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Schools chief’s release details are revealed put on paid sick leave until the split became official on Nov. 19.

Robert Bartels, who has been According to documents the district’s assistant superinrecently obtained by the Herald, tendent for business and performer Rockville Centre Super- sonnel for two decades, will intendent of Schools June serve as acting superintendent C h a n g re c e ive d for the rest of the three months’ salaschool year as the ry and compensaboard searches for tion for 24 vacation Chang’s permanent days in his separasuccessor. tion agreement “I think it’s for with the Board of the betterment of Education, and the district to go foragreed not to purward with Mr. Barsue any legal action tels,” board Presiagainst the district. dent John O’Shea Chang ans a i d i n O c t o b e r. nounced his resig“We’re disappointed nation to the school ROBERT in the whole process board in a letter in that [Chang] decidAugust, just over a BARTELS ed to resign after year into his tenure. Acting one year, and it just According to his superintendent seemed to work betoriginal contract ter for everyone and the separation involved if he were agreement, both acquired by to leave earlier instead of stay the Herald through the Free- until May. … We all wish Mr. d o m o f I n fo r m at i o n L aw, Chang good luck in his future Chang’s original contract, endeavors, and we are very consigned on Feb. 25, 2020, was for fident that Mr. Bartels will be a five years, from July 1, 2020, to strong leader for the district June 30, 2025. For his first year, until the time comes that we from July 2020 to June 2021, he find a permanent superintenwas paid $290,000. dent.”

Chang signed the separation agreement on Oct. 6, and was CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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RENA RIBACK, OF the Rockville Centre-based Anti-Racism Project, left, led a peaceful protest of the Proud Boys’ march through the village. On the steps behind Riback were Margarita Grassing, executive director of the Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre, Mayor Francis Murray and village Trustee Katie Conlon.

‘Hate has no home here’ RVC residents host counterprotest to Proud Boys

By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

Dozens of Rockville Centre residents gathered at Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth on Dec. 1, their flashlights lighting up the night as they joined local elected officials, religious leaders and anti-racism advocates to protest the far-right Proud Boys’ march through the village on Nov. 27.

Rena Riback, co-administrator of the Rockville Centrebased Anti-Racism Project,

led chants of “Hate has no home here!”

“Let us shine our lights, move forward away from the darkness of bigotry and honestly address hate wherever it exists and in whatever form it takes,” Riback said.

Rabbi Michael Cohen, of Central Synagogue, Rabbi David Ler ner, of Temple B’Nai Sholom, and the Rev. Scott Ressman, of United Church, took part in the gathering, in a show an interfaith unity. Cohen stressed his sup-

port for freedom of speech and assembly so long as it is “civil, peaceful and nonthreatening.” “They will not inspire us to hate our brothers and sisters,” he said of the Proud Boys.

Ressman stressed how the creation story of the Bible makes it clear how important diversity is in our world.

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HUNDREDS WATCHED ON as Rockville Centre hosted its annual tree lighting ceremony on Dec. 2.

RVC rocks around the Christmas tree RVC residents flooded the Village Green on Dec. 2 to celebrate the annual tree lighting in unseasonably mild weather. The Rev. Michael Duffy from St. Agnes blessed the enormous tree along the Maple Avenue side of the park.

The South Side Middle School Chorale, South Side High School ‘Choraleers’ and Wind Ensemble performed Christmas tunes like ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ and ‘Deck the Halls.’ Santa Claus even made an appearance riding atop a fire truck while waving as children flocked to the edges of the Village Green.

CHORUSES AND BANDS from South Side Middle and High schools added to the festive spirit by playing Christmas classics, at left.

SANTA WAVED TO the crowd from a fire truck, bottom right.

TRUSTEES EMILIO GRILLO, bottom left, Katie Conlon, Mayor Francis X. Murray, Deputy Mayor Kathleen Baxley, and Trustee Michael Sepe celebrated the 2021 tree lighting.

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Blakeman appoints RVC resident as attorney excited to take the position.

“I look forward to helping the county executive-elect deliver on his pledges to Nassau County Executive-elect Bruce move Nassau forward while protecting Blakeman has selected State Supreme residents’ wallets,” he said.

Adams has been in the Court Justice and Rockville legal field for more than four Centre resident Thomas decades, starting as assistant Adams to serve as Nassau district attorney in the NasCounty attorney. sau County District AttorAdams, 72, is a former ney’s office from 1973 to 1980, Nassau County administraand then moving onto gettive judge who oversaw more ting elected to District Court than 100 judges and 1,200 and state Supreme Court. In court employees.

2001, Republican Gov. George “Not only does Judge Pataki appointed Adams as Adams have an excellent an associate justice of the command of the law, he also state Supreme Court’s Appelhas extremely good adminislate Division, Second Juditrative skills,” Blakeman cial Department. said. “Having served as an BRUCE As administrative judge, associate justice of the appelBLAKEMAN he is responsible for the daylate division, where you have to-day supervision and overto make deter minations Nassau County sight of nearly 100 judges about issues concer ning executive-elect and justices and more than whether or not there was 1,200 non-judicial employees accordance with the law, Judge Adams has the experience neces- assigned to Supreme Court, Court of Claims, Surrogate’s Court, County sary to run the law firm for the county.”

The County Attorney’s office defends Court, Family Court, and District Court, Nassau against lawsuits, including civil plus judges and non-judicial employees rights cases against police officers and of the courts in the villages and cities of Nassau County. property assessment challenges.

During the past 42 years, Adams has Adams thanked Blakeman for entrusting him with the role, and said he was received numerous awards and honors

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from professional and community organizations. His memberships have included: Nassau County Bar Association; Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York; Association of Court of Claims’ Judges; District Court Judges’ Association; and plenty of others.

Adams is a life-long Nassau County resident. He was raised in the Village of Hempstead and graduated from the Uniondale Public Schools. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania in 1970 and graduated from New England Law in Boston in 1973. He and his wife, Joann, have lived in Rockville Centre since 1973, and Joann is a practicing attorney in the village.

They raised two children in the village, and they both graduated from Oceanside High School. Their daughter, Suzanne, is an attorney, living and practicing in Manhattan, and their son, Joseph, is also an attorney, living and practicing in Valley Falls, N.Y.

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ROCKVILLE CENTRE RESIDENT Thomas Adams was appointed as Nassau County attorney by County Executive-elect Bruce Blakeman.

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■■ On■ Nov.■ 23■ at■ 12:19■ p.m.,■ Virmari■ Alexadra■ Javier,■ 20,■ of ■ Brooklyn,■ was■ arrested■and■charged■with■fourth-degree■ attempted■ grand■ larceny■ during■ an■ investigation■after■she■attempted■to■take■ possession■of ■a■package■from■a■UPS■driver■who■was■delivering■it■to■a■residence.

■■ A■homeowner■reported■that■her■jewelry■was■stolen■from■her■house■on■Nov.■24■ at■9:27■a.m.

Burglary ■■ At■ 8■ a.m.■ on■ Nov.■ 23,■ the■ owner■ of ■ a■ home■ under■ construction■ reported■ that■ someone■stole■appliances■valued■at■more■ than■$20,000■from■the■residence.

Criminal mischief ■■ A■village■Parks■Department■employee■ reported■that■someone■damaged■the■rubber■ surface■ of ■ the■ playground■ at■ Reverend■Days■Park■on■Nov.■29■at■2:02■p.m.

■■ On■Dec.■6■at■6:25■a.m.,■a■Rockville■Centre■ School■ District■ employee■ reported■ that■someone■damaged■a■shed■at■a■Rockville■Centre■school.

Graffiti ■■ At■ 7:29■ a.m.■ on■ Dec.■ 2,■ graffiti■ was■ found■on■several■Merrick■Road■and■Sunrise■Highway■businesses.

■■ On■Nov.■28■at■11:24■a.m.,■a■gas■station■ employee■ reported■ that■ someone■ left■ without■paying■after■pumping■gas.

■■ At■ 3:29■ p.m.■ on■ Nov.■ 28,■ a■ motorist■ reported■that■his■car■was■stolen■from■his■ driveway.

■■ A■ motorist■ reported■ that■ someone■ stole■ automotive■ parts■ from■ his■ vehicle■ while■it■was■parked■on■Sunrise■Highway■ on■Dec.■4■at■7:18■a.m.

Leaving the scene ■■ On■Nov.■29■at■2■p.m.,■a■driver■reported■ that■her■car■was■struck■by■a■vehicle■that■ left■ the■ scene■ while■ it■ was■ parked■ in■ a■ Merrick■Road■parking■lot.

■■ At■ 1:42■ p.m.■ on■ Dec.■ 4,■ a■ motorist■ reported■ that■ her■ car■ was■ struck■ by■ a■ vehicle■ that■ left■ the■ scene■ while■ it■ was■ parked■in■a■Merrick■Road■parking■lot.

■■ A■ driver■ reported■ that■ his■ car■ was■ struck■ by■ a■ vehicle■ that■ left■ the■ scene■ while■ driving■ on■ N.■ Centre■ Avenue■ on■ Dec.■5■at■7:05■p.m.

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FOURTH BATTALION CHAIRMAN Mark Murray, of the RVCFD, fourth from left, presented a check to Burn Center Trustee Barry Scheu, fourth from right.

The■ Fourth■ Battalion■ Fire■ District’s■ 2021■ fundraiser■ for■ the■ Nassau■ County■ Firefighters■ Burn■ Center■ raised■ more■ than■$16,500■this■year■for■their■foundation.

This■ year’s■ fundraiser,■ held■ at■ Rockville■ Centre’s■ Alert■ Engine■ 2■ quarters,■ was■in■memory■of ■former■Rockville■Centre■Fire■Chief ■Charlie■Jaeger■and■former■ East■Rockaway■Fire■Chief ■Thomas■Harding.■At■the■December■meeting■of ■the■battalion,■the■check■was■presented■by■Fourth■ Battalion■Chairman■Mark■Murray,■of ■the■

RVCFD,■ to■ Burn■ Center■ Trustee■ Barry■ Scheu.

Also■present■for■the■presentation■were■ RVCFD■Assistant■Chief ■Tony■Rugolo,■Battalion■ Treasurer■ Kevin■ Bien,■ (Lynbrook)■■ Battalion■ Vice■ Chairman■ Joe■ Mihalich,■ (East■ Rockaway),■ Jeannie■ Jaeger,■ Honorary■ Chief ■ Barry■ McCarthy■ (RVC),■ Honorary■ Chief ■ Bill■ Ruckdeschel■ (RVC),■ and■ former■ Battalion■ and■ Nassau■ County■ Chairman■ John■ Hennig■ (RVC),■ who■is■a■Burn■Center■delegate.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Thursday, Dec. 9 Simply Creative Chef Rob Chef Rob shares how to prepare Lemon Blizzard Crinkle Cookies. Register online at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link to this virtual event. Starts at 10 a.m.

The Most Wonderful Songs of the Year (Virtual)

Tree Lighting at the Village Green

Bridgeerton. Learn what’s new and what’s next. Register online at the RVC Library. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 15

Hundreds of Rockville Centre residents came to the Village Green for the tree lighting on Dec. 2.

Simply Stronger with Marilyn Bunger Certified instructor Marilyn Bunger leads this exercise class to enhance strength and flexibility. Starts at 9:30 a.m.

Dan Lupo tells the stories behind some holiday classics. Includes a piano performance of some holiday favorites. Register online at the RVC Library website for this virtual event.

Starts at 1 p.m.

Mothers’ Center Circle Join other mothers at Kim’s Corner in the RVC Library as facilitators help you connect on the joys and challneges of motherhood and support each other through their own journey. Register online at the library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

The Real Deal: Non-fiction Book Discussion (In-person) Register online at the RVC Library website to join this discussion of the book Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox. Starts at 2:30 p.m.

Bible Study at St. Agnes Join Fr. Bright and other members of the study group each Wednesday morning either in-person or virtually at 9:45 a.m. The program meets in the second floor of the ministry building in the youth ministry room. Email Irene Vastola at iavastola@gmail.com for Zoom link.

Twinkle, Twinkle Storytime (In-person) For ages 3 to 6. Join others at the RVC Library for stoies and songs before bedtime -- PJs and stuffed friends encouraged. Register online at the library website. Starts at 6:30 p.m.

Young at Heart: YA for Adults Come to Kim’s Corner at the RVC Library for a discussion of the book The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner. Register online at the library website.

Starts at 7 p.m.

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Bernstein on Broadway with Marc Courtade (Virtual)

Bring board games to the RVC Library and play with your friends. Limit of 24 people. Starts at 7 p.m.

With the new Westside Story iteration scheduled for release on Friday, explore Leonard Bernstein’s long association with New York City. Courtade discusses Bernstein’s shows, sharing the music and performances. Register online at the RVC Library website.

Starts at 2 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 10

Saturday, Dec. 11

Tricia’s Flicks

Holiday Baking Festival with Chef Rob

Game Night (In-person)

The RVC Library hosts this in-person movie screening in the Helen Kraus Room for the film Respect (PG-13).

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Monday, Dec. 13 Book Chats with Anna Katsavos Join Katsavos in a discussion of Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia.

Register online at the RVC Library.

Starts at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 14 Meditation with MaryClare MaryClare Chiofalo leads this meditation class designed to help you destress, relax, and focus. Register online at the RVC library website.

Starts at 7 p.m.

Chi Gong with Marianna Farina Farina returns in person to the Rockville Centre library with her exercise class. Register at the library website for the session that runs from Sept. 7 to Nov. 9. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday Yoga with Joe Certified yoga instructor Joe Climi leads the class designed to accommodate the needs of people who may have difficulty with more traditional appraoches. This class is hybrid, with in-person and Zoom options. Register online at the RVC library website.

Starts at 12 p.m.

What to Watch (In-person) Join moderator Michael Matuszewski and library staffer Rob Siegel to discuss the shows everyone is watching and talking about from The Expanse to

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RVC board of Education holds a regular meeting at the SSHS auditorium on Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

The RVC Farmers’ Market will be at Parking Lot 12 every Sunday from 7 a.m. to noon.

The Board of Zoning Appeals meets on Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at village hall.

The RVC Planning Board meets at Village Hall on Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.

The Village Board of Trustees has a special meeting at village hall on Dec. 16 at 6 p.m.

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Rockville Centre native and comedian Chrissie Mayr will soon return to Long Island to record her debut comedy album after making appearances on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and Fox’s “Laughs” and “The Wendy Williams Show.”

“I’m really excited to be shooting this special on Long Island,” Mayr said. “It’s very meaningful because it’s where I’m from, it’s where I grew up and it is where I took my very first stand-up comedy class.”

Mayr took her first comedy class from Judy Carter, a comedian who wrote the “Comedy Bible”, in 2006 at Governor’s Comedy Club. Just a few years later in 2010, Mayr started her own stand-up career.

“Pursuing comedy is not easy or glamorous,” Mayr said. “You have to really love it because it’s going to be really hard to figure out how to make your whole living from it. There’s no clear cut path like there [is] with other professions.”

Mayr said that although comedy is a difficult profession to pursue, she believes that it is worth it because it unites groups of people through laughter and, she added, it makes her feel good to make people laugh and forget their problems.

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Leading up to the recording of the album, Mayr will continue her national tour, headlining at different comedy clubs across the country. She said that she has enjoyed her tour even more after not having the ability to travel to different venues during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

“People really do want to get out and laugh again and just get out of their houses and put something on other than sweatpants,” she said.

“You can definitely feel when you’re on stage that all these audiences really do want to laugh and have a good time.”

Mayr is also the host of two different podcasts: “Chrissie Mayr Podcast” and “The Wet Spot” on Compound Media. More information on how to listen to her podcasts, get tickets to a show or listen to her upcoming album can be found at chrissiemayr.com.

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The album will be released on Jan. 6, which will mark the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot in Washington, D.C. Mayr spent time in the nation’s capital last month and this month doing “man on the street” interviews with people taking part in rallies.

According to Mayr, not everyone present at Jan. 6 riot was protesting the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Mayr said she was present in Washington, D.C. last Jan. 6 to interview people who were rallying.

“I’ve always been such a fighter for free speech, especially in comedy,” Mayr said. She added that she believes that no topic should be off limits in comedy if it can garner a laugh.

“If you can get away with it and people laugh, you should be able to say whatever you want,” she said. “A laugh is an acknowledgement of truth and it’s involuntary. You can’t help what you laugh at; that’s what’s so great about comedy.”

Mayr said that she wants to spread the message that it is okay to laugh at potentially controversial topics and it

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MOUNT SINAI SOUTH Nassau Dr. Aaron Glatt lit the menorah at the White House. for all mankind.”

Glatt also said the event served as an important moment of visibility for Judaism in the country, as anti-Semitic crimes rise. According to an October report from the American Jewish Committee, one in four American Jews say they have been targets of antiSemitism and four in 10 say they have changed their behavior out of fear.

Sharing the stage with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and the country’s first second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish, Glatt said he was full of patriotism and gratitude for living in America. “Coming

from a background where both of my parents were Holocaust survivors and their families were wiped out by cruel governments, living in the United States is the polar opposite, and it’s something we should celebrate and thank God for,” Glatt said.

Glatt has chaired the Department of Medicine since 2015 and has been a board-certified physician in infectious diseases for the past 33 years. Previously, Glatt was the executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre and president and CEO at St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage.

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Glatt got the call from the president’s liaison to the Jewish People, Chanan Weissman, extending the invitation on Thanksgiving. During a private meeting with the Biden and Kamala Harris and their spouses, Glatt blessed Biden, who put his arm around the doctor, who is also a rabbi, and thanked him for the honor.

During the ceremony, Biden lauded Glatt as a “champion of encouraging his congregants in his community to get vaccinated.” Glatt serves as an associate rabbi at Young Israel of Woodmere and lives in the community with his wife of 41 years.

“The torah tells us that we’re obligated to try and protect all people and keep ourselves as well as our society healthy,” Glatt said. “This is why the message to try and do proper public health actions is such an important message from a religious point of view.”

Despite the personal praise from the president, Glatt said that his being there was about thanking health-care workers across the country for risking their own health during this long pandemic. He also spoke about how his faith, which was lifted up at the White House, has guided him during the past two years.

“I don’t think I would be able to get through [the pandemic] without faith,” Glatt told the Herald. “Faith is a wonderful way for people to deal with these types of tragedies, knowing that there is a God and a greater purpose in life. We’re here to try to make things better

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ACCORDING TO A separation agreement obtained by the Herald, Superintendent of Schools June Chang received three months’ salary and 24 paid vacation days when he left the district.

Chang’s exit package included 3 months’ pay Bartels will be paid $45,000 in addition to his salary to finish the school year as acting superintendent. O’Shea said the goal was to remain within the $290,000 that was approved as the superintendent’s portion of the district budget.

When he took over, Bartels wrote in a letter that he hoped to bring unity to the district. “As the acting superintendent of schools, my main goal is to provide stability for all of the children and the staff during the Board of Education’s search for a new superintendent,” he wrote. “The Covid pandemic has provided some challenging obstacles over the past year and a half, and the district has met those challenges head on.”

While Chang did not publicly disclose his reasons for leaving, he faced much adversity after taking over for Dr. William Johnson, who had served as superintendent for 34 years before retiring in 2019. Chang had to navigate the district through the coronavirus pandemic in his first year on the job, and deal with the ongoing controversy over masking district students.

Additionally, in July, in the first of two much-discussed administrative actions that remain mysterious, the school board voted, 3-2, against Chang’s recommendation to rehire South Side High School girls’ varsity soccer coach Jennifer Abgarian — Newsday’s AllLong Island girls’ soccer Coach of the Year in 2020 — and her assistant, Chris Aloisi. Instead, the board voted to hire Jude Massillon to replace Abgarian, but Massillon resigned after just one week.

In a letter to the board, Massillon, who is Black, said he had received numerous anonymous phone calls, many of which he described as “racially derogatory.” He was replaced by Judi Croutier, a district teacher and a former highly successful coach of the soccer team. Croutier led the girls’ squad to the county and Long Island championships this season before it lost in the state finals.

The school board has tasked the firm School Leadership LLC with helping district officials search for the next superintendent. The firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates brought Chang to the district. O’Shea said that while the next superintendent may also face many challenges, he hoped the experience with Chang taught district officials how to deal with adversity. O’Shea added that the board would update residents on the search at its monthly meetings.

Bartels, meanwhile, has already stirred controversy by announcing that vaccinated and non-vaccinated attendees at this month’s winter concerts will sit in separate sections of each school’s auditorium.

Chang could not be reached for comment, but in his letter to the school board in August, he noted that he had reached his decision after “much reflection.”

“We have overcome many obstacles together during the most challenging of times,” he wrote, “and I will always be grateful for the opportunity to have served the RVC schools community.

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Rockville Centre rallies against hate CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE color in the sky,” he said. “Sameness was not a part of God’s plan for the universe.

Diversity is purposeful.”

After issuing several statements and a video on the village’s Facebook page, Mayor Francis X. Murray made his first in-person comments on the Proud Boys’ march at the counter-protest. “Just recently, a defined, hateful group invaded our downtown, trying to disrupt our beliefs and cause a divide in our harmony as a community,” Murray said. “As your mayor and your leader, I stand here tonight and say it’s not going to happen here.”

Though many cheered his remarks, there were still questions about how the village might deal with other controversial groups that gather unannounced, without a permit or village approval, as the Proud Boys did.

Margarita Grassing, the executive director of the Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre, mocked the Proud Boys’ wearing of masks to hide their identities, taking it as a sign that their beliefs are not welcome in the village. “It’s sad, but it’s also good to see their fake faces,” Grassing said. She also warned, however, that history repeats itself, and residents need to be vigilant about extreme ideologies’ potentially undermining effects on families.

The night ended with a musical performance of “This Little Light of Mine,” by

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THE CROWD ASSEMBLED in front of Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth, on Demott Avenue, on Dec. 1 with flashlights to illuminate the “darkness” they said they had witnessed the week before.

Judy Leff, of “While They’re Little” family music classes at the new Backyard Players building on North Long Beach Road. Afterward, some residents said they were reassured by the gathering.

Beth Finneran, Jaime Pertuz and Bee Myers said they were disappointed by the Proud Boys’ appearance, but not shocked given the continued political polarization around the country. Myers, who lives in the area of the village bordering Lake-

view, said she was more concerned than surprised.

Finneran said she was especially worried about the Proud Boys’ connections to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and the Capitol riot, and potentially bringing violence to the village. The group was designated an extremist group with ties to white nationalism by the FBI in 2018. Pertuz, who moved to the village with Finneran in

June, said he was alarmed that his new home had been targeted.

Despite those fears, Finneran, Pertuz and Myers said they were encouraged by the large response. “It was heartening to see a counter message to go out that we’re not behind this,” Pertuz said. “I would like for them to know that they are not what most people here believe.”

Added Finneran: “We don’t want to dehumanize each other in our politics.”

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THE RIVERSIDE PTA helped organize the day’s activities during the Turkey Challenge.

Riverside hosts Turkey Challenge The pandemic has made life for schools especially difficult over the past two years as students have not been able to socialize as much, but Riverside Elementary has started a new tradition that parents and faculty said they hope can spread some joy and show the students a fun time.

The second annual Turkey Challenge saw students play at six stations — bowling, the hula hoop toss, turkey targets, an obstacle course, pin knockdown and the Turkey Trot race — with parents from the PTA showing the children how each station worked. The students also wore step counters, incentivizing them to keep moving around even when they weren’t participating, as more steps equaled more points toward their class’s average steps. The winning class will receive a turkey trophy to hold onto for the rest of the school year.

“It’s really an exciting opportunity for the students to come out and engage with one another in celebration of Thanksgiving,” Principal Erik Walter said. The Turkey Challenge replaced the Sharing Feast, which was an indoor dinner in the school cafeteria that became impossible to hold

during the pandemic.

“The kids just absolutely love it,” Walter said.

“We were talking about it all week long, and with all of the restraints they faced — sitting behind barriers last year, having recess in their masks — here they can engage with other friends and let loose while feeling safe and it puts a smile on everybody’s face.”

PTA member Natalie Gallagher, who has a secondgrader at the school, helped to organize the students and the activity stations. As a former gym teacher, Gallagher knew how to keep the students active and engaged. “This will be a tradition now and the kids absolutely love it,” Gallagher said.

Parents were also able to watch from the other side of the recess yard’s fence, cheering on their children throughout the day. Both Walter and Gallagher said they were excited to continue this tradition next year, hopefully in a more normal time for the students.

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Richner Communications - a rapidly growing multimedia company and publishers of the Herald newspaper group has several administrative job openings: Receptionist (F/T), Accounts Receivable/Billing Collections Clerk Multi-Media Coordinator (Hours Flexible) Qualified candidates are fast learners with good organizational and people skills - entry level ok.

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The award-winning Herald Community Newspapers group, covering Nassau County's North and South Shores with hard-hitting news stories and gracefully written features, seeks a motivated, energetic and creative editor/reporter to join our dynamic (and awesome) team!

This education and general assignment reporting position offers a unique experience to learn from some of the best in the business. Historically, reporters who have launched their careers with us have gone on to The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsday, the New York Daily News, New York Post, CNN, BBC, NBC News and The Daily Mail, among many others. We look for excellent writers who are eager to learn, enhance their skills, and become well-established and respected journalists in our industry.

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HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR Richner Communications is looking for a hands-on Human Resources professional to oversee all HR functions on a strategic and tactical level. Exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and expanding Garden City, Long Island media company. This position has a flexible schedule, part-time job share would be considered.

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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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Q. We moved into our house with a sloping backyard knowing we’d have to level it out. We found a guy who specializes in stack block walls on the internet, and saw pictures of his work, and are satisfied that he can do the job. He recommended calling an engineer or architect, which we did. That’s when we learned that the harder part of this is all the months we’re waiting for permits to make our backyard useful for our kids to play in. We couldn’t have imagined it was this complicated. Our neighbors don’t seem to mind that we’re going to do it, even saying that it should’ve been done long ago. Are we missing something here? Should we have just built this and waited to see if anyone even cared?

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itting on 1.76 acres, this home is unlike anything you have ever experienced, with views of the water at every turn. The great hall with its curved windows and towering fireplace is a sight to be seen. The master bedroom has limitless views of the water, an enormous walk in closet and spa like bath. From the den to the formal dining room and the library, every room was designed to host and entertain countless friends and all your family. The detached guest house with a pool cabana, sauna, and steam room has plenty of space for an overnight stay. A waterfront compound unlike any other.

A. Your question is asked every day. Even officials, who would answer that you’re absolutely doing the right thing to get plans and permits, answer that they’re just doing their job, possibly intimating that they might agree with you.

Truthfully, you are doing the right thing. Not just because of the paperwork, stages of review — includonte eeper ing a zoning variance — but because raising your property means high fences viewed from the bottom of the walls. Neighbors have complained, saying they’re looking up at the “Wall of China,” and municipalities reacted.

Safety is why the process is worthwhile. A stacked block wall, done incorrectly, can give way, with costly — or deadly — consequences. I was once called to look at a predicament where someone using no formulas, no instructions (apparently) and no common sense built a chest-high wall, which began to drift and lean in the first rainstorm. It violated the laws of nature in that it did not have the ability to resist the hidden or plain-sight conditions.

Yes, there are formulas, charts and tables developed for holding back land masses, just as there are formulas for designing columns and beams. In my experience, the less you know, the happier you are at the beginning of the process. The more you learn from what went wrong, especially after it goes terribly wrong, the worse off you’ll be.

Well, it wasn’t even the leaning wall that was the biggest part of the problem. It was the fact that a few feet from the not-so-correctly built wall was a swimming pool made of gunnite. Gunnite is concrete that has been sprayed in layers onto a heavy mesh of woven reinforcing rods. It’s one of the strongest types of construction, so strong that it was used to form the hulls of PT boats in World War II to resist torpedoes. So when the landscaped wall drifted and leaned, the strongest kind of pool built began to twist like a pretzel. It wasn’t the wall that was the biggest problem; it was how to stabilize and stop the twisty pool from breaking apart.

Hang in there. Fences and walls, not permits, are the bigger problem to solve, safely. Good luck!

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OPINIONS

n the wake of his announcement that he is entering the Democratic primary for governor, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi faces a pretty daunting obstacle: New York City Democrats.

The city’s Democratic voter base, and the political bosses who select their primary candidates, mock anyone beyond the five boroughs.

They know their statewide candidates will need Long Island votes in the general election, but that doesn’t mean they want a Long Islander leading the ticket. Think RONALD J. of neighboring as deadly ROSENBERG Gotham kryptonite that destroys the aspirations of every suburban Democrat who wants a shot at running statewide.

We already know the roster of Long Island politicians whose statewide campaigns died at the Queens line. Kathleen Rice and Steve Levy come immediately to mind, but there are others. In the 1960s, the highly respected Nassau Coun-

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ty Executive Eugene Nickerson couldn’t win the Democratic primary for Senate, despite the backing of none other than Robert F. Kennedy.

Huntington Town Supervisor Jerome Ambro took on Basil Paterson for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970.

Ambro promptly lost that contest to Patterson.

And Tom Suozzi knows what it’s like to run and lose a statewide primary race. In 2006, he ran against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for governor. He quickly lost to the Manhattan-based Spitzer (although Spitzer may still wonder what his life might have been like had he lost and then quietly repaired to the family business of making millions in real estate).

So why is it that Suozzi believes that this time is the charm?

For starters, the Democratic Party is unrecognizable. There are more left-leaning city Democratic power players than Politburo members in Red Square on May Day. And that’s the least of it. Consider a New York Post report that

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revealed how a Bronx-based congressman, Jamaal Bowman, “is facing the fury of the Democratic Socialists of America, who have accused him of betrayal for visiting Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.”

That action alone reveals that Suozzi’s Democratic Party has a cancer eating away at its soul.

Suozzi’s primary strategy is to position himself as a centrist in a race that will compel Democrats to choose among the progressive, the progressive lite and the still to be politically defined gubernatorial incumbent. Suozzi will have the advantage of fundraising among deep-pocketed New York City business leaders who have the right to fear a state lurching left.

They have been desperately looking for a “common-sense” Democrat whom they can support, so it is no accident that the phrase “common-sense candidate” is now Suozzi’s adopted slogan.

While Suozzi and his primary competitors seek to position themselves for a win, they need to recognize that a primary victory is not an anointment to be gov-

ew York City has often proved poisonous for suburban Democrats.

ernor. As this past Election Day revealed, there is a quiet but seething anger among voters who rightly view the progressive/socialist agenda, such as “bail reform,” as destructive to their quality of life and core values. In a state reputed to be deeply blue, there is every reason to believe that a Republican gubernatorial candidate could win by tapping into the anger, and not a little bit of fear of where New York might be heading.

Much the way the Red Wave on Election Night 2021 sent a strong message that voters are not going to follow a progressive manifesto, Republican Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin could easily upset the pundits and assume office as the next governor of New York.

If so, it would be nothing less than ironic if those Long Island Democrats who aspired to be governor but were blocked

by New York City progressives got to attend the gubernatorial inauguration of a fellow Long Islander who ran on the Republican line.

Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.

Hoping for the gift of life in this season of giving

e was 49 years old in March, and he hopes to celebrate his 50th birthday next year.

Anyone would wish the same, but Scott Englander, a Woodmere resident, faces an uncertain future.

According to his mother, Arlene, after a catastrophic bacterial infection left him in a coma more than six years ago, Scott suffered both heart and kidney failure. His heart stabilized, but his kidney function continued to decline until he was forced to begin RANDI regular dialysis KREISS recently.

He is being treated at the Julia and Israel Waldbaum Davida Dialysis facility in Great Neck, where he undergoes dialysis three times a week, for four and a half hours at a time. It is a grueling routine that leaves him exhausted. The only way off dialysis, however, is to get a kidney transplant.

The family is hopes for a living donor, someone who finds it within him or herself to promise Scott another birthday, and another one after that. We have all read stories of selfless individuals who know they can live normally with one

kidney and are willing to come forward in an exceptional act of generosity.

If you or someone you know would like more information about this process, please email scottneedsakidney@ gmail.com.

I have known Arlene and Richard Englander for more than 50 years. We hadn’t connected in a long time when Arlene reached out, hoping to increase Scott’s chances of finding a kidney donor. They had already tried Zoom megacalls and bulk mailings and emails. Maybe, they thought, someone will read this and consider giving this gift of life. Perhaps the word will pass through our communities and someone will step forward.

For the recipient, according to the National Kidney Transplant Foundation, “Your health and energy should improve.

In fact, a successful kidney transplant may allow you to live the kind of life you were living before you got kidney disease. Studies show that people with kidney transplants live longer than those who remain on dialysis.”

Unrelated individuals who make a good match may be able to donate one of their kidneys, in a living transplant. If a donor and recipient are incompatible,

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there are “kidney swaps,” in which donors can provide kidneys to compatible recipients in exchange for a compatible donation to their intended recipient.

Advances in kidney transplant have made it possible to do the surgeries laparoscopically, which leads to much shorter recovery times. Potential donors are carefully screened, and supported physically and emotionally.

According to the Kidney Project at the University of California, San Francisco, some 100,000 patients in the United States are on the kidney transplant list, and the need for donor kidneys is rising 8 percent per year.

The wait times for an organ vary from state to state. Fortunately, most insurance covers the expenses for both transplant donors and recipients.

Many charitable groups offer travel and work compensation for donors. It is, of course, illegal to buy or sell human organs or tissue in the U.S. According to the Mayo Clinic, the hospital stay for most kidney donors is one or two days. Its website states, “After kidney donation, most people are able to return to normal daily activities after two to four weeks. You may be advised to avoid contact sports or other strenuous activities that may cause kidney dam-

local man who’d like to see his children grow up is in need of a new kidney.

age.” In the U.S., more than 6,000 livingorgan donations are completed each year.

Living-kidney donation is the most common type of living-donor transplant. People can donate one of their two kidneys, and the remaining kidney is able to perform the necessary functions.

For the recipient, receiving a kidney from a living donor is successful more than 98 percent of the time, according to the Mayo Clinic. If the kidney comes from a deceased donor, the success rate is 93 percent. Ongoing treatment tethered to dialysis is a difficult alternative.

Scott Englander and his family are hoping for a living donor. He would like to go back to his work as a chiropractor and his life with his family. His roots in the community run deep: He went to the Number Six School, Lawrence Middle School, Lawrence High School, SUNY Albany and Life University in Georgia.

Scott has been on the transplant list at the Northwell Health Transplant Center for two and a half years, his mother says.

She says the expectation is a wait of some five to eight years to get a deceased person’s kidney. A living donor could come forward at any time.

In a note to me this week, Scott said that he hopes for a kidney so that he may live long enough to see his children grow up.

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

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Now, not later, is time to push for SALT reform

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he Herald has editorialized a halfdozen times on Long Island’s desperate need to restore the federal income-tax deduction for state and local taxes, which the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, passed under President Donald Trump, limited to $10,000, costing many middle-class families here thousands of dollars annually. Now, it appears, we are on the brink of overturning the measure.

Sustained political pressure is needed to see the elimination of the $10,000 SALT cap through to the finish line. That’s why we are encouraging readers to write to U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, to ensure that the proposal passes in the Senate when it is brought up for an upcoming vote.

There is a false impression that the SALT deduction affords an unfair tax advantage only to the rich, a refrain repeated by conservative pundits across the nation. For decades, however, the deduction provided vital federal tax relief to middle-class families on Long Island and many other parts of the country.

Many conservatives argue that any family earning above $100,000 per year is affluent, even rich. And, they say, most of the people taking the SALT deduction — 98 percent — have a household income above that figure, with 80 percent earning between $100,000 and $200,000 and 18 percent above $200,000. Meanwhile, the average family income nationwide is $67,000 a year, according to census data.

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LETTERS RVC is no place for hate To the Editor: I look forward to reading the Herald every week. Last week’s story “Proud Boys march through RVC” was quite disturbing. While we are all entitled to our opinions, as a society we cannot tolerate groups that practice violence of any kind.

The Proud Boys proclaim they are for preserving the American way of life. I think they are trying to preserve their distorted idea of the American way of life. I commend those named in the article who have strongly condemned the Proud Boys.

The group’s waving of the American flag is such a misuse of all the flag stands for. It stands for freedom of race, color and creed. It does not stand for hate and violence. It stands for the rule of law, not hooliganism.

Let us hope that the Proud Boys will fade away, like similar groups before them. I am

particular, high property taxes in places like Long Island. It focuses only on income.

Long Island is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. The median household income here, $116,000, would buy a whole lot in a state like Mississippi, where the median household income is about $42,000; or New Mexico, where it’s $46,300; or Idaho, where it’s $48,600. On Long Island, however, $116,000 is not rich. It’s middle class.

So, while the SALT deduction has undoubtedly helped the wealthy, it has aided the middle class in high-cost regions like ours, and that is why it must be restored.

The House of Representatives, led by Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, recently passed SALT reform as part of the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill. Bravo! The legislation, if passed by the Senate, would smartly cap the deduction at $80,000, allowing middle-class families in states like New York and California to take advantage of the federal deduction, but still limiting it to prevent the truly wealthy from benefiting disproportionately.

According to Suozzi, passage of SALT reform in the Senate would bring immediate tax relief to some 3.4 million New York taxpayers, including nearly 367,000 in Nassau alone. That would return dollars to our local economy, where they belong. Since enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act four years ago, New York has paid $12 billion more in federal taxes — money that has gone to states like Kentucky, home to Senate Minority Leader

Mitch McConnell, a Republican who led the charge alongside Trump to pass the act.

The recent reform package passed in the House would raise the SALT deduction cap for nine years, through 2030. That seems fair. New Yorkers would have time to plan for its sunset. The legislation passed by Trump, on the other hand, caught many flatfooted, requiring desperate measures of them, including taking out loans just to pay their federal income taxes.

The $80,000 cap would take effect on people’s 2021 federal tax bills, providing them nearly immediate relief — which would be vital, given the economic hardships that many households have been forced to endure because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Lest any U.S. senator believe that the desire to restore the SALT deduction is confined to states like New York and California, he or she need only look to recent comments by Tom Cochran, CEO and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to understand that the sentiment is shared by many elected leaders and taxpayers nationwide. “On behalf of the nation’s mayors,” Cochran said, “I want to commend Congressman Suozzi for his hard work on this issue. He never stopped fighting to restore the state and local taxes [deduction] for middle-income families in all states.”

Indeed. We mustn’t believe for a second, however, that the measure will pass in the Senate until it has. That is why we need everyone’s voice speaking out on this critical issue.

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n the wake of Democrats’ November election debacle, they are looking for who or what to blame. The initial targets are critical race theory, “wokeness,” and congressional progressives known as “the Squad,” in particular Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If Democrats accept the narrative that swing voters rejected “extremism,” they are doomed to lose big in 2022 and 2024.

Leading Republicans have not shied away from extremism.

In fact, they have ALAN embraced it.

When Arizona SINGER Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted animated videos showing him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden with a sword, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly voted against censuring him. They blame Biden for the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, while they actively campaign against mandatory vaccination and masking.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is promoting right-wing “replacement theories” that were behind the 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. On Fox News, Gingrich accused leftists of trying to drown out “classic Americans” and replace them with people who know nothing of the country’s history and traditions because they want to “get rid of the rest of us.” Fox’s Tucker Carlson repeated Gingrich’s

claims, accusing Democrats of trying to “change the racial mix of the country” so they can “reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here.”

Meanwhile, the Republican rankand-file have disrupted local school board meetings, denouncing school curricula, library books and efforts to combat the pandemic.

The New York Times reported a “disturbing spike in threats against school board officials” and “hundreds of intimidating messages to election officials in at least a dozen states.”

The Democrats lost this year, however, because of their failure to articulate a clear agenda that would have provided an alternative narrative to GOP talking points; internal bickering that undermined legislative initiatives and made them appear incompetent; and deepseated white racism that allowed the argument that critical race theory is invading our schools to take hold.

In Kenosha, Wis., a largely white jury acquitted a 17-year-old white man who brought an assault rifle to a Black Lives Matter rally and killed two of the protesters because he thought he was defending himself from attack by his unarmed victims. That decision had nothing to do with critical race theory or leftwing “wokeness” and everything to do with white fear of Blacks. It was celebrated by white vigilante groups as justification for their behavior, and Kyle Rittenhouse was proclaimed a Second Amendment hero by conservative

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hey lost this year because of their failure to articulate a clear agenda.

LETTERS not naïve to think such ideas will disappear, but hopefully they will be minimized.

JOHN FITZSIMONS Rockville Centre

A moral obligation to speak out To the Editor: As an historian of fascism, I felt morally obliged to take part in the demonstration at Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre in response to the recent Proud Boys march through the village, and I was honored to do so. The message from Rabbi Michael Cohen of Central Synagogue, the Rev. Scott Ressman of the United Church of Rockville Centre, Mayor Francis X. Murray and the organizers was clear: “Hate has no home here — not now, not ever!”

One lesson of the 20th century is

politicians and right-wing news outlets.

On CNN, the recently fired Chris Cuomo interviewed comedian and commentator Bill Maher about a supposed leftwing peril threatening the U.S., feeding him a series of softball questions.

After acknowledging that “I’m not in schools” and “I have no interaction with children,” Maher said he had heard from people across the country that “kids are sometimes separated into groups, oppressor and oppressed” and are being taught that “racism is the essence of America.” He derided this practice as “just silly; it’s just virtue-signaling,” and accused people advocating for curriculum revision of being “afraid to acknowledge progress,” a psychological disorder he labeled “progressophobia.”

I kept waiting for Cuomo to ask Maher for an example — any example — to support his claims, but Cuomo never did, and Maher never felt compelled to offer any evidence. On his HBO show, Maher promotes a group of contrarians who want to start their own college, where they will be free to present offensive ideas and dismiss objections without having to provide supporting evidence or answer to anyone.

Cuomo never asked Maher about that, either.

The more serious problems for Democrats and progressives worldwide are new surges of the coronavirus that have led to closings, supply-chain disruptions and inflation spikes, as well as

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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that the political ideology of the Proud Boys ends in the concentration camp. I was thus disheartened not to see the Diocese of Rockville Centre bishop or more representatives of Christian churches lend their voices to the demonstration. I consider this a serious abdication of their moral duty.

STANISLAO PUGLIESE, PH.D. Queensboro Unico distinguished professor, Hofstra University

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counterattacks on climate-change initiatives.

In Europe, protests against newly imposed Covid-19 restrictions turned into riots in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, and in Germany they boosted the right-wing vote. This has nothing to do with teaching critical race theory in American schools and everything to do with international right-wing fear-mongering and mobilization.

The other real problem is denial of the impending climate catastrophe, and efforts to block restrictions on the production and use of fossil fuels. Global leaders sang Kumbaya after the Glasgow Climate Change Conference and then went home, where they will implement inadequate or phantom measures. Wealthy GOP and fossil-fuel industry donors in the U.S. are pouring money into the re-election campaign accounts of nominally Democratic senators Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, to influence them to stand firm against clean-energy initiatives. Again, this has nothing to do with “wokeness” or the fictional claim that children are being indoctrinated into critical race theory in American schools.

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Democrats’ election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness’

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