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NYC Bans Polystyrene Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups
Feb 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 101 101 recommendations | email to a friend
Judge Upholds the 2013 Law Banning Polystyrene for Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups In 2019 restaurants must begin phasing polystyrene cups and containers out of use. This change is a result of a...
Has Your Loved One Been the Victim of Nursing Home Neglect?
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 186 186 recommendations | email to a friend
How Does Neglect Differ from Abuse? Finding out whether your parent, relative or friend has been the victim of nursing home neglect is vital for their wellbeing. Sadly, many elderly people are in s...
Matter of Van Patten—Undue Influence
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 178 178 recommendations | email to a friend
Probate Administration | Wrongful Actions There are certain basic legal requirements when a person transfers property, conveys a power of attorney or establishes a plan for the distribution of an e...
Legal Concerns for New York Restaurant Owners
Feb 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 187 187 recommendations | email to a friend
If you’re opening a new restaurant in New York City or the surrounding area, there are certain legal requirements you must put in place. You will need to choose a business entity and get your licen...
Certain questions are taboo for employers to ask in a job interview. The most obvious ones are questions that could be regarded as discrimination. If you ask these types of questions, you could be held liable if a discrimination lawsuit is brought against you. Do not ask questions that intimate at anything to do with age, race, color, national origin or birthplace, religion, disability, genetic information, gender/sex or marital/family status/pregnancy. (EEOC)
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2019 Is Here with New Salary Thresholds The New York State overtime salary threshold draws the line between exempt salaried workers, who must be paid for overtime, and those non-exempt workers, who...
MASPETH,NY-BUYING A BRICK 2F. VS A FRAME 2F.
Feb 05, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 372 372 recommendations | email to a friend
COLLECTION OF OPINIONS BY BROKERS IN THE AREA. BUYER BEWARE! BIG DIFFERENCE WHEN BUYING AN OLD FRAME 2F. HOME, MAYBE 100 YEARS OLD BY NOW, AND OR BUYING A YOUNG BRICK 2 FAMILY HOUSE, ESPECIALLY IF ...
Trump supporters still in denial-Why?
Jan 25, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 660 660 recommendations | email to a friend
How many Americans   are Pro Trump today, January 25, 2019?   It is hard to imagine, whether those who are still supportive of Trump knowing all the evidence put out so far, like how many staffers ...
Who's to blame the Parent or the two year old?
Jan 21, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 126 126 recommendations | email to a friend
Your opinion is needed to try and wake up the common sense in some people please! A child who seems to always get sick but walks around the house barefooted in below freezing weather Do parents hav...
Leo Vadalà’s “Some Grief, Some Joy” Will Move The Reader...
Jan 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 602 602 recommendations | email to a friend
Review by Tiziano Thomas Dossena Historical fiction  is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. The term is commonly used as a synonym for the  historical n...
The Ever Changing World of Web Design & Websites
Jan 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 678 678 recommendations | email to a friend
A Brief Look Back and Look Forward at Websites It's a fact that the world of web design and websites is ever changing. New improvements in design and technology emerge all the time. Can you imagine...

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Preservation row
Dear Editor, I read the recent column by Michael Perlman about preserving the rowhouses in Forest Hills, why doesn't the Central Queens Historical Association stop the destruction of the beautiful ...
Feb 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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LIC transit
Dear Editor, Regarding the recent editorial "Regardless of Amazon, invest in LIC infrastructure," it should include improved transportation access. Record construction in Long Island City has not b...
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Jobs stolen
Dear Editor, It's heartbreaking that a handful of upper-middle-class pseudo-socialists were able to steal hundreds of good jobs from the working-class people of Queensbridge Houses and the rest of ...
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No hope in dope
Dear Editor, Much thanks for publishing my letter "Is Cuomo High" in the February 5th issue. Interestingly, I grew up in the era of the hippies when cannabis, LSD, et al., were the sacred drugs, bu...
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Praise for DiMarzio
Dear Editor, I would like to thank Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio for all he has tried to do during the ongoing clergy sex abuse crisis. Bishop DiMarzio has sought to create a program of reconciliation u...
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Another shooting
Dear Editor, The latest shooting in Aurora, Illinois, that killed five and injured five others is yet another reason to significantly limit the abilities of people to purchase guns in this country....
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Taxing issue
Dear Editor, Dispatcher Ed Konecnik recently called Democrats as Marxists and Leninists, and claims they want wealth distribution. More like wealth redistribution from the thieving CEO's and corpor...
Feb 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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BQX dreams
Dear Editor, It is wishful thinking that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) would pay for up to 50 percent of the $2.8 billion cost of the BQX. Mayor Bill de Blasio, Borough President Melinda...
Feb 13, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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#NonprofitsToo
Dear Editor, The organization I lead, a nonprofit consulting firm called Community Resource Exchange, serves upwards of 500 nonprofits annually. In the past year, we have seen an uptick in requests...
Feb 13, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lacking intelligence
Dear Editor, The intelligence leaders of our nation testified as to their joint opinion of the threats confronting the nation. Their testimony was in stark contrast to that stated by President Dona...
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Goldwater standard
Dear Editor, The modern-day conservative movement's founding father, late Arizona Senator and 1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, would have been disappointed in the recent Supr...
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Is Cuomo high?
Dear Editor, Marijuana possessed and smoked in public for recreation is neither safe for driving nor for secondhand smoke exposure for non-users. Further, cannabis is not a safe drug for general pr...
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Trump’s shutdown
Dear Editor, Republicans continue to blame Democrats more for the Trump shutdown. Odd, seeing as Trump promised Mexico would pay for his wall, and when Republicans controlled the House and the Sena...
Feb 05, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boot the hacks!
Dear Editor, Governor Andrew Cuomo's minor improvements in election law are shameful. He just couldn't find the political courage to touch term limits and reduce the number of signatures needed to ...
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Awful attack
Dear Editor, Wilfredo Arce, a 62-year old elderly Navy Veteran down on his luck, was attacked in a NYCHA building in Brooklyn. This horrendous act upon an elderly man who served our country is appa...
Feb 05, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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