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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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Campus presidents who bungled responses to Hamas' attack need to step up and lead.

Universities house antisemitism again

Legislative reforms should be undone and salaries hiked to attract and retain officers.

NY State Police have a retention crisis

The Voting Rights Act and Hart-Celler profoundly altered the nation.

Republicans are trying to redefine who's an American

The political swindler is a known archetype.

George Santos appears to be running for America's Sassy Gay Friend

The fabulist vs. the fabulous

We all should embrace the campaign to fight antisemitism with a display of lights.

Time to place a menorah in the window

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Let's head off soccer trouble

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Siela Bynoe running for State Senate

Only a seismic shift can reverse the rise in suicides among older adults

First, parties should invest more resources in vetting their candidates.

What Congress can learn from George Santos

Protecting bees from pesticides, cybersecurity, salaries, taxes

Gov. Hochul should make sure the big tab is paid by Big Oil, not by state taxpayers.

Who pays for cost of climate change?

Open up school bonding votes

Santos in all kinds of cameos

There is no "economic war of the generations," as some claim.

Why the senior poverty rate keeps rising

Biden remains the only person who has won against Trump.

A Gen Zer offers advice to Biden before his reelection bid

Santos expelled, antisemitism in schools, Suffolk sheriff on MS-13 gangs, restaurant tips

Hofstra's frivolous gimmicks can't stop plan with backing across Long Island.

Casino support eclipses legal tactics

The state should broaden its attention to its oversight of other facilities in the region.

Lessons in veteran home COVID mess

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