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April 20, 2006
Keep these kids stationed here
'This club has kept me off the street and kept me out of the gang."
April 19, 2006
Stereotypes all over this case
A rich kid. A white boy. A jock. Collin Finnerty, one of Long Island's own, was arrested early yesterday on charges of raping and kidnapping a black stripper hired to dance at an off-campus party.
April 7, 2006
Trial marks opening of a Suffolk cesspool
Steve Levy, the top elected official in Suffolk County. Fred Pollert, Paul Sabatino and Kevin Law, all of whom are high-ranking members of Levy's administration.
April 4, 2006
LI kids look at the face of genocide in Darfur
What does the slaughter of innocents a continent away have to do with busy people like you and me? Not much. Not much at all.
April 2, 2006
LI could become integration model
Wouldn't it be grand if Long Island became known for something other than Farmingville, where undocumented workers gather on street corners looking for work and often live in overcrowded houses, in the debate over illegal immigration?
March 28, 2006
Bearing witness, baring hard truths
Every elected official on Long Island should be required to drop by the trial of Wayne Prospect, the former Suffolk County legislator turned consultant extraordinaire.
March 23, 2006
A Cradle with links to history
Kathy Wojcieszak left her long white scarf at the Cradle of Aviation museum in Mitchel Field almost three years ago. It was still there yesterday, streaming behind a pilot in a plane hanging from the lobby's ceiling.
March 15, 2006
Property-tax-relief bandwagon gets a push
It's high time Long Island politicians did more than rail against the region's hefty property tax burden. The question is how far are they - and we - willing to go for solutions.
March 14, 2006
In death we see what's in a name
A man without a name lies in the Suffolk County morgue.
March 10, 2006
A man of decisions
There's decisions to be made and grief that has to be taken," Pete McGowan told a group of reporters and editors five years ago. The sentiment, so unusual from a politician, hung on my office bulletin board for years.
March 10, 2006
A man of decisions
There's decisions to be made and grief that has to be taken," Pete McGowan told a group of reporters and editors five years ago. The sentiment, so unusual from a politician, hung on my office bulletin board for years.
March 9, 2006
First step toward solution
Mr. Levy went to Washington this week. And he took a collection of officials who merit serious consideration from President George W. Bush.
March 7, 2006
Women's hearts are in their beats
For the next six months, Nassau County Police Officer Allison Beyerlein is working in the police academy. It's a temporary assignment and she's bound to excel. But Beyerlein's heart is in the Fifth Precinct, in Elmont. She's worked patrol there 12 years.
February 28, 2006
Students are the principal concern
What happened in Vermont didn't stay in Vermont.
February 26, 2006
Tom assures Nassau's not out of sight
Someone called with a suggestion recently for a two-page graphic in the center of Newsday: A state map showing every stop Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has made campaigning for governor.
February 24, 2006
Teach our students horror of lynchings
Here's a Black History Month story I never want to write again.
February 14, 2006
Vigil before death is a family duty
SPRINGFIELD, Va.
February 8, 2006
Readers tell how to cut sky-high taxes
What services would you give up to hold down property taxes? I threw out the question last week and received some fascinating answers.
February 2, 2006
In Nassau, no work, all pay
The Nassau County Legislature has given us a month of nothing.
January 31, 2006
Taken to school on taxes
Long Islanders talk about taxes as if they were some demon jumping, unbidden, onto our backs and beating us senseless.
Email: joye.brown@newsday.com
