Editorial
LIRR Begins Closing Platform Gaps
     On August 5 of this year, Natalie Smead, an 18-year-old tourist from Northfield, Minnesota, slipped through a gap between a Long Island Rail Road train and the platform at the Woodside station. Smead was killed after she crawled under the concrete platform and was struck by a train on the other side
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     Dist. Belongs To The People To The Editor: I was reading in the paper remarks against Senator Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose) by Democratic state Senate contender Nora Marino. She called him a Republican and, noting that Padavan's signs and literature omit his Republican Party affiliation, Marino calle
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Op-ed
2006 Midterm Election: The War In Iraq
BY MICHAEL CAMARINOS
     While there are many issues facing voters in the 2006 midterm election season, one stands out as the most important. The War in Iraq has been a long and contentious conflict that will ultimately decide many close congressional and senatorial elections. On March 19, 2003, the United States of America
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