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Valuing our women leaders doesn’t end in March
The increasing number of women in positions of leadership has been vital to changing our national narrative about what is fair and equitable. I have known great female leaders throughout my career . . . more
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Remembering Judy Heumann
My friend Judy Heumann died March 4 in Washington, D.C., where she lived. Her name might not mean too much to many of you. But to thousands, and I do mean thousands, of people who struggle every day with physical disabilities, her name is gold. more
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What the George Santos discourse is missing
Many of us in Nassau County, myself included, are disgusted by the lies that Republican congressman George Santos has been spewing on a near-daily basis. Like many others, I would like to see Santos resign. But . . . more
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The deadline for transportation requests for District 30 children to non-public schools is due on April 1.
V.S. 30 alerts parents of transportation deadline
In accordance with New York State Education Law and Board of Education policy,  all requests to transport children in Valley Stream District 30 to private and parochial schools for the following … more
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The governor’s misguided affordable-housing plan
It appears that Gov. Kathy Hochul has made a conscious decision to declare political war on Long Island. more
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Parents are once again paying for their children’s school meals with the end of the federal universal school meal program, but inflation has food advocates worried they can’t afford it.
Parents are paying up on school meals again. Here's why food advocates are worried they can’t afford it.
Parents of students in Valley Stream — as well as those across the country — are once again forced to pick up the tab for their children’s meals in school after lawmakers in … more
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It’s time for our energy to go public
Most Long Islanders are rightly confused about who is responsible for our ever-rising electricity bills. We get our electric bills from PSEG, yet there's also the Long Island Power Authority, as well as National Grid. Who does what? more
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Donating blood benefits others — and you
January is National Blood Donor Month, first established a half-century ago. And it’s a good thing that declaration stuck, because blood is often in short supply, as it is today . . . more
We don’t need Albany’s concrete fist in Nassau
New York has lost Oyster Bay. Well, more accurately, the state has lost 300,000 people — the town’s population — in just a single year. more
When ‘it’s just government’ isn’t an excuse
Many people woke up a couple of days before Christmas to heavy rain and wind that flooded residential streets and primary roadways, and may have left them wondering, “Where are all those Sandy flood-mitigation projects we were promised?” more
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