Letters to the editor
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: Eruv is a symbol of courtesy The claim by Quogue trustees that permitting an eruv could be seen as "an endorsement ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letters: Honor those who gave their lives Memorial Day is the one day we set aside to honor and remember those soldiers ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: Raise poverty level designation Those of us who assist families struggling to live in one of the most affluent ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: No rational ban to gay marriage Charles Krauthammer's column on gay marriage ["Gay marriage: empathy or right?," Opinion, May 20] mentions ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letters: Student loans, debt and SUNY The editorial "We need a new college try" [May 20] addresses student debt and offers ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: Pre-dawn checks blunt shelter use There is a critical reason for our objection to pre-dawn identification checks at the overnight ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: Farmingdale plan not so affordable As a tenant of the Bartone Properties building, our organization's community center, La Casa Comunal, ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: East Side Access may gain little The only thing more offensive than the time and cost overruns for East Side Access ...
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article Letters 5/25/12 Letter: Politicians' shifty tactics First we have Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state legislators making a deal in the ...
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article Letters 5/24/12 Letter: Downsize LaGuardia, don't expand it There are several reasons why spending money to improve LaGuardia Airport is a total waste ...
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article Letters 5/24/12 Letter: Jessica Barba's message on bullies As a graduate of Longwood schools, I was surprised when I happened past a television ...
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article Letters 5/23/12 Letter: Postal Service shouldn't expand The column by Daniel Akst about rescuing the Postal Service through a postal banking system ...
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article Letters 5/23/12 Letter: Democrats are the centrist party In his May 20 column, "Election results highlight the bind," [Opinion], Peter Goldmark jumps aboard ...
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article Letters 5/23/12 Letter: Date change caves to terrorism The planned shift of New York State's legislative primaries to Sept. 13 to avoid the ...
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article Letters 5/23/12 Letter: Fairer testing for special ed The New York State English Language Assessment and math examinations are finally behind us ["NY ...
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article Letters 5/22/12 Letter: Senate filibuster is detrimental "Fix the Senate filibuster" [Editorial, May 18] is basically correct. The filibuster's overuse is one ...
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article Letters 5/22/12 Letter: Child care cuts hurt the neediest Once again the state is taking out our fiscal irresponsibility on the weakest and neediest ...
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article Letters 5/22/12 Letter: Don't raise taxes on breweries With the brewery business growing in an economy like this, any sudden cost increase could ...
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article Letters 5/22/12 Letter: Price is right for Melius property Regarding "Nassau should reject land buy" [Editorial, May 18], Gary Melius purchased the Brooklyn Water ...
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article Letters 5/21/12 Letter: Open up the debate on Israel Columnist Cathy Young pretends to discuss a scholarly conference while deploying the old strategy of ...
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article Letters 5/21/12 Letter: Farewell to a great newspaperman I was saddened to read that my old friend, Mike McGrady, died ["The stuff that ...
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article Letters 5/21/12 Letters: Discipline and the Nassau PD This is in response to the essay by Nassau County Police Benevolent Association president James ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: Why the costly paper ballots? It is with frustration and despair that I read "Primary's cost still adding up" [News, ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: Syosset deserves new school board It was only a matter of time until voters finally sent a message that school ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: All sides play politics in Nassau The preferred slogan among elected officials is that you never mix politics with government, but ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: Look at bay water quality I have been clamming on the Great South Bay for nearly 40 years. I have ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: Shocking method of tracking fish "Shock to the system" [Newsday, May 8] shocked me as to how inhumane the human ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letters: Nurse practitioners seek to inform In response to the recent Washington Post article titled "Nurse practitioners seek to expand medical ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: Bad school budget trend Newsday's headline "Islandwide, tax-cap backers liked the results" [News, May 17] is a misrepresentation of ...
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article Letters 5/18/12 Letter: JP Morgan not a case for more rules Newsday's call for additional financial reform, "given the financial crisis of 2008 and its legacy ...
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article Letters 5/17/12 Letter: Caterers not stiffing servers Newsday's lack of understanding over the issue facing the catering industry ["Don't stiff catering servers," ...
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article Letters 5/17/12 Letter: Older drivers should be tested The family of the 87-year-old woman who died after driving her car into Port Jefferson ...
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article Letters 5/17/12 Letter: Unfair fishing regulation Newsday missed an opportunity in "A fish tale goes overboard" [Editorial, May 14], when it ...
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article Letters 5/17/12 Letters: Don't close six Catholic schools Regarding "Parents take case to Rome" [News, May 9], during the last five months, parents ...
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article Letters 5/16/12 Letter: Catholic Church needs to change I take issue with the letter "Vatican is right to assess feminist nuns" [May 10]. ...
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article Letters 5/16/12 Letter: Geese a hazard on playground, too Prevention of bird strikes is vital to the safety of people flying out of New ...
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article Letters 5/16/12 Letter: Insurers label 'dangerous' dogs I was surprised to find the breed Rottweiler cited as one of the favorite dogs ...
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article Letters 5/16/12 Letters: Avoiding the middle seat In "Dreaded middle seat" [News, May 6], Newsday highlighted the seating problems for commuters on ...
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article Letters 5/16/12 Patricia Sweeney (1927-2012) Patricia Sweeney, 85, died at the home of her daughter in Longmeadow, Mass., after a ...
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article Letters 5/15/12 Letter: Firing Nassau cops It appears that Newsday has joined the "I accuse, I judge, I sentence" school of ...
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article Letters 5/15/12 Letter: We need clear China asylum policy The U.S. Department of State has been ham-handed in the matter of Chinese dissident Chen ...
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article Letters 5/15/12 Letter: Romney's actions were no 'prank' I am saddened by presidential candidate Mitt Romney's dismissive apology regarding what he calls high ...
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article Letters 5/15/12 Letters: Obama and same-sex marriage Newsday's coverage of President Barack Obama's flip-flop on same-sex marriage was no different from any ...
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article Letters 5/14/12 Letters: Graduate job-savvy students The April 30 news story "New paths to graduation" made me extremely excited that there's ...
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article Letters 5/14/12 France's vote heralds la misère There is an old song, "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong." Well, on May 6, ...
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article Letters 5/14/12 Letter: Female wrestler broke barriers As a retired wrestling coach who had a girl on the team for four years ...
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article Letters 5/14/12 Letter: Post office banking a good idea A huge round of applause is due to columnist Daniel Akst for his sensible proposals ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Did Nassau police bosses know? How and why was this incident involving Nassau County Police Officer Mike Tedesco allowed to ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Europe not austere enough So Newsday believes that Europe's fiscal austerity is misguided and has not been helping the ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Engineer a bird-strike solution? Why not have a conical grill wide enough to take in needed air for the ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: School tax increases can't continue Now that Newsday has published all the proposed Long Island school budgets for the 2012-13 ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Hempstead Turnpike's still a danger This morning, there was a nice list in Newsday of all the safety improvements along ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Gas stations reap plastic windfall Consumer complaints that some Long Island gas stations have imposed an extra $1 or $2 ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Gas stations reap plastic windfall Consumer complaints that some Long Island gas stations have imposed an extra $1 or $2 ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Many school budgets are responsible I take offense to the opinion article by Andrea Vecchio regarding the New York State ...
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article Letters 5/11/12 Letter: Don't raise rates on student loans It's a shame that a much-needed plan to keep interest rates low for student loans ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: Why not fly to other NY cities? I wonder if more traffic could be generated for Long Island MacArthur Airport in Islip ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: LI needs water management plan How much do you know about the water you use every day? Most of us ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: Don't make SPCA appear wrong I must take exception to the article concerning the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: Crowd law would hurt East Hampton Creating laws to control outdoor crowds in East Hampton will only hurt businesses and annoy ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: Outlaw smoking with kids in car The recent case of Patricia Krentcil, the mother accused of causing skin burns on her ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: Wife of cop deserves severance This is in response to your story on the police officer who is accused of ...
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article Letters 5/10/12 Letter: NY hurts recreational anglers People have been fishing on Long Island for as long as people have been living ...
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article Letters 5/9/12 Letter: Take officials' names off signs I agree with my fellow reader who questions the need to change the street signs ...
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article Letters 5/9/12 Letter: More must be done for homeless I am writing regarding "New face of LI's homeless" [News, May 7]. ...
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article Letters 5/9/12 Letter: The stakes at Belmont Newsday's May 4 edition included an article about the efforts of the Elmont Chamber of ...
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article Letters 5/9/12 Letter: Vatican right on feminist nuns As a lifelong practicing Catholic whose dissertation on a social history of a Catholic order ...
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article Letters 5/9/12 Letter: Fire deaths in Carmel In the early morning hours of May 1, tragedy struck the Hudson Valley. A fast-moving ...
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article Letters 5/8/12 Letter: Friedman conviction should stand The article on Jesse Friedman's sex abuse case fails to mention some important facts ["Info ...
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article Letters 5/8/12 Letter: Commack schools need priorities The Commack school board has once again proven its cowardice and chosen to eviscerate the ...
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article Letters 5/8/12 Letter: Relations with China require attention With all of the international tensions that are currently affecting many parts of the world, ...
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article Letters 5/8/12 Letter: Most Nassau cops are 'great' I am a Nassau County police officer and have proudly served for almost 20 years ...
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article Letters 5/7/12 Letter: Terror trial belies U.S. principles I am not surprised by the demeanor of the alleged masterminds of Sept. 11 at ...
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article Letters 5/7/12 Letter: Nassau deserves better from PD I support and respect those police officers everywhere who are exemplary public servants, who serve ...
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article Letters 5/7/12 Letters: Doubts about state's tests In this climate of accountability in education, I believe it is only fair to print ...
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article Letters 5/7/12 Letter: NY should ban 'fracking' like VT It's inspiring to see political leaders do what's right for their state. On May 4, ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letter: Too many rules on fishing The less restrictive rules on the number and size of fluke and porgy that fish ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letter: Speed advocate takes the wrong lane Regarding "Hey, slowpoke, move over!" [Expressway, April 28], shame on Newsday for publishing this drivel! ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letters: Many fixes for Social Security Newsday's editorial inexplicably ignored recent reductions in payroll taxes ["Fix Social Security -- again," April ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letter: DA should focus on humans, not pets Regarding the story "Toughening up NY cruelty laws" [News, April 25], the picture of Nassau ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letter: Space-race rivalry, national pride I read all of the news coverage of the space shuttle Enterprise's arrival in New ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letter: NASA's still got space ambitions NASA is doing more than "commuter runs" and a "few experiments" at the International Space ...
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article Letters 5/4/12 Letters: Global history's ever crucial Newsday's editorial "New paths to graduation" [April 30] argues for changing the New York State ...
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article Letters 5/3/12 Letter: Politics and Secret Service probe As chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) is certainly ...
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article Letters 5/3/12 Letter: Limit campaign cash to constituents In "NYers can wrest Albany from fat cats" [Opinion, April 23], Marc N. Weiss' statement, ...
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article Letters 5/3/12 Letters: Split over Pilaro's field hockey I am compelled to respond to "In sports, don't mix boys, girls" [Editorial, April 26], ...
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article Letters 5/2/12 Letter: The trouble with Triborough This is in response to the letter "Controversial law protects workers" [April 23]. The letter ...
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article Letters 5/2/12 Letter: Praise for adult Bat Mitzvahs My wife Gayle and I applaud your article about adult women becoming Bat Mitzvahs ["Coming ...
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article Letters 5/2/12 Letters: Water bills need adjusting The story "Sale of Aqua New York OKd" [News, April 20] stated that rates would ...
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article Letters 5/2/12 Letters: Rush to judgment, law change Regarding the letter "Guilt, race questions" [April 30], in which the writer questions how George ...
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article Letters 5/1/12 Letter: Feral cats have been abandoned To the man who was so infuriated by the cats in the park ["Why the ...
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article Letters 5/1/12 Letter: Obama right to highlight successes I read with interest the analysis of President Barack Obama's campaign to tout the Osama ...
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article Letters 5/1/12 Letter: Pursue diplomacy with Iran As the drumbeats for war with Iran get louder, some in Congress are seeking a ...
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article Letters 5/1/12 Letters: 'Brain drain' could be stopped Lack of affordable housing, a high cost of living and a general disarray of county ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letters: What's wrong, right at MacArthur Southwest Airlines has done a great job of serving the Long Island market with adequate ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letter: Look to Europe for LIRR model When you board a commuter train in most European countries, you slip your ticket into ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letters: It's wrong to walk from mortgage Let me get this straight. In "After the bubble" [Business, April 22], a dentist, an ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letter: Assault story is a warning The story about the Roslyn psychiatrist's alleged sexual assault of a patient is unwelcome to ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letter: Volunteerism thrives in older group I applaud Diana O'Neill's op-ed about how we New Yorkers rank dead last in civic ...
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article Letters 4/30/12 Letters: Questions in Martin shooting I believe in forgiveness, but I also believe in accountability ["Shooter apologizes," News, April 21]. ...
