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How to Clean a Diamond Ring the Right Way
Jun 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 83 83 recommendations | email to a friend
If you have been struggling to sell diamonds for top price, the chances are that you’ve been cleaning your ring incorrectly. Remember nothing can sell diamonds quite like that shiny sparkle and lus...
Texting and Driving FAQs
Jun 14, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 121 121 recommendations | email to a friend
Texting and Driving Is the Most Alarming Form of Distracted Driving Texting and driving includes reading text messages, emails or online material or writing or composing messages on a mobile device...
Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
Jun 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 180 180 recommendations | email to a friend
How Would Your Small Business Fare with the IRS for Worker Status? Did you know that misclassifying workers is one of the top problems that small business owners face? Many small businesses hire in...
Do Your Work Policies Discriminate Between Men and Women?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 670 670 recommendations | email to a friend
One Set of Rules for Men and a Different Set of Rules for Women Having company policies that discriminate between men and women can be lethal for an employer in today’s work environment. If you hav...
Social Media: Should You Use Social Media in an Internal Investigation?
May 16, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 708 708 recommendations | email to a friend
Investigating Employees Through Their Social Media Accounts Social media can provide a lot of information about people’s lives. Why would an employer want to know what an employee is doing through ...
Adolph Caso, a voice for Italian Americans, decries the attacks on Columbus
May 14, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 498 498 recommendations | email to a friend
Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena I met Adolph Caso the first time at the International Book Show in New York City and he struck me as a person who loves books more than anything in the world. On...
Defensive Driving Can Prevent Accidents and Injuries and Also Save Lives
May 09, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 677 677 recommendations | email to a friend
Do you know how to drive defensively? Everyone has heard about defensive driving, but what does it mean to drive defensively? It certainly behooves drivers to find out because knowing and following...
Real Personal Injury Law Cases in NY: $73k Payout
Apr 30, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 1059 1059 recommendations | email to a friend
A story told by car accident victim in the NY Area: When I was 11 years old, I was in a car with my father, having some bonding moments while driving to fill up gas in the New York area. We were ha...
Dr. Mary Rorro, The “Violin Doc,” An Exclusive Interview
Apr 29, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 396 396 recommendations | email to a friend
An interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena She was nicknamed “The Violin Doc” in a book by Lisa Wong entitled “Scales to Scalpels, Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine;”  a talen...
How about positive news for a change
Apr 25, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 938 938 recommendations | email to a friend
Tired of the same news 24/7-Investigations, allegations, sexual harassment charges, what hat Melania is wearing, Trump always always denying everything. It really is sickening all over the news nig...

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Don't blame lanes
Dear editor, I am sorry to learn that Ben's Best will be closing on June 30. It's always sad to see a revered institution shutter its doors. However, I find Mr. Parker's assertion that the recently...
Jun 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Doing our job?
Dear Editor, It goes without saying how inhumane the policy of taking children from their families is, but what bothers me as much, and something that needs to be discussed, are the guards who are ...
Jun 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rude De Niro
Dear Editor, It was really in very bad taste that Robert De Niro made those rude comments about President Donald Trump during the Tony Awards on Sunday night. He owes the organizers of the Tony Awa...
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Plan off track
Dear Editor, The Regional Plan Association proposal to create a new transit hub at Sunnyside Yards and a unified Metro New York commuter rail system would never work. The idea of Long Island Rail R...
Jun 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rude De Niro II
Dear Editor, Actor Robert De Niro has stepped over the line by the dropping the F-word on stage during Sunday's Tony Award ceremonies. Adding more insult is the audience applauded. I'm appalled and...
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Top Ten Ways You Know You Are a Dictator
Dear Editor, We have a president who yearns to be a dictator. Here are 10 things that define a dictator. 1. You are a narcissist who likes putting his face and name on buildings. 2. You appoint fam...
Jun 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Moving memorial
Dear Editor, On behalf of myself and my whole family, I want to thank you for the coverage you gave to American Legion Post 118's Memorial Day ceremony, particularly their honoring my brother, Harr...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tell the truth
Dear Editor, For those disenfranchised and left behind by both political parties over two decades, Donald Trump provided the hope to level the playground. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats had no a...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Get screened
Dear Editor, Colon cancer screening is now being recommended for age 45 instead of 50. The American Cancer Society has put this recommendation out because of rising cases of colon cancer for people...
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The last Munchkin
Dear Editor, Jerry Maren, who portrayed the Lollipop Kid in the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz," was the last surviving Munchkin of the 125 little people who were in the film. I had the pleasure of...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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DeVos devoid
Dear Editor, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos should resign immediately. She has committed a gross offense against the Republicans’ twelfth commandment: “Thou shall not criticize America abroad.”...
Jun 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where's the flag?
Dear Editor, The sky was a little overcast, but the weather held up for the beginning of this year’s Maspeth Memorial Day Parade. Toward the end there were a few sprinkles, but that did not seem to...
Jun 06, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where's our ramp?
Dear Editor, Councilman Rory Lancman promised Kew Gardens Hills voters that a wheelchair ramp will be installed at the entrance to P.S. 164's gym in time for the September primaries. This would res...
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Plain obstruction
Dear Editor, It is obvious to many of us that a conspiracy to commit a widespread obstruction of justice to protect and keep a president from being indicted or impeached is being done in open sight...
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Quoting collusion
Dear Editor, One old quotation and an old English proverb come to my mind when I watch what is going on with the investigation of the so-called "Russian collusion.” The old quotation belongs to Con...
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