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Published September 17Dolph Lundgren brings his personal fight to Long Island
There’s an old saying that goes that it’s not the size of the dog in a fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. For actor/producer/director Dolph Lundgren, both the dog and the fight are pretty large given the fact that the Swedish native has spent the past decade fighting…
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Published September 14Billy Joel Opens Up About NPH Health Struggles
The Piano Man is taking a break from the keys — and for good reason. Hamptons homeowner Billy Joel is opening up about his health, revealing new details about his diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH. The 77-year-old shared an update on his self-titled SiriusXM…
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Published September 14This Holbrook special needs couple is a ‘match made in heaven’
He calls her “My peach.” She says he is “sexy.” Those would be very ordinary comments from just about any every-day couple. But Joe and Gretchen Van Horst are not your every-day ordinary couple. Joe, 44, is autistic. Gretchen, 45, has Down’s syndrome. They are celebrating their…
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Published September 13Geraldo Rivera: The future is here
“Self-improving super intelligence.” If that phrase doesn’t scare the stuffing out of you, you are a very cool customer. In a world already threatened by rogue nations possessing nuclear weapons, while other equally sinister countries dabble in bioweapons, now comes this:…
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Published September 13Op-Ed: we cannot go back on disability rights
I have spent more than five decades working to ensure that people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities have the opportunity to live full, meaningful lives in communities they call home. That journey began in the aftermath of Willowbrook State School. The…
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Published September 13OpEd: A convenient place to hide from antisemitism
Not long ago I was texting with a colleague I have known for years, a serious person who has spent a long career in and around public life. We were talking about the antisemitism rising inside his own party, the kind now coming from newly elected officials who no longer bother to…
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Published September 13Bill O’Reilly: Because the Day is Evil
It is noble that the United States honors the innocent victims as well as the first responders on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack. But that nobility is not universally shared. The terror brigades directed by Iran are still operating and that country continues to…
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Published September 09The Call to Service that Fire Island Ferries Answered in the Aftermath of September 11
The terror of September 11, 2001, was a day that changed New Yorkers and Americans alike. On that sunny Tuesday morning, half of the 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 from Logan Airport in Boston. Within a little more than…
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Published September 089/11 still emotionally impacts many New Yorkers, polls finds
Days before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a majority of people on Long Island and in New York City say the emotional impact remains vivid and ‘still raw,’ according to a Mount Sinai South Nassau “Truth in Medicine” poll. Roughly two-thirds (66%) of…
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Published September 06Geraldo Rivera Column: Crazy
Start with this: you must be crazy to strangle your three little children to death. Only an insane person would commit a crime so vile and horrifying. When the Lindsay Clancy case broke, most people I know were outraged by the terrible deed. My mind was made up as her trial…
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Published September 06Op-Ed: Grandparenting: a gift that goes both ways
Every time I drive on Ocean Parkway, the road that runs along Long Island’s South Shore, I think of my grandfather and the fishing trips we took together decades ago. For a few seconds, the excitement I felt as a boy comes rushing back to my grown-up self. I sometimes wonder if…
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Published September 02The diversity of villages and how history can shed light on the present
Tenth and last in a series. A major theme of this article series has been that villages are incredibly diverse, and I wanted to end with a look at how disparate Long Island’s 96 villages are and why that might be. While most of Long Island’s villages are quite small, it is also…