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Rick Brand
Levy convinces state he would pull cops off highways - May 4, 2008 - When County Executive Steve Levy's top lobbyist Ben Zwirn and police patrol chief Robert Ponzo met in Albany with state police officials last month, they carried signed transfer orders to send 13 Suffolk highway patrol officers back to local precincts.
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Lynn Brenner
FAMILY FINANCE: Protecting children's inheritance - May 4, 2008 - I have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son's inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money were accumulated before they married. I am 80 years young, and still working. Do I remove my son's name from my will to protect his inheritance?
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Jimmy Breslin
Weapons caused her greatest pain - July 15, 2007 - The moment she saw the car pulling up on her street, 229th Street in Rosedale, on this summer night in quiet Queens, she stood at the dark screen of her two-story attached house and watched the car, with one man inside, without any feeling at first and then she felt the beginnings of anxiety.
Joye Brown
At Huntington shelter, underdogs are the top dogs - May 8, 2008 - This one's for the underdog.
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Sylvia Carter
Springtime is shad time on the Hudson - May 7, 2008 - Some people would rather have shad without shad roe, some prefer roe, some are partial to both, and others would just as soon have neither.
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Junior Damato
AUTO DOC: Warning lights hint at speed sensor trouble - April 18, 2008 - DEAR DOCTOR: I am the original owner of a 1991 Honda Accord. It suddenly developed an intermittent operation of the speedometer. The "check engine" light will come on for a few seconds and then go off. My mechanic said not to worry because the car seems to operate fine. Ed
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Jessica Damiano
Planting and caring for lilacs - May 8, 2008 - I bought two 8-inch lilacs from Costco. Couldn't resist! There were no directions for where and when to plant. They had 8 inches of woody stems, and now are about 18 inches in height with light green leaves above the woody stems. I have put them outdoors for a few hours on a sunny day. Please advise. -- Emilie Dixon, Huntington Station
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Amy Dickinson
Employees don't have to put up with harassment from co-worker - May 9, 2008 - Dear Amy: I work at a local store. We all get along pretty well, except for one issue. One of the employees, "Betsy," is gay. None of us has a problem with her life choice, but she keeps coming on to certain female employees who are straight.
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Lou Dolinar
Are you getting the bandwidth you're paying for? - May 4, 2008 - Are you getting the bandwidth you're paying for?
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Gary Dymski
10 easy ways to go green - April 17, 2008 - No matter where I turn, I'm overwhelmed by "green." The other day I came across what a manufacturer assured me was a "greener" brand of toothpaste. (This did not appeal to me.)
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Denise Flaim
Give your cat a breath of fresh air, safely - May 8, 2008 - 'Outside cats" are a politically incorrect breed these days. A myriad of concerns - from communicable diseases such as Feline Immunodeficiency Virus to the possibility of being hit by a car - prompt responsible cat owners to keep their kitties in the house.
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Saul Friedman
Reverse mortgages stand up to housing fallout - May 3, 2008 - Let's catch up on a few things, like whether the meltdown in home values will affect holders of FHA-backed reverse mortgages, specifically the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or HECM.
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Glenn Gamboa
Matt Fazzi ushers in Taking Back Sunday's new era - May 8, 2008 - After being holed up in a Williamsburg rehearsal space for the past two months, Taking Back Sunday is eager to try out some new material tomorrow night in that intimate little setting also known as Madison Square Garden.
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Verne Gay
Last laughs (for now) on '30 Rock' - May 8, 2008 - 30 Rock. Tonight at 9:30 on NBC/4.
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Rabbi Marc Gellman
Dieting Tip: Eat Less, Pray More - November 30, 2002 - Q. I overeat all the time, but during the holidays, I really overeat. I've heard that you can pray to lose weight. I'm praying hard, but I don't think it's going to work. Any tips? -- B., West Islip
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Katti Gray
Gearing up for life beyond Wyandanch - May 5, 2008 - When Frank Pomata considers the possibilities, he points to ambitious Lasheca Lewis as Example A of what a kid from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks can achieve with a nudge here, a little assistance there. Completing the research and legwork on her own, Lasheca, a ninth-grader at Wyandanch High School, which has a relative handful of scholars and go-getters, settled on an exchange program that sent her to Australia for 21 days during the summer of 2007. Through car washes, other solicitations and several benefactors who see her potential, she raised $6,000 to journey to the land down under, be hosted by an Australian family and affirm her capacity to do, lead, explore.
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Rafer Guzmán
Cranky crooner Lonesome Dan and his Curmugeons - March 20, 2008 - He calls himself Lonesome Dan, and on his new self-titled album he swears the name fits: "Little children don't like me / Small dogs always bite / Everyone I meet, everyone I meet / Retreats."
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Ellis Henican
Not ready for the obit pages - May 4, 2008 - It's a little surprising, all this mogul attention.
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Patricia Kitchen
State CPA group gets seasoned leader from Woodbury - April 17, 2008 - When Sharon Sabba Fierstein is installed May 15 as president of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, she will actually be halfway through her commitment to the role. That's because Fierstein, 48, of Woodbury, has been president-in-training for the past year, working on projects that will be carried forward during her official presidential tenure. The outgoing president said to her recently, "I'm almost done - you're almost halfway through."
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James Klurfeld
Long Island, our Senator has tough choice to make - May 8, 2008 - The Hillary Clinton we've seen over the past few weeks of the campaign is the Hillary Clinton many of us have come to know in New York over the past eight years: Bright, tenacious, charming to a degree unexpected, indefatigable in her determination to demonstrate that a Midwesterner by way of Arkansas and Washington could represent New York with all its different regions and diversity.
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Erica Marcus
BURNING QUESTIONS: Good cooks don't need a big repertoire - May 7, 2008 - How many recipes does a good cook need?
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Carrie Mason-Draffen
Can the boss share salary information with everyone? - April 11, 2008 - DEAR CARRIE: My company recently merged with another, so we have a new district manager. He and I got off to a bad start because he divulged my salary and caused an uproar among my new co-workers.
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Sheryl McCarthy
Black columnists' Obama praise not same as support - March 10, 2008 - My Newsday colleague Saul Friedman set off a wildfire among black columnists last week by asking, in a column on the Nieman Watchdog Blog, why we are all supporting Barack Obama.
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Les Payne
Flagging Oval Office hope among African-Americans - May 5, 2008 - 'I think you can stick a fork in Barack Obama," said the patriarch of a respected middle class, Connecticut family Friday. "He is done."
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Gene Seymour
Review: 'Bonnie & Clyde' is gangbusters on DVD - March 30, 2008 - Its impact on American movies was electrifying and resounding. So it's easy to forget that "Bonnie and Clyde," which is being released this week in a two-disc "Ultimate Collector's Edition" by Warner Home Video, didn't storm into popular consciousness the way its bank-robber lovers laid siege to prairie banks. It arrived there through stealth and cunning. It didn't have any other choice.
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Jan Stuart
Review: 'The Apartment: Collector's Edition' - February 17, 2008 - THE APARTMENT:
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Irene Virag
Greener gardening: More people turn to organics - May 4, 2008 - I first thought hard about chemicals poisoning the Earth years ago when I wrote about a small group of naturalists that fought successfully to ban DDT from the fields of Long Island and save ospreys from extinction. Soon afterward, I thought even harder. That happened on a December night 11 years ago when I was getting ready for bed and my hand - for no reason I have ever been able to explain - strayed to my right breast and touched a lump.
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Diane Werts
'CSI' switches writers with 'Two and a Half Men' - May 3, 2008 - Off the Wall loves HDTV and black-and-white equally.
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Beth Whitehouse
Lohan's mom nabs parenting award - May 7, 2008 - Dina Lohan tried valiantly to keep the subject on motherhood last night at Carlyle on The Green in Bethpage State Park as she was swarmed by a score of videographers, camera people and reporters asking about her daughter Lindsay's foibles.
