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Editorial: Get tougher on MTA vendors

Delay after delay. Excuse after excuse. Promise after promise. Enough is enough. In the latest example of contractor problems plaguing ...

• Opinion The Point: Climate, MTA negotiations turn hostile

  The Point is Newsday's daily opinion newsletter.

• Michael Dobie Dobie: Schumer lobs grenade into climate talks

  Schumer's letter backed most far-reaching version of the climate bill -- the one that calls for the state's entire economy to be carbon-free by 2050.

• Commentary Opinion: Millennials really are suffering

  But Sternberg successfully makes the case that millennials face real problems because circumstances have changed.

• Opinion Opinion: See Matt Davies' latest cartoon

  See Matt Davies' latest Newsday cartoon by clicking above.

• Commentary Opinion: 5 legal principles for the Green New Deal

  The systemic changes it calls for simply cannot be accomplished by executive fiat or court order.

• Opinion Essay: High above PGA tourney, the circle of life

  For a week, Bethpage State Park and its vaunted Black Course were the center of the golfing world for the ...

• Letters Letter: National Grid could do more geothermal

  Reader letters to Newsday for Wednesday, May 22, 2019.

• Lane Filler Filler: Dishonesty on both sides of abortion debate

  In the past five months, various states have passed both the most permissive and the most restrictive abortion laws seen ...

• Editorial Editorial: Don't pardon war criminals

  Presidential forgiveness would disgrace those who died and served honorably.

• Rita Ciolli Ciolli: NY Dems to make voting easier for constituents

  Democrats will extend the deadline to switch parties before an election to only 60 days, and 25 days when voters are not members of an established party.

• Commentary Opinion: What Justin Amash can teach Nancy Pelosi

  Amash's decision to endorse impeachment was prompted (as he tweeted) by being a rare legislator who actually read the Mueller report.