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Dobie: Elk, protests and making change
You can try to change something out of hate, but more often you do it out of love — love for the very thing you want to change.
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If NY makes it easier to staff polling sites, it would stop disenfranchising its voters.
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Reader letters to Newsday for Sunday, July 5, 2020.
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The capitalization of Black doesn't resolve today's social justice issues. Nevertheless, it's a hint that maybe people are listening.
Listen to upbeat stories about how Long Islanders are getting by — and helping each other — during the coronavirus pandemic.
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It's not perfect, but doing away with it is worse.
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People hate being told what they must or cannot wear. That's as true for masks as it is for other garments.
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If Long Island is to be a more equitable place, it must address its deep Black-and-white divide.
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First casualty of Revolutionary War underscores the nation's promise on the 4th of July.
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Perhaps the twin traumas of a pandemic and economic catastrophe will mark a broad revival of habits forged in the Depression
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It's time for a new holiday: national day
I propose a forward-looking national holiday, not one that replaces July 4, but one that gives us room to understand our history.
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It's not perfect, but doing away with it is worse.
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First casualty of Revolutionary War underscores the nation's promise on the 4th of July.
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It is an important tool against the coronavirus.
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Nation must know what Trump knew about Moscow's efforts to harm U.S. troops.
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The court supported precedent but it also messaged that it won't be co-opted by the politics of the moment.
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The Cerro Wire site could be so much more.
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Listen to upbeat stories about how Long Islanders are getting by — and helping each other — during the coronavirus pandemic.
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A paper’s crusade and a history of discrimination in Long Island’s foundational suburb.
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Two Long Island congressional races, two paths for the country come November.
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If NY makes it easier to staff polling sites, it would stop disenfranchising its voters.
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The capitalization of Black doesn't resolve today's social justice issues. Nevertheless, it's a hint that maybe people are listening.
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People hate being told what they must or cannot wear. That's as true for masks as it is for other garments.
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If Long Island is to be a more equitable place, it must address its deep Black-and-white divide.
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Perhaps the twin traumas of a pandemic and economic catastrophe will mark a broad revival of habits forged in the Depression
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It's time for a new holiday: national day
I propose a forward-looking national holiday, not one that replaces July 4, but one that gives us room to understand our history.
National Cartoon Galleries
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Cartoonists from across the nation and around the world sound off on current events.
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Essays
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The possible closing of the Nassau Coliseum revived so many great memories of watching professional hockey on Long Island.
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Dad died June 19, 1989 at age 66, only a year after he retired. The last time I kissed him was on Father's Day.
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Let's all start a new campaign and sing instead of talking about politics and the world's other problems.
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What Mom misses most, I think, is the human contact with family.
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A wrap for this business partnership.
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Especially this year, I'll miss going to the local parade to celebrate with others.
More Opinion
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Working to knock off sitting Republicans as a punishment for spinelessness isn't worth it in this political environment.
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Reader letters to Newsday about a pro-Trump flotilla in the Great South Bay and more.
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In towns in South Carolina and Maine, locals love apparently misplaced memorials.