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Editorials August 1, 2007
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Editorial
National Night Out Is Boon To Community
      Last month, three individuals who do not deserve to be called human shot two police officers. One of the officers, Herman Yan, recovered, but his partner, 23-year-old Russel Timoshenko, was shot twice in the face and died after five days on life support.
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No North American Union!
To The Editor:
      Our press continues to misinform and un-inform us when we are not apprised of a very real threat to our freedom. The threat is the North American Union (NAU). Global elites have determined to merge our nation into a super-state where unelected bureaucrats, rather than our Congress, would determine...
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Toscano's Crystal Ball
To The Editor:
      Once again, "Queens Main Stage For State Senate Control Battle In 2008" (I On Politics by John Toscano, July 25) was a crystal ball into the political future by one of the best reporters in town.
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Has Questions For MTA
To The Editor:
      I have a few questions for the MTA Executive Director Lee Sander. #1- Whatever happened to the surplus that the MTA reported and that was to save the fare for a few years? #2 -What is the MTA doing to cut waste and trim the budget that would save the fare?
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Beg Pardon
      The article "Cooling Centers Open" in "News of the Neighborhoods" by Liz Goff ( Queens Gazette, July 25, page 28) incorrectly stated that cooling centers have been open since July 9. Cooling centers are open during extended periods of excessive heat, and the list of open centers changes and is co...
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Op-ed
Celebrating Income Inequality
BY ALEX EPSTEIN
      Democrat and Republican candidates for president are debating one another on nearly every issue, but nearly all are united on one thing: America faces a crisis of "income inequality". The rich are getting richer, the refrain goes, while the poor and middle class are held back by stagnating wages, ...
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