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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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Nellie Bowles' new book lauds its gains but criticizes principles and behavior.

Ex-progressive skewers movement

The hamlet lacks the sewer connections needed for any development.

Cooperate on Riverside plans

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The fight in Albany to override the implications of the Harvey Weinstein ruling

It says a lot about contemporary Republican leaders.

In today's GOP, party loyalty trumps 'moral' responsibility

A new paper shows the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the last two millenia.

It's officially hotter than anytime in the last 2000 years

NYS spending, Equal Rights Amendment

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Republican pols line up at Trump trial to show their fealty and kiss the ring

Faithful suitors to a gilded defendant

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Relocating them to Philadelphia could do more harm than good. 

Keep controllers in Westbury

Butch Yamali serves up his school board chops

Pathway for an imperial presidency

Basing a state criminal action on a purported federal violation is wrong.

Bragg abuses law in prosecution of Trump

We want more from our work than it can realistically give us.

Struggling to find meaning and happiness at work? Here's where you may have gone wrong

MTA, LIRR create 'loco' motion

Recipients of pig kidneys embrace their role as pioneers offering hope for the future.

Exciting times for organ transplantation

Nassau Community College won't lobby for casino

The new normal is that there is no normal.

A lesson from Presidents Biden and Trump — the new normal is nonstop crises

Give Suffolk bus a state boost

A good-faith effort to counter propaganda is difficult.

Let's be honest about who's spreading election disinformation

SBU president did a worthy balancing act

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