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Thursday, January 5, 2006

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Cops Spend the Holidays With Local Kids

The long arm of the law turned into an embrace for the community as big-hearted cops feted local children with a holiday party at the United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) facility in Flatbush.

Police brass and officers from the 70th Precinct joined festive
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How to start predicting your success for 2006

While growth may seem accidental to you, it need not be that way. The top businesses in your industry only stay that way by setting goals, properly executing strategies, and having a system of measurements. As you start to think and act like this, your
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Fix Taylor Law

The threat itself is disruptive.

The Taylor Law should be amended to prohibit public employees from setting a strike deadline or even making the threat of a strike, expressed or implied.
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Year of the gun

Ms. Akther did what almost anyone would do. She heard a noise on the street and went to her window to see what was happening. The bullet, allegedly fired in celebration by a young man home on leave from the Army, came through her window, killing Ms. Akthe
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Transit strike, part 2

We stand corrected. We have no evidence that the congressman spoke directly in favor of the strike. What we do know is that Rep. Weiner took the stage at a TWU rally after the rank-and-file had voted in favor of the illegal walkout. Speaker after speaker
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Good riddance

In a predawn raid last Thursday, the police shut down the Executive Motor Inn on North Conduit Avenue in Springfield Gardens. The alleged hot-sheets motel was padlocked in the culmination of a weeks-long undercover operation.

Police convinced a jud
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Officials haven’t a clue about parks

They, Ms. Lewandowski included, think that the way to improve a park is to sell it off piece by piece to private developers so that in the end instead of a viable park, we have a group of concrete structures abutting Meadow Lake to house not just a boatin
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Term limited legislatures provide positive changes

You should know that more than 3,000 muncipalities and a third of all cities with populations of 250,000 in the United States have term limitations. Forty states have gubernatorial term limits as does the presidency of this country. Term limits provide a
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King must resign Homeland Security job

According to Congressman King, our president was correct in forfeiting our first amendment rights so that the United States could win the war against “Islamic” terrorists. Congressman King’s defense of the president’s war policies
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TWU caused blue Christmas

This strike also put the public at risk. To begin with, the response time for ambulances and EMS workers did increase as they were trying to reach those that were seriously ill and needed to reach area hospitals, not to mention the score of accidents with
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Politicians have no shame

He says in his last paragraph: “Any politician who attempts to tamper with the will of the people through an end run within the City Council, will, in my opinion qualify for admission to the Political Hall of Shame.”

Oh, Mr. Haber, how

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