Armenian Genocide Should Be Acknowledged
Editorial
      Ninety-two years ago the Ottoman Empire made a last-ditch effort to regain some of the prestige and glory it had enjoyed some 300 years earlier at the height of its power. At the end of that last gasp of a dying regime, one and a half million people of Armenian descent were driven out of the homes...
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Happy 70th Birthday, Queens College
      Seventy years ago 400 students walked onto a campus that was still a-building and matriculated at a new institution. Today, more than 18,000 students are enrolled at Queens College, long considered to be a jewel in the crown of the City University of New York (CUNY)- an institution founded some 24...
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Licenses And Illegals
      To The editor: I can't think of a more ridiculous law approved by Governor [Eliot] Spitzer than the one that approves the issuing of drivers' licenses to illegal aliens. This N.Y. state law is also vehemently opposed by City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr.
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Deserves Renaming
      To The Editor: I would at this time like to applaud Community Board 11 who voted in favor of renaming a street in Douglaston after the late Rev. John J. Gribbon, who served 37 years at St. Anastasia Parish. Now the reason 1 commend this action is because I had known Father Gribbon for many years....
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Water Rate Hikes Unfair
      To The Editor: I was dismayed upon hearing on the local radio and TV news programs that water bills will rise to an exorbitant increase. With Con Edison bills on the increase, fuel oil and gasoline price increases and the general cost of living increasing, how can New Yorkers afford to pay for wa...
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Can't Forecast Weather
      To The Editor: Here we are nearly two-thirds of the way through hurricane season and once again, nothing has happened along the East Coast. The predictions of the so-called experts have once again not come to pass, like all the predictions the weather people make.
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Trees Present Problems
      A copy of the following letter was received by the Gazette. Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor City of New York City Hall New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor Bloomberg: I am writing to express my deep concern about a growing problem, literally, that I have witnessed in certain areas of my district...
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