Mangano, a Republican from Bethpage, when he addressed the Legislature.
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Deirdre Krasula
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12/7/11
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Modern technology has virtually obliterated all resistance associated with wearing a hearing aid. Whether the concern is vanity, comfort, ambient noise or simple reluctance to let others know you have a hearing issue, devices today address it all.
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Teri Ann Loeser
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6/2/11
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In a public hearing that turned raucous at times on Monday, the Nassau County Legislature heard testimony from a long line of speakers who charged that a Republican plan to redraw the lines of the county’s 19 legislative districts would, if passed, dilute the minority vote while shifting roughly half of the county’s population –– 576,000 people in all –– into new districts.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/9/11
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