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Hodge plans to step down as MLK chairman by James berNsteiN jbernstein@liherald.com
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James HoDGe aNNouNceD that he would step down as board chairman of the Martin Luther King Center in the coming weeks.
James Hodge, a community leader and activist in Long Beach for decades, told the City Council Tuesday night that he was stepping down as the Martin Luther King Center chairman after 16 years in the post. Hodge, 44, who has become the face of the center on Riverside Boulevard, said he was “tenured out,” but would continue to work for the organization as an advocate. The announcement came about two weeks before the center is to celebrate its 40th anni-
versary, on Oct. 20, with a fundraiser and a reception. Cedric Coad will be installed as Hodge’s successor at the anniversary celebration at the center. “This will be the last meeting I will speak to you as chairman of MLK,” Hodge said at the end of a lengthy City Council meeting. But he delivered an often fiery speech, pleading for aid for the center, which serves food to the poor and homeless and provides educational, recreational and social services for children. “I come to you as an advoContinued on page 4
Long Beach schools offer students maskless alternative by breNDaN carpeNter bcarpenter@liherald.com
Most parents in the Long Beach School District appear to have made peace with the idea that their children will wear masks in class. But about a dozen have opted out, choosing a special maskless program. At a stormy school board meeting in August, a few weeks before school began, about 200 parents gathered at Lindell Elementary School, many of them voicing strong opposition to masks. But the state’s new governor, Kathy Hochul, had already mandated mask-wearing in New York schools.
The Board of Education voted, 4 to 1, to conform to the governor’s mandate. The lone “no” vote came from Trustee Sam Pinto. He has not explained his vote. While students and faculty members must wear masks in all school buildings, there is an alternative for parents who do not want to send their children to school with masks. A virtual alternate instructional program is now offered from 3 to 5 p.m. each day to students whose parents have opted them out of mask-wearing, though only about a dozen families have joined the program thus far.
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Teachers have also been asked to make sure students are outside for at least two periods a day. “Our buildings are doing lots of outdoor activities to give students substantial mask breaks during the day and quick mask breaks during class,” district
Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Gallagher said. “During days of beautiful weather, you can see students eating lunch outside, having phys. ed. classes on our fields and playgrounds and reading under the trees.” Gallagher also said that measures have been taken indoors as well, and she has been impressed with the adjustments that the
schools and students have made. “Students are sitting three feet from each other in class and six feet during lunch or when masks are off indoors,” Gallagher said. “Overall, when I visit students in our buildings, I see happy children engaged in learning. Our children are resilient and have adjusted well.” Continued on page 4
Motorcyclist nabbed after wild Irish Day ride By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
A motorcyclist in Long Beach was apparently not in the spirit of Irish Day as he drove “at a high rate of speed” the wrong way on New York Avenue – barefoot and without a helmet – until police stopped his vehicle and wrestled him to the ground, putting him under arrest. Police said that at about 6:50 pm Oct. 2, Long Beach police Sgt. Brett Curtis say wht motorcyclist driving the wrong way, southbound, on a one-way part of New York Avenue. Curist said the man was not wearing a helmet and did no have shoes in. Police gave this account: The motorcyclist turned westbound on West Beech Street toward large crowds who were celebrating the annual Irish Day festivities., Curtis immediately made an emergency radio broadcast to the festival detail officers who were lining West Beach Street. A contingent of officers stationed at Wisconsin Street and West Beech St, and the LBPD bicycle patrol, took position at the intersection in an effort to stop the motorcyclist. He approached at a high rate of speed and abruptly turned north onto Wisconsin Street. As the motorcyclist turned,
Detective Lieutenant Stefan Chernaski and Inspector Richard DePalma grabbed were the man off the moving motorcycle before he could endanger anyone else. The two senior Officers wrestled him to the ground and with the assistance of Police Officer Peter Ryan placed him in handcuffs. As the defendant was pulled from the motorcycle, Police Commissioner Ronald Walsh secured the moving motorcycle, preventing it from causing any injury to the operator, officers or the public and also avoiding any damage to the motorcycle and cars parked in the area. One LBPD Officer was injured during the apprehension. Police did not detail the injuries or name the officer. The motorcyclist was identified Kevin Quezada, 28, of New Hyde Park. He was charged with several DWI and reckless driving charges. Walsh commended the officers. “The actions of these officers, putting themselves in harm’s way clearly prevented what could have resulted in a tragedy. Inspector DePalma, Detective Lieutenant Chernaski and Sgt. Curtis are senior members of the department’s Executive Staff and their quick and decisive actions helped bring this incident to a prompt conclusion. I’m very proud of everyone who was involved,” Walsh said.
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Irish Day, smaller but still grand By James Bernstein and Brendan Carpenter jbernstein@liherald.com; bcarepnter@liherald.com
It was Irish Day in Long Beach last Saturday, and hours before the parade and the street fair began Joe Beyrer was getting his two sons, Quinn, 10, and Joey 9, both drum majors, ready for the festivities. Beyrer, 49, of Oceanside, was teaching his sons the proper way to march and salute. The family has a long and proud history of taking part in Irish Day: the boys’ late grandfather, Jack Beyrer, played bagpipes in Irish parades for 37 years. They stood on a grass strip on Washington Boulevard, about 100 yards from West Park Avenue, where the annual parade, organized by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, kicked off at 11 am. Beyrer said he began practicing with his sons only a few days before Irish Day. There were no drum majors for the parade, so the boys had to get started quickly. “I’m excited,:” said Joey, who would be the youngest drum major that day. The Beyrer family were among thousands who turned out for Irish Day, one of Long Beach’s largest events, which is to honor St. Brendan the Navigator, a patron saint. “It’s his day,” said John O’Brien, president of the Nassau County AOH, of St. Brendan. It was also a day for the street fair, which featured about 50 vendors selling food and Irish trinkets. “It’s very nice for families, good for the youth and for all ages. Even now that we are a stage in life where it checks all the boxes,” said Scott Gorman, who was accompanies by his wife and young child.
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JOe Beyrer helps his sons, Quinn, 10, and Joey, 9, get ready for the big day. There were marching bans a people carrying banners and others who spectators. Harvey Weisenberg, an iconic figure in Long Beach who served on the city council, the police department, and was a New Yoro State Assemblyman for almost 25 years before retiring over a decade ago, joined the marchers. He has attended just about every Irish Day parade. He said he cxame Saturday for those friends and family members who are now deceased. “They are still part of my life,” he said. The Covid-19 pandemic shut down the event last year. It took place this year, but with modifications. The parade took place, but the vendors at the fair had to be spread out and their tables shut down by late afternoon. There were no amusement rides. Bars had to be closed earlier than usual.
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lOCal musiCians perfOrmed live music for Irish Day attendees Saturday. the City Of Long Beach’s trolly made its appearance at the Irish Day Parade.
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continued from front page he and the center have been treated cate,” Hodge said in an often booming unfairly. During the nationwide protests over voice. He said the center lacked air-conthe killing of George Floyd by a white ditioning for most of last summer, and police officer in Minneapolis, Hodge was forced to shut down at times. “I question the care of low-income organized protest marches in Long Beach that attracted hundreds. people,” he said. ”I question the care of In 2008, the Herald named him its Perthe North Park area,” which is primarily son of the Year. He grew up in Long Black. “I speak for those who Beach, and over the years don’t have funds.” wore many hats. He was the “I speak for the children city’s animal warden, a who cannot speak for themunion official, a member of selves,” he said. the Long Beach Coalition to City building officials Prevent Underage Drinking, acknowledged Tuesday night and a member of the school that the building’s air-condidistrict’s Envisioning Comtioning system did not work mittee and its Community properly this summer, and Involvement Subcommittee. said they were working on When a 14-year-old boy, fixing it. Leo Vann, drowned in ReynHodge said he could have olds Channel in 2008, Hodge it repaired. “Let me call in a led the charge in questioning contractor,” he said. ”I will the city’s handling of the do that, for free.” JAmES HODgE incident. Showing up at a He recalled the battle that City Council meeting wearhe had with the city in May Chairman, ing a T-shirt bearing Vann’s 2020, when fire of ficials Martin Luther King image, he pushed the council closed the center because of Center to for m a commission to a faulty fire alarm. Hodge review the city’s emergency said the city locked the building’s doors, and he and staff members procedures. Hodge has long advocated that people were unable to get inside, preventing cooks from preparing meals for 300 peo- get out and vote. During election season, ple. Ultimately, the staff was allowed he hits the streets, bullhorn in hand, urgback in to cook, and meals were served ing residents — Democrats and Republicans alike — to head to the polls. outside. He befriended a wide spectrum of Hodge said that federal dollars were available, and should be provided to the leaders, including Rabbi Jack Zanerhaft MLK Center for its programs. of Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach. At a Hodge has played a major role in the protest meeting two summers ago, Hodge city’s life for decades. At times, he has thanked Zanerhaft for teaching him how been a controversial figure, arguing that to make challah bread.
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About a dozen students opt for maskless option High school junior Alexandra Mackenzie said she favored in-person learnA mask can slide down below a nose, fall off or move around in ways that do ing, and believed the school had done a not align with how it is supposed to be good job of incorporating the state mandates. “The school takes care worn. Having to wear one for of the [changes] well,” Macklong periods can make stuenzie said. “It’s far better dents reluctant to do so. than learning online.” But, Gallagher said, “We Parent Teacher Associahave had no issues with tion Co-president Tami Ackmask refusal. If students forerman said the school year get, we have masks available had gone smoothly so far. everywhere. Gentle remind“Everything has been ers are all that is needed.” AlExANDrA smooth as can be expected Gallagher said she for school opening, with believed there were good mACkENziE some things still uncertain points on both sides of the Junior, LBHS with Covid,” Ackerman said. mask-mandate argument, “We had full confidence in and added that all parents our school administrators and teachers, want the best for their children. The students have taken part in in- and look forward to a smooth year.” person, virtual and hybrid classes throughout the pandemic.
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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com
The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials. The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate. The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died. The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went
off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com. Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com. Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center. Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican. Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter. Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had
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toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case. At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge. Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.” Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.” So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.
There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau. She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor. In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000. Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.
Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year. The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services. Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-
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tive Laura Curran, a Democrat who is up for re-election, said. “Nassau’s success in holding crime down shows that intelligence-led, community-oriented policing works. It also shows that Nassau has the finest Police Department in the nation.” Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, “The hard-working, dedicated men and women, both sworn and civilian, of this Police Department, along with our Intelligence-led Policing Model, have brought our crime rate to historically low levels over the past 10 years. A 31 percent drop in major crime over the past 10 years, combined with another 7.4 percent year-todate, is a true testament to the excellent work being done daily.”
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Wreath Craft The public library will host a wreathmaking craft session for adults from 2 to 3 pm.
Library Board Meeting 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, October 15 Radio Rock Hits The South of Sunrise band will be performing a free classic radio playlist at the Anchor Tavern starting at 9 pm.
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.
Film Friday The public library will be showing Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard in the auditorium from 1 to 3 pm.
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 and are given on a first-come, first-served basis. 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.
Farmers’ Market The Kennedy Plaza Farmers’ Market will be held at Kennedy Plaza in front of Long Beach City Hall every Saturday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. For additional information, visit ligreenmarket.org
Arts in the Plaza Arts in the Plaza features handcrafted art by local artists including custom jewelry, unique handmade gifts, photography and fine art. The weekly art festival will be in Kennedy Plaza every Saturday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. through Oct. 30. For more info visit artsintheplaza.comfacebook.com/
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Chamber of Commerce Networking The Chamber of Commerce will hold a netwroking event at Shine’s Bar starting at 6:30 pm.
Welcome to Halloween The Rec Center this Saturday, from 9:30 am to 11:30, willl host one of the city’s first Halloween events, a costume parade and pumpkin patch, at the Rec Center fields at Magnolia Boulevard.
Friday, October 8
Monday, Oct. 11
Wednesday, Oct. 13
Nightmare on Beech Street
Writers’ Circle
City Council Forum
Blood Manor will come to Long Beach to create a haunted dining experience at the Beech House starting at 6 pm.
The public library will host local writers to discuss their craft on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.
The public library will host a City Council Candidates’ Forum in preparation for the upcoming general election on zoom from 7 to 9 pm.
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Tuesday, Oct. 12
Costumes and Pumpkins
Meet the Music Maker
The Long Beach Rec center will host a costume parade and pumpkin patch from 9:30 am to 11:30 pm.
The public library will begin a new series and music discussion with Twisted Sister manager Jay Jay French on zoom from 2 to 3 pm.
Breast Cancer Screenings
Fun Pajama Story Time
Job Search Help
The public library is hosting a story time for children from 6:30 to 7 pm.
The Long Beach Adult Learning Center will offer free job search and job skills information tables in the public library lobby from 10 am to 1 pm.
Oktoberfest and Car Show There will be food and beer vendors and a car show at the Malibu Beach Club in Lido Beach from 10 am to 6 pm.
Thursday, Oct. 14 There will be breast cancer screenings available by appointment at City Hall from 8:15 am to noon.
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Halloween is off to a scary start this weekend, with the opening of Blood Manor Friday night. Arts in the Plaza is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The city will be celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through Oct. 15. The L.B. Arts Council, in collaboration with Arts In The Plaza, is looking for Performance Artists. The City is seeking photos of Long Beach to be featured in the 2022 city calendar.
MLK’s first book selection criticized The Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach has started a book club for youngsters, with a controversial selection, “Ghost Boys,” that has raised some eyebrows in the city among people who say it is inappropriate for the age group. Center officials defended their choice. The 2018 book, by the acclaimed children’s author, Jewell Parker Rhodes, is a novel about a 12-year-old Black boy, Jerome, who is shot and killed in Chicago by a white police officer, who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. Emmett’s lynching was among the events that sparked the civil-rights movement in the United States. In Rhodes’s novel, Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father’s actions. The novel “Ghost Boys” was published
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the mLK Center’s first selection for a children’s book club has drawn criticism from some in the city. to wide industry acclaim for its “timely, challenging” subject matter. The MLK’s book club is open to all children from grades 4 to 8. Its first meeting was Thursday night. Some in Long Beach said they feel the book is inappropriate for children of such ages. “I wouldn’t choose it as my first book,” said Anissa Moore, a communications
professor at Nassau County Community College and the first Black president of the Long Beach City Council. “Kids are aware of what’s happening,” she said, referring to dozens of police shooting of Black across the country. “A lot of Black parents always wait in fear for their kids to come home at night.” She said she would recommend that the center start with books about history
and art in the Black community. Brian Wells, president of the Long Beach Police Benevolent Association, expressed surprise at the book selection. “I hope the sensitive subject matter is age appropriate for the young people that will be a part of the book club and the topics explored in this novel don’t inadvertently lead to a fear of police officers, or an anti-police sentiment in impressionable minds.,” Wells said. But Mack Graham, the center’s executive director, said “The idea of the book club is to get kids to read and to be aware.” He said he hoped “Ghost Boys” would lead to a dialogue among the children and, in the future, he planned to invite in Long Beach police officers as speakers. “We are opening this book club to all of Long Beach,” Graham said., He said the club will be run by center staff and volunteers. Regarding “Ghost Boys,” Graham said, “This book is tailored for younger students to read. It has the content and language for younger students.” James Hodge, the center’s board chairman, said the organization ”has a strong relationship” with the long Beach police department, and that “Ghost Boys” will not damage that. In May, The Broward County School Board in Florida, halted the use of “Ghost Boys” after a police union complained to the school district that it is propaganda.
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Mepham Senior Football it Was a memorable Homecoming game for Honerkamp and the Pirates on Sept. 25. The senior quarterback, in just his fourth start, rushed for five touchdowns and threw for a pair of scores to lead Mepham to a 63-30 win over Glen Cove. He averaged 12.2 yards per carry on 11 attempts and completed 6 of 9 passes for 151 yards in the first half. In last Saturday’s loss to MacArthur, Honerkamp rushed for his 10th touchdown of the season as the Pirates suffered their first loss in four games.
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Girls Soccer: Mepham at Wantagh........................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: Malverne/ER at Elmont....................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: V.S. South at Calhoun ......................4:45 p.m. Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Lawrence ..................4:45 p.m. Boys Soccer: Oceanside at Uniondale ....................... 5 p.m. Football: Port Washington at Oceanside..................... 6 p.m. Football: Massapequa at Freeport ............................. 6 p.m. Football: Manhasset at Hewlett ...................................... 6 p.m. Girls Soccer: South Side at Massapequa .................6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer: Lawrence at Seaford................................. 7 p.m. Football: Sewanhaka at Glen Cove ................................. 7 p.m. Football: Carey at MacArthur........................................... 7 p.m.
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football: Elmont at Herricks..................................1:30 p.m. Football: Plainview at East Meadow .......................... 2 p.m. Football: Mepham at Baldwin ................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. Central at Garden City ............................... 2 p.m. Football: South Side at Wantagh .................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. North at Kennedy....................................... 2 p.m. Football: Clarke at Seaford.............................................. 2 p.m. Football: North Shore at East Rockaway......................... 2 p.m. Football: Malverne at Lawrence ...................................... 2 p.m. Football: Calhoun at New Hyde Park .............................. 2 p.m. Football: Lynbrook at Mineola ........................................ 2 p.m.
With only two returning starters from a roller-coaster .500 spring, Long Beach girls’ volleyball is holding its own against some of the best competition Nassau County has to offer but needs to find a way to deliver under pressure to make noise in the Class A playoffs. “We’re very competitive but still learning how to win,” Marines coach Kerri Rehnback said after last Saturday’s hardfought 25-18, 26-24, 25-23 defeat at South Side. “A close match against a tough opponent with a good crowd is the type of atmosphere we want to be in,” she added. “I attribute the close losses to our youth and inexperience.” Long Beach was 2-4 through six conference matches and also had strong showings in tournaments at Bayport, Smithtown and its host event. “We flipped over the whole roster except for our setter and libero,” Rehnback explained. “Next season it will be the complete opposite.” Seniors Anna Moller and Ali Kile set the tone defensively and offensively, respectively. Both are three-year starters. Moller was a member of the Marines’ state championship team in 2018 and has taken her game to another level this fall, the coach noted. “Anna has really come on strong and is one of the best liberos in the county,” Rehnback said of Moller, who leads the team in digs with 170 and service aces with 58. “She’s vocal and a role model and anchors our defense. She’s always been a good server, but she’s vastly improved it.” Kile is averaging 6.7 assists per set and “conducts the orchestra,” Rehnback said. Kile was Honorable Mention All-County last season. “Ali is incredible in terms of her demeanor,” Rehnback said. “She’s so patient and calm out there. It’s great to have a setter with those attributes when you have young hitters.” One of the underclassmen, sophomore outside hitter Amy Littman, is dealing with an ankle injury but should return soon. “She’s a selective hitter with smart placement and excellent on serve-receive,” Rehnback said. Junior Ava Rand was limited by injury last season but finding her groove again, the coach noted. “Ava is emerging quickly,” Rehnback said. “She’s
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Rehnback is counting on to lead the way into the playoffs. one of our tallest kids and swings hard.” Rand’s 51 kills rank second to junior Shannon Powers, a lefty playing right-side hitter who has 68. “Shannon has a sneaky good swing and has been so consistent,” Rehnback said. In the middle, junior Colleen Peers and sophomore Franki Kelleher are both up from JV and getting the bulk of court time. “They’re fast learners and doing well to
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keep us in points,” Rehnback noted. Back-row help has come in the form of senior Sarah Gusler, who thrives from the service line, sophomore Zoe Moller, the libero of the future, and sophomore Hailey Cardiello. Four of Long Beach’s last six regularseason matches are on the road. “We have a lot of potential,” Rehnback said. “Our mental toughness needs to be better.”
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High School students present car to Navy vet By Brendan Carpenter bcarpenter@liherald.com
Automotive students at Long Beach High School worked for a year to refurbish a 2009 Chevy Tahoe for U.S. Navy veteran Joe Braskey, who had been out of work and supporting four children. Braskey, 45, was presented the keys to the car during the Long Beach Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting on September 28. The donation was made possible due to a collaboration between the school district and Long Beach VFW Commander Dan MacPhee. Board of Education Vice President Anne Conway also played a large role in facilitating the partnership. Conway brought the idea to James Johnsen, the school’s automotive teacher, whose eyes “lit up” when he was presented with it. They joined students Jafet Velasquez and Aiden Regan at the
meeting to present the car. All the money needed to refurbish the car was raised by the school’s Auto Metal Club. Students worked on the car for about a year and replaced wires, tires, spark plugs and polished and waxed the car, among others. Braskey considers the car “life-changing” for him and his family. “We happened to be in dire need of a vehicle, we have four kids, I was laid off for a few months and life is hectic,” Braskey said. “It was life-changing, and I understand how rare this is. I am appreciative of it.” Braskey was in the Navy from 1995 to 2005 and joined the Long Beach VFW in 2016. He joined the board two years later as the vice commander. Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford will be presenting the students with citations for their hard work on the car and the thoughtful donation.
Bike lanes installed on boardwalk for safety By JameS BernStein jbernstein@liherald.com
To Fred Cagen, a lover of Long Beach’s boardwalk, those bicycles zipping in and out between pedestrians, were “scary.” “It was like an obstacle course,” said Cagen. The City of Long Beach has taken steps to ease the potential conflicts between bikers and walkers. It has installed bike lane markers on the boardwalk at National and Edwards Boulevard. “We will gauge the efficacy of the markers along with public sentiment over the next couple of months to determine if they should be installed at other
entrances,” the city said in a statement. The City said it has tried both painting and branding the wood as a means of demarking the lane, but the Ipe wood used to construct the boardwalk is too dense to accept either of these methods. “If these markers prove ineffective, we will continue to explore various alternatives until we come up with a viable solution,” the statement said. Dario Toledo, who was raised in Long Beach and makes the trip from his Manhattan home most weekends, says he has seen too many close calls on the boardwalk between bikers and walkers. The markers, he said, “can’t hurt.” He said he wants the b oardwalk to be safe. “This is still a big part of my life,” Toledo said.
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U.S. navy veteran Joe Braskey received keys to a refurbished 2009 Chevy Tahoe given to him by LBHS automotive students.
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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1. This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021. Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students. Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution. Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week. Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students. After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues. “To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management. Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school. “I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.” Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked
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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra. “During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time. “Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said. “There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university. “You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.” In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations. “What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.” Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said. “The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added. “If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-
DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1. CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.
stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?” At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago. She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities. Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings. Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.
Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community. Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters. “I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”
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Former Nassau comptroller Howard Weitzman dies By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com
Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75. Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman. Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant. Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed from his time
as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013. As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.” Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually. In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he Authority, a said, “While the savings [associated the Nassau Interim Finance color version
Herald Inside LI Webinar fights fears with facts Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers. The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health. Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers. “We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair. “What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.” No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit
and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said. “A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.” As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask. A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.
fiscal oversight board created by the New York State Legislature in 2000 to monitor and oversee the county’s finances following a debt crisis in the late 1990s that nearly bankrupted Nassau. Weitzman had also been a board member of the American Jewish Committee, a treasurer of Temple Israel of Great Neck and a board member of the United Community Fund of Great Neck. An avid adventurer, he traveled the world with his family, with he and his wife taking trips to Cambodia, Australia and Italy when their children were grown. He was also an avid boater who was a member of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by a sister, Leslie Kornfeld, and her husband, Edward; four grandchildren, Leo, Max, Morris and Ema, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. A funeral service was held last Thursday at Temple Israel of Great Neck, with burial following at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Riverside-Nassau North Chapels made the arrangements.
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John CarBona Came to Long Beach City Hall Monday to present a $300,000 check to the city to pay for life-saving equipment at the new lifeguard headquarters. He was thanked by City Manager Donna Gayden and other city officials. body president as well. He became an ocean lifeguard in 1974 and remained active on the beach as a guard for 15 years. He studied science at the University of South Florida graduating with an undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry. His mother, Maureen, was born at Long Beach Hospital, and was the daughter of Long Beach Police Inspector Johnnie Madden. Madden was the first Long Beach cop to go to the Quantico Virginia FBI Academy under J. Edgar Hoover Carbona moved to Dallas and became a partner in a company called Cardio Systems. The company was sold 1998 and Carbona retired age 40. After years in retirement he co-founded a company in Dallas called AveXis. The company developed a drug to treat a disease called SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) which is a deadly childhood disease. In 2018, was acquired by Swiss manufacturer Novartis, for $9 billion. Carbona now has comes in Aspen, Colo, Florida and France., Speaking of his years as a lifeguard,
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Carbona said, “I stood on the shoulders of some very great people,” and ticked off more than a dozen names of out of the pages of Long Beach history, including Harvey Weisenberg, now 86, who remains a lifeguard. DeLury, who was on the LBHS swim team with Carbona, said, “I’ve know the family for a long time. I am honored to be here with them today.” Carbona told the gathering, “I look for-
ward to establishing a lasting legacy in Long Beach where kids today and tomorrow can look at the new headquarters and be proud of a local kid making a successful career, after starting with little or no advantages to speak of. “ At the end of his speech, Carbona turned to Long Beach City Manager Donna Gayden and corporation council Richard Berrios, and said, “I guess now you want the check.”
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The award-winning Herald Community Newspapers are seeking an editor and a reporter to cover the diverse hamlets of Nassau County’s South Shore. The ideal candidate in both cases is adept with news and feature writing and holds a bachelor’s or master’s degree in journalism, English or a related field. A newspaper internship or prior publishing experience is a must for the editor’s post, but not required for the reporter’s position. Work on a student newspaper or other publication is always a plus. Herald Community Newspapers, with a readership of roughly 200,000, is among the largest and most respected community news groups in New York State, covering 26 communities on Nassau’s South and North Shores. The group has consistently ranked among the top five community news groups in the New York Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, garnering hundreds of awards over the years. Herald alumni have gone on to work for many major media outlets, from Newsweek to The Daily Mail, and CNN to the BBC. Qualified candidates should email their cover letters and resumes to Executive Editor Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com.
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The history of the Carbona family in Long Beach dates back to 1910, when Antonio Carbona arrived in the city from Menfi, Sicily, with $50 in his pocket. He became Long Beach’s first barber. His son, Eugene, now 82, and living part of the year in Florida, has worked as a Long Beach police officer. Eugene’s son, John, 63, grew up in Long Beach and founded a pharmaceutical company, which was sold to Novartis, the giant pharmaceutical company. But the thread that runs through the family, is lifeguarding. Both Eugene and John served as Long Beach lifeguards. Eugene started working as a lifeguard in 1948 and became chef lifeguard in 1965. John was a lifeguard starting in the mid1970s. On Monday, the Carbona family, feeling it wanted to pay back the city for lifetimes of experience on the beach, donated $300,000 for the new lifeguard building on Riverside beach. The facility, which was built with FEMA funds after the original lifeguard shack was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy, will bear the Carbona name. The building has six rooms, including showers and lockers, and will no longer be referred to as a “shack,” according to people present at Monday’s ceremony. It is now “headquarters,” they said. With his father sitting on a wooden bench in the meeting room at City Hall Monday, John Carbona, remembered his past, as a top swimmer at Long Beach High School, where he was friendly with City Councilman Mike DeLury, and growing with DeLury and others by the sea. “Today, I hope I am contributing to the city by the sea,” he said. The money will be used for lifeguard equipment, radios and other life-saving equipment. Carbona has become a wealthy man over the decades. He attended Long Beach Catholic School, was an alter boy and then went to Long Beach High were he was on the swim team. He was co-captain of the team his senior year, and was the student
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Leave Opening Fallsburg School District Mathematics Teacher
Fallsburg Jr/Sr High School is seeking a qualified math teacher to fill a high school leave replacement vacancy available immediately through Nov 29, 2021. Candidates from all New York regions are encouraged to apply as this position can be taught virtually from a remote setting. An experienced candidate may perform all duties of the job virtually through synchronous teaching. Salary: $105 to $125 per day, increases to $250 per day after 10 days
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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit. I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy! Nobody has that, so why am I being made to do this? It’s expensive, and I shouldn’t have to do it. I think they’re making me pay for starting with no permit, right? A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actually named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.
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In many cases, building departments allow onte eeper existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies. Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.
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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places. Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2. And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller. County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.
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The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more. Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate. To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-
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sions away from corrupt elected officials. He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely. During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany. I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue. Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-
eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.
tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney. There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official. This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve. 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.
Really, what’s up with the whole world?
ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America. But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting. It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and
saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning. That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives. We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it. The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we
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see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family. As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief. If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing. If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now. If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his
he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?
new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again. There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear. This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people. I am worried for us. Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968. From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data. “Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship. “Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs. That’s a good thing for Long Island.” We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the
United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society. According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country. Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates. In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found. At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population. Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.” In particular, we must recognize that
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America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different. We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge. The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture. Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.” There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.
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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for. JUAn Perhaps it was the odd proposiLAsso tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.” It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a
legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans. So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans. But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month. I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.” The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay. So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month
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Letters inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation. Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation
was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.” As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.” And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion. The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism. Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture. Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a
whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen. Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage. For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves. Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories. All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.” Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.
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Is congestion pricing the answer? To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches. These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51
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billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan), when you implement the program three years or more after 2020. The late start for implementation, a downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full- and part-time, and a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls could result in billions of lost
anticipated revenue. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.
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