Once upon a time, politics was a sport that the outside world watched with great intensity. It attracted the rich and the poor. It attracted dreamers and schemers.
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3/8/12
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It’s red carpet time. Hollywood is having a party and everyone is invited. Academy Awards night, Feb. 26, is a great occasion to gather up your pals for an evening of fun.
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2/22/12
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Valley Stream Trustees John Tufarelli and Virginia Clavin-Higgins are all but guaranteed victory in this year’s village election, as they will be the only two candidates appearing on the March 20 ballot.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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2/15/12
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They’re called “pharm parties,” short for pharmacy parties. A group of teenagers –– perhaps as young as 12 and 13 years old –– methodically swipe opiate-based pain killers like Oxycontin and Oxycodone from their parents’ and grandparents’ medicine cabinets, dump the pills into a big bowl when no adult is looking and take turns rolling a die. Whatever number comes up, that’s the number of pills a teen must ingest.
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By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com
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1/12/12
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Dozens of families came out to Sylvan Place last Saturday evening to check out the elaborate lighting displays, meet Santa and enjoy the holidays with fellow Valley Streamers.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/22/11
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It was a holiday happening to remember at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 1790 building on Merrick Road on Sunday.
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By Clarissa Hamlin
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12/7/11
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Ican’t help wishing it was November 2012, when the political world around us promises to be so much different than it is now. Just think: If the national elections were over, we would know a lot more about the future of our country and which party will control our lives.
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11/25/11
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Have you heard the joke going around?
“How can Obama ever get re-elected?”
“He can kill bin Laden again.”
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Randi Kreiss
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8/25/11
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We should have seen the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating coming –– last year. On July 13, 2010, Dagong International, a Chinese credit rating agency, lowered the U.S.’s rating from AAA to AA. Few in the West noticed. Some laughed. Clearly, though, Dagong’s calculators saw what we could not.
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Scott Brinton
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8/12/11
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While the rest of the world sits back and watches the GOP presidential candidates battling it out, Sarah Palin was traveling, visiting New York and Donald Trump and then heading to New Jersey and, of all places — surprise, surprise — ending up in New Hampshire.
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6/10/11
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