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Why Hochul's auto insurance push stands out
Trial lawyers are both a courtroom force in New York and a political one.
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Amid AI, we need to teach value of vulnerability
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Students with disabilities left behind, 50 years after IDEA
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Islanders' Schaefer gives us fans a rare joy
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ICE didn't use rational tactics with Renee Good
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Mamdani's higher taxes won't be the only costs
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The Point
Will NY become a petri dish for measles?
If anti-vaxxers succeed, South Carolina's story could easily become Long Island's.
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Police groups to flex their influence
Suffolk PBA president, others to tout statewide 'public safety alliance.'
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Heavy hand ripping our social fabric
Is there a saner way to handle the immigration issue?
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Cartoons
Commentary
Why Hochul's auto insurance push stands out
Trial lawyers are both a courtroom force in New York and a political one.
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AI's greatest challenge is managerial, not technological
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America's Davos climbdown shows humiliation has its limits
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Amid AI, we need to teach value of vulnerability
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Raiding your 401(k) to buy a house should be an option
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More Opinion
Why did Anne Donnelly skip Nassau swearing-in event?
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Congress and Trump could both get behind this concrete step to cut housing costs
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Students with disabilities left behind, 50 years after IDEA
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Electricity costs, Blakeman, abortion, Greenland
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9/11 responders deserve better
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Musings: Want to get a REAL ID? Try my mom's labyrinth
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Musings: This isn't the hamlet I know
Musings: Give me my 2 cents' worth
Trees as property are like no other
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An unaffordable, untenable landscape for young LIers
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The push for lower U.S. drug prices uses bad logic
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Cooling inflation doesn't mean tariffs were harmless
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Struggling districts need new approach
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Arguments over fatal shooting of Renee Good
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Matt Bodkin's Long Island cartoons
A bob and weave by Mayor Mamdani fails
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How Trump's call to Blakeman happened
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America's manufacturing renaissance is missing in action
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The pope and the president offer competing Americanisms
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Islanders' Schaefer gives us fans a rare joy
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ICE didn't use rational tactics with Renee Good
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NYC congestion pricing working
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Putin's war, LIRR changes, Jerome Powell
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Trump pardon recipient with LI ties running for governor
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Behind the blackout, Iran is drowning in blood
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'Save the whales' worked for decades, but now gray whales are starving
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LIRR ticket changes, suicide prevention
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Hochul's promises could make a dent for NYers
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An oath in Nassau, a mission in Albany
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Hochul and Romaine huddle before her State of the State
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Attacking Powell only undercuts Trump's goals
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This is not the way to make housing more affordable
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U.S. lacks moral authority in Iranian dissidents' fight
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Renee Good shooting by ICE in Minneapolis, 3D printing
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Threat to Fed is one to economy, too
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What job does Anthony D'Esposito really want?
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Americans are right to be worried about the labor market
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Trump's credit-card cap would feed the weakest to the sharks
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Musings: Thinking about the 'Journey' ahead
Musings: Will it be a book you'll love?
Musings: Nothing to do with anything
A human marvel that's hard to replicate
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Might doesn't make it right
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What Vance gets wrong about being an American
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The DOJ suing for voter data is dangerous on many levels
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Some vital health statistics 80 years later
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Mamdani's higher taxes won't be the only costs
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Role of education in preventing suicide
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An avoidable death in ICE confrontation
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Old CD1 foes retire from public service
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