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1 BR Coop for Sale @ Station Square in Forest Hills Gardens!!!
Jun 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 63 63 recommendations | email to a friend
Privacy and convenience are featured in this lovely Forest Hills Gardens Coop for sale. Offered for sale by George & Abigail Herrera of the Queens Home Team @ Keller Williams Realty Landmark II. T...
11th Annual RELAY FOR LIFE of Middle Village
Jun 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 137 137 recommendations | email to a friend
The American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE is a unique celebration of life in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by cancer.  Relay for Life involves teams of people who ta...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: June 2013
Jun 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 129 129 recommendations | email to a friend
June 2013 Queens Market Update The recovery of the Queens housing market now appears to be well under way. While demand is still high even with credit conditions constraining buyers...
Is your sexual harassment policy effective?
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 111 111 recommendations | email to a friend
In our politically correct and litigious world, employers need to establish strong and specific policies regarding sexual harassment.  Not only is this behavior against the law but if a sexual har...
NY Estate Probate Attorney talks about Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 106 106 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are an executor of an estate or an administrator of a trust, you are considered a fiduciary.  In either position you are required by law to ethically fulfill your fiduciary duties which are...
Business Owners Beware - Part 2
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 112 112 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 Employee testing & more… Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95...
Business Owners Beware
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 114 114 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 It might be your employees... Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year a...
NY Personal Injury Lawyers: The Importance of Treating Clients like Family
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 110 110 recommendations | email to a friend
Our Family Serving Yours for Over 60 Years When you suffer a serious injury, there is nothing more comforting than having caring family members at your side. Their support is part of the reco...
Brooklyn New York Divorce Attorney talks about NY Divorce Law Overhaul
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 104 104 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are looking for a shock and a laugh today, take a peek at . You’ll find a list of some of the silly, strange and/or outdated laws that are still technically in place in New York and New J...
Warning: Your social media policies may get you in trouble with the NLRB
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 110 110 recommendations | email to a friend
As social media becomes the norm in everyday life, federal regulators are getting touchy about employers creating policies that limit what employees can say online. In the past, employers ha...

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Dear Editor: I really had to laugh at the March 7th Dispatch of one Nicholas Zizelis speaking about the great philanderer Bill Clinton receiving a prize from the Lincoln Presidential Library Founda...
Mar 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Butt out!
Dear Editor: In 1776, the American people kicked out the tyrant King George III. With this, we the people became the sovereigns. Someone should remind the president, the governor, and the mayor tha...
Mar 26, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Quinn needs to run or serve, not both
Dear Editor: Remember past City Council Speakers Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone, Sr. both lost their respective Democratic mayoral primaries. ("Quinn kicks off bid with five-borough tour" - Andre...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Candidate Thompson missed the point in op-ed
Dear Editor: I was disappointed by mayoral candidate and former comptroller William Thompson’s op-ed last week that the city “systemically” overlooks local media in allotting funds for public serv...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Quinn not fit for public office
Dear Editor: A dangerous political phenomenon is the recent announcement of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's candidacy for mayor. A few simple facts will suffice to show why she is unsuitable...
Mar 22, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Curran will be missed
Dear Editor: The death of basketball coach Jack Curran is a very sad loss for Archbishop Molloy High School, the city, and the country. During his long and distinguished career he worked tirelessly...
Mar 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Grabbing headlines
Dear Editor: Along with many other New Yorkers, my condolences go out to the family and friends of Raizel and Nachman Glauber. However, why after all these years do Assemblyman David Weprin and Sta...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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If elected, let's hope she can pull it off
Dear Editor: Speaker Christine Quinn made it official and is running for mayor of one of our country's greatest cities. If elected she would be the first openly gay woman to hold this office. Now,...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Don't destroy a successful program
Dear Editor: On March 6, the PTA of P.S. 122 held a massive rally that filled the school’s auditorium with concerned parents, teachers, kids, educators and legislators. The reason: the Department o...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Feds shouldn't tell us what to eat
Dear Editor: There seems to be an international war on obesity. Among the world's industrialized nations, the United States bears the dubious distinction of being the world's fattest. In 1992, the ...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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The church is broke?
Dear Editor: I was just wondering where the church gets the money for the splendor of Vatican City and the millions to pay for the pedophile priest lawsuits, yet is impoverished when it comes to ke...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to think outside the (mail)box
Dear Editor: With last year's $16 billion loss, combined with another increase in the price of stamps to 46 cents for a first-class letter, now "USPS announces that it will stop delivering on Satur...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rubio's rebuttal a joke
Dear Editor: Marco Rubio's rebuttal to the State of the Union speech was a rehash of the embarrassing speech that he gave at the Republican National Convention. From the rebuttal, one could tell th...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Help fight city's plan for permanent toilets
Dear Editor: I just came from a Community Board 14 meeting with the Parks Department. The Parks Department, without community involvement, has unilaterally decided to to build permanent bathrooms a...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Keep up the battle for Brooklyn
Dear Editor: I just finished watching the documentary Battle for Brooklyn and I was moved by your fight against the abuse of our democracy. I am from Illinois, and we know bad government and politi...
Feb 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Demonstrators shout anti-government slogans behind a banner during one of many protests around Brazil's major cities in Sao PauloBy Todd Benson SAO PAULO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued in some cities around the country. Speaking the morning after more than 200,000 Brazilians marched in over a half-dozen cities, Rousseff said her government remains committed to social change and is listening attentively to the many grievances expressed at the demonstrations. "Brazil woke up stronger today," Rousseff said in a televised speech in ...


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Protestors gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)SAO PAULO (AP) — Protesters surrounding the city hall of Brazil's biggest city have clashed with police when a small group of demonstrators tried to force their way into the building.


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Law enforcement officials from the Michigan State Police help search the area in Oakland Township, Mich., Tuesday, June 18, 2013 where officials continue the search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The latest possible resting place of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers.


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