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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

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Instructional leaders not by merit or principle

First, he has eliminated instructional experience as a job requirement and replaced it with a pre-civil service eligibility based on cronyism and secrecy. Second, to accomplish this he has set up a corporate funded yet taxpayer supported Leadership Academ
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Why don’t police officers get traffic summonses?

Police officers are supposed to be law enforcers. Why then do they not obey the very laws they are here to enforce? A society exists only when all its citizens obey the laws.

I own a building in Long Island City that is approximately one half block
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The similarity between Bush and Kerry

Skull & Bones is intimately tied to semi-secret globalist organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers, which have come to dominate U.S. political and economic policy as to constitute a separa
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Large events unsuitable for New York City

Third, the high cost of additional security is probably greater than the income that will be generated. The additional expenses will probably come out of city revenue while the benefits go to only a few sectors of our economy such as hotels and restaurant
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Another great month at Woodhaven, with more to come

But as our summer is passing, the hot days are fewer and our rainy days have increased. So, at this time I hope that our cool days heat up, and that the rain cools down.

But we were lucky when we got a beautiful warm evening for the National Night
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Running out of gas

Pamar leased two gas stations in Queens, one in Long Island City for 15 years and one in College Point since 1999. Pamar said that after LukOil acquired Getty it raised his monthly rent from $3,000 to $9,000 and slashed his commissions.

At those pr
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Irish eyes aren’t smiling

The building that now houses the Irish restaurant has already been sod to a group of investors from Flushing and Bayside. Frank Mockler and his brother sold Irish coffee and the World’s Fair in 1964 and opened the restaurant soon after the fair was
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Don’t ask

The new program would require hospitals to ask patients if they are in this country illegally. Do they honestly think that people who risked their lives to enter this country illegally are suddenly going to confess and risk deportation just to get a flu s
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It takes a village

Last week the City Council approved a plan to rezone the light industrial areas of Hunters Point on the western shore of Queens, creating upscale townhouses where factories used to be. If the zoning ultimately succeeds, expensive apartments and trendy sho
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Why can’t Bayside get a moratorium?

Although the killers operating in this area are known to elected officials, they continue to disregard the New Property Civic Association and other civic associations’ demand for a moratorium to stop the brutal murder of landmark homes.

Yes,
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Youths create real nuisance

They say it is no longer a crime and that police can only arrest someone if they are loitering for the purpose of buying or selling drugs, gambling, panhandling or soliciting sex.

Apparently, trying to navigate through a sea of 20-30 youths who oft
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Zoning changes will help preserve communities

This change, if enacted, would address a serious overdevelopment problem facing our community as well as the rest of the residential areas of our city. It would end a loophole in the present code that allows developers to construct oversized structures (M

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