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By JAMES BERNSTEiN jbernstein@liherald.com

Eighty-three-year-old Aija Dorsey sat toward the rear of the large chapel at Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach Monday night, holding a colorful sign that read, “Latvia for free Ukraine.”

Dorsey was a child, living in Latvia, when Russia invaded the country in 1940, and her family fled to Germany.

“We were just refugees, like you see today” on television, she said quietly, referring to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. “I cry so much. To me it’s very personal.”

Dorsey, of Long Beach, was one of about 200 people who gathered at the temple to pray for the people of Ukraine and for peace in that war-torn country, at an event organized

by Rabbi Jack Zanerhaft, spiritual leader of Emanu-El. “Why am I here?” the rabbi said to a hushed audience. “I am the son of Holocaust survivors. Why are we here? Last week a message went out to Joe Abate/Herald the Jewish community from AiJA DoRSEy, 83, fled Latvia when Russia invaded in 1940. She WHO'S WHO IN [ U k r a i n i a n ] P r e s i d e n t came to Temple Emanu-El on Monday to support Ukraine.

REAL ESTATE [Volodymyr] Zelensky. He said, ‘Do not be afraid to sang “The Star-Spangled Ban- Ukraine, which was invaded speak out.’ Nazism was born ner” and the Ukrainian by Russian troops on Feb. 24 in silence. Today,” Zanerhaft on orders from Russian Presinational anthem. added, “we say no to war.” dent Vladimir Putin. The RusIt was the largest rally yet He spoke after the temple’s March 10, 2022

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Mike Tangney, a ‘cop’s cop,’ dies at age 66 city manager. He assumed that post in 2017, after then City Manager Jack Schnirman was electMichael Tangney, who retired ed Nassau County comptroller. in 2020 as Long Beach police Tangney was known as a commissioner after a 20-year “cop’s cop” and a no-nonsense career with the city’s Police manager. He rose rapidly in the Department, died at age 66 on Police Department, becoming a Tuesday. Details on where Tang- lieutenant before being named ney died and the commissioner. In his cause of death were years as head of the n o t i m m e d i at e ly force, Tangney was available as the Hercredited with reducald went to press. ing crime, running a In an email tight financial ship, Wednesday mor nsecuring funds for ing, Police Commissurveillance camersioner Ron Walsh as and police trainwrote, “It is with a ing, and seeing to it sad hear t that I that his officers were inform you of the adept at the use of Michael Tangney passing of retired Narcan to treat opiLong Beach Police oid overdose paCommissioner tients.

Michael Tangney. Michael His pay — said to be more passed suddenly, but peacefully than $300,000 in 2015 — raised while at home last evening. He concerns at the time. But it served the City of Long Beach included a base salary of for 42 years. A formal announce- $213,000, retroactive pay, vacament will be forwarded when tion and other compensation. details are known concerning James Mulvaney, a Pulitzer his arrangements.”

Prize-winning investigative Tangney had a long history reporter who is now a professor with the city. He was once both at the John Jay College of police commissioner and acting Continued on page 11

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Michael Hinman becomes Heralds’ executive editor

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Although he was born and raised in rural PennMichael Hinman is the new executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Stuart Richner, sylvania, Hinman spent most of his adult life in centhe CEO of Richner Communications Inc., and pub- tral Florida. His work ranged from neighborhood lisher of the newspaper group, made the announce- newspapers like the Zephyrhills News and The ment last week. Hinman succeeds Scott Brinton, Laker, to the larger Sunbelt Newspaper division of The Tampa Tribune. He also spent years as a real who had led the editorial department since 2016.

Herald Community Newspapers include nearly estate reporter for the Tampa Bay Business Journal, two dozen publications and more than 20 reporters as well as the Sarasota-based Business Observer.

During his time with the Business Journal, Hinand editors. Hinman will also oversee The Riverdale man won a top business reporting Press, the Bronx paper he joined as ediaward from the Society of Professional tor in 2017, helping the publication win Journalists for his series of stories 29 state awards during that time, includfocused on the failed Trump Tower ing the New York Press Association’s top Tampa project. honor last year, recognizing general “Our communities are filled with stoexcellence. ries just waiting to be told,” Hinman Joining Hinman’s leadership team is said. “This is why neighborhood newslongtime Nassau Herald editor Jeff Bespapers like the Heralds are so vital. We sen, who becomes the Heralds’ new depare renewing our mission to find those uty editor. stories and share them — to inform you, “I’m excited to see two longtime to help you, and hopefully even make members of the Richner CommunicaJeff Bessen you smile from time to time.” tions family take on expanded roles,” Before his tenure covering the Five Stuart Richner said. “For the past five years, Michael has been a steadfast steward of The Towns, Bessen was editor of the Islip Bulletin and Riverdale Press’ legacy of excellence. Now he brings Suffolk County News, which covered several commuhis hard-nosed journalism and innovative storytell- nities on Suffolk County’s South Shore.

Bessen has won a number of awards from the ing to the Herald newsroom.

“Jeff has been a leading voice in the Herald news- New York Press Association and the Press Club of room for more than a decade,” Richner added. “In Long Island over the years, most recently as the the newly created deputy editor role, Jeff will fur- Press Club’s runner-up for non-local news and feather infuse his dogged reporting into our 20-plus edi- tures in 2021, and for narrative in-depth reporting/ series in 2020. tions of the Herald.

“The Heralds have always had the community in “I know that under Mike and Jeff ’s leadership, our newsroom will continue to be the premier mind when producing their award-winning stories,” source of local news for Long Islanders. I look for- Bessen said. “We aim to deepen that commitment ward to seeing how our award-winning team finds with a stronger focus on the broader issues — such as politics — that impact our readers.” new ways to serve our communities.”

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Michael hinMan, who spent the past five years as editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Riverdale Press, is the new executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Nassau Herald Senior Editor Jeff Bessen has become the Heralds’ new deputy editor.

Alarms over fire department exceeding OT budget

By Brendan carpenter bcarpenter@liherald.com

Long Beach fire fighters have gone significantly past the money allocated for overtime and there is still five months left in this fiscal year.

The department was allocated $400,000 for overtime for the fiscal year - July 1, 2021 to this coming June 30. According to city documents, as of Jan. 31, overtime spending stood at $683,985.71.

Overtime salaries were also over 159% at that time and overall department expenses were over 71.9%.

Fire Commissioner Joseph Miller said the increase in overtime are staff shortages due to Covid 19,work injuries by full-time staff and fewer full-time staff members.

Miller, who took over in December, said two lieutenants retired. While two firefighters were promoted to lieutenant, the department has been left with two less members. There are currently two new applications under review.

The department is also short on paramedics, having six after four left this fiscal year for other opportunities. One application is also under review currently.

“It hurts being understaffed,” Miller said, “but that means we aren’t having to pay the full-time salary amount. However, we are paying more overtime.”

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the long Beach Fire Department has gone past their allocated amount of overtime pay for this fiscal year.

The department also hired three new full-time firefighters this year, which is why the overtime budget is lower than last years, which was $550,000. The three firefighters, Catherine Lewis, Patrick Cunningham and Tyler Rutter were all hired in March.

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“We hope to hire some more [firefighters] for the next fiscal year so that we can alleviate the overtime spending,” said Miller.

Miller said that, since he took over, two or three staff members were diagnosed with Covid and two more were out due to

work-related injuries, which “impacted the manpower a little bit.” One full-time staffer is currently still out due to injury.

Discussions between Fire Department Union leadership and the City’s Corporation Counsel’s office are ongoing about the issue of overtime.

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OBITUARY Republicans select Brown for 20th Assembly District Andrea Halbfinger, 81, artist, Herald journalist Assembly District,” Brown said in a press release. “It has been my honor to have dedicated over two decades of serEric “Ari” Brown, deputy mayor of the vice to our communities, serving on local village of Cedarhurst, was selected by the government boards as a Cedarhurst VilNassau County Republican lage official, and I am eager to Committee to run in a special put my experience to work in election for the 20th Assembly the New York State Assembly.

District on April 7.

Brown received an Nassau Democrats have endorsement from Miller as not yet named a candidate for he kicked off his campaign. the race. Democratic officials Miller said she believes he could not be reached Wedneswill “continue her priorities day. in Albany” and that he would The seat became vacant be a strong voice for taxpayw h e n A s s e m b l y wo m a n , ers.

Missy Miller, joined the “I am suppor ting Ari Eric “Ari” Brown Hempstead Town Board.

Brown in the race for the New Brown, 54, has been on the York State Assembly because Board of Trustees in Cedarhe shares my priorities,” said hurst since 2001 and has lived there for 30 Miller in a press release. “He will fight years. He was named deputy mayor last for tax relief, push for our fair share of year. school aid and stand up for vulnerable “I am thankful to have received the members of our society, including perendorsement of the Nassau Republican sons with special needs and serious Party in the special election for the 20th health issues.”

By BrENDAN CArPENTEr bcarpenter@liherald.com

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Andrea Halbfinger, an artist and for- Post went out on maternity leave in 1964, mer reporter and editor for the Herald Halbfinger — then 23 — filled in. Her chain of newspapers, died at her home in weekly reviews crackled with assertive, Manhattan on March 1. She was 81. authoritative prose — offhandedly disShe had been battling pancreatic can- missing pop art as “a fad doomed to pass,’’ cer and Parkinson’s disease, said her son, spotlighting the first exhibition of Native David Halbfinger, the politics editor for American art at an unusual venue of the The New York Times.

Interior Department, and recommending Halbfinger worked for the Herald books for parents eager to cultivate an newspapers in the 1990s, covering Valley appreciation for art in their young chilStream and Nassau County. dren She was a dedicated artist, A law firm job for her husproducing more than 60 years band led the family back to of paintings and drawings.

Brooklyn before moving to She started when she was a Freeport in 1971. Halbfinger student at Bennington College continued to write and also and, according to her son, in took up art teaching, working the overheated basement of with children in Bellmore and the family home in Freeport.

Massapequa along with adults She and her husband, M. Wilin Oceanside, and leading liam Halbfinger, raised two tours of New York galleries children — David and WestAndrea Halbfinger and museums. chester County health departAside from her son and her ment public affairs director daughter, she is also survived Caren. Her husband died in 1999. by her brother, Dr. Steven R. Kanner of Between 1971 and 2000, she painted viv- Lincoln, Massachusetts; sister, Dr. Ellen idly colored acrylics and oils with bold, B. Kanner, a Manhattan psychologist; and expressive shapes on large canvases she six grandchildren. stretched herself. These images representAfter the death of her husband, she ed “an ordering of chaos,” she wrote in married Lawrence G. Wasserman of Lido one statement accompanying an exhibi- Beach in 2004. He died in 2007. tion of her work.

She became a bat mitzvah as an adult, Andrea Sue Kanner was born Feb. 17, was an active member of Congregation 1941, in Brooklyn, the first child of S. Lee B’nai Israel in Freeport and then of Conand Elsie (Frumkin) Kanner. gregation Ohav Shalom in Merrick, She graduated from Bennington Col- before moving to Manhattan after the lege in Vermont in 1962. Urged by her death of her second husband and eventufather to pursue a more practical career, ally joining Congregation Kehilath Jeshushe earned a master’s degree in journal- run. ism from Columbia University in 1963.

Days after celebrating her 81st birthThat’s where she met Halbfinger, moving day, when asked if she was looking forwith him to Washington, D.C., after they ward to being reunited with her first husmarried. band, she smiled broadly and quickly When the art critic for The Washington answered: “It’s gonna be great.”

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Long Beach’s “Commissioner for A Day,” a 14-year-old New York State w re s t l i n g ch a m p i o n , rolled up to police headquarters last Friday in one of three squad cars, emerging to cheers from officers, bystanders and news photographers.

Dunia Sibomana, 14, won the New York State Wrestling Championship Feb. 26 at Albany’s MVP Arena when he pinned a No. 1 seed in 1 minute, 32 Long Beach poLice commissioner Ron Walsh escorted seconds.

An eight-grader from Dunia Sibomana into police headquarters for a tour of the Congo, in Central Africa, building last Friday.

Dunia almost lost his life where he was asked to raise his right hand eight years ago when a group of wild chimpanzees attacked him and take the oath of office as “Commisand two family members near Virunga sioner for A Day.” He was given a proclamation, similar to National Park, a huge animal preserve. He came to the U.S. in November, 2015 and one he was given a few days earlier by the underwent more than a dozen surgeries at Long Beach City Council. He was also Stony Brook University Hospital to given a Long Beach police shirt, a Long restore his appearance and facial func- Beach police coin, and was taken to lunch by the police brass. tion.

Dunia, a shy, quiet young man with a He began wrestling four years ago with a youth program, coached by Miguel soft-spoken voice, smiled throughout the Rodriguez, who has since adopted him. He ceremony in Walsh’s office.

“You’re a very modest young man,” is also passionate about soccer and track.

Rodriguez, Long Beach’s middle school Walsh said during the ceremony. “I’m very wrestling coach, accompanied Dunia to proud of how you came along, You’re a model for everyone in your school. The police headquarters Friday.

“He is very happy,” Rodriguez said as things you’ve overcome in your life are they two stepped out of a squad car and things none of u here have had to overinto the police stationhouse, where they come.”

He has evolved from being unable to were led on a tour of the building by Long Beach Police Commissioner Ron Walsh, speak Englsh to being an Honor Roll stuexecutive officer Rich DePalma and other dent.

Asked if he wanted to become a police police officials.

Dunia was shown the communications officer, Dunia said, “When I was younger, room, the detective squad, the jail cells yes. But now I want to go back to my counand was then taken to Walsh’s office, try and build houses for people to live.”

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events and activities

Ongoing

Thursday, Mar. 17

Library Board Meeting

Preschool Yoga The public library will have a preschool yoga class in the program room from 3 to 3:30 pm.

The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees typically meets on the third Monday of every month. Check the website for specific dates and times, www.longbeachlibrary.org.

Friday, March 18

Long Beach Soup Kitchen The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, 140 West Pine Street, is open 6 days a week 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. They offer Hot and Cold Meals TO GO. They offer a full pantry with canned goods and fresh produce. Mondays and Thursdays. All are welcome.

Historical Fiction Book Club The public library will have a historical fiction book club session discussing Lost Girls by Pam Jenoff in the program room from 2 to 3 pm.

Saturday, March 19

Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed.

Please call the City Manger’s Office to make an appointment at (516) 431-7202 or email citymanager@ longbeachny.gov. Information on how to meet will be provided after the appointment is confirmed.

Friday, March 11 Youth Drawing Club The public library will be having a youth drawing club session in the program room and on zoom from 4 to 4:45 pm.

Saturday, March 12 Yoga for Health and Peace The public library will have a yoga class to focus on health and peace in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.

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Coping with Covid-19 FEMA and the Office of Mental Health have partnered with NY Project Hope to offer free and anonymous conseling to anyone affected by Covid in the first floor lobby of the public library from 10 am to noon.

Sunday, March 13 Daylight Savings Cleanup The Surfrider Foundation will be hosting the 4th Annual Dalight Savings Cleanup on Riverside Boulevard and the bay from 11 am to 1 pm.

Four Funny Females The public library and Artists in Partnership, Inc. are hosting a comedy show called Four Funny Females for Women’s History Month in the auditorium and on zoom from 2 to 4 pm.

Monday, March 14 Writers’ Circle The public library will have a writers’ circle session on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.

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Gentle Yoga The public library will have a gentle yoga class in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.

Tuesday, March 15 City Council Meeting There will be a City Council meeting on the 6th floor of City Hall starting at 7 pm. The public can watch the meeting on YouTube.

Teen Poetry Club The public library will be having a teen poetry club session in the program room and on zoom from 7 to 7:45 pm.

Wednesday, Mar. 16 Coping with Covid-19 FEMA and the Office of Mental Health have partnered with NY Project Hope to offer a free, anonymous counseling session to anyone affected by Covid19 in the first floor lobby of the public library from 10 am to noon.

Ask the Tech Guy The public library will have an “Ask the Tech Guy” session for residents to ask any technology-related question in the second floor lobby from 2 to 3 pm.

Strength Training The public library will have a strength training and ab conditioning class in the auditorium and on zoom from 9 to 10 am.

The Long Island Community Foundation will have a parent cafe session for parents and caregivers to relax, reflect and talk about the joys and challenes of raisinga family in the auditorium of the public library from 10:30 am to noon.

Monday, March 21 Chamber of Commerce Meeting The Chamber of Commerce will be having their monthly meeting at Anchor Tavern.

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 bcarpenter@liherald.com

The city is in talks about parking meters in the center of town.

Families with students in the public school district will be receiving take-home Covid tests.

The city council will soon start considering a new budget for the next fiscal year.

The city will be discussing possible changes to beach fees.

The Park and Recreation’s 60th annual Easter Egg Hunt will be on April 9.

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Town of hempsTead Board and local bar and restaurant owners disposed of Russian Vodka as a show of solidarity with Ukraine.

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Not exactly the Boston Tea Party, but Town of Hempstead officials reaffirmed their support for the Ukrainian people by joining restaurant owners in dumping Russian vodka down the drain in a symbolic gesture on Monday.

More than a dozen bottles were emptied outside of Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park. Some 25 restaurants signed on to participate, according to Town Supervisor Don Clavin — including major catering facilities — to dispose of the Rus- hammer + sicKle Vodka was among those that sian liquor. They included the were disposed of in a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Mill Ridge Inn, The Coral families,” he said. “Our goal is not to topHouse, JJ Coopers, EGP Land and Sea, EGP Oceanside, The Beach ple the Russian economy, but to show some House, and The Ugly Duckling bar and res- strength and unity for the people of Ukraine. We hope people around the taurant.

“We are showing our commitment to nation will join in our efforts and stand tying in with the people seeking freedom with us as well.”

Many large businesses have openly conin Ukraine and the oppression that is taking place, by pouring Russian vodka where demned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — it belongs right down the drain,” Clavin not just with words, but also with action.

Credit card companies like Visa, Mastersaid. “It has no place in our stores.”

While officials acknowledged that Card and American Express suspended dumping vodka would not necessarily operations in Russia, and vowed to no lonhurt the Russia economy, the symbolism ger support cards issued in that country.

Clavin also called upon Gov. Kathy demonstrates support of those tasked to Hochul to stop the sale of Russian spirits defend their home country.

“We understand that we don’t have the in New York via executive order.

“It’s time for our New York state govability to sink the economy in Russia by pouring out vodka and spirits,” Town ernment to get involved and sanction any Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said. products,” the town supervisor said.

“What we do realize is we need to send a “Withhold them from use, at least in state facilities. And if they can, pass legislation message of solidarity.” to stop the sale and promotion of Russian Solidarity that goes beyond just vodka.

“It’s a symbolic gesture, but it’s an products throughout New York state.”

Hempstead town officials will compile a important one,” Clavin said. “First, it’s the vodka. Then it’s not getting Lukoil gas and list of Russian products to share on official government social media pages, allowing any of the other products.”

But then again, it’s not about targeting the general public to know what they can the people of Russia, said Tim O’Hagan, boycott.

“We hope that this will be the first step owner of EGP Oceanside and EGP Land and there can be more upstage initiatives and Sea, but instead the country’s leaders.

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Tangney was known as an innovative cop

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Michael Tangney, long Beach’s police commissioner, was a member of the department for over 20 years.

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Criminal Justice, served on a panel that recommended Tangney to be police commissioner. “He’s a dedicated Long Beach guy who cares about his job,” Mulvaney said last year.

Tangney was known as an innovator.

Longtime residents recall the time he persuaded the Long Beach Fire Department to loan the police bucket trucks used by firefighters to reach great heights. Tangney, the residents recounted, posted police officers in the buckets over city streets, clocking motorists’ speeds. “It mostly cut down on speeders,” one resident said.

“I had a great career,” Tangney said.

“I was a cop, a sergeant, a lieutenant and I’ve been commissioner for eight years. There’s nothing I haven’t done.”

“I always tell young cops that there will be pictures in their minds, horrible pictures, that they will take to their graves,” he said.

For Tangney, one such image dates to July 2005, after he and family members had attended a wedding.

On his way home, on the Meadowbrook Parkway, he spotted a limousine that had been in a horrible accident.

Tangney stopped and rushed to the

badly damaged vehicle. It was then and there that he learned that his 7-year-old niece Katie Flynn had been in the limo and was killed in the accident. A drunken driver, Martin Heidgen, traveling at 70 mph in the wrong direction on the Meadowbrook, had slammed into the limo. Heidgen received a sentence of 18 years to life.

Another time, people recall, a man holding a propane tank was threatening to blow up an entire block. Tangney, they said, simply walked up to the man and subdued him.

Tangney’s wife, Darlene, is the leader of the Long Beach Independent Democratic Party. In 2017, Democrats swept the races for City Council, including a major victory for Independent Party candidate John Bendo, who was City Council president. Darlene Tangney said her party helped elect Laura Curran county executive, and Schnirman county comptroller.

Flags at City Hall and and the Long Beach Police headquarters were flying at half staff on Wednesday — as they will on Monday, when a funeral service for Tangney is scheduled for 10 a.m. at St. Ignatius Martyr Church, at 721 W. Broadway.

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Speakers call for end of war in Ukraine continued from front page sians have been met with fierce resistance from Ukrainians.

Zanerhaft said he was working with the Long Island chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a support group, to collect food and other items for people in Ukraine. He said that plans for collections, and specifics on where items can be aija dorsey donated, would Long Beach be an-nounced in the next few days.

Others speakers on Monday urged the attendees to do what they could to help those in Ukraine. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman spoke about the prayers that had been offered, but said that while prayers were always a good thing, people must speak out and act, in ways they deem appropriate.

Earlier this week, Blakeman organized an effort to collect licensed, unloaded guns from those willing to donate them. He said it was up to President Biden to get the weapons to Ukraine.

Referring to the Russian invasion, Blakeman said, “It’s murder. It’s genocide.

It’s evil.”

Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford,

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f I were younger, I would go back and fight.

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of Long Beach, described the living conditions in Ukraine, and then said, “Let us remember: We’re not going to let Putin win,” to cheers from the crowd.

Some, like Long Beach City Council President Karen McInnis, choked up as they spoke. McInnis described a photograph that appeared on the front page of Monday’s New York Times, showing the bodies of a woman and her two children, lying in the street.

She quoted Eli Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, who said, “There may be times when we are power-

less to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

The Rev. Mark Moses, of the New Life Church of Christ in Long Beach, called for unity in the fight against the Russian aggression. “It takes the prayer of God’s people to stop these things,” Moses said.

He quoted the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Either we will unite together, or perish as fools.”

The Rev. Tom (TK) Kennedy, of Counter Point Church, which holds its prayer meetings at Temple Emanu-El, brought along a band that offered a rousing rendi-

City CounCil President Karen McInnis became emotional as she spoke about the plight of the people of Ukraine. nassau County exeCutive Bruce Blakeman urged the attendees to go beyond prayers, to speak out and act. tion of “One Day.” The audience rose, cheered and pointed toward the sky as the band played.

As the song ended, Aija Dorsey sat, listening, and smiled. “I love my country,” she said of Latvia. “I’m too old now, but if I were younger, I would go back and fight.”

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Gold patients, the price of gas is She was among those who extremely impor tant to Lido said she did not like to comBlasé, who said she had no plain about higher gas prices choice but to spend $56 to fill when she compares life here up – about $10 more than a year or so to the suffering of the people in the ago.

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by Speedway expressed dismay at the or even sanctioned, from the world’s sechigher prices. As a result, some said ond largest oil producer, leading to less they have had to reduce spending for supply as demand grows. That possibilifood and other items. Others said they ty has pushed up the national average have cut back on driving when and price of gasoline considerably in the last where they can. Still others said they are week, and the situation could worsen at resorting to bicycles to get around the any time, keeping gas prices elevated for city. the foreseeable future.”

Over the past weekend, regular gas at De Haan added prices could rise the two stations in Long Beach rose to another 25 cents to 75 cents ahead of the over $4 a gallon. Gas prices are up more prime time Memorial Day driving perithan 23 cents in the past month and od. The climb in gas prices the past nearly 88 cents since one year ago, according to the American Automobile Continued on page 16

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Fears prices could rise to more than $5 a gallon continued from page 14 week from already elevated levels reflects bubbling crude oil prices.

Rising prices are sparking worries on the ability of consumers to withstand the pain this spring, which coincides with still high levels of food inflation, said research firm EvercoreISI chairman Ed Hyman, in a report.

At the Mobile, Will Cattouse of Long Beach said $33.76 to put eight gallons in his Mazda.

‘That’s crazy, ‘’ said Cattouse.

He said he plans to make more use of his bicycle in coming days and weeks.

Steve Jen, visiting Long Beach from Uniondale, paid $50 to gas up his Nissan Rogue, and he was not Joe Abate/Herald happy about it.

Some driverS Said the higher prices have “I do a lot of driving,” he said, explaining he goes to Brooklyn forced them to reduce spending for such items daily. Has he cut back?” Yes,” he as food. said, “on a lot of unnecessary beer.” friends in Brooklyn, she said. She had Stephanie Gold of Lido pulled up in some gas in the tank, but paid $49.70 to her Mazda, her children –4 and 2-n fill up. strapped into the back seat. They were “It’s disgusting to see this,” she said. on their way to visit relatives and “I think this will get worse.”

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The waTer-main will be replaced on Riverside Boulevard beginning on March 14. The main is located near the building located in the photograph above.

Water-main to be replaced on Riverside Boulevard An infrastructure improvement project is scheduled to begin this month along Riverside Boulevard replacing the watermain. The first phase of this project will begin on March 14th and last for approximately two weeks. During this phase, the southbound lanes on Riverside Blvd will be closed from E Park Ave to E Walnut St. Beginning Monday, March 14, no through traffic will be permitted on E. Walnut St between Edwards Blvd and Riverside Blvd as this street will function as

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Two-way traffic will be permitted on the dead-end portion of this street for the duration of phase one.

Vehicles parking on the Northside of E Walnut St between Edwards and Riverside Blvd are asked to park facing westbound.

In addition, parking will not be permitted on the west side of Riverside Blvd (southbound lanes) between E Park Ave and E Walnut St beginning March 14.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Long Beach City School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, 11561 in accordance with Section #103 of Article SA of the General Municipal Law, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for Bid # 409-2022 Graduation Ceremony outdoor tent & supply rental for delivery to schools as indicated. Bids and copies of the general conditions may be requested from the purchasing agent, Ellen Stewart at estewart@ lbeach.org or the Empire State Purchasing Group at w w w .banetdirect.com/longbea chpublicschools .

Bids will be received electronically from the Empire State Purchasing Group, by mail or in person at the Administration Building, 235 Lido Blvd., Lido Beach, NY 11561 ro later than 11:OO A.M on March 11, 2022, at which time they will be publicly opened and read. Late bids will not be accepted and will be returned unopened to the vendor.

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Board of Education Long Beach City School District Long Beach, New York 11561 Lori Dolan, District Clerk 129972 LEGAL NOTICE A nonprofit organization in Lido Beach NY IS SEEKING BIDS ON INSTALLATION OF ALARM, ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS AND FIXED AREA LIGHTING SCOPE TO INCLUDE NEW ALARM SYSTEM WITH PANIC BUTTONS,, PHYSICAL CONTROL ACCESS SYSTEM WITH REMOTE VIDEO/AUDIO ACCESS, SILENT ALARMS, MONITORING, MOTION ACTIVATION, , CONNECTION TO LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES, ACTIVATION OF PHYSICAL PRIVATE SECURITY RESPONSE, CLOUD STORAGE,

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LEGAL NOTICE CASE NO. 21527 R E S O L U T I O N NO.293-2022 Adopted: March 1, 2022 Councilman Muscarella offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AND SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN PARKING SPACES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE SOLE USE OF HOLDERS OF SPECIAL PARKING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO P H Y S I C A L L Y HANDICAPPED PERSONS. WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 165-2022, adopted February 15, 2022, a public hearing was duly held on the 1st day of March, 2022, at the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the proposed establishment and setting aside of a certain parking space for motor vehicles for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons, in accordance with Section 202-48 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, all as set forth in said resolution; and WHEREAS, after due consideration, this Town Board finds it to be in the public interest to establish and set aside a certain parking space for motor vehicles for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that in accordance with Section 202-48 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, the following parking spaces be and the same hereby is set aside for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons: ELMONT MEACHAM AVENUE west side, starting at a point 60 feet south of the south curbline of Sun Avenue, south for a distance of 15 feet.

(TH-545/21) LOCUSTWOOD BLVD. east side, starting at a point 337 feet south of the south curbline of 106th Avenue, south for a distance of 20 feet.

(TH-9/22) NORTH ASCAN STREET west side, starting at a point 45 feet north of the north curbline of Dutch Broadway, north for a distance of 20 feet.

(TH-13/22) FRANKLIN SQUARE CHERRY LANE - north side, starting at a point 238 feet west of the west curbline of Court House Road, west for a distance of 20 feet.

(TH-601/21) LIDO BEACH SHAREN DRIVE - east side, starting at a point 50 feet south of the south curbline of Gerry Avenue, south for a distance of 22 feet.

(TH-4/22) and on the repeal of the following locations previously set aside a parking spaces for physically handicapped persons: ELMONT TIMES AVENUE - north side, starting at a point 207 feet east of the east curbline of Meacham Avenue, east for for a distance of 20 feet.

(TH-28/22) OCEANSIDE CHANCE DRIVE - south side, starting at a point 134 feet east of the east curbline of Tinker Drive, east for a distance of 30 feet.

(TH-540/89 - 3/27/90) (TH-21/22) ; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk shall enter this resolution in the minutes of the Town Board and shall publish a copy of this resolution once a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town of Hempstead, and shall post a copy hereof on the signboard maintained by her, and file in her office affidavits of such publication and posting.

The foregoing resolution was seconded by Senior Councilwoman Goosby and adopted upon roll call as follows: AYES: SEVEN (7) NOES: NONE (0) 129917

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Responsibilities: Talent acquisition: Source, screen, and interview potential candidates and manage new employee onboarding Benefits administration: Liaise with brokers, providers and facilitate enrollment and updating of coverage. Manage annual open enrollment and employee benefits review. Administration of 401(k) plan. Employee relations: Provide day- today support and problem resolution in regards to employee concerns, questions and policy issues. Performance management: Coach, counsel and recommend disciplinary actions Compliance: Maintain indepth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance Payroll: Process biweekly payroll through payroll vendor for population of 150 employees Requirements: Bachelor's degree, preferably in business or HR, or equivalent experience Minimum 5 years HR generalist experience Knowledge of Federal, State & Local regulations governing employment Experience with payroll processing Self-motivated, ability to prioritize and work well under pressure Customer-focused attitude, with high level of professionalism and discretion Excellent oral and written communication and quantitative skills Proficiency with Microsoft Office Qualified candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to: careers@liherald.com.

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PRESS-ROOM/WAREHOUSE HELP Long Island Herald has IMMEDIATE openings for a FULL-TIME Pressroom/warehouse helper in Garden City. We are a busy print shop looking for a motivated and reliable individuals to assist in various duties in the shop. Forklift experience is a plus and heavy lifting is required. Hours vary, so flexibility is key.

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Realtors are encouraged to send briefs and photographs to: Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd.., Garden City, NY 11530.

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What the building department forgets to tell you is that surveys are legal documents that usually have a statement on them that it’s illegal to alter them. I’m sure surveyors wouldn’t include that statement if they didn’t mean it, but that statement is all too often completely ignored.

Your attorney is correct that even moving a fence so the survey shows the fence on the property line is complicated. I rarely hear of neighbors volunteering to move a fence that has been there for many years. It usually sets up a bad relationship when new neighbors move in and start asking to up-heave their neighbor’s lives.

Finished basements are no less of a dilemma, since your municipality, like most, won’t allow bedrooms or kitchens in basements. Many people put these rooms in, waiting to see if anyone ever says a word, which is why I have to tell people their neighbors up and down the street may have a kitchen and bedrooms in the basement, but none of them are actually legal. I know that isn’t what you wanted to hear, especially since you felt the pressure to go into a contract for the house.

I’ve often said to people buying a house that I wish it was part of the transaction, as common as a home inspection, often called an “engineer’s report” (even though most people inspecting the house aren’t engineers), that someone with code and zoning knowledge should examine the premises and survey to address potential problems before you go into contract. Good luck!

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he unfolding situation in Ukraine and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package. These seemingly unrelated topics help frame the realtime battle between authoritarianism and democracy that is boiling up in the pot of world debate. If we are going to reduce crime, cut taxes and help our troubled schools, we have a lot of work to do to make sure that democracy wins.

Last fall, President Biden told members of Congress that both Russian President Vladimir Putin Tom and Chinese leader Xi Jinping had sUoZZi told him that they “don’t think democracy can accomplish big things in this world of social media and the 24-hour news cycle.”

Russia and China believe that America, and democracies generally, are too divided. They don’t think we can accomplish

big things anymore, and that they can.

Today’s division in Washington, Albany and governments across the country is hurting us. Elected officials pander to their base. The battles waged on Twitter and Facebook seep out into every part of our lives. Cable news talking heads pit Americans against one another, finding wedge issues that make us believe there’s more that divides us than unites us.

Even more concerning are the efforts by our foreign adversaries to sow disinformation and civil unrest using the very platforms that they curtail in their own countries.

Can we still do big things with so much dissent?

A few months ago, we passed the largest ever investment in infrastructure in history — $1.2 trillion — and it was bipartisan. As vice chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, I helped negotiate this oncein-a-generation infrastructure package.

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LeTTers ment or quality of life is of value.

That is blatant environmental injustice and systemic racism at work.

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Gillen would be best Rice replacement To the Editor: As a moderate-progressive-liberal Republican, a rare breed in today’s extremist constellation of cultists tethered to the chicanery and shenanigans of our discredited, thoroughly unfit 45th president, I am delighted to cross the partisan Rubicon to endorse the candidacy of our former Town of Hempstead supervisor, Laura gillen, in the 4th Congressional District to succeed U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, who is stepping down.

Along with her considerable experience, gillen brings a welcoming, inclusive style to governing, fully aware that politics is an honorable calling, not an exclusive opportunity to reward supporters and punish critics.

Her formal nomination in a winning primary battle will advance her candidacy to the finals, Election Day on Nov. 8. Let’s send someone to Washington who will support our new, better President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.

ASHER MATAHIAS Woodmere

of dollars to New York — with the state set to receive $13 billion in funding for roads and bridges; $24 billion for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, including the Long Island Rail Road and New York City’s subways; over $1.4 billion for water and sewer system upgrades; and almost a billion more for much-needed airport upgrades and climate resiliency.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill is real-life stuff that will rebuild our state and put millions of people to work. When it passed, however, it only received news coverage for a week, at most. It wasn’t one of the most highly viewed posts on social media, and no videos of Biden signing the legislation went viral. But if you ask everyday New Yorkers what they want from their elected officials, they will typically say they “want to see results.”

Pandering to the base, Twitter likes, sound bites and saying outrageous things

to go viral or get booked on cable news shows won’t solve problems or improve people’s lives.

This type of good I speak of is still possible. Working across party lines, Democrats and Republicans, progressives and moderates need to put the good of the people first.

We are at a turning point. Americans — and New Yorkers — are sick and tired of the finger-pointing, the pandering and the division. Our government can do big, important things, and help solve problems to reduce crime, cut taxes, and help transform our troubled schools. But to do that, we must root out those who seek to divide us — those in public office, on social media, on cable news, as well as foreign adversaries who oppose our democracy and wish to sow civil unrest and do us harm.

With our eyes wide open, we can and will succeed, because most of us want the same things: to help people and make the world better.

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi represents New York’s 3rd Congressional District.Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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Career advice for the Cuomos To the Editor: Former gov. Andrew Cuomo has begun using part of his leftover $16 million re-election fund to pay for commercials. He now claims that he has been exonerated of charges that he sexually harassed a number of women.

Andrew and his brother Chris might be better off if they listened to Kenny Rogers’s song “The gambler.”

Rogers sings, “You’ve gotta know … when to fold ’em, know when to walk away …” It is wishful thinking on Andrew Cuomo’s part that he can resume his political career with a simple media blitz.

Both he and Chris should look for honest work. Why not follow in their grandparents’ footsteps and open another family grocery store in Queens? (Chris, who loves working out, could open a gym upstairs.) The brothers have a long history of selling baloney. That makes them perfectly suited for this new occupation.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck

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Sunshine Week is all about open government

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hen James Madison assembled fellow members of his Virginia delegation in 1787, few of them knew what was up his sleeve.

What they did know was that the Articles of Confederation — the law of the land since 1781 — simply wasn’t working.

Madison surprised all of them, revealing that they weren’t fixing the Articles, but replacing them.

The Virginia Plan, as it was called, would become the blueprint for what followed, earning Madison the moniker “Father of the Constitution.” But the man who would become the fourth president of the United States is actually responsible for something far greater: the Bill of Rights, the 10 constitutional amendments that guarantee a number of freedoms like that of religion, assembly — and the press.

That’s why journalists celebrate Madison’s birthday — March 16 — as part of “Sunshine Week,” a national initiative created by the American Society of News Editors to educate all of us about the importance of open government, and how dangerous excessive and unnecessary secrecy from our leaders can be. It serves as a reminder that government agencies should be accessible and accountable to their constituents, and should encourage input from that very public.

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letters Picking and choosing on quality of life?

To the Editor: It is ironic that our Republican and Democratic officials claim they are protecting the environment and our “suburban quality of life” by opposing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s affordable housing plan in the 2022-23 state budget.

Are our elected officials fighting to close and clean the Brookhaven Landfill, which has been dumping toxins into the predominantly Black and Latino community of North Bellport since 1974? Are Long Island representatives decrying the proposed zoning changes and a Winters Bros. plan to bring in 6,000 tons of garbage every day, right next to the aforementioned landfill?

Where was the opposition while developers constructed luxury condominiums throughout Glen Cove and Glenwood Landing, further congesting traffic?

We cannot cherry-pick when the environ-

Johnson’s Freedom of Information Act — to ensure that government truly is transparent by guaranteeing access to government documents.

More often than not, we hear about media organizations — like the Heralds — lifting these veils of secrecy. But this isn’t a privilege of a select few; open records are a right for everyone. Sunshine Week is recognized each year by open-government advocates, local libraries, schools and other civic-minded organizations, which discuss government accessibility through news stories, opinion columns, blogs, web pages, seminars, editorial cartoons and even paid advertisements.

Without open government, much of what you see in these pages simply wouldn’t be possible. Crime reporting?

No. In-depth investigative pieces? Not a chance. Court proceedings? Legislative sessions? City council hearings? Board of education meetings? Only what leaders would choose to share.

Laws mandating open meetings and open records give all of us the right to delve deeply into the activities of local, county, state and federal officials, and to draw our own conclusions about whether the people we vote into office are truly doing their jobs representing us.

Despite all this progress toward transparency, there are constant efforts by the very officials mandated to provide this access to instead pull it back into darkness. Florida journalists created what grew into Sunshine Week two decades

ago, when the legislature there looked to pass hundreds of laws that would curtail such transparency.

And there’s still much work to be done closer to home. New York agencies that don’t provide access to information and documents face the threat of lawsuits, but rarely actually suffer through them since few individuals or organization that would file them have the resources to go to court. Other states have created affordable (or even free) arbitration resolution methods. New York isn’t one of them.

But things are changing. Last December, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a measure requiring public hearings on issues in front of select state departments like Education and Environmental Conservation whenever 125 or more people petition state lawmakers for them. It also requires those hearings be held in the evenings and on weekends, allowing more people to attend. The meetings must also be broadcast, and teleconferencing must be an option.

The law goes a long way in implementing new opportunities for meaningful public participation in governmental decision-making. It will do nothing less than help shift the balance of power from the government to the people.

But it’s only a start. There is no such thing as too much transparency when it comes to government. A true democracy is leadership by the people, not a select few.

And it’s the people that must continue to hold those who represent us accountable.

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e live in a world where sports matchups of almost any kind are totally unpredictable. Whether it’s football, baseball, basketball or hockey, a game is frequently decided in the final minutes or seconds. In the legal world, many cases can go either way as well, depending on the law or the facts.

But there’s one place where, it’s safe to say, in many key cases, the score will be 6-3. I refer to the United States Supreme Court.

In the next four JERRY months, the court will be making KREMER decisions on such topics as abortion, affirmative action, immigration, gun rights and congressional redistricting. You don’t need a scorecard to figure out what the results are likely to be, because several of the nine justices have telegraphed their views to the outside world long before the cases will be argued in front of them.

A look back at history shows that this isn’t the first court majority whose legal

views were well known to the outside world. From 1953 to 1969, the court was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Unlike any before it, the Warren Court dramatically expanded civil rights, civil liberties and the powers of the court itself. It ended racial segregation and state-sanctioned prayer in public schools, ensured equal representation in state legislatures and paved the way for the legalization of abortion.

The Warren Court was one of the more liberal courts in judicial history.

In contrast, the court led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, from 1986 to 2005, moved to the right, giving states more power, striking down provisions of the Violence Against Women Act and, in 2000, famously ruling that George W. Bush had been elected president. To the surprise of many, the Rehnquist Court upheld Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right to have an abortion.

Given the fact that this court had among its members Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O’Connor, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy, it’s no wonder that it was unpredictable when it handed down rulings on cases with strong nationwide

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interest.

The current court is headed by Chief Justice John Roberts, but it is dominated by five justices who have already made clear where they stand on cases already argued and yet to come. Last September, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, speaking at the University of Louisiana, said that the court is “not a bunch of partisan hacks.” She warned that “justices must be hyper-vigilant to make sure that they are not letting their personal biases creep into their decisions.”

She made that speech after voting to uphold a Texas law that bars abortions after six weeks.

Anyone who believes that Justices Barrett and Thomas are independent thinkers is mistaken. In 2006, Barrett, then a law professor at Notre Dame, signed a full-page ad in the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune by St. Joseph County Right to Life, stating that it was “time to put an end to the barbaric legacy of Roe v. Wade and restore laws that protect the lives of unborn children.” At her congressional confirmation hearing, she waffled, saying only that Roe v.

Wade had been affirmed many times.

This spring, when the court rules on a

ver the next four months, the justices are set to make some huge decisions.

Mississippi law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks, you don’t have to guess where Barrett will stand.

The court’s longest-serving justice is Clarence Thomas. According to The New Yorker, Thomas’s wife, Virginia, is involved with a number of organizations that file briefs before the court opposing affirmative action and abortion, favoring gun rights and offering strong opinions on many other current cases. One of the cases now before the court is a suit by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association to overturn a New York City law that places limits on carrying guns outside the home. Thomas’s expected opinion, to throw out the law, won’t help Mayor Eric Adams in his efforts to curb gun violence.

During my career as an attorney, I have always had the greatest respect for our judiciary and the court system in general. But it saddens me to think that some of the most consequential cases in our lifetime are destined to be decided by that 6-3 margin.

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.

As the pandemic pushes past two years, where are we?

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othing like the threat of World War III, and a red-hot nuclear reactor, to focus one’s attention. After more than two years of obsessively parsing the news about the global pandemic ravaging the world, we now have an escalating war in Eastern Europe to distract us. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has eclipsed the grim coverage of people sick and dying of a runaway virus. Now we have 24/7 coverage of people fleeing and dying in a firestorm let loose RANDI by a runaway KREISS Vladimir Putin.

Irony abounds.

We were blindsided by Covid and blindsided by Russia, although there was plenty of evidence in both cases that something bad was coming down. In this moment, the two global events are creating a kind of whipsaw effect, with our battered psyches in the middle.

In the past few weeks, as Covid restrictions loosened, I wasn’t ready to join the party. It seems that very young

children and older people are still vulnerable to getting sick, possibly very sick. The difficult piece of this is that the protocol for any one individual is, well, individual. Americans aren’t good at nuance, but that’s what we need for now. How much risk do I take, and when and why?

When will it be safe to go to a wedding or a funeral?

Many of us have stopped thinking at all about the coronavirus, because we’re creatures of the news cycle, and the news has moved on to Ukraine. It creates our reality: what we think about, what we talk about and what we worry about.

For many of us, the constant stream of “breaking news,” whether it was about the pandemic for the past two years, or now, the Russian invasion, is a nonstop anxiety machine. The day 24/7 news became a thing was the day we enslaved ourselves and our sense of well-being to an outside force. Sometimes the coverage feeds on itself, reporters interviewing other reporters, and anchors hosting the same military talking heads all day and all night long, the same “news” repeated again and again.

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I am rarely in a situation these days, whether out with a friend or gathering with family, that someone isn’t beeped and dinged with “breaking news.” This is the pandemic that will do us in.

In just these two weeks, we have traded our addiction to Covid news for minute-to-minute coverage of one country blowing another country to bits. Wherever I look, people are staring, transfixed, at their phones, like players in a dystopian science fiction story come true.

As we move into the third year of the pandemic (which clearly is not over and the first weeks of the Russian onslaught, we need to ground ourselves.

That means time away from the news.

As we move toward spring and the hope of warmer weather, we need to get up and out again, walking or biking or driving to someplace with open spaces. The signs of spring are always life-affirming, but you won’t find them on Fox or CNN. Get to the beach or walk around the block, and before you do, leave your buddy at home. That would be the phone, which can survive very nicely on its own while you live for a while in your own

here will never be a new normal.

It will be something else, but what?

head.

Refreshed, we can carry on through this rough patch as we figure out how to stay safe and how to think about this war in Eastern Europe. We do not travel light. We carry the memory of nearly one million Americans who died of Covid.

We ventured out the other evening to sit in an outside tented area of a restaurant. It wasn’t perfect. It felt strange to wait for food, and I was impatient. This isn’t a new normal, I realize. There will never be a new normal. It will be something else, and we aren’t there yet.

As we begin Year Three of the pandemic and continue Month One of the Ukraine invasion, we must turn off the noise and find some quiet space to think.

Many of us need to restore our faith in the future. I grew up just expecting everything to be fine, and then there were the assassinations and the Vietnam War. Today teenagers are worrying about a draft or another pandemic. Comfort does not come from the media or any outside source. It comes from within, in its own time, when we find reason to believe again in the possibility of a peaceful future in a healthy world.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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