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Being Italian American Is In The DNA Of My Being And Of My Work… An Interview With Playwright And Director Charles Messina
Oct 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 76 76 recommendations | email to a friend
  Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena (Courtesy L'Idea Magazine NY) Charles Messina Charles Messina  is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Born in Greenwich Village, of Italian-Ame...
New Medical Fee Schedule for New York Workers’ Compensation Claims
Oct 09, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 73 73 recommendations | email to a friend
Worker’s Compensation Board Proposes New Medical Fee Schedule Board Seeks Comments before Finalizing Fee Schedule Changes Queens |NYC| Brooklyn |Bronx Workers’ Compensation Lawyers If you’ve been i...
Bedsores Due to Nursing Home Neglect – Frequently Asked Questions
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What Systems Should Hospital Staff Follow to Monitor Medical Conditions? Monitoring a medical condition in a patient requires following set medical standards and guidelines that have been establish...
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: EMPLOYER COMPLIANCE WITH NEW SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWS COMMENCES ON OCTOBER 9, 2018
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A BRIEF BY COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO COMPLY WITH THE NEWLY ENACTED NEW YORK STATE AND NEW YORK CITY SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING LAWS Author:   CHRISTOPHER L. VAN DE WATER, E...
Paycheck Deductions: What Is Legal in New York?
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Understanding NY Laws about Paycheck Deductions Laws vary from state to state regarding deducting for loans or legitimate business losses from an employee’s paycheck. New York has very strict labor...

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False facts
Dear Editor, As a constituent of Councilman Rory Lancman, I was shocked by his comments during a meeting held by the Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association over the future of Rikers Island. During a h...
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Winning coverage
Dear Editor, Game, set, match to the coverage of the 2018 US Open in the pages of the Ledger/Star Newspaper Group. From pre-event highlighting of the pilot program featuring nightly tours of Downto...
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Cuomo's toll
Dear Editor, Now that the second span will open, motorists and taxpayers have more reason to be concerned regarding how Governor Andrew Cuomo will find several billion dollars to pay for constructi...
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Notable omission
Dear Editor: Damien Chazelle's movie "First Man" is the story of the moon landing. A number of people who have viewed the film have noted that there is no moonshot scene that specifically reenacts ...
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Barack's back
Dear Editor, How wonderful to see Barack Obama speak the other day. Such class, such dignity, such command of the English language. Such a clear, intelligent grasp of the issues facing American cit...
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Bridge karma
Dear Editor, I have been reading about the fiasco surrounding the opening of the new Mario M. Cuomo bridge, the bridge that Governor Andrew Cuomo named for his father without asking his constituent...
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Lights on
Dear Editor, Can anybody explain why almost all the streetlights in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and along the Passarelle pedestrian overpass from the subway station to the USTA National Tennis Cen...
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Pope has to go
Dear Editor, The worsening scandal involving priests that abused children over decades, as well as allegations that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused young seminarians and priests and tha...
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Phone-y drivers
Dear Editor, According to a report by Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which offers an app to motorists to track their road habits, 50 percent of New York drivers speed while on their cell phones. I fi...
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Vote Teachout for AG
Dear Editor, The powers that be in the Democratic Party may not want to talk about the scandals in Albany, but it should be clear to voters headed for the primary polls on Sept. 13 that New York ne...
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Undocumented?
Dear Editor, Stop calling illegal aliens "undocumented immigrants" because they often have documents that are bogus. Two tragic incidents underscore this point. A purported MS-13 member with a fake...
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Trump's last stand?
Dear Editor, With all of the latest news regarding Paul Manafort and Michael Coen, President Donald Trump might not finish out his first term in office. It seems that all of the evidence is pointin...
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Honoring Junior
Dear Editor, I would like to applaud the NYPD for honoring a teen at a graduation ceremony on August 22. Lesandro Guzman-Feliz was murdered in a case of mistaken identity by members of Trinitarios ...
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Fare change
Dear Editor, August 31 was the 49th anniversary of New York City Transit bus drivers no longer having to use a coin collector to make change for riders. August 31, 1969, was the first day that bus ...
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Not great
Dear Editor, Republicans are delusional when they say we're better off with President Donald Trump, just ask the 2.1 million federal workers who are worse off now than they were at the start of the...
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