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Is there a saner way to handle the immigration issue?

Heavy hand ripping our social fabric

If you want to fell a tree on your property, it's none of my business. Or is it?

Trees as property are like no other

His response to an antisemitic chant wasn't good enough.

A bob and weave by Mayor Mamdani fails

"I'm on a journey, I don't know where that path will end," Blakeman said.

An oath in Nassau, a mission in Albany

The protests have been unprecedented in scale.

U.S. lacks moral authority in Iranian dissidents' fight

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Trump's "gimme-it-or-else" bluster is counterproductive.

Trying to grab Greenland won't help the U.S.

Are you a young adult or are there young adults in your life who are facing these struggles on Long Island?

Let's talk about affordability on Long Island

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Why did Anne Donnelly skip Nassau swearing-in event?

Congress could amend the Disaster Loan program and drop mortgage rates.

Congress and Trump could both get behind this concrete step to cut housing costs

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A landmark law has made a profound impact, but a change in attitude is needed.

Students with disabilities left behind, 50 years after IDEA

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Electricity costs, Blakeman, abortion, Greenland

RFK Jr. should illustrate his stated commitment to "gold standard" science and research.

9/11 responders deserve better

Musings: Want to get a REAL ID? Try my mom's labyrinth

Musings: This isn't the hamlet I know

Musings: Give me my 2 cents' worth

A Newsday Opinion analysis of the data tells an increasingly worrisome story.

An unaffordable, untenable landscape for young LIers

It's also easy to imagine how countries and companies could game the system.

The push for lower U.S. drug prices uses bad logic

The tariffs have hit small businesses and consumers particularly hard.

Cooling inflation doesn't mean tariffs were harmless

Higher reading and math test results are clouded by a decades-old issue.

Struggling districts need new approach

Arguments over fatal shooting of Renee Good

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