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Sackstein Sacktein & Lee, LLP Sponsors the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 84 84 recommendations | email to a friend
August 25–26, 2018: the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival in Nassau County on Long Island This year, Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP takes pride in being the lead sponsor of the SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festi...
Why You Have Legal Rights in Construction Accidents Involving Falling Objects
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
Can Injured workers and families who have lost their loved ones pursue lawsuits? By December of 2017, a construction site at 61 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea had been repeatedly cited for construction co...
Company Security and Surveillance: Where Should Employers Draw the Line?
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
Are Your Security and Surveillance Policies Violating Privacy Laws? Companies have the right to protect against internal theft or property destruction. They also have a responsibility to evaluate p...
Changes in New York State and NYC Sexual Harassment Laws
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
Sexual Harassment: Mandatory Arbitration and Nondisclosure Agreements The NY legislature passed changes in sexual harassment law that Governor Cuomo signed into law on April 17, 2018. These laws we...
Your Rights Regarding Medical Treatment after a Work Injury
Aug 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 76 76 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s common knowledge in New York that, in the event of a work-related injury, you have a right to seek medical attention and have the costs covered by the workers’ compensation insurance provider....
Honesty—The Best Policy in a Workers' Compensation Claim
Aug 07, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 202 202 recommendations | email to a friend
The Dangers of Overstating or Understating the Nature of Your Injury When you've been injured on the job in the state of New York, you have a right to seek workers' compensation benefits to cover y...
How to Survive as a Small Business Owner Among a Myriad of Laws & Regulations
Aug 07, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 84 84 recommendations | email to a friend
Laws Small Business Owners Should Know About Business laws have multiplied over the years and as a small business owner, you might feel overwhelmed because there are so many. Which laws take priori...
Jul 29, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 116 116 recommendations | email to a friend
MIDDLE VILLAGE YOUNG PEOPLE NOT WORKING
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 754 754 recommendations | email to a friend
MIDDLE VILLAGE-has more young people not working between 22 years of age to 40 years of age. They mostly live with their parents or parent. Imagine no guidance, no retirement plans, just existing d...
Over-packing Your Car Can Make Driving More Dangerous
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 179 179 recommendations | email to a friend
Packing Your Car Wisely for Vacations With warmer weather here and children out of school, many people are taking to the road for vacation trips. While you want to be sure you pack what you need to...

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De Blasio's money is no good here
When was the last time you heard of a politician turning down money? Elected officials will take all sorts of risks when it comes to raising money for their campaigns. Take the issue of straw donor...
Aug 15, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Going for broke? New ad attacks Williams
It looks like Governor Andrew Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul will have something else to go after Councilman Jumaane Williams for in his bid to take Hochul's job. Williams is running fo...
Aug 08, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yonel Letellier Sosa with supporters.
Special circumstances
An Assembly candidate in Queens won't let go of the special election earlier this year that sent his opponent to the state Assembly. Yonel Letellier Sosa, who is running against Assemblywoman Ari E...
Aug 08, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Better late than never, but for whom?
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer took to Twitter last week to forcefully correct his lukewarm position either for or against bike lanes on Skillman and 43rd avenues in his district. Community board 2 vo...
Jul 31, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo campaign scrambling to prove support
Governor Andrew Cuomo is working awfully hard to prove that people like him, they really, really like him. First, there was the whole small donor debacle. Ever since announcing her challenge to Cuo...
Jul 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Forget Cuomo's best buds with some choice buds
Concerned that state government is a corrupt cesspool full of people looking to get fat on the public's dime? Relax and take a hit of this, brah! There was more bad news for the administration of G...
Jul 18, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dominos keep falling after Crowley’s loss
New York City’s political class is still dealing with the aftershock of Joe Crowley’s stunning loss to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the congressional primary. The defeat has resulted in a flood of e...
Jul 11, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ocasio-Cortez takes down the machine
A first-time candidate made national headlines last week when she unseated longtime incumbent Congressman Joseph Crowley in the Democratic Primary. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory even made its ...
Jul 02, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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School safety out, but we get a CuomoTrain!
It seemed impossible, but lawmakers in Albany lowered the bar even further when it comes to partisan inaction, failing to get anything of consequence accomplished before the gavel fell on the end o...
Jun 26, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Molinaro: Cuomo throwing Cadillac taxpayer money
His love is bigger than a Cadillac, but one of his opponents wants the company to drive it right back. Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro sent a letter to Stephen Carlisle, president ...
Jun 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 66 66 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dillon jumps from 14th to the 7th
You might remember us chronicling the campaign of James Dillon, the candidate whose signs – partially in Spanish, nonetheless – we started seeing along Queens Boulevard last year, but knew little e...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 109 109 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boos and a Bronx cheer for a couple of mayors
It was rough couple of days last week for Mayor Bill de Blasio. A judge ruled that his office had to make public emails between the mayor and his staff because the inclusion of an outside consultan...
May 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 90 90 recommendations | email to a friend
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Queens assemblywomen (from left) Stacey Pheffer Amato, Alicia Hyndman, Vivian Cook, and Nily Rozic welcome Ari Espinal (center) to Albany.
New assemblywoman has to hit campaign trail
Ari Espinal doesn't have long to enjoy her recent election to the Assembly. Espinal was the lone person on the ballot in a special election to replace Francisco Moya, who represented the neighborho...
May 23, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 139 139 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pols fleeing from AG selection process
The taint surrounding the state legislature in Albany is so great that people would rather turn down a high-profile post like attorney general rather that be seen as in bed with New York's assembly...
May 15, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 129 129 recommendations | email to a friend
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With friends like these, who needs enemies?
It looks like one Republican candidate for the state senate in northeast Queens doesn't have to worry that much about a challenge from the Democratic Party. Rather, it's forces inside her own party...
May 09, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 144 144 recommendations | email to a friend
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