QNS News Headlines Archive for January 13, 2005

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The challenge

In 2003, the Court of Appeals ruled in the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that the state has been under-funding city schools. Last month a court-appointed panel said funding for city schools must increase by as much as $23 billion by 2008.

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Fair pay

Although murder and other violent crime rates continue to decline, being a New York City police offer remains one of the most dangerous jobs in America. Although we’d like to see the city’s police get a better deal, we don’t for a moment

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Madness

Witnesses say Adams exchanged words with a young man on the way into the theater who “didn’t like the way he was looking at him.” When Adams and Collado, along with another man and two girls left the theater, the group was waiting for th

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Tilting at Windmills

Said state Sen. John Sabini (D-Jackson Heights), “The voters clearly want it. The interest groups clearly want it. The media wants it and Monday will tell. And I don’t want to see guys holding press conferences in 2006 talking about reform whe

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Sports betting editorial presents fallacious argument

You decry the proposal to legalize sports betting. You say that you agree with state Sen. Frank Padavan’s slippery slope reference. That they want to earmark it for education is just to make it more palatable. It could really go anywhere.

Tha

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City administration’s plans on bus strike inadequate

The City Council is very concerned about the bus strike in Queens and Brooklyn. We would like to offer our services to help mediate the dispute between the administration and the unions representing the Green Bus Line and Command Bus Company. Unless a qui

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Great injustice to P.S. 130 residents

Her statement that “any child zoned for Region 3 can attend a school in that region by application” is absolutely incorrect.

Bayside pupils residing north, south and east of P.S. 130 in Bayside, located on the east side of Francis Lewis

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Another all-Korean billboard on Northern

Guess what, folks? Not only was the billboard not removed, but a new, all-Korean billboard has just replaced it.

Is anyone going to do anything about this? Just how much more of this do we have to take?

NICOLA FRESSLE

Bayside

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Tougher sports fan laws are required

The editorial states that the recent Detroit Pistons brawl was “an ugly incident that could just as easily have been tragic. But we don’t see the need for new legislation. The city already has a law that can result in jail time for a fan who i

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Wal-Mart is anti-labor

Wal-Mart’s average employee earns 20 percent ($8.23) less per hour than an average supermarket worker ($10.35). Wal-Mart has been accused of forcing employees to work off the clock, doctoring time sheets and intimidating people who want to join a un

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