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MIDDLE VILLAGE YOUNG PEOPLE NOT WORKING
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 224 224 recommendations | email to a friend
MIDDLE VILLAGE-has more young people not working between 22 years of age to 40 years of age. They mostly live with their parents or parent. Imagine no guidance, no retirement plans, just existing d...
Over-packing Your Car Can Make Driving More Dangerous
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 254 254 recommendations | email to a friend
Packing Your Car Wisely for Vacations With warmer weather here and children out of school, many people are taking to the road for vacation trips. While you want to be sure you pack what you need to...
What Employers Should Know About Retaliation Claims
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 247 247 recommendations | email to a friend
by Stephen D. Hans Retaliation Claims May Include Emotional Distress Damages A precedent has been set in relation to retaliation claims brought against employers. Two courts of appeals, the Sixth a...
Workers’ Compensation in New York—What You Need to Know—Part One
Jul 10, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 209 209 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Pyrros & Serres LLP You’ve been hurt on the job in the state of New York. You’ve heard from others that you are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. But what does that mean? How does th...
What You Should Know About Construction Job Vehicle Accidents in New York
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by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP Unsafe Conditions Can Lead to Serious Construction Job Vehicle Accidents Construction job motor vehicle accidents often occur due to OSHA violations.  Many diffe...
How to Clean a Diamond Ring the Right Way
Jun 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 104 104 recommendations | email to a friend
If you have been struggling to sell diamonds for top price, the chances are that you’ve been cleaning your ring incorrectly. Remember nothing can sell diamonds quite like that shiny sparkle and lus...
Texting and Driving FAQs
Jun 14, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 178 178 recommendations | email to a friend
Texting and Driving Is the Most Alarming Form of Distracted Driving Texting and driving includes reading text messages, emails or online material or writing or composing messages on a mobile device...
Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
Jun 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 250 250 recommendations | email to a friend
How Would Your Small Business Fare with the IRS for Worker Status? Did you know that misclassifying workers is one of the top problems that small business owners face? Many small businesses hire in...
Do Your Work Policies Discriminate Between Men and Women?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 662 662 recommendations | email to a friend
One Set of Rules for Men and a Different Set of Rules for Women Having company policies that discriminate between men and women can be lethal for an employer in today’s work environment. If you hav...
Social Media: Should You Use Social Media in an Internal Investigation?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 743 743 recommendations | email to a friend
Investigating Employees Through Their Social Media Accounts Social media can provide a lot of information about people’s lives. Why would an employer want to know what an employee is doing through ...

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Bridge fail
Dear Editor: The photo op of Governor Andrew Cuomo driving across the new TappanZee Bridge spoke volumes concerning his commitment to the MTA and mass transit.   The new TappanZee Bridge provides n...
Sep 19, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 187 187 recommendations | email to a friend
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Climate change
Dear Editor, Harvey, Irma, Jose, Katia - all in the last few weeks. There are more and more severe hurricanes every year. What fuels the strength of these hurricanes? Warmer ocean temperatures. Why...
Sep 19, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 176 176 recommendations | email to a friend
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On London
Dear Editor, The London bombing on a packed underground train is appalling. These egregious and nefarious acts against innocent people are by cowards who have chosen hate over love. These evildoers...
Sep 19, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 170 170 recommendations | email to a friend
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Peninsula problems
Dear Editor, The situation with regard to North Korea is steadily worsening, and it may only be a matter of time before the U.S. and its Asian allies will have to take some form of military action ...
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Time for mutiny
Dear Editor:   In the 1954 movie “The Caine Mutiny,” Captain Phillip Francis Queeg (played by Humphrey Bogart) shows dangerous signs of paranoia as commander of a U.S. minesweeper. He lies to his o...
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 196 196 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fake news
Dear Editor  All the climate change claimers fail to pay attention to past history. Your September 7th issue of the Glendale Register included a reprint of the September 1, 1949,  Long Island Star ...
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 203 203 recommendations | email to a friend
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DeVos devoid
Dear Editor, Regarding top officials in the Trump administration such as Rex Tillerson and James Mattis publicly distancing themselves from the president, the elephant in the classroom (pun intende...
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 190 190 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Plane’ wrong
Dear Editor, Your caption in the August 31st edition for the 106th Rescue Wing effort at Francis S. Gabreski Base in Westhampton had the aircraft’s name wrong. The C-17 is called a "Globe” Master I...
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Bridge fail
Dear Editor: The photo op of Governor Andrew Cuomo driving across the new TappanZee Bridge spoke volumes concerning his commitment to the MTA and mass transit.   The new TappanZee Bridge provides n...
Sep 12, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 185 185 recommendations | email to a friend
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Arpaio's pardon
Dear Editor, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ran an Arizona jail that he described as a “concentration camp.” Prisoners there died at an alarming rate, often with no explanation. One of his jail...
Sep 05, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 206 206 recommendations | email to a friend
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Moya's gift
Dear Editor, In June 2014, Assemblyman Francisco Moya made a passionate and heartfelt commitment to oppose the city’s conversion of the Pan Am hotel on Queens boulevard into a massive shelter. In a...
Sep 05, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 198 198 recommendations | email to a friend
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It was slavery
Dear Editor, Joseph Manago of Flushing wrote in a Dispatch published in the August 17th issue "I suggest people thoroughly study the gravity of the underlying political and economic causes of the C...
Sep 05, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 208 208 recommendations | email to a friend
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'RAISE' up the US
Dear Editor, Your guest op-ed piece, "RAISE Act Would Be Bad for U.S. Economy," in the August 24th issue by Dev Viswanath and Michael Phulwani is wrong and President Donald Trump is correct. The RA...
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Lane-sanity
Dear Editor, As a New Yorker, I would like to see politicians or community boards stand up and say these bike lanes on major thoroughfares in Brooklyn and Queens was a huge mistake and a waste of t...
Aug 30, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 183 183 recommendations | email to a friend
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Women's role
Dear Editor, This past Saturday marked Women’s Equality Day, a celebration of women’s suffrage. The Women’s City Club of New York was founded 100 years ago in anticipation of the ratification of th...
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