Newsday Opinion's Mark Chiusano checks out the history behind a lonely little cemetery in the middle of a Commack parking lot, where distant relatives of Aaron Burr are buried next to a Home Depot and an old Modell's.


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Housing Editorials

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Hochul needs to work with Long Island leaders and offer incentives.

Gov must retool housing plan 

Parking lots at LIRR stations can be used to help meet the region's need.

Use MTA land to build more housing

The governor's housing plan hasn't evolved much.

Hochul budget has LI flaws

The region needs more housing but one size does not fit all.

Hochul must listen to LI

Map: Housing units on Long Island

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A group of fungi store more than 13 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Mushrooms may hold the secret to solving the climate crisis

New York State Legislature should pass a bill that would reduce the use and length of suspensions.

Suspending students creates more harm than good

Postmortem on debt ceiling

Insuring vulnerable parts of the country will just keep getting more expensive.

Insurers will lead the inevitable climate retreat

So much for Nassau's fear-filled warnings of the supposedly dangerous hip-hop music fest.

Blakeman's rap doesn't rhyme

Current map is legal; new challenge is nothing but a political power play

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New Yorkers have a constitutional right to a plan drawn by the state's IRC.

State court should allow a new map for 2024 congressional races

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Albany's housing scramble

AI algorithms are already being widely used, including in ocean cleaning.

AI robots can't clean our plastic-plagued oceans alone

Both President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy are underrated politicians.

The debt-limit crisis is over. Now on to the debt crisis.

Suffolk blowing smoke with unknown lawyer

Leaders should heed constituents and farmers who supported legalization.

LI towns should repeal cannabis opt-outs

The IDA must make sure Nassau County and its residents win.

Casino needs no tax breaks

Not while I have a good boat, good sailing waters and a wind to carry me.  

It isn't quite time to drop anchor — not yet

But if they are out there watching us, what do they think about us humans?

The odds say yes to extraterrestrials

'F' in History for State Ed. Dept. 

Bellone and Suffolk lawmakers must refrain from politics and cooperate in probes.

Answers needed in cyber hack

Inside Albany's annual end-of-session scramble

Just Sayin': Mandatory military service, divided nation, parkway litter, smell of pot

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