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Super Bowl Splash canceled Officials suggest equally chilling home aquatics on Sunday raising $500,000 for the Make-AWish Foundation. The Polar Bears are taking donations and This Sunday night, Darren pledges through Sunday, and Gallo will be doing what he does asking people to make videos of on most Super Bowl Sundays: themselves at home to post He’ll be watching the game. But online. They might, organizers there will be a difference this suggested, dump a bucket of ice year. The group at water over their his Long Beach heads, or just take a house will be cut by cold shower. about half, to seven “Nor mally, I’d people. have a lot of friends Gallo, his wife, over,” Gallo said. their three kids, his “We’d go to watch father and a friend the Polar Bears and of his father’s will then do the wings gather to watch the and chips and salsa Tampa Bay Buccawhile watching the neers host the Kan- JimmY game.” sas City Chiefs.

This year, he is HENNEssY “The thing I’m hardly alone. Across Long Beach going to miss most,” the barrier island, Gallo said, “is the resident football fans — and Polar Bear Club those who just want swim.” to watch the year’s most eagerly The tradition in Long Beach awaited commercials — are every year is to take the plunge planning to spend the evening into the Atlantic and then watch with only a few close friends or the Super Bowl. City officials family. said they had to cancel the event Jimmy Hennessy, of Long this year because of the corona- Beach, a Hewlett High School virus pandemic. history teacher, makes it a habit Instead, officials said, they to get together with a bunch of are asking participants to friends on Super Bowl Sunday. “splash at home.”

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this sure beats remote learning Greg Lapenna cleared snow out of his driveway on Monday while his kids, Jerry and Blaze, played in the winter wonderland. More photos, Page 4.

Council restarts hockey instruction Program, featuring Rangers, will have no cost for city

By JAmEs BERNstEiN jbernstein@liherald.com

At least for children, ice hockey instruction is back in Long Beach.

The City Council on Tuesday night voted to restart Long Beach’s Learn to Play Program, allowing boys and girls ages 4 to 14 to receive 10 weeks of ice hockey instruction at the city’s rink, on West Bay Drive.

The council voted unani-

mously to enter into an agreement with the New York Rangers LLC for the 10-week instructional hockey program, for which the city is partnering with the Rangers, Madison Square Garden and the National Hockey League, at no cost to the city.

The cost is $250 per child, and the Rangers will provide all of the equipment, including skates, facemasks, sticks, pucks and protective padding.

Joe Brand, the city’s interim

commissioner of parks and recreation, said that final arrangements were in the works, and the program was slated to begin later this week. There will be one session a week, each lasting an hour.

To sign up, Google nyrangers. com.

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Big turnout expected for hockey instruction rus pandemic and the city’s review of contracts that it had with recreational programs.

Brand said that while instruction will be provided by hockey coaches, the Rangers will from time to time send an active or retired player to meet with the participants and sign autographs.

Last October, Amanda Kessel, an Olympic gold medalwinning member of the U.S. women’s hockey team, visited the Junior Rangers Girls’ Hockey League at the Long Beach Arena. The program, which is led by a female staff, is designed to encourage participation in the sport, with a focus on increasing access and visibility while developing life skills. The program is for middle-school girls ages 11 to 14. Kessel is a key ambassador for the program.

At Tuesday night’s meeting, City Council officials noted that the ice arena is running a deficit.

Roy Lester, a former president of the Long Beach school board who closely follows city affairs, asked if the Rangers program would help close the gap.

Praising the program, council Vice President Karen McInnis said, “We’re all working to close the gap. Whether it’s closed by this program remains to be seen.”

Brand said he expected 65 to 75 children to sign up for the program. He added that all NHL teams participate in the program.

“This is a grass-roots effort to draws kids into hockey,” he said. “The Rangers hope this program will help grow interest in hockey and grow fans in the future.”

In other action Tuesday night, the City Council: ■ Authorized its outside counsel, Ingerman Smith, of Hauppauge, to take legal action “against certain former and current Long Beach city employees for recovery of monies improperly paid.”

Ellen Vega, of Ingerman Smith, said that action would be against 12 people, who were not named, and the amount the city is seeking to collect is about $174,000.

The action is a continuation of the city’s efforts to recover money in what Long Beach officials have called “a payout scandal.” Last summer, the city filed lawsuits

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gold medalist amanda Kessel, of the U.S. women’s hockey team, visited the Junior Rangers Girls’ Hockey League at the Long Beach Arena last year. against former City Manager Jack Schnirman and Rob Agostisi, former chief legal counsel and acting city manager, for their alleged roles in a payout scheme that cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars. The lawsuits seek $1.5 million from Schnirman and $889,985 from Agostisi, as well as punitive damages from both. Schnirman is now the Nassau County comptroller.

The lawsuits claim both men orchestrated improper separation payments made to certain city employees. An audit by the state comptroller found that nearly $750,000 in questionable payments were made to employees. Both Schnirman and Agostisi have denied wrongdoing.

Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone LLP and a former State Supreme Court justice who is representing the city in its case involving the Manhattan developer Haberman & Haberman, said he would set up a meeting with Haberman’s attorneys “for a mutual agreement on the matter.”

A State Supreme Court judge has said the city owes Haberman $131 million that the developer claims he lost when Long Beach’s Zoning Board of Appeals revoked permits to build three oceanfront condominium buildings on Shore Road in 2003, a project that dates back to the 1980s.

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Restaurants expect large orders on Sunday continued from front page likes the commercials and the camaraderie.

This year, his gathering will comprise five or six people, including his family.

“It’s all going to be different this year,” Hennessy said.

The National Football League plans to limit the crowd at the game. Only 22,000 fans will be allowed at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., a stadium that normally seats 65,000.

The league is honoring and celebrating health care heroes at the game, inviting 7,500 vaccinated medical workers to take advantage of all-expenses-paid trips.

David Woolfe, of Atlantic Beach, an emergency medical technician in Long Beach, has seen Covid-19 cases up close, and is taking no chances. He said that he and his wife, Elizabeth, will have the game on, “but it will just be the two of us.” In previous years, Woolfe said, the gathering was bigger.

“I will miss the way the day was celebrated,” he said.

Super Bowl Sunday is a big day for Long Beach restaurants. Brixx and Barley, on West Park Avenue, is expecting a busy day, said general manager Henry Velasquez.

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“We always do pretty well on that day,” Velasquez said. “People love their wings.

Shlomo Feierman, a banker with a young family, said he, too, is taking no chances. The days of having 20 people over for the Super Bowl are done, for the time being, anyway, Feierman said, and this year that number will be less than half.

“There are fewer people coming,” Feierman said. “I’m concerned about Covid.”

The matchup between Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes will draw a huge television audience, said Jack Zanerhaft, chief rabbi of Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach. Zanerhaft said he would surely be watching, but he was worried about the crowd at the stadium, even though it will be reduced. Fans, he noted, will be buying food at kiosks and using restrooms in close quarters.

“It’s a risk,” Zanerhaft said. He noted that authorities in New York state have ruled against religious activities with far smaller crowds.

“I will be watching alone,” Zanerhaft said.

Did he have a prediction? “I think Brady will be hard to beat,” he said.

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ChiCken wings are a favorite for fans watching the Super Bowl, and local restaurants are expecting to rack up takeout sales.

dylan pinto and Jahkai Georges shoveled snow outside their homes on Monday.

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Long Beach slammed with nor’easter

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

The City of Long Beach declared a snow emergency and warned drivers to stay off the roads due to the heavy blowing snow on Sunday evening.

Long Beach schools were also closed Monday and went remote on Tuesday as the snowstorm brought more than 10 inches of snow.

City Manager Donna Gayden declared the snow emergency Sunday night as storm warnings worsened. City Hall and other city services were closed Monday and Tuesday because of the storm.

The city said that its Public Works Department has 59 snow removal vehicles prepared to deal with the snow, and 800 tons of rock salt and sand to keep streets clear and safe once the snow stops, late Monday.

Sam Pinto, a Long Beach firefighter, said at least six inches of snow had fallen ________________

on the city by 8 a.m. Monday. He said he knew of no traffic accidents, and people were staying off the roads.

“It’s getting really deep and it’s coming down fast,” Pinto said.

City officials asked residents not to throw snow onto the streets and not park within 15 feet of an intersection.

The city also faced high winds and high tides, which many residents feared would cause flooding. Because of extreme weather conditions, city officials halted busing on Monday at 2 p.m. and restored service the next day.

Many residents on social media and city officials also praised the CSEA workers for their efforts during the storm.

One resident wrote that the CSEA works always “go above and beyond” for residents and others said the snow removal was great.

Darwin Yanes contributed to the story.

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Long Beach HS athletes commit to college teams Four Long Beach High School seniors have committed to college sports teams and were congratulated during a small, socially distant celebration after school on Jan. 14. Joined by their parents, coaches and administrators, the students signed National Letters of Intent signifying that they have earned athletic scholarships.

Hayden Callahan is heading to Mars Hill University for lacrosse, Elaina Kassap will play softball at Le Moyne Colle ge, Reag an Mar tinsen joins the

lacrosse team at Central Michigan University and Griffen Schimmel has committed to Bryant University’s swim team.

“Only two percent of students across the country earn this achievement, and this year colleges have cut back on athletic scholarships due to the pandemic,” said Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics Ar nold Epstein.

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Our newly elected Board members are: LISA ENGELLIS has been producing, directing, choreographing and performing theatre for over 25 years. Graduating Magna Cum Laude from Long Island University, Lisa holds a BS in Education and a BA in Theatre. She is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild having appeared in multiple movies, television series, and commercials throughout her career.

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Kenneth James McGuire, a former McGuire was born in the Bronx, and New York City fire fighter and a co-owner lived in Long Beach for many decades of the popular Chauncey’s on before retiring to Naples. the Beach on Georgia Avenue, He served in the Navy and died Jan. 8 of lung cancer in after his discharge joined the Naples, Fla., where he had FDNY. been living. He was 77.

McGuire was also an avid McGuire was part owner golfer and swimmer. “He was of Chauncey’s and another very active,” his daughter bar-restaurant, Mary said.

McGuire’s in Astoria, Aside from his daughter, Queens. Chauncey’s closed in McGuire is survived by by his 1997, after serving as an inwife, Evelyn, of Naples; a spot in Long Beach for about son, Kenneth McGuire Jr., of 20 years.

Long Beach; a sister, KatherJames mcGuire The rock star Joan Jett, a ine Pawlowski and nephews long-time Long Beach resiKenneth and Mark Pawlowsdent, shot a video at Chauncey’s. The res- ki, niece Maggie Pawlowski and grandtaurant-bar sponsored sports teams and niece Victoria Pawlowski. held other events at the Chauncey’s. Mary McGuire was buried at Calverton McGuire’s remains open, but under a new National Cemetery, in Calverton, on Long name.

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then come join our Writers’ Circle on Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Library Board Meeting The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees meets at the library, 111 W. Park Ave., on the third Monday of every month. For more information contact info@longbeachlibrary.org.

Tuesday, Feb. 9 Low-Impact Cardio with Lori If you’ve been sedentary all day, get your blood flowing with Lori Rozell, a certified group fitness instructor. Beginners are welcome in this low-impact cardio class which includes ab strengthening. The virtual event will take place from 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Long Beach Soup Kitchen The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, 140 West Pine Street, serves hot meals Monday through Saturday, starting at 11:45 a.m. Guests are served a nutritious, home-cooked meal, which includes soup, salad, fruit cup, hot entree, vegetables, dessert, bread and beverages. Take-home bags are also provided, which include a sandwich, fruit and a sweet.

Board of Education Meeting The Board of Education meets on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. for a regular meeting. Agendas will be posted online at www.lbeach.org.information.

Thursday, Feb. 4 Beginner’s Bridge Learn to play bridge in this fun virtual bridge class designed for players with little (or no) knowledge of the game. It is ideal if you want to understand the game basics or relearn bridge using more modern techniques. Instructor Anne Bass--who has been teaching bridge for six years and playing for many more--will show us basic bidding conventions, as well as guidance in playing sample hands. The virtual event will take place from 10-11:30 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Meditation Unplug from the news and learn to relax and unwind in this unique online meditation class with Lisa Wisel, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT. Re-center with an embodiment meditation which focuses on the senses and aliveness. Feel the benefits immediately! The virtual event will take place from 2-2:45 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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Annual Gospel Shabbat On Friday night, February 12 at 7:30 p.m. Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach will be celebrating its 5th annual Gospel Shabbat in recognition of Black History Month. As part of the Zoom Shabbat worship service, the Nehemiah gospel choir will be singing a selection of hymns and gospel music.

Visit the Temple Website for the Zoom meeting information at www.templeemanuellongbeach.com or email the synagogue’s office – staff@templelb.org - for additional details.

Friday, Feb. 5 Chair Yoga This popular virtual Chair Yoga class focuses on a full-body practice from head to toe and will help strengthen your nervous system and reduce stress and stiffness. Using a combination of seated and standing positions, you’ll learn balance, breathing, and focus like never before. Beginners are welcome, and this class is open to all. The virtual event will take place from 9-10 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Friday Film Discussion: Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria Join Library staff for a special discussion of the documentary feature, Trezoros: The Lost Jews of Kastoria,

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produced and directed by local resident Lawrence Russo. With previously unreleased pre-war archival footage and first-person testimonies, TREZOROS: THE LOST JEWS OF KASTORIA chronicles the Jewish life and culture of Kastoria, a picturesque lakeside village in Northwestern Greece.The virtual event will take place from 1-2 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary. org for more information.

Saturday, Feb. 6 Yoga for Health & Peace This advanced beginner Hatha yoga class is designed to strengthen and lengthen your muscles and free your mind. Instructor Stephanie Durso will guide you into each pose and provide

The library is forgiving fees in February.

Presidents Day is Feb. 15.

Library provides self-checkout for patrons.

Polar Bear splash happening now till Feb. 7 School Board will meet Tuesday, February 9, at 7 p.m.

alignment cues for holding the pose and breathing deeply.The virtual event will take place from 10-11 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Monday, Feb. 8 First Monday Coffee Hour Start the month off right and join Library Director, Tara Lannen-Stanton, for your morning coffee!. The virtual event will take place from 9-9:30 a.m.. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Long Beach Writers’ Circle If you’re a writer and want to join other local writers serious about the craft,

Wednesday, Feb. 10 Cardio-Barre-Stretch If you’ve never tried a barre workout before, get ready to stretch and tone like never before! Fitness instructor Barbara Weinberg presents this fullbody workout combining barre-based sculpting, no-impact cardio, and stretching. Beginners welcome. No barre required. Bring a chair, a mat, and optional weights. The virtual event will take place from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Ask the Tech Guy Do you have questions about privacy or freedom of information? Have you heard of malware and ransomware but want to know more? Join Long Beach Library’s Tech Guy for a talk every Wednesday at 2 p.m. on all things tech.

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Bringing local sports home every week

Herald sports High-risk sports resume with conditions

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Less than a week after high-risk high school sports in New York state such as basketball, football, wrestling, volleyball and competitive cheer were given the OK to proceed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran relayed the necessary guidance put in place by the state and approved by local health officials.

At a Jan. 27 news conference at Bay Pa rk i n E a s t Ro ck aw ay, C u r r a n announced the high-risk sports guidelines that, once met, will clear the way for public and parochial schools to begin practicing for basketball, wrestling and cheer on Feb. 1, and holding games and matches as soon as Feb. 8.

“I’m excited to get our kids back on the fields, courts and the rinks they love so much and to bring a little normal back into their lives,” Curran said.

Some of the mandatory guidelines put in place countywide by Suffolk aren’t being mirrored by Nassau. Instead, those decisions were left to individual school districts in Nassau. These include weekly Covid-19 testing for participating athletes, coaches and others in daily contact with the teams, temperature monitoring before practices and games, and no more than two spectators per athlete for home teams.

Masks must be worn at all times, unless players are unable to tolerate such a covering for the physical activity, and a minimum of 6 feet in distance between individuals must be followed at all times, with the exception of participating athletes. No sharing of equipment or drinks will be permitted, and facilities must provide sanitizer for all in attendance and be limited to 50 percent of the maximum occupancy of a particular area, inclusive of employees, patrons, players and spectators.

Curran said the Nassau County Department of Health would conduct spot compliance checks at random schools to ensure safety guidelines are being followed.

On Jan. 26, Nassau’s athletic directors held a meeting with Section VIII, the governing body for high school athletics in the county, to discuss a return to play for basketball, wrestling and cheer. Section VIII also conducted a conference call with school superintendents that same morning.

Section VIII Executive Director Pat Pizzarelli said with athlete participation the primary goal this winter, there would be no playoffs for basketball and no postseason for wrestling. Basketball teams will play an eight-game season, while wrestling will conduct dual meets only.

“We want the largest number of kids playing in the most number of games, and this was the way to do it,” Pizzarelli

said.

Baldwin has already decided to have all high-risk athletes and coaches tested weekly and will not be permitting spectators, Athletic Director Ed Ramirez said.

The district is planning to livestream basketball games and wrestling matches. “I’m excited to see our winter student athletes, especially our seniors, back competing,” Ramirez said. “Although they will not get the full experience, they have an opportunity to represent their school one last time, be with their teammates and enjoy their passion.”

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District does not plan to mandate testing, Athletic Director Eric Caballero said. It will allow two spectators per home athlete, with no fans from visiting teams permitted. The Sewanhaka Central High School District is following the same criteria for testing and spectators, said Athletic Director Matt McLees.

The Valley Stream Central High School District will not allow fans for basketball and wrestling, but Athletic Director Scott Steuber said the topic will be revisited for sports set to begin March 1, such as football, soccer, volleyball and field hockey.

“I’m thrilled that we’re going to be starting all of our sports,” Pizzarelli said. “We haven’t had any Covid spread with the sports that began Jan. 4. Now we’re starting basketball and wrestling. BaSkETBaLL, aLONg wITh other high-risk winter I’ll be honest, I’m concerned cheer, were cleared to begin practicing Feb. 1. about wrestling. I spoke to our athletic administrators. They need to stress to their coaches they need to be diligent in keeping the safety of our student-athletes as the No. 1 priority, which is what we always do in athletics.”

Pizzarelli added each school district would make a determination whether to compete in the high-risk winter sports or not. He said only Uniondale, which is in full remote learning mode, has opted out so far. Lawrence flipped its decision on winter sports and will be competing.

Traditional fall sports, including football, soccer, girls’ tennis, cross-country, volleyball, field hockey and girls’ swimming, are slated to begin practice March 1. Spring sports, such as lacrosse, baseball, softball, boys’ tennis, track and field, girls’ badminton and boys’ golf, are set to start April 22.

NaSSau COuNTY ExECuTIvE Laura Curran said individual school districts could decide on Covid-19 testing for athletes and coaches.

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The Covid-19 pandemic caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs in 2020, and as a result, many found that their worst financial fears became their reality.

Even though many Americans never lost their jobs and some have found new ones, a growing number of people have been preoccupied by fear because they worry about being able to keep their jobs during the worst economic c a l a m i t y s i n c e t h e G re at Depression.

For many, pulling money from their savings accounts is the only way to survive, while others wished they had saved more emergency money, or they don’t know where to begin to start cutting expenses.

With many Long Islanders grappling with these financial concerns, Herald Inside LI held a free infor mational Zoom webinar on Jan. 28 to discuss reducing expenditures.

The webinar, which was sponsored by Edward Jones, Emigrant Mortgage, EmPower VeroNicA Solar, Maidenbaum Property Ferrero Tax Reduction Group and Geico, featured a panel of Assistant Vice expert speakers, who discussed President, simple ways to save money. DisEmigrant Mortgage cussion topics ranged from paying off credit card debt and getting finances in order to information about how to refinance loans with lower rates, ways to save on electric bills and how to grieve property taxes.

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n the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget.

The importance of an emergency fund

“Last year, it was eye-opening to see how many people lost their jobs, and many people learned the hard way that having emergency funds set aside is so important,” said Marie Taylor, a 20-year financial adviser at Edward Jones. “People need to know that you’re never too young to start saving because people can go into foreclosure if they can’t make payments.”

As someone who helps people manage people’s finances on a daily basis, Taylor said her usual approach when helping new clients to start a budget worksheet is to help them understand their savings, investments and income. The worksheet, she said, includes four key questions: ■ Where am I today?

■ Where do I need to go?

■ Can I get there?

■ What do I need to reach that goal?

“I tell my clients that it’s important to look at where your money is coming from and to make sure they know the risks, recognize strategies and that they should understand what their goals and aspirations are,” Taylor said. “It’s also important that people make sure that they have a financial adviser that is focused on the people they serve. If a financial adviser is not explaining costs or checking on your investments, and they are telling you what they think you need while failing to find out your background information, you might want to get a different financial adviser.”

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Another guest panelist, Veronica Ferrero, who is the assistant vice president and community lending

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HerAld iNside li held a free Zoom webinar on how to reduce expenses amid the coronavirus pandemic last Thursday. coordinator at Emigrant Mortgage Company Inc., said her job involves helping people to create a plan that reviews their credit report to see if it is up to date and without errors. She also looks at credit cards to make sure the interest rate is the lowest possible.

“Whenever someone closes or opens a savings account, it will affect their credit score,” she said. “A lot of people have credit cards that they don’t use, and they don’t realize that this will affect their credit score and that they should be diligent about paying their credit card payments when they are due.”

Ferrero also said she spends time evaluating her clients’ mortgages to aid them in discovering new ways to save in various areas, such as in their utility, phone and car insurance bills. She also aids people in looking at their long-term goals and deciding if taking out a home equity mortgage or line of credit would be the most sensible decision, based on a case-by-case analysis. With the ongoing pandemic, she also said, interest rates are low, and now is an opportune time to refinance and renovate homes.

“In the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget, and through my job, I want to help people to realize through an analysis process, specifically where their money goes on a monthly basis,” she said. “This is a challenging process, but most people are glad when they do this, and they are better able to see where they can better save money.”

Taylor and Ferrero both added that people should look for interest rates on their student loans to help budget better.

“It’s important to do research on programs and to look for companies to help you to do this,” Ferrero stressed.

“Speak to someone who will sit down and listen to you and be disciplined about this, and don’t get distracted,” Taylor said.

Tara McDermott, director of customer experience and stakeholder relations at EmPower Solar, said her company serves about 3,000 clients. EmPower Solar aims to help consumers save on electric bills by help-

ing them install solar panels.

“Now, more than ever, people are more conscious of an increase in electric bills because people are spending more time in their homes, and therefore they are using up more energy due to the pandemic,” she said.

“The average home on Long Island pays $250 a month on their electric bill, and our goal is to get homeowners to save money through the installation of solar panels on their roof. About one in every 22 houses on Long Island have solar panels now.”

Having solar panel consultation with EmPower Solar, McDermott said, is free. It will take place over Zoom to discuss how much solar panels will cost on a case-by-case basis and answer any other questions for those considering going solar.

“We stress to our clients that having solar panels does not increase taxes, but third-party studies have shown that it does add about $20,000 to the value of the home,” she said. “Around 15 percent of clients have a battery backup system for their solar panels—which will allow them to power their house during a power outage for an unlimited amount of time. This is great because clients can be prepared for an emergency, similar to another Superstorm Sandy.”

Filing a grievance

As the Zoom meeting was ending, guest speaker Mark Miller, in-house counsel at Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, made a few remarks. “All residential homeowners should file a grievance, and anybody who has a renovation on their house should file and see if they qualify, but they should keep in mind that solar panels don’t count as a renovation in these instances,” he said. “Also, if you double your house size through renovation, you won’t get the home improvement exemption. You might be considered a whole new property at that point.”

The recording for this cutting expenses webinar can be found at liherald.com/recordings. The next Herald Inside LI webinar will be Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m., and will look at estate and Medicaid planning.

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I have been fighting the Covid-19 pandemic as a nurse since the virus first began to surface last March. At the beginning, I was working in primary care offices with doctors, seeing patients every day. I was involved in doing Covid testing at a site Mount Sinai opened in Lawrence in the Five Towns.

We soon switched the program to a tent at the hospital. The program at Lawrence was a huge success. We wanted to expand it. We had very sophisticated analyzing equipment. At the beginning, we were seeing 30 to 40 people a day. Now, we’re seeing 80 to 90 a day. We pulled people from other parts of the hospital to help out. They were the very best people.

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Students donate care items to the homeless

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Students from Temple Emanu-El B’nai Mitzvah volunteered to donate 100 bags of personal care items to the homeless people in the City of Long Beach.

The bags, which contained items like hand sanitizer, masks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, lip balm, socks, hats, gloves and more, will be distributed by the Long Beach Police Department. The students, who ranged from sixth to eighth graders, also added a personal touch to each bag and added tags with messages of encouragement.

“This was a very special opportunity for our students to demonstrate , in a hands on way, their commitment to social justice, to causes that matter to them and to give them a real feel for what it’s like to help others in need,” Rabbi Jack Zanerhaft said. “It’s really

inspiring to know that the younger generation could be so moved to do the right thing.”

With homelessness being a challenge in Long Beach, Zanerhaft said, city officials and police were happy to receive the donation. He added that each police car will have at least two pouches to give out to the homeless.

Religious Education Director, Sandy Schumer, lauded the students for their efforts and thanked the Marilyn Lichtman Foundation for the grant that made this project possible.

“It was a wonderful experience for our students to learn the value of an “Anonymous Mitzvah,” Schumacher said. “They won’t actually get to witness the person their pouch goes to but they will know in their hearts that they have made a difference to a person of need in our community.”

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Positive start for Long Beach gymnasts

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If nothing changes to its schedule, Long Beach gymnasts will be in rare company this winter with nearly all of its meets being in-person with an opponent present.

The Marines, who captured a conference title in undefeated fashion in coach Jessica Baker’s first year at the helm, got a taste of both meet options right off the bat. They opened with a traditional inperson competition at Cold Spring Harbor, albeit without spectators, then held a virtual home meet where only parents were permitted to attend.

“The girls are just really excited to compete and not taking anything for granted,” Baker said. “It was different without fans at Cold Spring Harbor and different at home not having an opponent, but both were positive experiences. It was still a great vibe.”

All but a few of Long Beach’s remain-

ing meets are supposed to be virtual, but everything is subject to change during these unprecedented times. The Marines are also set to host the Nassau individual championships on Feb. 13. The team county championships, limited to the top eight scoring squads, is set for Feb. 27 at Massapequa.

Long Beach senior Allison Cohen and freshman Kirsten Lilly will almost certainly be at the Feb. 13 individual meet.

Cohen is a multiple state qualifier and in her sixth varsity season, Baker said.

“Allison is very powerful on all four events and our captain,” Baker explained.

“She’s a consistent top scorer. She’s also 100 percent a team player and has helped other girls choreograph their floor routines.”

Cohen dazzled in her two floor exercises to open the season, scoring 8.85 and 8.7.

She also produced an 8.8 on the balance beam Jan. 27 on the way to scoring 32.8 in the all-around.

Lilly has made a huge impression in

her first season in the program, both with her talents and personality. She’s led the way in scoring on the uneven bars, including an 8.3, and has reached 8.7 on floor and 8.45 on vault. “She’s brought a lot of joy to the team,” Baker said.

Seniors Sophia Cerky, Patricia Clune and Lauren Pittinsky, as well as junior Alyssa Haberlack are also off to promising starts.

Cerky missed two straight seasons due to injury but was determined to compete this winter and has chipped in nicely on bars and beam. Clune, in her sixth varsity season like Cohen, features a beautiful floor routine, Baker said, and brings plenty of energy. Pittinsky and Haberlack have polished their routines, the coach noted, and are competing with a high level of confidence.

“We scored 150 in our first meet and then 153 in our next meet, so I’m definitely happy with what we’ve done so far,” Baker said.

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FreshMan KirsTen LiLLY has brought talent and a fun element to the Marines, who are looking to build off last season’s conference title.

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Q. Why do my replacement steps need to be lower than my house foundation? I live near the water, and we dug a hole to put in a new foundation for the front steps that will be bigger than the old ones. We found the groundwater came up at 30 inches, so we stopped digging, but the inspector said our plans showed 36 inches minimum. The house foundation is at 30 inches also, so why are we digging lower?

They did it, but I can’t understand.

A. This is a very uplifting topic. The deep question and answer are actually simple and not too deep after all.

Science, if followed, can aid in survival against the forces of nature that perpetually exist.

The reason your foundation needs to be lower is that water, when it freezes, expands as ice.

So what does that have to onte eeper do with a big ol’ heavy chunk of concrete, you may ask? Well, the ground absorbs rain droplets, humidity and underground streams, all various forms of water just waiting to expand when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius. Frost begins to form, first at the surface and then further and further down below ground level the longer the air temperature remains at or below freezing.

In this part of the world, the average depth of freezing consistently reaches 3 feet, and only slowly thaws when the air temperature rises. The foundation should always have a wide base, or footing, that spreads out at the bottom, and needs to be below the 3-foot depth to resist the phenomenon of heaving. This is because, as the frost builds and expands, the moisture, in all its various forms (I just mentioned), begins to expand and crowd out the foundation of your home, or front steps, or anything else in its way.

Think of it like a big zit being forced to the surface from all directions.

When this happens, all the man-made structures in the ground begin to lift, sway, crack and separate in different directions. You have about as much chance of preventing it as you would of standing against a strong tidal wave on the beach, but since the heaving happens in slow motion, it seems to not be well recognized, because this problem comes up all the time on construction sites. Believe it or not, even large buildings, like skyscrapers and shopping malls, are vulnerable to uplift from soil expansion, so it’s not just your front steps or your comparatively smaller building. Workers who don’t understand the science can create some easily avoidable problems.

The reason your house foundation is closer to the surface is probably because it’s tied to deep piers, called piles, that may go down 25 feet below the surface. The adjacent concrete foundation, anchored to the piles, should still have gone down to 36 inches, but at least the existing footings are held to something that may resist the uneven lifting.

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f you spend any portion of your day watching the news on television, you’re no doubt confused about what is taking place in Washington. In a moment of reflection, it dawned on me that we are living in two worlds. One world is the happenings in Congress, and the other is the real world.

While President Biden is busy trying to launch his new government, the Senate will be tied up for weeks deciding whether to convict former President Trump JERRY for his conduct on Jan. 6, the day KREMER of the riot at the Capitol. The final result is totally predictable. Most of the Republican senators, who worry only about their careers, will not vote to convict him.

By and large, Congress is detached from people on the street. Politicians like Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are focused on protecting Trump, who has threated to promote

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But at the impeachment trial, all those cowards who won’t vote to convict Trump will, along with the public, be forced to watch hours of video of the horrors of the Jan. 6 mob attack. And they will have to hear witnesses who will state, “President Trump told me to do it.”

To paraphrase the late, great boxer Joe Louis, they can run but they can’t hide.

So let’s turn to the real world. Thanks to the courage of Twitter and Facebook, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies about a stolen election. There has been no public uprising against the social media platforms. It’s really comforting to have a day without tweets from an out-of-control narcissist. And it feels good to have a president who is showing up for work each day.

Unlike Trump, Biden isn’t hiding from the Covid pandemic. The federal government is taking over the responsibility of getting vaccines out to people. We are hearing what the govern-

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ment is doing to tackle this plague, and not ignoring the dangers of a virus that has killed over 400,000 people. Biden will tell us the truth, which is a welcome change.

It is clear that the 74 million people who voted for Trump aren’t just sitting around, mourning their loss. In the weeks after the Capitol uprising, 30,000 Republicans reportedly changed their party registration in disgust over Trump’s conduct. That may not seem like a big number, but many of them were residents of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, key political states.

Many of the same people who refused to wear masks, and made fun of Biden during the campaign when he appeared in one, are lining up to get their vaccinations, while anxiously awaiting new legislation that will provide stimulus money for struggling businesses and increased unemployment benefits. And in the near future, Biden will be offering a new health insurance proposal.

Trump will likely escape any penalties for the Jan. 6 attack, but many of

hanks to the courage of social media, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies.

his people who broke into the Capitol will face the possibility of prison terms. Many Trump voters may have second thoughts about sticking with a man who encouraged an event that resulted in the deaths of five people.

The talking heads on TV speak as if Trump voters are some sort of solid block, but most of them want the same things that Democratic voters want.

The rural red states have plenty of areas badly in need of a little love.

They are suffering with limited resources. They lack internet access and are saddled with poor schools, just like inner cities. Their local hospitals are overwhelmed and in danger of failing. Their need for a little TLC can be met by a caring president, and the dynamic will change.

So I’m not going to let the immoral conduct of 45 senators distract me. I’m focused on the real world.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm.

Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Creating your pandemic time capsule

f time is really relative and there are time travelers out there from the future thinking about where to visit, do not, I repeat, do not go back to 2020.

We just closed the door on that baby, and it was hard to get on with our lives.

If you don’t believe me, just open the time capsules we leave behind.

We’re preserving the artifacts of our lives so that people in the future can better understand who they are and what brought them to their moment.

RANDI I’ve been thinkKREISS ing about what I will put into my pandemic time capsule, which is a big cardboard box in my bedroom closet.

Into it goes anything that I think is evocative of living through the pandemic.

Some of the things I put in the box are what you’d imagine: a roll of toilet paper, pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer, an envelope with several strands of hair, eight inches long and gray. I started keeping a pandemic diary over the summer, and I threw that into the cardboard

capsule in August, when I was depressed by the numbers and didn’t feel like writing daily entries anymore.

I tossed into the box some of the newspaper front pages I saved: “CDC details first U.S. case of novel virus spreading in China.” “FDA grants historic authorization to a Covid-19 vaccine.”

“Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing.”

We cannot be reliable memory keepers if we don’t include politics. The ferocity of the pandemic was fueled by President Trump and his people.

They hid the truth from the American people, fudged the alarming numbers, silenced the scientists and failed to do what was necessary to get ahead of the surges. So, I would put into my box another front page, from The New York Times: “Biden Beats Trump.” The world changed in a moment.

I would also save my “screen use” statement from Verizon, indicating an average of 60 minutes a day pre-pandemic, and six hours a day as of last week.

I asked some friends and family what they would put in a pandemic time cap-

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sule. Photos of people in ICUs on ventilators, my sister said. My grandson suggested something with the Netflix logo, a friend suggested photos of her grandkids, with and without masks as the year progressed, and another friend suggested a can of tuna and a packet of yeast. Someone said she’d put an old paintbrush in the capsule, since it helped save her life. I’ll include the hard-copy calendar I keep with notations for Zoom meetings and virtual doctor’s appointments and copies of our living wills, executed as the pandemic surged.

I will include photographs — real, printed photographs — of the loving friends who died this year, some of Covid-19, some of other diseases. I have the receipt from some enterprising death company welcoming me to a “virtual shiva.”

I will toss in my appointment card for my second Pfizer vaccine shot, as soon as I get inoculated.

When I surveyed some friends about what should go into the time capsule, one suggested Trump himself. Another said she would like to bury the anxiety and constant fear many felt as the former president bungled the response to

’ll put in pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer . . .

the pandemic, and we realized the unthinkable: that upward of a half-million Americans could die. One friend said he would put in Hershey’s Chocolate Nuggets, which he swears are better than Xanax.

Food has loomed large for everyone — getting it, hoarding it, cooking it, donating it. What time capsule would be complete without takeout menus and a list ranging from GrubHub to UberEats?

These were companies I never heard of before 2020.

I would save the books I picked last year at random for my Zoom book group this winter. Somehow, they’re all relevant to living through a pandemic. I suppose that’s because all good literature distracts us and helps heal our fractures.

For a few weeks, I kept a notepad at my bedside and wrote down the dreams I was having in the worst days. They were all the same: I walk into a room and no one is wearing masks, and I know, I absolutely know, that I will get sick. I couldn’t have had that dream in 2019. I’ll put the notepad in my time capsule.

My best hope is that we can seal our capsules very soon and leave their memories and lessons to history.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Recalling injustice during Black History Month

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uring February, Black History Month, we celebrate the great African-American political and civil rights leaders, scientists, artists, poets, movie stars and athletes.

But we must also pause to recall America’s dark past, stained by horrific acts against Black and brown people, at times perpetrated by our own government.

As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, it’s critical that we look back at the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” to understand the distrust that many African-Americans feel toward our government and medical institutions.

That distrust may be a contributing factor in the significantly higher Covid-19 infection rate and death toll seen among Black and brown people.

The Tuskegee study was supposed to last six months. It carried on for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, a collaboration between the U.S. Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black college in Alabama. The study of 600 poor Black sharecroppers examined 399 with syphilis and 201 without the disease. Study participants were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a colloquialism for syphilis, anemia and fatigue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In truth, they weren’t being treated at all — even after 1945, when penicillin was accepted as “the treatment of choice for syphilis.”

In fact, the study looked at what would happen if syphilis were to go untreated — but the participants never knew that. It wasn’t until 1972, when an Associated Press story disclosed the study, that it

ended.

Is it any wonder that many AfricanAmericans might distrust the continual exhortations of our federal, state and local governments to be inoculated against the coronavirus as soon as they can?

According to the CDC, nationally, there have been 1.4 times more Covid-19 cases among African-Americans than white people over the past 11 months. The hospitalization rate is 3.7 times greater among Black and brown people. And the death rate is 2.8 times greater.

There are reasons for these dispiriting statistics beyond distrust of government and the medical system — systemic racism is chief among them, the CDC says.

Lack of access to health care is another, and occupation is another: Many people of color work in the service industry, requiring them to show up in person rather than work from home via Zoom and email. Finally, there’s the question of housing. Many Black and brown people live in tighter quarters, in more densely populated areas, than white people. The coronavirus requires density to spread widely.

In 2019, the Herald undertook a yearlong investigative series examining the many forms that systemic racism takes in Nassau County. We called it “The Racism Around Us.” Infant mortality is a leading indicator of a community’s well-being, according to the county Department of Health. When children are dying in high numbers at birth, there are probably myriad other health concerns in a community.

In the majority of white communities

letters LIRR questions remain unanswered To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s success is New York’s success, and a strong LIRR makes for a strong Long Island. Critical planning is needed for the year ahead to stamp out fraud and abuse, smartly rehabilitate the East River tunnels and get Elmont’s new train station up and running. Long Islanders depend on the MTA to provide an affordable, dependable and hassle-free commute, and the LIRR must live up to that obligation, especially as riders return to work in New York City. The MTA has its work cut out in 2021, and I will continue to hold agency officials to account. Our region’s future depends on it.

I recently pressed MTA officials on the steps they’re taking to clamp down on fraud and waste, and urged MTA leadership to finish installing biometric clocks for employees to log hours in the coming year. Indeed, fraud has been a perennial problem for the MTA, and yet the agency has yet to adequate-

across Nassau, the infant mortality rate ranged from 0 to 3 in 1,000 births in 201416, according to the New York State Department of Health. In most communities of color, the infant mortality rate was three to nine times that.

County officials identified nine communities of color as well as those with large minority populations — Elmont, Freeport, Glen Cove, Hempstead, Inwood, Long Beach, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Westbury — each with measurably greater health concerns than nearby white communities. They have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, mirroring national statistics for infection and death rates.

“Blacks are bearing a disproportionate burden of Covid-19 in Nassau County,” said Elaine Gross, president of the Syosset-based ERASE Racism, “and the county must address two related challenges.

First, it must increase health care access and Covid-19 testing in Black communities. Second, it must combat the structural racism that fuels the disparities.”

Sarika Kuman, Long Island regional organizer for the National Institute of Reproductive Health, put it this way: “One’s quality of life should not be determined by your zip code, but in Nassau County it is. From infant mortality to pandemic fatality rates, the common thread is Long Island’s structural inequities.”

During Black History Month, we must never forget the racial injustices of our collective past so they are never repeated again, and so we might commit to rooting out the daily injustices — large and small — in our present society.

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our hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun because that theory conflicted with the orthodoxy of the time, i.e., the Bible and the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the pope and bishops.

Even if astronomers’ heliocentric theories were true, the powerful elite could not allow such disturbing words to be read — at least not in the JoHn vernacular — for such heresies o’ConneLL fear would confuse the masses and undermine the authority of those in charge.

These days it isn’t the princes of Rome that rule on what ideas are true and what news is allowed to be heard, but rather a decidedly secular hierarchy: the doyens of Silicon Valley, the media masters in New York and California, and their agents in Congress and government offices in Washington.

The current ideological conflict is often described as a battle between liberals and conservatives, but that’s last century’s war. Today’s cancel-culture college of cardinals shouldn’t be confused with liberals.

Real liberals aren’t hate-filled, intolerant, angry anarchists, no more than real conservatives are rich, white supremacist nativists. Genuine liberals are First Amendment absolutists ardently supportive of our liberties: a free press, freedom to practice our religions, freedom to peaceably assemble, the freedom to petition the government to better serve us, its sovereign, and to speak freely without fear of violent attack or suppression.

Authentically liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing — even disagreeable — voices. They’d defend those voices.

The indisputably liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1927 that “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” A monopoly-busting, free-speech advocate, Brandeis would, I’m sure, see today’s corporate social media lords’ cancel-culture censorship as antithetical not only to the Constitution but to American civil liberties.

Traditional liberalism fights for an individual’s right to freely express ideas, popular or unacceptable, commonly believed or held only by that individual, true or not, whose supporting “facts” are from presumably credible sources or

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ruly liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing voices.

Letters ly abide by its inspector general’s recommendations to stamp out overtime abuse.

In December, five MTA employees were arrested on fraud charges for having logged “almost physically impossible amounts of overtime,” according to federal prosecutors. According to state payroll records, overtime hours logged by MTA employees soared 46 percent between 2014 and 2019. I urged agency officials to focus on reining in overtime and restoring riders’ trust in 2021.

I also inquired about plans to repair the East River tunnels this year. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water inundated the tubes during Superstorm Sandy and left them in disrepair. A report by the state comptroller found that the number of trains delayed or canceled because of problems with the tubes and their switches had increased 72 percent since Sandy, and accounted for a significant number of the LIRR’s on-time problems.

Finally, I’ve been a strong proponent of the new Elmont train station’s development as an integral component of the Belmont Park Redevelopment Plan. In addition to providing a regular, full-time public-transit option to and from the new arena, hotel and retail village, the LIRR hub will also serve as an additional com-

aren’t reliably sourced at all.

Some of President Biden’s inaugural speech was right out of a traditional liberal’s handbook. In his president-as-conciliator role, he said, “We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors.

We can treat each other with dignity and respect.

We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature.”

Eschewing the inciteful far-left rhetoric of many of his party-mates in Congress, the press and Hollywood, the president warned: “[W]ithout unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. … Let us listen to one another. Hear one another. See one another. Show respect to one another. Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war.”

Left-wing extremists hope Biden’s words are just political speechifying.

Unlike reasonable liberals — and conservatives, for that matter — who are committed to social justice, equal opportunity and free speech, the goal of the radical left is to redefine what’s just, to tilt the playing field based on group identity, to amplify the speech of loud leftists and to silence contrary voices.

How fairly the national press reports on the Biden presidency will be important

to the future of the nation and to the survival of journalism itself. According to a Gallup survey five months ago, only 9 percent of Americans trust the media “a great deal.” Sixty percent trust them “not very much” or “none at all.” According to Gallup, the percentage of those who don’t trust the media at all went up five points in one year.

News consumers have turned to social media for information. Some wanted to connect on the new social app Parler before Big Tech suppressed it. Yes, the same Big Tech, the new Magisterium, that decides what can be posted and who can post.

I would have preferred that Biden had lost, but the election is over. That virus has left the lab. Disappointed, I must now only hope that he will serve America as a true liberal and reject many Democrats’ condescending intolerance. A sovereign people will oppose authoritarian politics that orders citizens to agree or shut up.

Half the country is vexed by the prospect of a Biden-Harris administration unchecked by the House or the Senate.

That situation can be changed in two or four years. But many Americans are even more troubled by the anarchy brought by Antifa and the radial left, which revels in “woke” group-think and seeks to crush the individualism that has made America great.

John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments about this column? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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muting option for area residents — which the community has needed for years.

ToDD KAMINSKY State senator, 9th District

Executive orders are no help To the Editor: Last week, President Biden signed numerous executive orders that will end thousands of union jobs. one of them orders the closure of private federal prisons contracted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The idea of privately contracted federal prisons came from a previous Democratic administration. It was part of Vice President Al Gore’s so-called “reinventing of government” plan that instituted contracted federal prisons.

It was Gore’s and President Bill Clinton’s idea that paying a contracted facility would reduce costs, cut the federal work force and save retirement money, because federal workers wouldn’t be employed at these facilities. With these closures, private prison guards will be on the unemployment lines, and joining them will be construction workers building the border

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wall and Keystone pipeline employees.

And it was reported that another signed executive order ending drilling on federal lands will result next year in still more lost union jobs.

So much for helping hard-working

middle-class Americans.

STEVE GRoGAN Lynbrook Grogan is a retired Department of Justice employee.

LONG BEACH HERALD — February 4, 2021

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