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Texting and Driving FAQs
Jun 14, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
Texting and Driving Is the Most Alarming Form of Distracted Driving Texting and driving includes reading text messages, emails or online material or writing or composing messages on a mobile device...
Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
Jun 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 138 138 recommendations | email to a friend
How Would Your Small Business Fare with the IRS for Worker Status? Did you know that misclassifying workers is one of the top problems that small business owners face? Many small businesses hire in...
Memorial Day Opinion by Vietnam Veteran
May 27, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
MAY 27, 2018 PRESS RELEASE STATEMENT BY VIETNAM VETERAN, JIM TURANO I am ashamed of our current President. He surrounded himself before and after the election with very questionable people. Many ha...
Do Your Work Policies Discriminate Between Men and Women?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 587 587 recommendations | email to a friend
One Set of Rules for Men and a Different Set of Rules for Women Having company policies that discriminate between men and women can be lethal for an employer in today’s work environment. If you hav...
Social Media: Should You Use Social Media in an Internal Investigation?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 667 667 recommendations | email to a friend
Investigating Employees Through Their Social Media Accounts Social media can provide a lot of information about people’s lives. Why would an employer want to know what an employee is doing through ...

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Moving memorial
Dear Editor, On behalf of myself and my whole family, I want to thank you for the coverage you gave to American Legion Post 118's Memorial Day ceremony, particularly their honoring my brother, Harr...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tell the truth
Dear Editor, For those disenfranchised and left behind by both political parties over two decades, Donald Trump provided the hope to level the playground. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats had no a...
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Get screened
Dear Editor, Colon cancer screening is now being recommended for age 45 instead of 50. The American Cancer Society has put this recommendation out because of rising cases of colon cancer for people...
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The last Munchkin
Dear Editor, Jerry Maren, who portrayed the Lollipop Kid in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz," was the last surviving Munchkin of the 125 little people who were in the film. I had the pleasure of...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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DeVos devoid
Dear Editor, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos should resign immediately. She has committed a gross offense against the Republicans’ twelfth commandment: “Thou shall not criticize America abroad.”...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where's the flag?
Dear Editor, The sky was a little overcast, but the weather held up for the beginning of this year’s Maspeth Memorial Day Parade. Toward the end there were a few sprinkles, but that did not seem to...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where's our ramp?
Dear Editor, Councilman Rory Lancman promised Kew Gardens Hills voters that a wheelchair ramp will be installed at the entrance to P.S. 164's gym in time for the September primaries. This would res...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plain obstruction
Dear Editor, It is obvious to many of us that a conspiracy to commit a widespread obstruction of justice to protect and keep a president from being indicted or impeached is being done in open sight...
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Quoting collusion
Dear Editor, One old quotation and an old English proverb come to my mind when I watch what is going on with the investigation of the so-called "Russian collusion.” The old quotation belongs to Con...
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Post v. 'Putz'
Dear Editor, Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing at the New York Post? Never one to miss an opportunity for red-baiting, the Post portrays Mayor Bill de Blasio’s disdain for a news...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Knapp wrong
Dear Editor, Thomas Knapp's column on May 17 regarding the United States pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal was the most asinine opinion piece I've ever read. Astoundingly, it is Knapp's opinion ...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 63 63 recommendations | email to a friend
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Assault on law
Dear Editor, This past Sunday, the president ordered an investigation into the FBI’s use of an informant to investigate his campaign. While seemingly innocuous this is a very dangerous assault on t...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 69 69 recommendations | email to a friend
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Injecting some sanity
Dear Editor, Regarding Melissa Goldin's May 10th article "Mayor backs injection sites," de Blasio's safe injection sites program for drug addicts is insane and illegal. What mind-altering substance...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 65 65 recommendations | email to a friend
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Don't legalize it
Dear Editor, Marijuana possessed and smoked in public for recreation is neither safe for driving nor for second-hand smoke exposure for nonusers. Marijuana impairs a person's ability to drive an au...
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Drugs allowed
Dear Editor, Now that the district attorneys of Manhattan and the Bronx, many of the politicians, and even the Daily News think that smoking marijuana is no big thing and realizing the money that t...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 recommendations | email to a friend
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