Demonstrations Show Need For Cellphones In Schools
      Last Wednesday afternoon, the first of what the Rev. Al Sharpton declared would be a wave of protests took place at entrances to bridges and tunnels and other transportation hubs around New York City.
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Payout Disappointing
      To The Editor: The April 30th issue of the Gazette was full of many interesting and newsworthy items and I am eager to share my thoughts with my fellow Gazette readers. I am greatly dismayed that Con Edison only will give $100 to compensate the victims of the power failure in the summer of 2...
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Obama Doesn't Know Us
      To The Editor: Senator [Barack] Obama's recent perverted analysis of why people "cling" to certain traditions reveals a profound ignorance of the American psyche and character.
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Voice From The Past
      To The Editor: I recently found an old audio tape interview of my late father, former City Councilman and Honorary Mayor of Astoria, Joe DeMonte. The interview was done in 1969 by WNYC's show, "The Veteran's Voice".
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Mother's Day Salute
      A copy of the following letter was received by the Gazette. My Dear Roseanne, There are no words to tell you how much I appreciate all you did for me these past three months. Without you I would have not had the courage to beat "this thing". You were, you are my strength, and I love you so muc...
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Op- Ed
Don't Dismantle The Career Ladder
BY GAIL O. MELLOW
      For low-income New Yorkers, it is a slippery and difficult climb up the career ladder to a middle class job. Mayor Michael Bloomberg just made it harder by removing the bottom rungs of the ladder. He proposes to slash the budgets of City University of New York's (CUNY's) six community colleges by ...
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Beg Pardon
      At Terrace Diner, 212-97 26th Ave., Bayside (Bay Terrace Mall), reviewed in the Gazette of May 7, 2008, page 32, Early Bird Special dinners offer choice of entrée, soup, salad and beverage for $8.95 from 3 to 6 p.m., seven days a week.
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