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She just keeps on writing East Meadow poet was published in 12 anthologies in 2020 she was 5 and, for the past 16 years, has challenged herself to write at least one poem a day. “I Judy Turek had a busy year. remember always writing,” she The East Meadow poet finished said. “It’s always been an outlet 391 poems in 2020, and her work for me; it’s been a release. And was published in 12 through Covid, it’s anthologies. been my sanity.”

Turek, 58, who Over the past six goes by the genderm o n t h s, s h e ap neutral J R Turek, peared in more could be seen at books than she had poetry readings and in all of 2019, she c re at ive w r i t i n g said. She also particworkshops across ipated in a number Long Island. “We of virtual events have a huge poetry that, she said, she community,” she would have othersaid. wise overlooked.

When the coronaIn July, she took virus pandemic part in the 2020 Poetbrought about largery Marathon, the scale business and 14th annual online cultural shutdowns, competition in members of the arts which writers across and entertainment the globe write a industry — includpoem every hour for JuDy TuREk ing poets and writ24 consecutive ers — faced new East Meadow poet hours. “It was lifechalleng es when changing,” she said. they couldn’t per“It was remarkable form live or collaborate in per- just to push yourself. By 4 a.m. I son. was so punch drunk and tired, “A lot of people are negative but I just kept writing.” and thinking about what they The organizers of the event can’t do,” Turek said. “But think published a compilation of 24 of about the things you can do.”

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EAST MEADOw RESIDENT Max Schrier, second from right, celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday with his son, Eliott, left, daughter-in-law Marci, grandkids Gabrielle and Emily and his wife, Hannah.

An E.M. ‘patriarch’ turns 90

Neighbors honor Max Schrier with a car parade

By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Roughly 30 vehicles drove along Spruce Lane in East Meadow on Sunday, celebrating Max Schrier’s 90th birthday. Balloons poked out of car windows and passengers stuck their heads out of their sunroofs and cheered as they passed his home on a chilly but sunny morning.

Some vehicles stopped in front of Schrier’s house so drivers could give him gifts,

cards or cake. Schrier’s eyes turned to crescents as his dimples rose under his mask.

“It’s like the whole temple came out to wish him a happy birthday,” said his daughter-in-law, Marci Schrier.

For most of his life, Schrier was a member of what was once Temple Emanu-El, in East Meadow. He and his fellow cong re g ants now belong to Temple B’nai Torah, in Wantagh, which merged with Temple Emanu-

El in June 2018.

Schrier had contributed to the theater productions at Temple Emanu-El since 1988, as both set designer and cast member. He continued his involvement when the temples merged.

“Max has been involved with our temple shows for several decades and is our much-loved patriarch,” said Lisa Shubin, of East Meadow.

Schrier had hoped to celeContinued on page 3

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East Meadow man celebrates 90th birthday brate his landmark birthday with his daughter, Deena Rudolph, as a computer analyst in Montreal, and her husband, Jeffrey. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Canadian border is closed, and Schrier is still isolating at home because of his age.

His birthday was on Sunday, and the congregation wouldn’t let him celebrate without making a production of it. In addition to being surprised by the car parade, Schrier woke up to see his lawn decorated with a large sign that read, “Happy Birthday Max.” Congregants also created a compilation of photos and videos from the temple.

In almost every theater production in which Schrier acted, his character’s main prop was a broomstick. During the car parade, congregants presented him with what they called the “golden broom,” a broomstick they decorated and spray-painted gold.

“He hears like he’s 90, but everything else about him is not 90,” his daughterin-law said. “He’s touched a lot of lives.”

Schrier grew up in Brooklyn, and graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1948. He met Hannah Blum, now his wife of 66 years, before serving in the 780th Artillery Unit of the U.S. Army in the Korean War, in 1952 and 1953. They married the year after he got back. “She waited for him, and they wrote love letters when he was in Korea,” said Schrier’s son, Eliott.

Schrier earned a degree in art education from Brooklyn College and a Master’s in fine arts from the University of Ohio. He was the fine arts chairman at Far Rockaway High School for 26 years, before leaving the Far Rockaway School District in 1986 and spending the next 12

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Temple B’nai Torah congregants celebrated Max Schrier’s 90th birthday with a car parade on Sunday. They presented him with a “golden broom,” representing the prop he has used a number of times when acting in the temple’s theater productions. years in retirement. Then, in 1998, he started teaching again — ceramics, at Nassau Community College.

Eliott and Marci have two daughters, Emily, 28, and Gabrielle, 26. Emily is a special education teacher who takes on roles at different public schools in Long Island and Gabrielle is a business analyst. Deena and Jeffrey also have two children, Rachel, 32, and Adam, 28.

Rachel is a professor at Auburn University in Auburn, Ala., and Adam is a software developer in Montreal.

roughly 30 vehicles participated, with some stopping to hand Schrier a gift or card.

A successful year for poet J R Turek continued from front page their favorite poems — one for each hour — and Turek’s poem is the third one in the book.

The pandemic also gave her more time to reflect and go through her family’s possessions. Her father, Marty Raffaele, died in July 2009, at age 73; her mother, Cathy Raffaele, died in April 2018, at 79; and her brother, Mikey, 58, died in October 2019.

“So now I’m the last of the bloodline,” she said. The “R” in her pen name stands for her maiden name, Raffaele.

And Turek’s parents and brother remain alive in her poetry. The first anthology in which she was published this year was Korean Expatriate Literature Volume 24. The book came out on the anniversary of her father’s death, and her poem, “Midnight to Eight,” was about his working the night shift when she was a child.

One of the poems she wrote for the Poetry Marathon also memorialized her father, who worked for 24 years as a police officer in New York City’s 18th Precinct, with which he responded to the Sept. 11

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terrorist attacks.

“He was so proud to be a cop,” she said.

“My poem is all about remembering him and honoring first responders.”

Turek published her fifth book, “Midnight on the Eve of Never,” in 2019, while her brother was still alive. It consists of roughly 100 poems mostly focused on mortality and grief, drawing from her experience of losing her parents. When her brother died, she said, the book helped her cope, and publicizing it brought her a newfound comfort.

She was able to promote it more widely in 2020, when she started appearing at virtual poetry readings around the world without leaving her home. In October, Turek was a guest reader at an event in London called National Poetry Day, run by a UK nonprofit called the Forward Arts Foundation. She has also read at poetry events across the country, including in Alabama, Iowa and California.

“This year,” she said, referring to 2020, “I’ve met people I would have never met before and I’ve done things I would have never done before.”

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Judy Turek, 58, who goes by the gender-neutral J R Turek, wrote 391 poems this year, and had work published in 12 anthologies.

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Five ways to combat weekend overeating

By Ahmed Ahmed You’ve been “good” all week – getting your salads in and making sure not to eat after 8:00 p.m. and then Friday sets in.

After a long grueling week at work it’s time to unwind. If you’re a bit like me then you know that by the time it’s Sunday you’ve stayed stuffed, gorging on goodies and indulging in social eating.

We tell ourselves to do this because we want to live a little. On Fridays I’ll have a cookie to celebrate the end of another week. On Saturday I’ll have that extra slice of pizza because what am I going to do . . . watch my friends eat? On Sunday I’ll get two lattes from the coffee shop, one during the morning walk and then with my second latte I might as well grab a danish!

Sometimes in our heads we take the weight off our shoulders and “normal rules” don’t apply during the weekends.

Overeating rituals make us feel stress-free and everything is all dandy . . . until Sunday night. You feel uncomfortably bloated (have you ever had pain in your tummy from over-eating? I have…), you feel guilty and maybe even angry at yourself.

Then on Monday morning you start noticing your knees hurt more than usual. You feel lethargic and you have a case of the Monday’s… all the way until Friday when the cycle starts all over again.

This cycle is hard to break but here are five ways that could help.

Aim for “good enough” instead of “perfect” We see this often with clients. They want to follow the perfect diet. From Monday to Friday they’ll adhere strictly to a diet plan- almost like they’re being paid to do so. The thing is most people aren’t paid to stick to a strict diet and by the time the weekend rolls around the finite will power that’s available runs out.

Then it happens . . . they have one “bad” meal and things get out of control.

This black and white thinking is troublesome. If you remove this idea of needing to be perfect for your diet then it’s possible to start thinking like this: “That cookie was delicious, I’m still in the mood for pizza . . . I’ll add some veggies to it and ask them for a salad with it because I might have another cookie _______________

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LOtuS FitNeSS, ON the border of East Meadow and Levittown, opened in December 2019 with a Levittown Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting. Below, owner Ahmed Ahmed gives five tips for how to combat overeating on the weekend. later” This solution will allow you to still have a good time with your friend, you’ll enjoy the pizza you were craving and still have some space for nutritious veggies and even another cookie!

Let go of food rules ■ Being good and being perfect makes your food choices a moral and mental battle. Ease up on yourself. Having rules that tell you what to eat or what not to eat, how much you can have or not have, when you can eat or can’t eat is stressful. All these rules make it easy to “mess up”.

■ Instead of the food rules, try to let hunger guide you. Stop paying attention to the rules and start paying attention to your body. Notice when your starting to feel bloated and stop.

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No more “Cheat day”

This dichotomy is useless to adults.

■ I use to be a cheat day god. I would eat like The Rock. Twenty pancakes for breakfast, then for lunch I’d skip the chicken and get some mac and cheese and by the time dinner came around I was full but screw it might as well have the lasagna because I only have a couple more hours of this bliss!

■ Mind games like this allow you to avoid responsibility for your decision and undermine your health goals. So start owning your choices and let your values and principles guide you when you sit down to eat.

■ It was the happiest day of the week.

Waking up on cheat day morning was like waking up to the first day of summer vacation. If a cheat day has worked for you then continue using it. If it hasn’t then start giving yourself permission to choose what you want when you want it.

Restriction makes people go crazy.

■ You don’t need to cheat because there’s nothing to cheat on. You have that chocolate mousse after dinner on Tuesday night, but on Thursday you feel really satisfied from your steak dinner so you don’t feel like cake. What you want is up to you and how hungry you feel.

Own your choices ■ Do you ever make deals with yourself related to food? Maybe you have a monologue like this in your head: “Okay, I’ll turn down the pecan pie today but tomorrow I’m going to have two pieces of pumpkin pie.”

■ With this mindset you rationalize that because you were being “good” one day you can be “bad” another day.

■ These trades rarely pay off, they usually help you justify overeating another time. The thing is there is no being “bad” and being “good” . . . this is kid’s play.

■ Make food decisions based on acknowledging the outcome you expect.

Stop rationalizing ■ The weekends can help you rationalize all sorts of reasons to justify eating a bunch of non-nutritious foods. Reasons like you were traveling or you were home, you were eating with family or maybe you ate alone or you were busy or maybe you had nothing to do.

■ Making excuses just allow us to victimize ourselves. That’s not empowering is it?

Stop rationalizing and ask yourself why you’re overeating. Sometimes you’ll want to eat crap and a lot of it and that’s ok.

Instead of having a victim of circumstance mentality take an opportunity to ask yourself what’s going on. Are you stressed? sad? happy? Keep doing this until you build some sort of awareness around your patterns. This may be your opportunity to change overeating behavior and address your emotions in a way that doesn’t go against your values and health.

■ All of this is easier said then done . . . but start somewhere!

■ If you need help getting started give us a call at (516) 513-0252!

■ Ahmed Ahmed is the owner of Lotus Fitness in Levittown, where he is a personal trainer and nutrition counselor.

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R = REALISTIC goals for 2021. Put a SPECIFIC plan in place (e.g. saving money and exactly how) E = EVALUATE your progress. Stay on top of it as the year proceeds.

S = SHARE your plans and efforts with others. Social motivation.

O = OPTIMISM Don’t start off pessimistically. It needs a can-do attitude. Failures will happen, but keep at it. As Zig Ziglar said, negative thinking = “stinkin’ thinkin’.”

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L = LISTS. Lists help you stay organized and on top of it. Cull from your list repeatedly failed resolutions. Learn from them.

V = VALUE what you’re doing. Give this significant priority in your life.

Sapadin

E =EMBRACE CHANGE! It’s a survival skill in this fast-moving century. Dump the bad stuff in your life, expand the good stuff. Remember, Darwin said the key survival factor is responsiveness to change!

Even before the pandemic struck, family man this colleague was, though I there was an emerging trend and oppor- was witness to how his mentoring and tunity to have family and friends “big kid”-ness impacted all of us profesexpress their condolences virtually. sionally and personally. I kind of knew Given Covid-19 and video access, the he was a DIY crafter when a present process of viewing funeral services from our entire division was a cherwhen we can’t be there has ished Home Depot gift card, given relief and release to but I didn’t know he golfed, those in mourning and has or goofed around with his offered the group a communieces and nephews. Maybe nal place to remember the it was mine to ask, but I loved one with words, phonever extended the convertos and videos. sations to get the full dimenI located the “memory sion of this man, and I know wall” of a colleague who I would have been better for passed in the last few days. it.

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When you create realistic goals, when you evaluate your progress, when you share your plans with others, when you maintain an optimistic attitude, when you use lists as a guide, when you value what you’re doing, and most importantly when you embrace change as a survival skill - not only will you achieve your goals, you’ll dance with joy at becoming the person you wished you could be!

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©2021 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D. is a psychologist, coach and author in private practice who specializes in helping people become the best they can be. You can reach her at LSapadin@DrSapadin.com. Visit her website at www.PsychWisdom.com.

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New Year’s resolutions are typically repetitive. You’re going to lose those extra pounds, exercise more, save money, organize your stuff and get to the tasks you’ve been putting off. Hmm, what else is new? Weren’t you going to do that last year and the year before?

Well, maybe the problem is you.

You’re just weak-willed. You lack the fortitude and character to stick with your resolutions. May as well give up believing you can change, right? Wrong. Since our world has tur ned upside down, it’s more important than ever that we do our own personal restorative work. But how?

Last year, I shared with you some of my ideas. This year, I’ve asked an esteemed colleague what he thinks. Dr. F rank Farley, (who is a professor of psychological studies in education at Temple Uniinda versity and former president of the American Psychological Association) has given me permission to share with you his ideas on how to keep your New Year’s resolutions. Savor his words of wisdom.

“The ending of one year and the beginning of another is a reasonable point at which to take stock of one’s life, evaluate the good, the bad, and the ugly, and make some decisions about one’s life and one’s future. Business, government, politics and sports do it, reviewing/assessing the year just ended, and projecting forward. Why not try it concerning one’s own life – which is certainly more important than those entities.

As Charles Darwin argued, the species that survive are those most responsive to change. In the spirit of the hopeful dawning of the Post-Pandemic Era, I list here my Resolve Model for anyone who might try personal resolve and commitments in helping alter aspects of their life in a new era (... as I plan to

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events and activities

community update Thursday, Jan. 14

Thursday, Jan. 21

Pop Art Drawing Workshop

Food For Thought Productions presents Different Shades of Comedy

Create a pop art inspired drawing of Dalmation dogs based on the work of iconic pop artist, Andy Warhol. Artist Doris Benter will lead participants through a virtual guided drawing of the dogs. Simple materials including copy paper, pencil, black marker, black color pencil and neon highlighter markers will be used. Grades 3-12. are welcome. This East Meadow Public Library program is on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Tony Nominee Tony Roberts will read excerpts from his autobiography Do You Know Me? followed by Commercial Break by Peter Stone and Come On by Susan Charlotte. This event, brought to you by the East Meadow Public Library on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m., also features Jodie Markell, Stephen Schnetzer and Rex Reed. This is a recorded virtual program. There will be a question and answer period following with Susan Charlotte. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Mystery/Thriller Book Club The East Meadow Public Library’s Mystery/Thriller Book Club will be reading The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. On Jan. 14, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., they will discuss the book. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Frosted Dusk Paint Night Pinot’s Pallett, in East Meadow, is open with a number of virtual and in-person painting events. The studio is offering the program “Frosted Dusk,” on Jan. 14 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., for $40. This event is happening in the studio at 2557 Hempstead Turnpike. They are practicing social distancing with seating, hand sanitizer is available when you walk in, disposable aprons are being given and masks are required by all staff and guests.

Friday, Jan. 15 Easy Exercise for Adults This East Meadow Public Library class will be given every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead us in an Easy Exercise Class.

This is good for those of us who are NOT athletes. It was good seeing and talking with everyone. They ask that, you click on “participants.” There

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James Coll and the Constitution Long Island’s favorite Constitutional scholar, James Coll will be presenting different aspects of the U.S. Constitution on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 1 p.m. through a virtual program offered by the East Meadow Public Library. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming.

They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program. you will see a “raise your hand” line.

Click on that, and we will unmute you so that you can ask a question or make a comment. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Saturday, Jan. 16 Saturday Family Storytime with Jo Twiss Join your friends at the East Meadow Public Library as actress Jo Twiss reads the folk tale, Stone Soup, one of my favorites, on Saturday, Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. Ask the grandparents to join

us. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Monday, Jan. 18 Journaling During the Pandemic: Tune in and Write It Out With Us! Every Monday at 7 p.m. the East Meadow Public Library offers a course on journaling in the pandemic.

This time in history needs to be saved for the future, and we are the ones to tell the stories. Join Professor Kathleen Volk Miller who will introduce the science and practice of writing toward

emotional well-being and psychological healing. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Tuesday, Jan. 19 East Meadow Kiwanis meeting The East Meadow Kiwanis club will be meeting at Borrelli’s Italian Restaurant in East Meadow at 7:15 p.m. to 9 p.m.

New members are always welcome.

RSVP by contacting Lisa Hallett at (516)204-2284.

Meet up on Zoom at 7 p.m. and play Quiplash– a hilarious game of wit and wittiness, with your friends from the East Meadow Public Library. You will need your phone or another device to play. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

HAvING AN EvENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to bstieglitz@liherald.com

East Meadow’s Eisenhower park is the perfect place for a stroll on a sunny day Pinott’s Pallett, East Meadow’s sip-and-paint studio, is offering virtual and in-person classes Business leaders could join the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce The East Meadow Kiwanis club is responsible for community service and charity work There’s little actual meadow in East Meadow because of post-WW II development and the suburban sprawl.

Southern State car accident results in fire the fire department, which began applying firefighting foam to suppress the blaze. Firefighters were focused on suppressing the flame quickly without allowing for the fire to spread in the wooded area the car was in.

Beyond the minor injury sustained to the second driver’s dog’s paw, there were no injuries at the scene. Units remained at the scene for just over an hour.

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The Wantagh Fire De par tment responded to a fully involved car fire on the Southern State Parkway going eastbound near the ramp for the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway on Jan. 3 at 9:20 a.m.

According to officials, the accident involved two vehicles. The driver of one of the vehicles allegedly fled the scene after the accident. The driver of the second vehicle remained at the scene and was reported as having sustained no injuries. The second driver’s dog, who was an occupant of the car, sustained a minor injury to its paw.

Both state and county police arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation.

Wantagh Fire Department Third Assistant Chief Bill Stevens was the first to arrive on the scene and was the first to report the fully involved car fire to the rest of the department. Both cars had been reported by Stevens to be in the wooded area directly adjacent to the highway. First Assistant Chief Tom Bloomfield arrived shortly thereafter and assumed command.

Engines 2, 4 and 7, along Rescue Units 1, 4 and 5 and EMS Captain Stephen Lincke and the Fire Police responded to the call.

A crew from Engine 2, led by Captain Finocchio began to address the fire and Engine 4, led by Captain Mongiello, stretched a hose line to aid Engine 2. The severity of the fire caused the car’s fuel tank to melt. This became a problem for

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One Of the vehicles involved in the accident was ablaze in a wooded area just off of the Southern State.

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“For those asking, my staff and I are safe,” tweeted Congresswoman Kathleen Rice at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday, as she and others barricaded themselves within the chambers of the U.S. Capitol against a mob of insurrectionists.

Lawmakers were scheduled to spend the day debating the certification of Electoral College results in the presidential election — a usually uneventful day in Congress.

It was interrupted, however, by thousands of supporters of Presi d e n t D o n a l d T r u m p who stormed the Capitol, overrunning police barricades, scaling walls and invading the structure.

Sometime between 3 and 4 p.m., Congress members were instructed to retrieve gas masks from under their chairs.

“Tear gas had been used in the Rotunda,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, of Glen Cove, during a Kathleen rice call to the press from an undisclosed area. His voice was measured and calm when sharing his experience. “The chaplain of the Congress said a prayer. The doors in the chamber were locked, but then people began banging on them.”

The rioters had forced security to barricade the doors to the House chamber with furniture, their weapons drawn, prepared to fire. Republican and DemoGregory meeks cratic lawmakers huddled together, said Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive. One insurrectionist broke through the glass on the main door, which the president enters through for the State of the Union.

“The glass is broken, but I don’t know if it was shots or banging,” Suozzi said. “I did hear a ‘pop, pop, pop.’”

“My staff and I are safe and andrew Garbarino currently in lockdown,” U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement during the melee.

“The storming of the U.S. Capitol is a stain on American democracy. Make no mistake—this disgraceful violence will not stop the inauguration of Joe Biden on Jan. 20.”

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress later reconvened after a 6 p.m. curfew, during which time police escorted the insurrectionists out of the Capitol. The Congress members voted to certify the Electoral College results that declared former Vice President Joseph Biden as the president-elect.

Several representatives and senators have placed the blame of the attempted insurrection squarely on Trump, who for weeks had sown discord and spread lies about false instances of fraud in the November election. Protesters in and outside of the Capitol were clad with Trump merchandise.

“The president incited a domestic terror attack on the Capitol,” Rice, who represents the 4th Congressional District, wrote on Twitter. “He is an imminent threat to our democracy, and he needs to be removed from office immediately. The cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.”

Rice later re-tweeted a video from U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, who joined the call for Trump’s removal. Invoking the 25th Amendment would require the support of Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the president’s cabinet. Pence would then assume the role as president if Trump were found

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u.S. rep. tom Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, was in the House of Representatives chamber when violence broke out at the Capitol last Wednesday. He is shown here in the early morning hours on Thursday, after lawmakers voted to certify the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States. unfit for office.

Last Thursday, Rice again tweeted, questioning where Chad Wolf, the head of Homeland Security, was during the protests. “Absolutely unacceptable for him and the entirety of [the Department of Homeland Security] to be completely absent during this domestic terror attack,” she wrote.

Local reaction to last Wednesday’s events was swift.

“For hundreds of years, the peaceful transition of power has been a foundation of our country,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said. “It doesn’t matter who you voted for — violence like what we are seeing in Washington today should never be accepted in a free society. This is not about politics. This is about safety, freedom and decency. I am lending my voice in support of law enforcement who are keeping everyone safe.”

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, who represents the 5th Congressional District on the southwest Queen-Nassau bor-

der, spoke to the history of the moment on Twitter. “The world is watching as the greatest democracy braces against an attempted coup.” Referring to President Trump, he continued, the day’s events were “stirred by its leader who’d rather watch the country burn than transition power.

“Our ability to advocate for democracy around the world,” Meeks said, “will be significantly hurt after this tragic day in America.”

Andrew Garbarino, the newly elected representative from the South Shore’s 2nd District, had only been in Congress four days when the Trump protesters stormed the Capitol. At a little before 4 p.m., he tweeted, “It doesn’t matter which side you support — violence is never the answer. This must stop now.”

He added, “Thank you to the law enforcement at the Capitol for working diligently to keep everyone safe.”

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Coliseum may see concert surge later this year NASSAu coLISEum IS expected to see a spike in concert activity in late 2021 and early 2022, according to a report from the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency.

By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Nassau Coliseum may see a surge in the number of concerts that it hosts late this year and early next year, according to a report from the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency.

The IDA hired consulting firms Camoin Associates and RMG SportsVentures, which conducted the 13-page report last month to forecast the Coliseum’s economic impact once coronavirus pandemic restrictions lift.

The consultants predicted that demand for live music would surge in the fall of 2021, during which Madison Square Garden, the Barclay’s Center and other large music venues are booked with acts that had to reschedule during the pandemic. Such high demand could “create a short-term positive” for the Coliseum by drawing in more acts that could not secure a spot at the larger venues, according to the report.

The Coliseum may not see the same success with hockey games, however. The Islanders are expected to start playing games at the Coliseum this month, if the 2020-21 NHL seasons commences. Then, in late 2021, the team will relocate to its new home at the UBS Arena at Belmont Park. The report states, however, that “it is not clear whether there will be in-person attendance, and at what capacity, for games at either location.”

The consultants developed the report from a series of interviews conducted in November with executives and officials from the music and sports industries. The report does not take into account other events that the Coliseum offers, such as LI Nets basketball games and family entertainment shows.

All of the consultants’ findings depend on the venue’s ability to meet certain Covid-19 guidelines, such as proper ventilation, vaccination availability, and rapid testing of employees and talent.

The report also states that the Coliseum is “a secondtier venue” and may have a slower economic recovery

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than the larger venues like MSG and the Barclay’s Center. Once the pandemic ends, the consultants predict, it may take another four to six months before the Coliseum is back to normal.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the Coliseum generated about $4 million in annual revenue to the county.

In August, the Coliseum’s former tenant, Onexim Sports and Entertainment, defaulted on payments and handed control of the arena and the Nassau Hub development to its lender, the U.S. Immigration Fund, which is running the Coliseum under the name Nassau Live.

The deal reached between the two parties recovers $2.2 million in overdue rent owed to Nassau County by Onexim, which temporarily shuttered the Coliseum two

months before because of the toll the venue took from coronavirus restrictions.

USIF is based out of Jupiter, Fla., and run by Nick Mastroianni II. Although not directly tied to the U.S. government, USIF created a $100 million loan for the Coliseum renovation, soliciting 200 Chinese investors through a federal program that grants visas for job-creating projects.

Bruce Ratner, owner of Forest City Ratner, sold the Coliseum lease to Onexim in 2015 and developed the financing program. Mastroianni then secured the loan under another company called Nassau Coliseum Funding 100.

Staying home for college amid the pandemic

By NIcoLE ALcINdoR nalcindor@liherald.com

When college doors reopened in the fall and fears of spreading the virus were widespread, many Long Island colleges adopted a hybrid model of in-person and online classes and extracurricular activities— which changed the academic and physical dynamic of the college experience for many.

With new social-distancing guidelines also being applied colleges, Long Islanders attending university from home or those living in college dorms experienced many social, emotional and psychological changes and challenges.

With only a few weeks before the spring semester begins, and with the second wave of the pandemic in full effect, many college-aged Long Islanders are faced with the decision to return to their dorms for school or transfer to local schools.

Herald Inside LI hosted a free live Zoom webinar, sponsored by Molloy College, last Thursday to discuss many of the questions that college-aged students and their parents have about staying local for college.

During the webinar, representatives from Molloy College, Adelphi University, Nassau Community College and the New

York Institute of Technology provided insight about how their schools have become more flexible because of the pandemic, including their recent decision to accept students on rolling admissions to accommodate those making last-minute decisions to stay local for the spring semester.

“We went test-optional by eliminating the requirement of applicants having SAT and ACT scores for admissions, and now we are only looking at academic scores,” said Marguerite Lane, assistant vice president of enrollment management at Molloy College. “They can send ACT or SAT scores if they want, but Molloy College won’t use students’ scores for their disadvantage, but only to their advantage, because many students might not have been able to test more than once or take a review course because of the pandemic.”

Molloy College will start the spring semester Jan. 20, and students still interested in applying have up to two weeks into the beginning of the semester to apply.

“Most of our students had a good experience in the fall semester at home doing school, and I know they are continuing with that in this upcoming spring semester because our admission numbers for the spring are where we expected,” Lane

said. “People have been resilient, and college students, particularly new ones, have adapted well to the hybrid model for events and classes, but we hope to return to a normal college experience in the new year.”

Nassau Community College went 90 percent online for the fall semester, and it will continue that way in the spring. For the community college, SAT and ACT scores have always been optional. For the spring semester, NCC has adopted a late start semester to allow students to apply later than usual and start later than usual.

“Even though we have seen an uptick of 22 percent more students taking winter classes, we are under the normal enrollment for spring semester,” said Dave Follick, dean of admissions at Nassau Community College. “We are doing more initiatives to get more people to enroll, but we think a lot of people are not returning because they did not like online school.”

In the new year, Nassau Community College will offer in-person sports options and mostly virtual clubs and extracurricular activities.

For Adelphi University, the vice president of enrollment management and university communications, Kristen Capezza, said enrollment has been the same for spring semester; however, she said she

has noticed a shift in students who are participating in clubs, with more students than ever joining virtual clubs.

“People can still remain connected if they want to, and we offer dorms, as well as virtual tours where students interested in applying can provide commentary and receive feedback while getting an online tour,” she said. “This past semester, we also saw students who had stellar grades, and then because of the pandemic, we saw a fall in their grade point average. We know that the pandemic affected them, so we just asked those students to share what happened, and we are doing our best to be understanding.”

In the same way, Karen Vahey, the dean of admissions and financial aid enrollment management at New York Institute of Technology, said students at her college have been more involved in virtual events.

“Even though I worry about students getting bored with virtual events, [many] more students are getting involved in virtual activities than they ever did before with in-person campus activities,” Vahey said. “We pushed back our deadlines for enrollment and waved the standardized testing to get in. We just want to get these students over the finish line, despite the pandemic.”

Protesters clash at Black Lives Matter march

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By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Two political groups faced off at the Wantagh Long Island Rail Road station on Saturday during a Black Lives Matter protest in response to the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Protesters were marching to condemn systemic racism and double standards in policing, they said, specifically in light of last week’s swarming of the Capitol by a mostly white crowd protesting the results of November’s presidential election.

“They want to take us back to a time when everyone else was under their boots,” Terrel Tuosto, 28, of West Hempstead, said of the demonstrators in Washington. Tuosto was one of the organizers of the Wantagh protest, which included members of the local activist groups Black, White, Brown United and Long Island Peaceful Protest.

As Tuosto spoke, a group of about a dozen counterprotesters congregated across the street and began chanting “All lives matter!” and “This is what communism looks like!” among other phrases.

The group carried a large “Trump 2020” flag, and most wore sweatshirts that said “F--- Antifa,” while others sported propolice shirts and hats. Nassau County police separated the two groups on opposite sides of Railroad Avenue, in front of the LIRR platform.

Addressing the Black Lives Matter protesters, Tuosto brought up the reaction of many Trump supporters to Colin Kaepernick, a former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who in the 2016 NFL season took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

Many who disagreed with Kaepernick said he was disrespecting the American flag, Tuosto said. But some of the protesters who raided the U.S. Capitol building were seen removing an American flag and replacing it with a Trump flag, among other actions of vandalism.

“Where is the outrage now?” Tuosto asked.

He encouraged the group to ignore the counterprotesters, and likened them to children screaming to get attention. “You don’t have to explain yourself to them or

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ThE BLAck LIvES Matter demonstrators headed north on Wantagh Avenue. go back and forth,” he said. “That’s what they want.”

Before the group started marching, a Nassau County police officer explained to Tuosto that they could not block vehicular or pedestrian traffic and had to march on the sidewalk. They stepped off and began marching on Wantagh Avenue, before police officers began shouting that they would be arrested if they did not leave the street. Officers then shepherded the protesters and counterprotesters to the sidewalks on either side of the avenue, where both groups marched north.

Tuosto has led a number of marches on Long Island since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last May. Terrel and his brother, Tiandre, were arrested on June 12 at a protest in East Meadow for allegedly blocking traffic.

Tuosto’s arrest was captured in a video, which later went viral on Twitter, that shows officers throwing him to the ground and pinning him to the pavement before handcuffing him.

Over the course of dozens of protests since then, Tuosto and his fellow organizers have been handcuffed, pinned to the ground and detained a number of times for similar infractions. Most of the incidents can be seen in videos on the Facebook and Twitter pages of Long Island

Peaceful Protest.

Saturday’s march came after Tuosto resigned from the county’s Police and Community Trust and Community Collaborative Task Force — a subset of the county’s Public Safety Committee — along with several other members, over what they called a lack of inclusion or input in the county’s plans for police reform.

The Public Safety Committee has been drafting plans for police reform at public meetings in response to the Black Lives

Matter demonstrations all summer and in the months since. But advocates like Tuosto have said they were not given enough time to address their concerns at Public Safety Committee meetings or enough knowledge about the county’s plans.

About an hour into Saturday’s demonstration, the counterprotesters left and the Black Lives Matter group continued to residential side streets of Wantagh.

They marched until sunset, finishing back at the Wantagh LIRR station.

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On Monday, Jan. 11, flags were flown at half-staff countywide under the orders of Nassau County Executive Laura Curran. The order was a show of respect to honor the fallen United States Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick, who died last Thursday following the violence that took place from the “Stop the Steal” mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol building and assaulted him on Jan. 6, and Howard Liebengood, who committed suicide in the days following the incidents. Curran acknowledged both Capitol officers by name Monday in her announcement post on Faecelaura Curran book.

Just one day earlier, on Jan. 10, flags were flown at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol Building and the White House. Also on Jan. 10, the Nassau County Legislative Majority penned a request to Curran to have the flags flown at half-staff.

“Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lost his life in service to our nation last week during the riot at the Capital building in Washington D.C.,” said Legislative Majority Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello. “A number of other officers were injured. On behalf of the Majority, I am requesting that County Executive Curran honor his service and sacrifice, by ordering all flags in Nassau County be flown at half-staff. Nassau County must send a message that we are all opposed to violent acts, whoever is perpetrating the violence, and that we

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FlAgs wERE Flown at half-staff this week for fallen Capitol Police officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood following the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building. will continue to stand with our brave men and women of law enforcement.” Curran assured the flags were already flown at half-staff in her post on Monday.

Sicknick, who joined the Capitol Police in 2008, had previously been a member of the National Guard, having served deployments to Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan.

Liebengood, a 15-year veteran of the Capitol Police,

served on Jan. 6 during the storming of the Capitol Building.

A source within the Republican Party on Long Island said that the party was “very” pleased with the decision to fly the flags at half-staff to honor the officers.

According to Curran’s announcement post, the flags will remain at half-staff throughout the week in remembrance of the officers who died.

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Q. I’m so confused. I keep seeing programs on TV where it looks much simpler and the cost is so much lower than I’m getting estimates for. I also notice that there are no building inspectors, architects or permits.

Why is this? Are we living in a police state? What is the real situation? I need to save time and money.

A. I’ve noticed, over the years, the difference between the generation that trusted architects and engineers to advise them and the Information Age clients, who get their answers from TV shows and cellphones, even if the media information is staged, exaggerated and inaccurate. It really all comes down to money, and it always has. Unless cononte eeper sumers understands that they know only a tiny amount of the full equation, they feel emboldened by the misinformation being fed by inexperienced or uneducated people offering opinions without substance.

You need to realize that the shows you see on TV are paid for and starred in by people who aren’t licensed professionals, and even when they’re pouring their heart into how nice-looking they can make the home or how much they can get for their investment, they’re often creating issues that would not pass in your state or climate region. What I experience, weekly, are people who are given wrong advice by non-professionals who have generally never experienced having to put their name on the project, legally, and haven’t had to accept responsibility, either personally or professionally, for the unknowing problems they create. In just a single week, I encountered multiple problems with people making bad decisions.

Many media shows are made in places where there is minimal regulation. States where some shows are filmed require no professional input.

Many shows never include anything official in the form of licensed professionals, building officials, regulations, permits or even the mention of permits. While permits don’t make buildings stand up, shows mislead people into thinking of how easy or fast a project can get built. Thus, the reality upsets people who, in some cases, refuse to accept the truth. People feel empowered to defy the law.

During only one day, a contractor decided to ignore the hours when construction work could be done, another told the client he could change the structure, and another tried to defy the zoning requirements by changing the height. The next day, a potential client showed me their foundation-less deck, intending for it to be documented for a permit so they could sell. They weren’t expecting to be told they would need to invest in foundation piers under each post, which the law requires.

Then there are the contractor and plumber who were willing to do the work and take the money, during the pandemic, just not to cooperate with filing for the permit when the building department reopened. Hollywood is based on myth and illusion.

Reality actually saves time and money, if you get caught or things have to be done over again.

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n Monday, New York entered Phase 1b of the state’s Covid-19 vaccination program, meaning first responders, public safety and transit workers and anyone 75 or older can now get the vaccine. Phase 1a started in mid-December, with vaccinations first offered to health care workers and longterm care facility residents.

By all measures, the vaccines are safe and effective. If you can sign up, you should seriously consider doing so. Getting the vaccine is a personal decision. No one can be forced to receive it. If we want to beat this virus, however, the vaccine is the way to do it.

In Nassau County, we clearly need more vaccination sites, working around the clock, to get this job done.

Social distancing and mask wearing are critical, but these measures were never intended to defeat the virus, only to slow

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its progression until a vaccine could be developed and administered.

Even after we have reached “herd immunity,” when 60 to 70 percent of the population has been vaccinated, we will likely have to continue preventive measures for some time to ensure that we are doing all we can to eradicate this viral invader.

Last week, Nassau’s Covid-19 test positivity rate hovered around 5 percent — among the lowest in the country. Only three states — Alaska, Hawaii and Vermont — and the District of Columbia reported positivity rates below that. We must continue working to drive the rate down, remembering that it was less than 1 percent just over three months ago.

New York state’s positivity rate last week was 7.9 percent, which was good compared with many other states — only 12 had lower rates. Still, it wasn’t good to see New York’s rate rising. Only a month ago,

It’s high time truth prevails once again

oseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s short, mercurial, ruthless propaganda minister, was known to many as the “poison dwarf.” By all accounts, he was insanely obsessive and manipulative, practicing the dark art of disinformation distribution like no one else.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it,” Goebbels was quoted as saying, according to the Holocaust Research Project.

We have been told any number of big lies — again and again — in recent years.

The biggest, undoubtedly, was the one perpetuated by President Trump that he won November’s election. He did not. Joe Biden won — by a lot — as affirmed by our

courts, our state legislatures and now Congress.

Last week, however, that lie cost five people their lives, after Trump riled up an angry mob of insurrectionists with fiery rhetoric and they stormed the Capitol, smashing through doors, stealing government property and pushing, shoving and striking members of the understaffed and overwhelmed Capitol Police force.

During and after the melee, conservative news pundits and Republican lawmakers baselessly — and falsely — claimed that members of the left-wing, anti-fascist group Antifa were responsible for the riotous behavior of the loosely affiliated mass of Trump supporters, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists. That lie was

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the state had the fourth-lowest positivity rate in the country.

In New York, and particularly downstate, we have suffered more than many other parts of the country, in large part because of our population density — the coronavirus breeds among people who are in close proximity to one another.

When you’re wearing a mask in public, don’t let it drop down below your nose. The mask does little to no good if your nose is exposed. When you’re in line anywhere, respect social-distancing protocols. Stand six feet apart.

We know, people are tired of hearing this again and again. It’s been 10 months since the coronavirus broke out in New York. We have to say it, though. If we can’t keep the positivity rate down, then the alternative is another shutdown, which no one wants.

letters Hasn’t Trump done enough damage?

To the Editor: In my six decades of being a U.S. citizen, never have I been more ashamed than after the events that occurred on Jan. 6. Just as we are anticipating good things for 2021 — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House; vaccines to eradicate, or lessen, the effects of Covid-19; the end of social distancing, working remotely and mask wearing; being able to hug family members who don’t live in the same household; sharing birthdays and holidays and any days with our friends and family — Trump trumps it all!

It’s obvious he wanted to go out with a bang. But to incite a riot? He couldn’t have left bad enough alone? Hundreds of children separated from their parents at the border, still possibly never to be reunited? Downplaying the danger of Covid-19, even when he and his family members

amplified by hundreds of thousands of retweets.

Last Wednesday, many have said, was a day of reckoning for Trump, and he now must own up to what he has done: peddled lies for political gain. It should also, though, serve as a day of reckoning for all of us — an inflection point when we decide, once and for all, to disown the disinformation campaigners and restore normalcy to our media stream.

Truth, based on knowable facts, must be our hallmark. It is a tough ideal to live up to, for sure, but we must do better than we have in recent years. The alternative, as we saw last week, is to descend into chaos and demagoguery, and we know how that turned out for Germany.

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nauguration Day, Jan. 20, will bring much-needed change in our country.

President-elect Joe Biden has made controlling the coronavirus pandemic a priority, and for the first time, the incoming administration will have a presidential adviser who will focus solely on health equity and pandemic-related racial health disparities.

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a Yale physician and researcher, will lead a new White House task force that will focus on equitable access to testing, treatments and vaccines, parmartIne ticularly in communities hardest Hackett hit by Covid-19.

This national strategy promises to give the appropriate attention to the longstanding issue of health inequity that existed long before the pandemic began.

An effective approach will need to be adjusted based on place, because where you live plays a role in your health. More than half of Americans live in suburbs, and health equity will look different here.

Even with the political influence that suburban voters had in recent elections, there has been little attention paid to understanding the significant role that suburban spaces have on the health of their residents.

On Long Island and across the country, Black and Latino residents have disproportionately been infected by and died from the coronavirus. The reasons for their increased risk include working in “essential” in-person jobs, taking public transportation, living in more crowded housing, and lacking access to quality health care and respectful treatment.

Though the task force’s immediate focus will be targeting medical resources and vaccines to vulnerable communities, members will also tackle the underlying social and economic inequalities that put them at risk in the first place.

Nunez-Smith said that “what’s needed to ensure equity in the recovery is not limited to health and health care. We have to have conversations about housing stability and food security and educational equity, and pathways to economic oppor-

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new task force will focus on equitable access to treatment.

Letters finally got the disease? Perhaps if “the people” he represents got the same VIP treatment and the same medicinal cocktail he received, then we could all say it’s nothing. But the staggering number of deaths in the U.S. indicates otherwise.

Last Wednesday, as the chaos unfolded, Trump’s hoards of followers were rampaging through the Capitol, trying to stop his chosen vice president, Mike Pence, from doing his job, and the members of Congress from doing theirs. Seeing photos of them cowering under chairs sadly reminded me of the awful images we have seen or heard about too many times in our country, of schoolchildren, religious worshippers and others being in that same unfortunate situation. Some were lucky enough to be led out of harm’s way, but too many were not.

We have seen so much ugliness in our country thanks to this “leadership.” I would be fired from my job if I ever referred to a colleague as “Pocahontas.”

Yes, racial tensions have been around for a while, but they have escalated under Trump’s watch: BLM, anti-Semitism (yes, one of the rioters was wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt). I could go on and on, but why? Until the powers that be open their eyes, I fear that things like this may just be allowed to happen, as they have been for the past four years.

Now we are hearing about the rioters being arrested and eventually prosecuted to the “full extent of the law.” The followers are already being pursued, but

tunities and promise.”

This comprehensive health equity approach needs to be understood in suburban regions like Long Island. Though we saw an outpouring of response to food insecurity in our communities as hundreds of distribution sites were set up, many of our fellow suburbanites used these services for the first time.

The need for healthy and affordable food will persist when the pandemic has passed. Housing stability in the suburbs requires shifting from traditional singlefamily homes to multifamily housing and overcoming community resistance to supportive housing. Zoning changes will be required. At the same time, educational equity on Long Island is a fundamental suburban challenge as residential segregation and local control has restricted the quality of schools.

Even something as basic as having local data publicly available to quantify health disparities so actions can be targeted is often missing in the suburbs.

Nowhere on Nassau County’s daily “Covid-19 by the Numbers” tracker, for

example, is there a count of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations or deaths segmented by race and ethnicity. We cannot address what we do not see.

Creating health equity in the suburbs will require a shift in how we approach what it means to be healthy. We cannot use the same approach and expect different results. The pandemic may have provided the push we need. Consider that the approved Covid-19 vaccines are based on a new approach to protecting against infectious diseases. Instead of putting an inactive germ in our bodies to trigger an immune response, mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that produces antibodies to protect us from infection. This approach has been around for decades, but it took a crisis to push it into reality.

The incoming Biden administration’s stated commitment to combating health care injustice during and after the pandemic is an opportunity for the suburbs to shift our approach to finally attain health equity.

Dr. Martine Hackett is an associate professor in the Master of Public Health and Community Health Programs at Hofstra University.

Framework by Christina Daly

what about the instigator? Why is the president still the president?

SUSAN WALD North Bellmore

Taxpayers and commuters deserve accountability To the Editor: There is more to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s call to speed up repairs to the East River railroad tunnels. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said in June 2016 that the Federal Transit Administration provided $432 million in Superstorm Sandy funding to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for repairs to the East River Tunnel. Almost five years later, there is no evidence that any of the funds have been used for their original intended purpose.

The MTA and LIRR have yet to complete negotiations with Amtrak to start this work. Are there any other FTA grantfunded capital projects still not under contract, behind schedule, over budget or with excessive change orders to base contracts?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Senators Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, MTA board members and other elected officials, including Kaminsky, and transit advocates need to look at how the billions of dollars in previously approved federal funds are being spent before complaining about future

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levels of Washington financial assistance being insufficient. Taxpayers and commuters deserve accountability.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck

Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

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A day of reckoning after four frightful years

spent last Wednesday afternoon scurrying up and down the stairs at home, rushing between my desk upstairs and the TV downstairs. I flipped between CNN, MSNBC and Fox, my pulse, as measured by my watch, racing faster as the afternoon went on.

I was reporting on the insurrection at the Capitol for liherald.com, shooting emails to editors and reporters, talking with them on the phone and typing as fast as my fingers could move.

By 4:30, we had published a story in which U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi sCoTT recounted the horrifying details of BRInTon the Capitol takeover by a violent mob.

He had escaped unscathed, but he was clearly shaken.

The afternoon was the ignominious end to the Trump presidency, a final, inglorious melee that concluded with five people, including one Capitol Police officer, dead.

President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and Rep. Mo Brooks spoke at a rally that preceded the Capitol takeover, stoking anger. And so, only days before Trump will leave office, he is, it appears, once again under investigation.

Karl Racine, the attorney general for Washington, D.C., told ABC News Friday that his office would examine the president’s

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alleged role in inciting the violence. “Clearly, the Capitol was ground central in the mob’s behavior,” Racine told “Good Morning America.” “Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, even the president were calling on supporters and hate groups to go to the Capitol, and in Rudy’s words, ‘exercise combat justice.’ We’re going to investigate not only the mob, but those who incited the violence.”

It was all unfathomably shocking, but unsurprising, given the angry messaging that Trump had telegraphed ever since he ran for president in 2015. Since Wednesday, officials and pundits, both Democrats and Republicans, have spoken out, calling the president a clear and present danger to the American people. Trump is, and has been, a destabilizing force, continually acting to divide rather than unify, they correctly noted.

What we often lose amid Trump’s rapidfire tweets and fire-and-brimstone rally speeches, though, is the direct effect of his policies on the American people, in particular his dismantling of many environmental regulations enacted over decades to protect our health and our world.

Before the insurrection, I had intended to write this week on all that President-elect Joe Biden must do to clean up Trump’s disastrous environmental policies, beginning with rejoining the Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which the

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U.S. adopted in December 2015, President Obama signed in August 2016 — and Trump withdrew from in June 2017. The accord was signed by 196 nations before the U.S. pulled out. To date, the U.S. has been the only country to withdraw.

It might seem incongruous to write about Trump’s environmental policy on a week when insurrectionists, egged on by the president, stormed the Capitol. It might, but it’s not.

Both are directly related to the well-being of the American people. The invasion of the Capitol desecrated one of our most sacred government institutions and posed a direct threat to our democracy. Loosening environmental regulations while defiling our sacred lands — our national forests and parks — poses a direct threat to the planet.

Humans — and all life forms, for that matter — require clean air and water. That was of little consequence to the Trump administration, however. According to the World Resources Institute, a Washingtonbased environmental think tank, Trump, nearly from the start of his presidency, targeted the Obama-era Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Under Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed the plan — which, according to an EPA internal analysis, could result in 1,400 premature deaths because of air pollution and $30 billion in

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health damages, with the worst effects in the industrial Midwest.

Imagine that: The federal agency vested with protecting our environment and our health actually rolled back a policy that would help protect our planet and save lives.

Let that sink in.

That was Trump’s macro approach to our environment — a wholesale reduction in sound standards — but he also took a micro approach. He blocked a U.S. Department of Energy policy, established under the Bush administration in 2007, to phase out energy-inefficient light bulbs. The rollback, according to WRI, is expected to cost the average American household an extra $100 a year, and in the aggregate, families and businesses will spend an additional $12 billion a year.

Imagine that: The federal agency charged with improving energy efficiency actually rolled back a policy aimed at doing just that.

Why? The only answer is greed. Such rollbacks, of which there were dozens more under Trump, benefited not the American people, but the president’s corporate cronies. Yes, we must pay very close attention to the dangers before us in the here and now, but we also must address the slow-burning fires that Trump quietly set while distracting us with his Twitter tirades.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

When it comes to Trump, newspapers go BIG

have seen my share of heart-stopping headlines. In The New York Times, I read “MEN WALK ON MOON,” “NIXON RESIGNS,” “U.S. ATTACKED” and the one-word, stand-alone headline from Nov. 5, 2008: “OBAMA.” These bold, 96-point headlines are saved for momentous, ground-shifting news. One editor famously said that if a headline writer wanted to go bigger than 96 point, it better read, “THE SECOND COMING.” Last week, the day after armed RAndI Trump supporters kReIss stormed and invaded the Capitol building, the Times blasted, “TRUMP INCITES MOB.” The San Francisco Chronicle went with one word, “INSURRECTION,” and The Guardian, in England, wrote, “ANARCHY IN THE USA.” Even though I saw the mob storming the Capitol in real time on television, I still could not fully absorb the impact of what was happening. Trump followers were incited by the president of the United States to loot and damage the Capitol building because inside, a fully legitimate election

was about to be formally signed and sealed.

The raging violence of the mob was shocking, even though, in hindsight, it was inevitable. The president has been stoking this fire for years. But “anarchy” in the USA? Photos flashing around the world of crazed vandals desecrating our cherished monuments, breaking through windows to ransack the speaker’s desk? It looked like a Halloween melee gone berserk, complete with weird hats and freaky masks.

One man wore a T-shirt that read “Camp Auschwitz.”

They were clownish and rabid, rather than organized in any way. They got lucky, because law enforcement agencies weren’t organized, either, and so the mob raged for way too long, before the cavalry arrived.

These people are Trump’s posse. He owns them; he owns the events of Jan. 6. And I sure hope we do more as a society than take away his freaking Twitter account. No one knows what will happen in the coming days, but in order to set the country right, every one of the thugs in the Capitol building that day, and every single one of the enablers and inciters, up to and including Trump himself, have to be held accountable for their parts in the riot. Otherwise, what has been undone,

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what the mob did to destabilize our government, can never be reconciled. It won’t do to wipe off the fingerprints and pick up the broken pieces. How can we feel good about ourselves as a country until the violators are brought to justice?

We Americans have always known our story. It is part of our national narrative. It goes like this: We are winners. We are optimists.

We have a can-do attitude that allows us to face down our enemies and conquer any challenge that life presents.

We invent things, fix things and help others. We are smart as hell, and we don’t come in second.

Slowly, that narrative has unraveled. It didn’t happen last week when the Trumpers stormed the Capitol; it has been happening since Trump took office. Our pride and position have been diminished, and our reputation has been sullied. Serendipity played a part as well, with a worldwide pandemic landing on our doorstep, crushing us into small, isolated spaces.

So, the new narrative is: In a creepy confluence of circumstances, a charismatic but fatally flawed leader rose to power in America at the same time that millions of people

nd I sure hope we do more than take away his Twitter account.

were drifting, feeling disenfranchised as the rich got richer and more powerful. A match was struck in the weeds of this discontent, and the conflagration began. It is still consuming our nation. Witness the events of Jan. 6.

We have become reactive rather than proactive. Our leaders have had a failure of imagination. Rather than foreseeing and avoiding problems, we’re in the business of doing patches and fixes and cleanups.

Wasn’t anyone reading Trump’s tweets when he was urging followers to come to Washington? Couldn’t anyone in the National Guard or the Capitol Police possibly have foreseen the danger ahead?

We begin to reclaim our dignity by finding and arresting the people who ran amok last week. We begin by giving our new president and his people a chance to do the right things. People can disagree. They can raise their voices loud and long and vote their hearts and minds, but they cannot break windows in the people’s house or plant pipe bombs around the capital of the United States.

Something has permanently shifted in our collective consciousness. Something unthinkable is possible that was not possible before: TRUMP INCITES MOB. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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