Letters
By Rory I. Lancman
Earlier this year, Nathaly Rodriguez found herself in a real-life nightmare.
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Rhymes with Crazy
By Lenore Skenazy
You won’t believe your eyes (or your ears or your fingers) when you head to the Musueum of Natural History.
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Letters
By Joseph N. Manago
In June 2017, the Briarwood Community Association held its last meeting at Melrose Credit Union.
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Letters
By Dr. Wayne Kye
We’ve come a long way in the battle against lung cancer. Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, but fewer and fewer Americans are smoking and disease rates are declining.
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Letters
By John Amato
There are thousands of street trees here in Queens which need to have regular maintenance, such as pruning, to maintain existing health and vigor as well as pruning of dead and dying branches from many others. Dead and dying trees should be removed.
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Editorial
The tradition at Thanksgiving has always been to pause and recognize the good turns of fortune that have come our way. In these uncertain political times, it can be easy to forget that positive things are happening in Queens despite some strong head winds from Washington.
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Letters
By Freddy Green
President Trump is getting his pardon pen ready, as the Mueller investigation starts indicting his associates in the Russian election probe. This week, he planned to practice on two very innocent Minnesota turkeys.
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Mayoral Spin Cycle
By Tom Allon
Letters
By Ron Isaac
Of all major holidays, Thanksgiving Day has the least potential for being irksome, guilty of identity protectionism or driven by balkanized loyalties and passions. It’s the most inclusive of holidays. It’s not ideology-based and harbors no invidious implied comparisons with other nations, faiths or ways of life.
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Letters
By Janet Trautwein
This year’s Affordable Care Act open enrollment period started Nov. 1. Millions of Americans will visit HealthCare.gov or the online insurance exchange run by their state to shop for 2018 health plans. Many will be confused by what they find.
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Editorial
Election Day brought a few surprises to Queens but also disappointment over turnout. Voting was inexcusably low in most parts of the borough with the re-election of Mayor Bill de Blasio considered a done deal and only one of the incumbents in the City Council facing a white-knuckle challenge.
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Letters
By Fredereick R. Bedell Jr.
In the past election it was stated that only 23 percent of voters showed up to vote. That, in my opinion, is a sad state of affairs.
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Rhymes with Crazy
By Lenore Skenazy
Now’s the time to step back and let your kid how to learn on his own.
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Long Island City
By Rinchen Lama
This is the time of year when high school seniors start deciding where they want to apply to college. I want to encourage them to keep community colleges on their lists—and not just as a backup school, but as a good starting point to a college degree.
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Opinion
By Jay Hibbard
The decision by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to ban alcohol advertising (TimesLedger story/ Nov. 3) is misguided and unsupported by the scientific research.
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Editorial
Nearly two years ago, Borough President Melinda Katz visited our headquarters in Brooklyn to talk to the Community News Group owners and editors about what was happening in Queens. The role of immigrants was a recurring theme in her assessment of the borough’s achievements and she suggested in passing that we acknowledge these heroes.
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Letters
By Bill Herbert
As I drive my car along the traffic-clogged streets, I often notice that there are only a few pedestrians on a whole block of sidewalk. Clearly, sidewalks are under utilized and should be eliminated. Many car-centric towns do not have any at all.
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Mayoral Spin Cycle
By Tom Allon
It is a grand understatement to say media in American has been undergoing a seismic shift these past few years. We all know print is suffering and could be threatened with extinction in the not-too-distant future (although I am still a firm believer that print will exist in some media outlets for many more decades). Radio has become a dinosaur. Even cable television is getting socked by all the cord-cutters who would rather stream than stick to prime-time viewing.
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Letters
By Andrew Brooks
I have been living with my family on 108th Street in Forest Hills, near 69th Road for about 20 years.
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Letters
By Larry Penner
MTA awarding a contract for $573 million to Cubic Transportation Systems may not be the best use of these dollars. Why will Cubic Transportation Systems open up a call center in Buffalo to support future customers using this new fare collection system with so many out of work Queens and NYC residents looking for employment?
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Letters
By Edith Bargoma, Rakeen Dow, Charlotte Forrester, Nancy Hanks, Richard Ronner, and Philip Safer
New Yorkers across the state have a rare and important opportunity to vote for a state constitutional convention in November. It is one of the few chances we have as citizens directly to make positive and lasting change by our own hands and with our own votes. We have an opportunity to fix problems (like Albany) from the outside in. Clearly it will never happen from the insiders.
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Editorial
In Comptroller Scott Stringer’s words, voter turnout in the city has been “abysmal.” In the 2016 presidential election that propelled Queens native Donald Trump to an uneasy victory, just under 56 percent of the registered voters in the five boroughs went to the polls.
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Letters
By Dennis Saffran
Having organized and been present throughout the Douglaston Civic Association Candidates Night on Oct.17, I was taken aback by Mark Hallum’s story about the event, “Malliotakis Fumbles at Douglaston Forum.”
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Letters
By Rory I. Lancman
For more than four decades, Choices Women’s Medical Center has provided critical health care services to Queens residents. Choices is a woman-owned and operated medical facility that offers a wide range of services, including prenatal care, birth control, testing for sexually transmitted infections, behavioral health services and abortion.
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On Point
By Bpb Friedrich
For decades, Creedmoor and its neighbors have lived side by side, in a generally non-contentious relationship. Sadly, over the past year, the relationship has become quite tenuous. Daily occurrences of aggressive panhandling by Creedmoor patients plague the surrounding communities, shopping centers and commercial strips of Union Turnpike. Aggressive panhandling is threatening and dangerous and nearby residents are demanding action.
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