Hospitals Help Queens Rank Among Top Places To Live
Editorial
      At the turn of the last century, the average person could expect to live to about 45 years of age. Back then, infectious diseases regularly raced unchecked by any means save quarantine through the population. Surgery was something dreaded, to be avoided at all costs. Doctors could do little more t...
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Wants Bike Lanes
      To The Editor: In response to Al Volpe's letter to the editor [ Gazette, July 2, 2008], I want to chime in on the side of the bike lanes. Not only do they enhance the safety of our community in Sunnyside, but in terms of the future of transportation, it is very progressive to think of the bike ...
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Let Oil Companies Drill
      To The Editor: Drill for American oil now! as Chuck Norris (of "Walker, Texas Ranger" fame) is demanding, and leave the oil companies alone, is the answer to our oil and gas crisis and we can do it only if we get the government off the backs of the big, and especially the small, oil companies an...
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Let Us Pray
      To The Editor: I would like to bring up this subject that gives me a great deal of concern and whether we should bring prayer back to public schools. First of all in 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that religious instruction in public schools was unconstitutional. In 1963 it ruled that mand...
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Many Thoughts
      To The Editor: Here I am again ready to share my comments and opinions on a variety of different subjects that were either heard on the radio or presented in the pages of the Gazette. I am dismayed and angered at the fact that diplomats owe so much money, millions of dollars in fines for park...
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Benefits For Citizens
      A copy of the following letter was received by the Gazette. July 18, 2008 Charles E. Schumer United States Senator 757 Third Avenue, Suite 1702 New York, NY 10017-2013 Dear Senator Schumer: I am in my 80s and my husband (who passed away several years ago) and I have lived our entire live...
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Remember 9/11 Dead
      To The Editor: I appreciate the sentiments expressed by Frank Skala, "Memorial at Ground Zero," Gazette, July 16. However, visits to the World Trade Center site must be about more than "closure". It must be about more than what "each of us, general public and 9/11 family member, need and dese...
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Cartoon Is Satire
      To The Editor: Governor [David] Paterson speaking at the NAACP's National Convention, spoke out against the controversial [July 14] New Yorker Magazine's cover page. Governor Paterson called it one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine and [said] that, "This cartoon hurts peop...
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