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How about positive news for a change
Apr 25, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Tired of the same news 24/7-Investigations, allegations, sexual harassment charges, what hat Melania is wearing, Trump always always denying everything. It really is sickening all over the news nig...
The Stormy Daniels Case Made Easy: Contract Law for Porn Stars
Apr 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 86 86 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Bill Cafaro In Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump, Michael Cohen, and the LLC that paid her the $130,000 in hush money, in   federal court in Los Angeles , she is asking the court to let her ou...
The Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act
Apr 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
A New Law to Further the Prevention of Sexual Harassment in NYC Workplaces The New York City Council recently passed legislation called the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act. If Mayor Bill de Blasi...
SPRING SAFETY TIPS FOR MOTORISTS, PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS
Apr 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 235 235 recommendations | email to a friend
As the weather warms up, people take to the road and want to spend more time outdoors. In particular, an increasing number of bicyclists and pedestrians join the thoroughfares, and motorists need t...
Employee Salary Histories
Apr 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 217 217 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Employers Ask Employees About their Salary History? On May 4, 2017, the New York City Council passed a bill that limited what an employer can ask job candidates about their salary history, comp...

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1 big problem
Dear Editor: Extension of the 1 train from Rector Street in downtown Manhattan to Red Hook for $3.5 billion, as proposed in 2016 by Chris Ward of AECOM Engineering and now supported by Governor And...
Jan 17, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Falling apart
Dear Editor, President Donald Trump’s racism has been documented throughout his life. Fred Trump’s discriminatory housing practices impacted Donald, formalizing his racial hatred. Donald’s adoratio...
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Insult to injury
Dear Editor, Now Hillary Clinton should feel even worse. As a new book on the Trump White House suggests, she lost the election to a childish man. Sincerely, Victor Maltsev Rego Park
Jan 17, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bed of issues
Dear Editor, Although the intentions of the Parks Department are sound, they truly ran afoul of the need of aging residents to advance their well-being by visiting their podiatrist and other medica...
Jan 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Check out or get out
Dear Editor: Recently, I have noticed a number of male loiterers on the streets of Kew Gardens and Briarwood, a well as in the Briarwood branch of the Queens Public Library, where they sit througho...
Jan 11, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Drowning in debt
Dear Editor, Once again, Washington has kicked the can down the road by passing yet another resolution to keep the federal government open into January 2018. First it was the Democrats who doubled ...
Jan 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cold shoulder
Dear Editor, It is an absolute outrage that there are thousands of NYCHA residents throughout the city that have been without heat or hot water. How can this be permitted to happen? Why weren't all...
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Some resolutions
Dear Editor, New Year's Day has come and gone and many resolutions have been made, but by and large few will be kept. Our world governments and leaders, including President Donald Trump, need to ma...
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Two fares? Too bad!
Dear Editor, The proposal by Brooklyn State Senator Martin Golden and Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz to offer two free transfers for those who have to ride two buses before boarding a subway is...
Jan 03, 2018 | 1 1 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Job well done
Dear Editor, After four very long and difficult years as chancellor of the city's public school system, Carmen Farina has decided to step down from her position. During her tenure, she worked hard ...
Jan 03, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Islander homecoming
Dear Editor, The New York Islanders are moving back to Long Island where they belong. They will have a new 18,000-seat arena near Belmont Park in Elmont, right on the Queens-Nassau border. This is ...
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In other words
Dear Editor, Yet another back-to-the-future direction by the ever-backward President Donald Trump. This time it takes it's cue from George Orwell's 1949 anti-utopian novel, 1984. In Orwellian lingo...
Jan 03, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remove IDC traitors
Dear Editor, At an angry town hall meeting in Hillcrest on December 7, Empire State Indivisible activists excoriated the Independent Democratic Conference, and for good reason. IDC really stands fo...
Dec 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
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Coming home
Dear Editor, Two days before Christmas in 1973, it was cold and beginning to snow when I set out from Great Lakes, Illinois, at 6 a.m. to get home to my two boys on Long Island. My sons, Tommy and ...
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Respect Trump!
Dear Editor, I am a Democrat and Kirsten Gillibrand is my senator, however the USA Today editorial regarding President Donald Trump's tweet about her is below the dignity of any self-respecting nat...
Dec 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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