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Astoria Characters: The Guy Who's At Your Service
Jun 27, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
It was a driver’s license that determined   Jaime Jinete’ s future. Jaime, the owner of   Nicole’s Cleaners , didn’t know much English when he came to America, but he was fluent when it came to the...
Astoria Characters: The Guy Who Wants To Help You Succeed
Jun 20, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Andre’s the organizing director of Zone 126. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Please, whatever you do, don’t say “project.” Andre T. Stith (that’s Smith with a T instea...
BOOK EXPO AMERICA 2017: Lots of great authors!
Jun 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 174 174 recommendations | email to a friend
  Article by Tiziano Thomas Dossena BEA’s annual encounter in New York (which by the way has missed a step last year by exhibiting in Chicago instead) started under a bad auspice on Wednesday, May ...
Insulation Material Suppliers
Jun 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 155 155 recommendations | email to a friend
Insulation Material Suppliers  is involved in offering an excellent range of Reflective Insulation which are offered in the different of specifications. The offered Reflective Insulation is can be ...
Astoria Characters: The Motorcycle Men
Jun 13, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling SL NYC is at 18-22 26th Road. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling A biker-black Dodge RAM pickup pulls up outside SL NYC and motorcycle man Sasha Alexander Lerner steps ou...
Understanding the Workers’ Compensation Medical Guidelines in New York
Jun 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 147 147 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Pyrros & Serres LLP :  Workers Compensation Attorneys ,   Workers Compensation Guidelines Queens |NYC| Brooklyn |Bronx Workers’ Compensation Attorneys How the Workers’ Compensation Medical Gui...
Long Island Car Crash Kills Teenager and Seriously Injures Two Others
Jun 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 148 148 recommendations | email to a friend
According to Suffolk County police, a deadly car crash occurred on May 20, just before 9:00 p.m. The driver lost control of his 1995 Mitsubishi and crashed into a tree on North Street, near the Sou...
SEX DISCRIMINATION IN THE MEDICAL FIELD
Jun 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 180 180 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans   | Jun 8, 2017 |   SEX DISCRIMINATION MEDICAL FIELD   | Sex discrimination occurs frequently in the medical field. It often manifests in the form of disparaging comments made ...
Astoria Characters: The Medium
Jun 06, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Alex The Medium is an Astoria native. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling “I’m just a regular guy who talks to this other guy,” says Alex Altomonte . The other guy, who is...
The Lady Or The Tiger: The Young Man Must Choose
May 31, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 280 280 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena Review by  Tiziano Thomas Dossena In a smooth and exciting style, Linda Costarella presents us a story that is meant to be the continuation of Frank R. Stockton’...

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Spreading fear
Dear Editor, We hear that the ICE raids on illegal aliens throughout our nation and New York City have brought needless panic to the immigrant communities in Queens. But 38 out of the 41 deportatio...
Feb 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 199 199 recommendations | email to a friend
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Clear choice
Dear Editor, Veronique "Ronnie" Hakim is an excellent choice as interim executive director of the MTA. She is an even better one to serve as the next permanent MTA President. As current New York Ci...
Feb 21, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 331 331 recommendations | email to a friend
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Other reactions
Dear Editor, Edward Riecks writes that there's a difference in how Republicans and Democrats react to loss and adversity (“Two Reactions” - 2/9). He argues that when Barack Obama won the presidency...
Feb 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 328 328 recommendations | email to a friend
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Impeachable "fact"
Dear Editor, Regarding Joyce Shepard's 2/9 letter "Impeach Trump," President Richard Nixon was not impeached as the letter stated. He resigned on August 9, 1974, while facing certain impeachment fo...
Feb 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 341 341 recommendations | email to a friend
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Freedom for some
Dear Editor, Is it not the height of hypocrisy that the same sources who claim Colin Kaepernick has a right not to stand for the national anthem deny conservatives the right to speak? Whether at co...
Feb 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 162 162 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thank you
Dear Editor, I loved your story on Father Paul Wood, our pastor at St. Stan's and Transfiguration Parishes. He will be greatly missed. Father Paul helped me so much, and I cannot begin to thank him...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 223 223 recommendations | email to a friend
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Just the 'facts'
Dear Editor, Teachers and students are set to reap huge benefits in this Trump era of “alternative facts.” For teachers, using alt-facts in their lessons will give them freedom to say whatever they...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 229 229 recommendations | email to a friend
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Failing grade
Dear Editor, The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which has had 80 percent of the cases they heard in the last ten years overruled at the Supreme Court, affirmed the temporary ...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 209 209 recommendations | email to a friend
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Free of guilt
Dear Editor, Politics by the lowest common denominator is dangerous and stupid. President Donald Trump’s ban on seven countries is bad because a poor girl cannot come here for an operation. And som...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 334 334 recommendations | email to a friend
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Find solutions
Dear Editor, I believe in freedom of speech, but I don't feel that someone who is in a leadership position should hold protests regarding President Donald Trump. Whether Mayor Bill de Blasio likes ...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 310 310 recommendations | email to a friend
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Good old etiquette
Dear Editor, The Transit Museum's "Transit Etiquette Exhibit" that opened on February 7 is worth the fare. Its theme, "How I Learned To Stop Spitting And Step Aside In 25 Languages," is just as rel...
Feb 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 204 204 recommendations | email to a friend
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Deport Trump
Dear Editor, Donald Trump in his executive order banned all Syrian refugees (mostly Muslim), from resettlement in the United States. Although under international law countries are not required to r...
Feb 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 235 235 recommendations | email to a friend
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Impeach Trump
Dear Editor, Do the people remember when President Richard Nixon made one very big mistake and was impeached? Nixon made one mistake in the eight months he sat in the Oval Office, while President D...
Feb 08, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 234 234 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some closure?
Dear Editor, Now that the police have a suspect in the brutal murder of Karina Vetrano, if found guilty he should rot in prison for the rest of his life for what he did to that poor, innocent woman...
Feb 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 243 243 recommendations | email to a friend
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Two reactions
Dear Editor, What a difference in how two sides react to loss and adversity. In 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidency, there were people who were unhappy about it and felt he was taking the nat...
Feb 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 381 381 recommendations | email to a friend
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