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How Dangerous Is Texting While Driving Compared with Drunk Driving?
Oct 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Why Texting While Driving May Be More Dangerous than DWI It may come as a surprise that texting while driving is more worrisome to the majority of drivers than drunk driving. This is true despite t...
PUTIN IS THE PUPPET MASTER OF TRUMP
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THE UNTHINKABLE A time for change. A time for aiding and delivering services to our adversary to help accomplish something they could never do on their own. An aggressive Country for over 100 years...
What the New Anti-Sexual Harassment Law Means for NY Employers
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 108 108 recommendations | email to a friend
Is There Liability You Could Face that You Did Not Face in the Past? The NYS new anti-harassment law has a number of sweeping changes. For one, it applies to all protected classes under New York Hu...
OPENING A FRANCHISE BUSINESS DOESN'T GUARANTEE SUCCESS
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INTERVIEW WITH RIDGEWOOD REAL ESTATE BROKER Anthony Carbi Look at Taco Bell they have Beefy Fritos Burrito for $1.00 dollar. We are talking about maybe half of the $3.49 cents as a profit. Or $1.74...
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Example you rent a store for $6,000 dollars. You still have to pay electric, heat, water and at least two salary’s for someone to open and close the place besides serving customers weekly. So now y...
HOW CAN A BUSINESS/FRANCHISE OWNER MAKE MONEY TODAY?
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Example you rent a store for $6,000 dollars. You still have to pay electric, heat, water and at least two salary’s for someone to open and close the place besides serving customers weekly. So now y...
Register Now for Fall Dance in Forest Hills!
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 252 252 recommendations | email to a friend
The fall session of children's dance classes at the Commonpoint Queens Central Queens School of Dance begins this Sunday, September 15. Space is still available in our Sunday Ballet/Tap class for 5...
Elevator Accident: New York Premises Liability Law
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1050 1050 recommendations | email to a friend
Tragic Elevator Accident from a Legal Perspective A fatal elevator accident occurred at a 23-story Manhattan apartment building near the end of August. The elevator malfunction killed a 30-year old...
Falls from Ladders Can Result in Serious Injury or Death
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1053 1053 recommendations | email to a friend
Safety Tips from OSHA to Avoid Falling from a Ladder Falls from ladders are the leading cause of death in the construction industry. In fact, according to   OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Adm...
The Van De Water Law Firm, P.C. Opens New Office
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1040 1040 recommendations | email to a friend
The Long Island firm has relocated its office to Woodbury, New York Press Release - updated: Sep 11, 2019 20:28 EDT WOODBURY, N.Y., September 11, 2019 (Newswire.com) - The Van De Water Law Firm, P....

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Ride in time
Dear Editor, Participating in the New York Transit Museum Nostalgia Ride on September 29 on the Q line from Brighton Beach to Coney Island was a great trip into long-forgotten history. The oldest w...
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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One library
Dear Editor, Former councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley urged for "Queens Library Equity” in a recent op-ed piece. Citing $200 million in unfunded capital needs for the 66 libraries in Queens, she calle...
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Zoo stunt
Dear Editor, The woman who managed to get into the lion exhibit at the Bronx Zoo is a total idiot! What would possess anyone with half a brain to do such a dangerous thing? Certainly, she should be...
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Help the homeless
Dear Editor, Four homeless men were killed on sidewalks of Chinatown by a mentally ill man named Rodriguez Santos, who with his criminal record of violence should never have been on the street. May...
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F for de Blasio
Dear Editor, As the saga at Maspeth High School continues to grow, we now have a new player to add to this disgraceful conduct: our illustrious mayor. Mayor Bill de Blasio was apparently made aware...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Why the hate?
Dear Editor, I am bothered by the number of my fellow Americans who have expressed vitriol and hatred for President Donald Trump, who after two years of exhaustive expensive investigations was foun...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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English only
Dear Editor, Regarding your recent article on a Queens College professor preserving the world's dialects, as a Queens College graduate I respect professor Daniel Kaufman's efforts to preserve nearl...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Count every vote
Dear Editor, The Electoral College is obsolete. Why have voting booths in Hawaii and Alaska when election is over before voters even wake up? The elections lost by the Democratic Party were not los...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mincing words
Dear Editor, I enjoy the editorial and Dispatch pages, and notice this newspaper has joined the national media and Democratic Party by using the word "progressive" in place of "liberal". As it is n...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Help city’s vets
Dear Editor, As reported in the media, the budget for the city's veteran services agency has increased 70 percent, but homeless veterans got less for housing and other services. Why? I am a veteran...
Oct 02, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Need for light
Dear Editor, This fall's school semester marks the 70th anniversary of P.S. 164 in Kew Gardens Hills. I was part of the inaugural class in 1949 and the first graduating class in 1951. But when 2019...
Sep 23, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 81 81 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pay as you go
Dear Editor, Democrats doubled our national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion over eight years under President Barack Obama. Republicans under President Donald Trump added $2 trillion more ove...
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Vaping control
Dear Editor, President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency has decided to attack the environment, basically allowing more pollutants to be released into rivers and streams, and Trump's E...
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Tougher codes
Dear Editor, Even though our region does not get struck by hurricanes very often, we have had our share. Hurricane Sandy alone damaged and destroyed nearly 100,000 homes on Long Island. After Hurri...
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Fragmented left
Dear Editor, The solution to the plethora of Leftist parties and movements is to be found in Vladimir Lenin's 1902 work, What Is to Be Done? Only a vanguard party with a centralized leadership and ...
Sep 18, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 62 62 recommendations | email to a friend
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