Best Wishes Of The Season To One And All
Editorial
      According to the calendar, the season we call winter began this year on Sunday, December 21. Winter is a time of year when cold temperatures, rain, snow and gloomy gray skies tend to drag spirits down, even if everything else is going just swimmingly.
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Thanks For New Trees
      To The Editor: I just wanted to commend and thank the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation's Forestry Division for the great job that they did this week in planting new street trees in my section of Bayside. A nice variety were planted for all of us to enjoy in the years to come.
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Holiday Thoughts
      To The Editor: I am so happy and praise the honor students in the choir at Immaculate Conception School who sang carols at Ellis Island. This story is so uplifting spiritually and fulfills the true meaning of the holiday season.
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Say No To UN
      To The Editor: Historically governments tend to accumulate more and more power over their citizens. We see this with our own state and federal governments and we see this with the United Nations, the proposed world government. We are now over $10 trillion in national debt and have a collapsing economy, yet we pour untold billions into the UN, and for what?
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Balkans Are Powder Keg
      To The Editor: There is new trouble brewing in the Balkans. On November 27, the government of Bulgaria complained that Serbia was harassing the Bulgarian minority, living in Serbia. A member of the ultra-nationalist party ATKA demanded that both Serbia and Macedonia (FYROM) return territories that Bulgaria lost after the First World War.
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Credit Card Rules Pointless
      To The Editor: A parting present from the Bush Administration to the average American is the announced rule change by John Reich, Director of the Thrift Agency, to limit credit card abuses by banks beginning in July 2010. Until then banks may unilaterally and without justification increase interest rates on existing credit card balances.
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Homeland Security Grants Keep Nonprofits Safe
BY CONGRESSMEMBER ANTHONY WEINER
      As New Yorkers, we understood what the citizens of Mumbai are feeling right now. The attacks have reunified our community in a sense of grief and commonality in the worst tragic sense. The Mumbai attacks reveal that terrorism is still very much alive.
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