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Q: While working at a construction site, a slab of granite fell from a forklift onto my foot. Currently, I am receiving workers’ compensation benefits for my injuries but do I also …
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By Michael Serpico
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7/22/15
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Bumper-sticker slogans and politics have always been inseparable, like peanut butter and jelly. Throughout the history of campaigning, politicians have employed succinct, often widely known but ambiguous sayings to seek the approval of prospective voters. But these slogans’ recent transition from catchy phrases to foundational theories of governmental policy has had negative consequences, particularly in New York.
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By Brian Curran
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3/1/24
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We have seen how a global pandemic has made local housing prices surge to levels that make them unaffordable for many disheartened house hunters on Long Island. While the housing market is starting to return to pre-Covid levels, an average price is still out of reach for most young adults starting their careers, single-income households, and older residents looking to downsize. Long Island has also been plagued by a lack of home inventory, which for many has turned the American dream into a dream deferred.
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By Taylor Darling
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3/15/24
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Q: I own a plot and a half of land in Nassau County. The property taxes have become a problem for me and I want to sell the extra 1/2 plot but I'm told that the land …
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By Abraham Krieger
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8/13/14
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In June, a proposal to strengthen Long Island’s waterways, starting with Mill River in Rockville Centre, was awarded millions of dollars in federal funding.
The project, called Living with the …
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By Alex Costello
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10/30/14
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They called it a “hidden tax” and even “highway robbery.” That’s how Long Island-based lawmakers described the impending congestion pricing system planned for New York …
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By Charles Shaw
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12/22/23
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Ever since they met in sixth-grade French class, Wantagh High School seniors Lee and Ibrahim have been friends. Over the years they have shared a number of classes, and both said that their friendship developed naturally because of how often they saw each other.
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By Charles Shaw
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2/16/24
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If a poll were to be taken, I would have to be the last person on this planet who thinks that government is a perfect institution. I respect the FBI and the CIA, and I even trust the IRS. As a senior citizen, I have always considered Medicare one of the finest agencies we have, but some new facts have emerged that have convinced me that it is a sloppy and careless government behemoth.
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By Jerry Kremer
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3/1/24
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We had never seen a tempest the likes of Hurricane Sandy before, one so mammoth, so fierce, that it wiped out whole shoreline communities while leaving much of the rest of the Northeast in tatters, …
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10/30/14
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Architects, engineers and builders are frantically rebuilding and elevating Hurricane Sandy-ravaged homes across Nassau County’s South Shore these days, and they are expected to get even busier …
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry and Scott Brinton
oceaneditor@liherald.com or sbrinton@liherald.com
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4/29/15
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