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How Dangerous Is Texting While Driving Compared with Drunk Driving?
Oct 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 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...
What the New Anti-Sexual Harassment Law Means for NY Employers
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 211 211 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
Oct 04, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 298 298 recommendations | email to a friend
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 | 298 298 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 | 1104 1104 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 | 265 265 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 | 1096 1096 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....
Details of the NY Anti-Sexual Harassment Law for 2019
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 981 981 recommendations | email to a friend
The New NY Anti-Sexual Harassment Law: What Employers Should Know Additional New York State anti-sexual harassment law protections came into existence in August 2019. Under the new law, sexual hara...

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Public debacle
Dear Editor, Words cannot describe the embarrassment of the public hearing at Christ the King. Now that this debacle is over, the buck is being passed back and forth as to whose public hearing it a...
Oct 16, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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End of the line
Dear Editor, The MTA finally released the Rockaway Beach LIRR Restoration study on the eve of Yom Kippur, hoping no one would notice. It was dated September 2018. Perhaps they did not want to embar...
Oct 16, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bestowing or imposing?
Dear Editor, The transformed Democratic Party has embraced the failed misguided notions and promise of a utopia as articulated in article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rig...
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Mets lose, radio wins
Dear Editor, The Mets fired manager Mickey Callaway after two seasons because his team failed to land a wild card spot in the playoffs. As a Mets fan since 1964, I was thrilled when they won the 19...
Oct 16, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Impeachment endgame
Dear Editor, As President Donald Trump was walking into the United Nations, he heard that he was being impeached. "What did I do now?” he asked members of the media. Evidently even he can't keep tr...
Oct 16, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 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...
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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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 | 34 34 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 | 31 31 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 | 40 40 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 | 25 25 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 | 42 42 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 | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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