Long Island Opinion & Commentary
Nassau County and Suffolk County editorials, columns, guest essays, cartoons, letters and more.
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Far too few people use Free File
Last year just 2% of eligible filers took advantage of it, according to NerdWallet.
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Who wins the green energy vs. affordability clash?
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Terrifying attacks bring home danger
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Another chance for clean slate at EPCAL
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Find an exit ramp from Iran
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PLAs only benefit the unions calling for them
New York's lowest responsible bidder law provides a far better approach.
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Project labor agreements protect workers, taxpayers
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Road safety lessons from Maryland
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This health care mandate is an affordability killer
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For a middle class LI family, child care's such a struggle
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Here's why closed primaries must go
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The Point
March is the most confounding month
There are years, many years, when I would swear March is longer than 31 days.
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Prediction markets signal a flash point for the future
The potential for corruption among government insiders is unusually plain here.
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Attacking Iran, while excusing Russia as it helps Iran
To put it bluntly: Russia is giving Iran information that may help kill Americans.
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Cartoons
Commentary
Can democracy survive when Americans see each other as 'bad people'?
Our tendency to view each other as immoral is also a product of misinformation.
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PLAs only benefit the unions calling for them
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Project labor agreements protect workers, taxpayers
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The SAVE Act is a solution in search of a problem
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Blame Temple Israel attack on those who made antisemitism fashionable
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More Opinion
Prediction markets signal a flash point for the future
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Another chance for clean slate at EPCAL
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Bottom lines on climate change
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In keeping options open in CD4, D'Esposito risks a Hatch Act violation
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To understand Iran, start its history in the right place
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ICE is wasting billions to literally warehouse people
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This health care mandate is an affordability killer
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Iran war, Bruce Blakeman's priorities, teacher's firing, Hempstead schools
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Find an exit ramp from Iran
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LIA chief Matt Cohen on sudden departure and what's next
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Tired of spending billions on dementia care? Try a brain workout
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The insurance crisis is so desperate people are turning socialist
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Attacking Iran, while excusing Russia as it helps Iran
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Feds worsening food insecurity on LI
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Open primaries, potholes, Kristi Noem, climate change
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GOP lawmakers likely to file ethics complaint against state's top judge
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Health care can't be the only job in town. But it is
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Trump's Iran war will compound his affordability woes
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Musings: Bridge ideas threaten Long Island identity
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Musings: Let's hear it for Long Island theater!
Musings: Groups save money on Broadway
Musings: Storm shows us immigrants' work
Do you feel queasy about AI yet?
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NY needs to pop the hood on car insurance rates
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Prediction markets shouldn't be so easy to play
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Americans' relationship with gas prices is complicated
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Trump should dispel his fog of war
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Here's why closed primaries must go
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For a middle class LI family, child care's such a struggle
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President's declaration of war, gas prices, fire hydrants
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Luck of the vote
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Claude AI helped bomb Iran. But how exactly?
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Is free trade worth the cost in lives lost?
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Climate threat too often lost in the fog
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Why do we tolerate lead in school drinking water?
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Messing with Texas maps faces the test
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Supporting housing projects is crucial
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East Hampton Dems in family feud
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The U.S. has enough missiles for this war but not the next one
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Iran war cartoons
The Iran war is dialing U.S. economic danger up to 11
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DHS funding, surgeon general nomination
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A complex, opaque IDA tale
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Readers react to U.S. attack on Iran
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Control-of-the-House suspense shifts from NYC to LI
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Washington can help families without spending more
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The U.S. has to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible
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Musings: SAVE Act will kill turnouts
Musings: Where books still flirt with curious minds
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Musings: Try compassion when anger fails
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