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Blueberries of High in antioxidants, blueberries are one foods you the most powerful disease-fighting vitamin C. can eat. They also contain fiber and topping They’re great plain, in a fruit salad, or your whole-grain cereal.
Oranges Everyone knows oranges are rich in vitamin C, but did you know they also contain potassium, flavofolate (folic acid), fiber, carotenoids and that noids? Carotenoids are a type of antioxidant in contain the red, orange, and yellow pigments of a type fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are
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Swiss chard in a This vegetable (a cousin to beets) comes leaves. variety of stalk colors with beautiful green Swiss chard is rich in potassium and magnesium it also that helps control blood pressure. And heartcontains lutein and zeaxanthin, two of olive oil healthy antioxidants. Sauté with a bit pepper until wilted and season with herbs and for a tasty treat.
Black beans and kidney beans beans Like spinach, black beans and kidney contain B-complex vitamins, folate, magnesium, fatty calcium and fiber, plus niacin and omega-3 for extra acids. Add them to soups and salads flavor and heart-healthy nutrients.
Salmon and tuna The American Heart Association recomand mends eating fatty fish, such as salmon These fish albacore tuna, at least twice a week. fatty are abundant in polyunsaturated omega-3 for heart acids, which help reduce risk factors blood disease including high cholesterol, high fatty pressure and high triglycerides. Omega-3 that acids can also help decrease inflammation improve contributes to chronic disease, and they cognitive and behavioral function.
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Flaxseed huge This low-carb whole grain packs a B6, nutritional punch. Flaxseed is high in vitamin mangaphosphorus, copper, folate, magnesium, nese, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids and phytonutrior ents such as lignans, which may help prevent Research forestall the onset of type 2 diabetes. the has also shown that flaxseed may decrease arrhythrisk of blood clots, stroke, and cardiac favormias. Grind up flaxseed and add it to your or ite heart-healthy hot or cold cereal, muffins bread.
Walnuts and almonds and If you’re counting carbs, walnuts your diet almonds are good additions to omega-3 because they contain fiber, along with fatty acids, vitamin E, magnesium, monounsatuphytosterrated and polyunsaturated fats and ols, which seem to decrease blood cholesterol.
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Central H.S. prepares for SAT changes that busywork is eliminated by it being on the digital platform. Kids at this point are very techMajor changes are coming to savvy, so they’re very comfortthe SAT, according to the College able with the digital platform.” Board. The test, which has been a Milani has questions, howevmainstay of the college admis- er, about how the College Board sions process, taken will guarantee a lapby millions of high top or tablet for school students every test taker. “We every year, will go were told that the completely digital College Board would beginning in the provide students spring of 2024. with a laptop or tabW h i l e a n swe r let if they don’t have sheets, booklets and one of their own or sharpened No. 2 penif we don’t have cils will eventually enough for them,” he be a thing of the said. “We don’t have past, testing will still that many extras … take place at a test a lot of details have center or school. Stunot been provided dents will be offered yet, since it’s still far the choice between off.” using their own tabThe length of the lets or laptops or the RoBERt MilANi test will shrink from schools’ devices. three hours to two, Robert Milani, Assistant principal, there will be shorter assistant principal Valley Stream reading passages, of Valley Stream Central High School and students will be Central High School, allowed to use calcusaid he welcomed lators on the math the switch to an online-only for- section. mat. “Taking the SAT, and the col“A big part of administering lege application process, is very the exam when the kids arrive on stressful,” Milani said. “We feel test day is them filling out all this that this streamlined version will paperwork,” Milani said. “All of Continued on page 9
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ACtiVists FRoM NY Renews, joined by State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, above, rallied in Mill Brook Park for major budget spending for climate action.
Officials and activists rally for ‘climate justice’ funding By JUAN lAsso jlasso@liherald.com
Earlier this month, State Assemblywomen Michaelle Solages and Taylor Darling and climate activists from NY Renews hosted a news conference in Mill Brook Park in South Valley Stream to advocate for $15 billion in “climate justice” funding in the 2022-23 state budget. Solages said she was trying to make a point by holding the conference and rally
in South Valley Stream. When Hur ricane Sandy tore through Long Island in 2012, high waters from Jamaica Bay surged up the tributary that runs through the village, flooding hundreds of South Valley Stream homes. To deal with the aftermath, the Town of Hempstead launched an aggressive $3.8 million, statefunded storm resiliency project. Then Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said that such mitigation projects were needed because, in light of what’s
happening with the climate, Sandy was a preview of more extreme weather events to come. The village saw officials from every level of government work to invest in resiliency and green infrastructure to protect residents and roll back the worst effects of climate change, according to Solages. Now the state government must make a bold investment to spread those Continued on page 14
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VS history lecture raises climate questions ing water erosion caused the land’s depression, though no water runs on its surface. The Valley Stream Historical Society During the question-and-answer hosted a virtual lecture, “The Geology portion of the talk, the conversation of Valley Stream,’’ on February 16, fea- quickly turned to questions about the turing Gilbert Hanson, a village’s shifting ecology distinguished Service Proand the worrisome trend of fessor in the Department of increased flooding. SpeakGeosciences at Stony Brook ers among the near 50-perUniversity. Hanson’s preson audience were quick to sentation focused on the vilnote that the various tribulage’s historic geological taries running through the formations that eventually village have flooded in the became the eponymously past, particularly during named Valley Stream. At hurricane season. Audience the end of the scientific members called to mind talk, the floor was open to Hurricane Donna in 1960, public questions. which forced thousands on The lecture be g an by Long Island to evacuate, but Hanson debunking myths one need not look too far about the history of topointo the past to feel the graphical features believed adverse results of major by both early scientists and stor ms and stor m-related laypeople alike. The biggest flooding. myth was that geographical The adverse effects of clifeatures were molded by Karl mate change are there for God 6,000 years ago when all to see, according to enviGrossman the Earth supposedly came ronmental jour nalist and into existence. Ground- Environmental author Karl Grossman who breaking work done by U.S. journalist and was an audience member in geographer and Harvard author t h e l e c t u re. “ C l i m at e professor, William Morris change [and] global warmDavis, in 1889 showed that ing [are] very real, very erosion by streams could form valleys pressing [issues] and we on Long up to any size, proving that nature, not Island, this island in the ocean, are divine intervention, was at play. threatened and must demand action,” Valley Stream was originally named he said. by Robert Pagan based on the sloping A recent report, published by scien“U” shape appearance of the area. In tists from several government agencies 1843, the U.S. Post Office for mally project sea levels to rise 10 to 12 inches accepted the name of Valley Stream, by 2050: he same rise was seen in the which was deemed a dry valley, mean- last 100 years. There are an estimated
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a snapshot of the Zoom Valley Stream Historical Society lecture “The Geology of Valley Stream’’ that took place on February 16. 280 properties in South Valley Stream that have a greater than 26 percent chance of being severely affected by flooding over the next 30 years. There are several ways to help our coastlines, “but there are limits,” Grossman said. Instead of “hard structures” such as groins, jetties, and seawalls, wetlands need to be restored and preserved. These in turn will provide, to a degree, resilience to coastal flooding. However, “it is expected that people living in especially vulnerable coastal areas will need to relocate in the future,” according to Grossman.
Join us at the next lecture: The next Valley Stream Historical Society lecture will be about the 19th-century illustrators in the United States and taught by author and art historian Dr. Dennis Raverty. Check out the Valley Stream Historical Society website as updates come in on the event.
Todd Kaminsky will not run again State Senator is second Democrat in two days to pass on re-election By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a veteran South Shore Democrat, announced on Feb. 16 that he will not seek re-election this fall. Kaminsky is the second Democrat to announce plans not to run again in two days. On Feb. 15, U.S. Congresswoman Kathleen Rice said she will not seek reelection. “After much thought and consideration, I have decided that I will not run for re-election, or for any office this fall,” Kaminsky said in an email to the media. “It has been an honor to represent the communities of the South Shore for the past seven years, but I believe that it is the best thing for my family to pursue a new path.” In a telephone interview shortly after his announcement, Kaminsky said his defeat in the November district
attorney election did not play any part ney, in a contest against Republican Ann Donnelly. Donnelly in his decision not to seek focused her campaign on re-election. t h e c o n t r ove r s i a l b a i l “You have to make decireform law. Kaminsky was sions going forward,” left scrambling to explain Kaminsky said. “After 18 his position. years to public service, Kaminsky was a federal seven in the State Legislap ro s e c u t o r at t h e U. S . ture, I am looking to priAttorney’s Office for the vate service.” Easter n District of New Kaminsky, who has an York. He took on cases office in Rockville Centre, against former State Sendid not say what specific ate Majority Leader Pedro plans he had, but said he Espada, Jr., Assemblyman had “several very interestJimmy Meng and Coning conversations” about gressman Michael his future. Grimm. The cases ended in “I’ll always find a way to convictions. serve Long Beach,” he todd KaminsKy He was elected to the added. State senator State Senate in April 2016. Kaminsky, who has held Kaminsky is chairman public office for 18 years, was soundly defeated this past fall in a of the Senate Environmental Conservarace for Nassau County district attor- tion Committee, earning a reputation
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as a conservationist. He led the fight to regulate carcinogenic contaminants in Long Island’s water supply and passed legislation banning products containing these toxic substances. He secured a multi-billion dollar investment in clean water infrastructure and received a perfect score from the New York League of Conservation Voters for his collaborative efforts “with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to work on behalf of Long Islanders.” He also successfully passed legislation to ban toxic toys and mercury flooring in schools. Additionally, he fought to improve Long Island’s commuter rail system, securing billions in the state budget for improved LIRR service, and passed legislation mandating am audit of the MTA. Kaminsky is a Long Beach native and a regular at local community, civic and religious organization meetings.
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ROBERT W. CARBONARO’S Biographical Quilt.
District 13 delves deep into history in honor of BHM By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com
Students in the Valley Stream Union Free District Thirteen celebrated Black History Month by engaging in discussions and learning activities about the lives of Black men and women who made vital contributions to the United States. Willow Road Elementary students researched notable Black figures and were tasked with selecting one whom they were personally connected to or inspired by. They conducted research to learn about that person’s early life and contributions. Students from James A. Dever School took part in a letter-writing contest to honor important people of Black History ______________
hosted by the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library. Students used their digital library, which included information highlighting Black people and their accomplishments, to read biographies during library time. Students also read books and created Google slide presentations featuring their explored biographies. Wheeler Avenue Elementary School read “Henry’s Freedom Box” by Ellen Levine and created a “Henry Brown Inspires Us” bulletin board. Each morning, teachers picked an inspirational Black American for their class to research for that day. Meanwhile, students at Howell Road Elementary watched short video biographies on African Americans who’ve made an indelible mark in America.
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In celebration of Black History Month, Valley Stream District 24 students took part in classroom activities to understand and recognize the accomplishments of prominent black figures both past and present. In Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School, students learned about Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel into space when she served as a NASA mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992. Students worked together to design their own rockets in different ways by using air propul-
sion technology and then competed to see whose rocket could achieve the greatest distance and speed. At the Robert W. Carbonaro Elementary School, students created a collaborative biographical quilt highlighting incredible Black figures who were leaders in their respective fields ranging from education, science, and government to arts and sports. They shared aloud information about their chosen person’s life and accomplishment. In William L. Buck, students kicked off Black History Month by co-hosting the morning announcements to highlight Unsung Heroes: Black changemakers who left a lasting contribution on the country.
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There won’t be apartments coming to single-family home communities. At least not this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal intended to allow single-family homeowners to more easily rent out rooms and basements from her state budget, putting an end — at least for now — the controversial proposal that met with considerable opposition from local leaders. Those same leaders gathered outside an East Meadow home last Friday to celebrate the governor’s decision. Raheel Ahmad, who lives on the same street, told reporters he’s grateful housing on Long Island — where he relocated his family from Brooklyn six years ago — will stay the same. “It feels amazing,” Ahmad said. “This is why I moved here. I’m thankful for the elected officials who raised up for the residents and got a victory for us.” Hochul’s proposal would have allowed for the creation of “accessory dwelling units” — basements, attics, garages and the like which could be renovated and turned into a separate apartment unit. Hochul included ADUs as part of a broader $25 billion, five-year plan that was part of an effort to preserve up to 100,000 affordable homes across the state. “In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said at the time. “These bold steps are a major step forward in transforming our housing market, protecting affordability, and increasing the housing supply.” Hochul wanted to require municipalities to allow at least one ADU on owneroccupied residentially zoned lots, leaving details like size requirements and safety standards to individual local governments. It also would have created an amnesty program in New York City to allow for existing ADUs — where such a practice already is prominent — to be made legal. Yet, Hochul’s plan has been widely criticized, especially locally, where officials claimed it would put a strain on Long
Island resources — and be an end to suburbia. Thousands signed online petitions against the proposal, according to Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin. “The biggest investment in someone’s life is buying a house in the suburbs,” he said. “The governor’s attempt by throwing this in the budget to eliminate single housing is wrong.” Hochul’s plan would have removed “home rule,” Clavin added, meaning local governments could not determine zoning based on the character of the community and the wishes of those who live and work around it. But it’s not that ADUs don’t already exist in the Town of Hempstead, Clavin said. Zoning provisions are already in place intended to provide accessory apartments for senior citizens, and for parents looking to provide their adult children some independence, while still keeping them close to home. County legislator Tom McKevitt is the one who says he found the ADU proposal buried deep inside the 5,000-page budget. The opposition organized on Long Island is something he described as a great example of people at all levels of government coming together to preserve their quality of life. “We’re putting forth the word to the governor and to state representatives, ‘Do not try this again,’” McKevitt said. “’Do not put it in there. We’re going to be watching and protecting our communities.’” Although the governor has the state constitutional power to add policy to the budget process without much legislative oversight, Hochul’s attempt to add ADUs to the state through that process says all Town Councilman Chris Carini needs to know about the strength of the proposal. “This bill could not pass on its merits as a standalone bill and was hidden in the budget to force its passage,” Carini said, in a statement. “This was the same tactic used to pass bail reform. I was proud to join with other local officials to expose this smash and grab of our local zoning.” Brendan Carpenter contributed to this article.
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Christmas Tree Mulch Pick-Up The Village of Valley Stream has Recycled Discarded Christmas Trees and it offering free mulch for pickup to village residence. Pickup is at three locations: Firemen’s Field Parking Lot, Barrett Park Front Entrance Cedar St. Between Boden Ave., and Sayre PI. A map of these locations is on the village website. For more information call (516) 825-8494.
Classical Music Recital The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will host a Classical Music Recital at 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This concert will honor Women’s History Month, featuring pianist and composer Leonard Lehrman, violinist Daniel Hyman, and soprano Helene Williams, with special guest Perri Sussman, in music of Clarke, Fox, Laitman, Lann, Mandelbaum, McLean, Schumann, and Spektor. If you would like to attend this recital from 5 pm. to 7 p.m., please contact Library Director Ms. Eng at hwmlcontact@hotmail.com and the Zoom information to attend the program will be sent to you.
Vita Tax Help The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library is offering limited in-person tax assistance with the help of volunteers from the Hofstra Tax Society. Appointments are limited and must be made in person at the library Adult Reference Desk so the required documents for the appointment can be given out. The program runs till April 15, 2022 and will be taking place on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.. Masks are required regardless of vaccination status. For questions please call the reference desk at (516) 825-6422.
Thursday, Feb. 24 Kahoot! Trivia Family Night Join the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library on Zoom starting at 7 p.m. for Kahoot! Trivia Family Night. You’ll need one device to join the Zoom meeting and another to submit answers for your family. Feel free to share and individuals are welcome to play too! Registration required please follow this link to register https://forms.gle/ Lq6bXit3T5HfBc7x9 If you’d like to join, please send an e-mail to kidsroomvs@ nassaulibrary.org or message the library on Facebook, so that they can share the Zoom information.
Saturday, Feb. 26 Coretta Scott King Award Story Celebration The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are
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Classical Music Recital The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will host a Classical Music Recital from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in honor of Women’s History Month. given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values. This library even will be held in two sessions, one at 11 a.m. and a second at 1 p.m. and will be held in person. Click here to register: https://forms. gle/41sXAgR97Msam78g7
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This Zoom presentation will help families understand how COVID has changed the college admissions landscape and how it affects Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen. The reason is that most colleges went test-optional due to the pandemic and colleges increased their virtual outreach to high school students resulting in a record number of candidates applying. With
Board of Trustees Meeting & Public Hearing The Village of Valley Stream is holding a Board of Trustees Meeting and Public Hearing in the Village Hall Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Board of Education Committee Meeting Valley Stream Central High School District is having a Board of Education meeting starting at 8 p.m. at Memorial Junior High School, Cafeteria B, 320 Fletcher Avenue.
How to Successfully Navigate College Admissions in 2022
record high numbers of applications come record low acceptance rates at many popular colleges and universities. Ron Feuchs and Jackie Tepper, partners at Stand Out For College, LLC,. will discuss the importance of researching and visiting colleges to find schools that can be a good fit for your child, a timeline and other actions steps that can be taken to make this spring productive regarding the college admissions process. They will examine the holistic admissions review process, what admissions officers consider important when they review applicants, and how students can position themselves to develop a compelling narrative to increase their chances for admission. The presentation will take place from 7p.m. to 8 p.m. and will be led by Ron Feuchs and Jackie Tepper, partners at Stand Out For College,
Join the Veterans of Foreign Wars post 1790 meeting, new members welcome,. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. and is held at 65 E Merrick Rd, Valley Stream, NY. There will be no upcoming meetings in July to August.
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The VS Little League baseball and softball are open for registration, check out www.VSLL.org. Be alert! If you think someone is tracking through an Apple AirTag, do not hesitate to call 911. Civil Rights activists from Valley Stream marched with John Lewis in 1965. Did you have a baby in 2021 or 2022? The library is having a baby meet up Feb. 28 at 11. Register online. Deborah Oppenheimer Academy Award-winning film and television producer, grew up in Valley Stream.
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enough to submit to her target colleges, but not high enough for her top-reach schools. She is still waiting to hear from schools in the second category, but has her eyes on two prestigious colleges in the Northeast: Northeastern Honors College, and Binghamton’s Honor College. Monfort credits the resources of the high school for her college application success. “Central High opens the resources to everyone,” she said. “I had the flexibility to take as much AP class as I could and still receive academic support with things I’ve been struggling with,” she said. “Everyone is included, no matter if you come from an under-represented background. And colleges also recognize that … there are a lot of resources open that allow you to go to college and be successful.”
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program, because my schedule was already full of AP courses,” Monfort said. “I reviewed learning videos on Khan Academy and Kaplan on my own time. My counselor gave me a list of resources for me to use and offered me the option to reach out to any teacher specializing in a particular area on the SAT.” Monfort weighed the options of taking an expensive course or studying on her own. “If you need extensive help, it can be extremely costly — around $1,200 per session — to get a great tutoring program,” she said, “but … I was able to do just fine doing self-study, using some free resources. But it was also kind of a relief to have that testoptional policy for when I was applying to the bigger colleges.” Monfort added that her best SAT score was high
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The College Board’s new online-only SAT will hit test centers and schools nationwide in the spring 2024.
continued from front page reduce a little bit of that stress,. A lot of the colleges waived the SAT this year. At this point, it seems to us we’re still going to see that next September for our class of 2023.” Most universities and colleges have, in fact, adopted a test-optional policy, mostly because of coronavirus concerns. In the past two years, the unpredictability of the pandemic has led to exam cancellations and limited testing availability. This, compounded by the usual college application anxieties, according to Ron Rini, a guidance counselor at Central, has made the college search process almost overwhelming. Rini said he believed that waiving the SAT requirement has had its benefits. “In the past,” he said, “kids with a 95-grade average who didn’t test well in the SAT would have been overlooked for colleges that once required the score.” Nevertheless, Rini pointed out that SAT scores remain an important metric for college admissions, as well as scholarships. “If a student has an 85 average but ends up with a 1200 SAT score,” he said, “that score could enhance their application and could even get them some money.” “Typically, you see that students who take the SAT are students applying to some of the more competitive colleges, because that has always been a requirement,” Milani said. “Even without the requirement, we had students still take the SAT. [But] this year we probably had half of the usual test takers we usually do.” “I find that since the higher-achieving kids pack their schedules with so many AP courses, they don’t have time for the [SAT prep classes],” Rini said, and turn instead to online resources available both in and out of school. That was the case with senior Emily Monfort, a Haitian American who will soon be a first-generation college student on the pre-med track. “I didn’t take the SAT prep
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Great eight for V.S. North boys’ track By BRIAN KACHARABA sports@liherald.com
New group of rivals, stiffer competition, same result. Ryan John won the long and triple jumps and Sedgeley Duperval had top three finishes in the 55- and 300-meter dashes as the Valley Stream North boys’ track and field team made its maiden voyage in Nassau Class B a successful one by claiming an eighth straight county title on Feb. 9. Senior Daniel Ellis won the 55-meter hurdles and finished third in the high jump to help the Spartans collect 110 points, 32 more than Calhoun. North had won the last seven Conference C titles before its latest triumph. “Any time you go up, you’re going to have a lot more competition,” VSN coach Mike Frazer said. “We had that streak going, but we handled what we had coming off the Covid year. We did a good job covering as many events as we could [and] we had a bunch of guys that knew exactly what they were going to do.” The girls finished third with 77.5 points thanks to senior Ariana Paul, who won the long and triple jumps while placing second in the 55-meter dash. Junior Gabriela Mensah helped the 4x200 relay team finish third in addition to her fourth place showing in the long jump, senior Micaela Creo (pole vault) and sophomore Nattaly Lindo (shot put) were runners-up, and sophomore Moanna Thelusca recorded a personal-record throw in the shot put while finishing fourth.
“We’re a season or two away from the girls coming around,” Frazer said. “We’ve got really great underclassmen in a lot of different events, and I think it’s going to take a little bit of cycle time to get through.” John reached 21 feet in three of his six attempts in the long jump, including 21 feet, 6.5 inches on his fifth and sixth tries to clinch the title. His best jump of 46-9 in the triple jump was over four feet longer than the nearest competitor and he co-lead the high jump before Great Neck North’s Adam Namdar cleared 6-4 to edge him out. “He’s just a well-rounded jumper,” Frazer said. “What hurt him was when you do all three jumps, it all happens at the same exact time. We were really limited on the number of meets that we went to this year, so he didn’t get a lot of that practice running from event to event and I think that caught up with him.” John also won both events at the state qualifier on Feb. 16, including a season-best 47-7 in the triple jump. He was also a member of the victorious 4x400 relay team with Duperval, Guyalden Chery and Jonathon Xavier. Paul will also be at Staten Island in two weeks after winning the triple jump and finishing second in the long jump. “She’s just a leader in the jumps in Nassau County,” Frazer said. “[She’s] steady, consistent.” Duperval, a sophomore, was second in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.83 seconds, three-hundredths ahead of the third-place finisher and ran a season-best time of 37.42 in the 300-meter dash to finish third.
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Phillips announces audit of tax reassessment By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin an audit of the Department of Assessment on Feb. 15. Joined by County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who campaigned on transparency and change for the reassessment, Phillips reiterated her own promise to independently investigate the reassessment process and how to improve it. The audit will be Phillips’ first as comptroller and will focus on better understanding the re-assessment done under former County Executive Laura Curran in order to make changes going forward. Phillips said that the first task will be to audit the 2021 tax roll to see the methodology and process that was done for the mass appraisal. “When you go in and do an audit, you have to keep an open mind,” Phillips said. “Depending on the information that you find, the audit could evolve.” Phillips said the audit will seek to discover whether exemptions were applied correctly and how the five-year phase in may have affected the tax roll. In March 2020, the Legislature passed the Reassessment Phase-In Act with a fiveyear phase in for changes to a homeowner’s assessed value from their 2019-20 market value to the 2020-21 roll. An exemption base was then to be determined by taking the increase and multiplying it by .1 percent. In the first year of the reassessment,
Nassau CouNTy CompTroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin her independent audit of the tax reassessment.
CouNTy exeCuTive BruCe Blakeman, center, promised to keep his office and the Legislature out of the audit process.
80 percent of the exemption base was to be subtracted from a homeowner’s total assessment. Each year the percentage was to drop by 20 percent until the new values were fully implemented in 2024-25. Blakeman said that he has found identical properties in places like Massapequa, where one home was assessed at 40 percent more than another. “My predecessor engaged in a reassessment that wasn’t transparent and wasn’t done in a way that was fair to all the residents of Nassau County,” he said. “And because it wasn’t transparent, we still don’t know everything that went wrong.” Blakeman said that the information that comes from Phillips’ reports will be
relied upon heavily for a decision-making process. He also said that the county executive’s office and the Legislature will have no input, which will enable Phillips to have an independent review. Legislator Steve Rhoads, the chair of the new legislative committee for assessments, was also in attendance with vice chair Legislator John Ferretti. “What we wanted as a legislative majority was a process that was fair, that was accurate, and that was transparent,” Rhoads said. “Unfortunately, what we received over the course of the last four years was anything but.” Rhoads decried a lack of transparency during Curran’s administration, which
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saw many homeowners sue to find out how the algorithm used by the Department of Assessment calculated their home’s value. Phillips cautioned that this audit would take time, as the audit of the assessment review commission was published in December 2021 after three and a half years. She said she plans to have her department publish a report after they complete their review of the 2021 tax roll but could not provide a timetable. “I’m committed to transparency,” Phillips said. “I have my slogan that I am the independent protector of our taxpayers and I promise the people of Nassau County that I will live up to that.”
Everyone has a story lives. “What are you talking about,” is the typical response I get! “Well,” I respond, “imagine a life without conflict. What kind of story would that be?” “She woke up to the sun shining. It was a lovely day. Everything worked out just right. No troubles at all. At day’s end, she lay her head on the pillow and fell into a tranquil sleep.” “He arose to a beautiful day with nothing challenging to do. A day, like all other days, to take it easy and do nothing that creates any angst.” Good for a fairy tale, perhaps. Not good for real life. Even if a life like this inda could exist, wouldn’t a person sooner or later get bored, feeling like Brittany, who wonders why she’s unhappy when she has everything one could want in life? Yes, everyone has a story! Except maybe for meddlers whose own lives are so dull, they sink their teeth, energy, and admonitions into other people’s stories. Feel sorry for these folks and be grateful
that your life generates stories that empower you to master challenges and conflicts. That’s how we grow! We don’t grow minding other people’s business. Even if the story unfolding in your life is something you wouldn’t wish upon yourself, pay attention to it. It’s yours. You will be challenged to address dayto-day tensions, fears, and conflicts without collapsing or losing faith in yourself. Remember, you’re growing, lear ning, developing. You’re becoming stronger and wiser as you confront your struggles, not avoid them. Now let’s take another look at Roger’s story. Not only did he need to deal with losing his job, he also apadin had to deal with feelings of vulnerability, helplessness, confusion, depression, anger, resentment, rejection. He admitted that he had to work hard not to freeze up or shut down or close out the world around him. He knew he must hold on to the belief that “I’ll be able to handle this. Maybe not right away. Maybe not with grace. Maybe not
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I listen intently to many stories, helping people of all ages and walks of life as they struggle with challenging issues in their lives. Roger has been laid off from his company after being a loyal worker for nineteen years. He’s highly anxious about how and when he’ll obtain another position. Emily is feeling bored and restless. Her kids are almost grown and she’s looking for something interesting to do but has no idea what that could be. Jacob is angry and resentful. He knows he has to confront his wife about what’s been bothering him, yet he keeps putting it off, fearing her reaction. Mike desperately wants to overcome his shyness, which makes it difficult for him to make friends or ask anyone out on a date. Ashley is a psychologist who wants to start her own business but hasn’t mustered up the courage to take the leap. Each of these individuals is experiencing discomfort and anxiety. I work with them to find ways to lower the intensity of these feelings. To their surprise, I often suggest that they might feel thankful for the conflict in their
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Monique Fitzgerald, a climate justice organizer, spoke before the rallying crowd of climate activists.
Calling for $15 billion in ‘climate justice’ funding but we need to back it up with dollars and cents.” efforts across New York, she said. In fact, the CLCPA still lacks the fundThe proposed $15 billion would be broing it needs to meet its statutory mandates ken down into four key areas of investment, according to Monique Fitzgerald, a for decarbonization. Meanwhile, the New climate justice organizer at the Long York State Energy Research and Development Authority estimates that a miniIsland Progressive Coalition. mum investment of $10 billion annually, ■ $4.8 billion would go to climate jobs and with increases every year, is needed to infrastructure funds, including expanding reduce communities’ climate risk. Lawoffshore wind, upgrading pubmakers have still not supportlic housing energy and grid ed climate action by using stability, and creating cleanfunds from the state budget, energy jobs. something Fitzgerald and a coalition of activists are try■ $4.6 billion would go to a ing to change. Community Just Transition “We scheduled about 70 Fund, including funds for lobbying visits across the local climate adaptation and state as a coalition, to speak to resiliency projects, particularour legislators to make sure ly in disadvantaged communithey understand the signifities. cance and gravity of this situ■ $1 billion would go to a ation and the need for these Worker & Community Assur$15 billion,” Fitzgerald said. Monique ance Fund to support fossil“We are calling for Assembly fuel-dependent workers and Fitzgerald Speaker Carl Heastie and Senhelp them transition to the Climate justice ate Majority Leader Andrea green economy. Stewart-Cousins to ensure organizer that they put this forward in ■ $4.6 billion would go to a their proposed one-house budHousehold Climate Fund, gets. Talks are ongoing … but we need helping low- to moderate-income New more than just talk, we need action.” Yorkers lower their energy costs. Fitzgerald was unfazed when considerHochul, now the governor, has pledged ing the amount of mobilization needed for $4 billion in “environmental remediation the state to hit its clean-energy target. “It’s a total reimagining or transformaand resiliency” through the Green Jobs Clean Air & Water Environmental Bond tion of how we power our society, but the Act, a billion-dollar increase from last intention behind this is to save lives,” she year’s bond act. But Fitzgerald said that said. “If we don’t bring down greenhouse investment “falls far short of what is emissions, we don’t have any guarantee of needed” to move New York state on a tra- clean air or clean water or a guarantee of jectory toward achieving its goal of zero- life and preservation of this earth.” Lowemission electricity by 2040 and a reduc- income and disadvantaged communities tion of at least 85 percent below 1990-level that suffer more from exposure to toxins, greenhouse has emissions by 2050. air pollution and lack of green space will Those goals were spelled out with the continue to bear the brunt of environmenpassage of the Climate Leadership and tal injustice, Fitzgerald added. Community Protection Act of 2019. “We “And if we fail to get the money [to passed landmark legislation with the fund climate action] this year,” she said, CLCPA,” said Solages. “That was great, “it’s just a higher price tag next year.” continued from front page
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District 13 will launch new and improved website By Karina Kovac kkovac@liherald.com
Valley Stream Union Free School District 13 is set to launch a redesigned, more user-friendly district website on March 1. The district has not updated its website since October 2016. “The website is our community’s online relationship with our school district,” noted Andrea DiMango, the district’s director of technology. The driving focus of the redesign, according to DiMango, is to make online information more easily available to families and community members, particularly putting news and announcements at the forefront. “As communication becomes increasingly digital and web-based, it is incumbent on us to ensure our website provides the information our community needs in a format that is easily navigable and
makes that information easily accessible,” she said. Now was the time to make changes, DiMango argued, because “as time moves on, for mats advance, and websites designed years ago can look dated. We wanted to give the site a clean, fresh look and remove repetitive data for a more streamlined experience.” “The process allowed us to expand upon our regular review of [Americans with Disabilities Act] (ADA) compliance issues and make important changes in style and appearance, improving the user experience for everyone,” DiMango said. “The district’s website is an integral part of our overall communication efforts with the Valley Stream community,” superintendent Dr. Judith LaRocca said. “With this new design, critical information will be more readily available, it will provide easier navigation and offer more graphic content.”
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 3/2/22 at 9:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 178/22. NR VALLEY STREAM - Edward Bajon, Renewal of grant to maintain 2-family dwelling., W/s DeWitt St., 90’ N/o Oliver Ave., a/k/a 41 DeWitt St. N.C.P.C. Local Determination.
THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 1368/22. - 1373/22. NR VALLEY STREAM Rosemarie Meyer, Inc. d/b/a Wooden Shoe Nursery School, Renewal of grants: to maintain enlarged nursery school use in “CA” district; for off-street parking; to use premises for nursery school; maintain variance in off-street parking for nursery school; maintain enlarged nursery school use in “CA” district; Variance in off-street parking., S/W cor. Hunter Ave. & Fenwood Dr., a/k/a 1049 Hunter Ave. ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550. This notice is only for new cases in Valley Stream within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction. There are additional cases in different hamlets,
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as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held February 15, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 12-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 12-2022, amending Section 202-1 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include and repeal “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” at various locations. Dated: February 15, 2022 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129725
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James a. dever students show off their purple heart wall. howell road sTUdenTs wear purple for P.S. I Love You Day.
Students pour their hearts out on P.S. I Love You Day By Karina Kovac kkovac@liherald.com
Valley Stream district 13 joined dozens of other schools across Long Island to take part in P.S. I Love You Day on February 11. Created in honor of Brooke DiPalma’s late father, a retired NYPD officer who took his own life when she was 14 years old, the day aims at raising awareness about bullying and suicide prevention while encouraging acts of kindness. Each district school, in turn, showcased its kindness in its own way. At Howell Road Elementary School, teachers read aloud I Am Love: A Book of Compassion by Susan Verde to their classes. Afterward, students had a heart-toheart chat about the meaning of love and what love looks like to them. On a small purple heart, students penned motivational quotes and sentences about selflove and love for others. Under a bold sign titled: ‘P.S. I Love You,’ they then covered the school walls with their purple hearts. In James A. Dever, students wrote positive affirmations and kind notes to each other. They put up post-it notes of encouraging words on their giant purple heart
wall for all to see. Students learned that it is healthy to talk about their emotions and how encouraging others to speak up if they need help can make a big difference. Classes also engaged in activities such as ‘Fill Up My Cup with Kindness’ where students crafted a paper mug and glued their paper hearts with kind words on them. Purple hearts were distributed to Willow Road Elementary School’s students and staff to write positive messages of friendship and kindness. The purple hearts were filled with compliments, quotes, and pictures that were then used to decorate the school building’s main hallway. Each of the classes took a field trip to the hallway to hang their hearts together. “It was truly heartwarming to see our school buildings covered in purple hearts for P.S. I Love You Day. This day is another opportunity to remind our staff and students that they are cherished, and they are never alone,” said superintendent Dr. Judith LaRocca. “We want our students to know that their emotional and mental well-being is just as important to us as their academics.”
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A. So you believe everyone is out to get you, including your architect, and you have the right to “pull back” your permit, ignoring the conditions of your house. It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, even though most local governments know that most homes have violations, the governments choose not to prosecute every homeowner, since it would be bad for the business of getting re-elected, so code violations go on without a word until you make the first move, which you did, by coming to the attention of the building officials whose job is public safety. Every day of the week, people ask if we can’t just look the other way. We absolutely can look the other way, but eventually who will believe us for lying or not doing our job? The issues of your home easily come up by simply bringing up satellite images, on-line accessible documents, including tax department records, showing what is in the home and whether the third floor was finished. Your building official doesn’t need the architect or you to figure out the truth about the illegalities in your home. When your architect shows the actual conditions, which he is required to do, including walls removed, walls finished in rooms that the building department has no previous record of, or other changes, he’s only doing his job. Imagine the scrutiny an architect would receive if a building official walked in to check the conditions and discovered that you and the architect had lied. I have stated in this column, many times, the statistic that only five people out of 100 will survive a fire on the third floor. Ninety-five people will die of smoke inhalation or burns. So do the right thing and follow through, whichever way you choose. I’m pulling for you.
© 2022 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.
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merica has had many political dynasties over the past 75 years. I recall the Browns in California and the Landrieu family in Louisiana. There are many others, but none can compare to the Kennedy family and the dominant role it has played in our nation’s history. Sadly, almost all of the well-known Kennedys are gone, with the exception of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his legacy has taken a dark turn from that of the rest of his famous family. The Kennedys jERRy were known as activists who supKREmER ported important causes, from the Special Olympics to health care for all. With his name, the son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, who represented New York, could have gotten involved in dozens of worthwhile efforts that would be a continuation of decades of family good deeds. But instead, RFK Jr. has become the hero of the anti-vac-
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cine movement, which is both puzzling and surprising. He travels around the country, spreading his gospel that vaccinations are a threat to your health. According to The Boston Globe, Kennedy preaches, “the COVID vaccine is dangerous for your children.” He claims it is “criminal malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines.” He has also called the Covid jab “one of the deadliest vaccines ever made.” And his fixation with vaccines isn’t limited to those created for the coronavirus. He argues, without proof, that vaccines in general are linked to autism, food allergies and a host of other medical problems. For many years he asserted that the inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism and other neurological disorders, and according to the Associated Press, he claims that public health officials “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children.” Kennedy is the darling of anti-vax
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groups all over the country, and is welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential, where he rails against the shots with no medical backup for virtually anything he says. He claims he is doing this as a public service, but his anti-vaccine foundation, Children’s Health Defense, recently reported more than $6.8 million on hand. Kennedy states that there is no profit motive for his antvaccine activity. When asked if he was being paid for his efforts, Kennedy told Fox’s Tucker Carlson, “I am getting unpaid for this.” But records show that in 2019, he earned $255,000 from the foundation. Kennedy has used social media to spread his opinions, and has spent big dollars to back them up. His nonprofit is one of two buyers accounting for 54 percent of anti-vaccine content on Facebook. He has a large following on Facebook and Twitter, but his Instagram account was removed last year for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about Covid vaccines.” To add to the strangeness of Kenne-
he son of a legendary New York senator busily spreads misinformation.
dy’s crusade, his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci” promotes unproven Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites in animals, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and he claims that the current vaccines have never been safety tested, even though the Food and Drug Administration requires three phases of testing that involves thousands of people before a childhood vaccine is approved. There is no shortage of stories about concerned parents who believe that all vaccinations are suspicious or dangerous. I do not challenge their beliefs. But considering the many positive paths that so many Kennedy family members have taken over the years, the one that RFK Jr. has taken is a disturbing one. He is a true believer in his misguided cause, but he bears no resemblance to his legendary late father. 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.
1950s sci-fi horror story still burns bright
ow did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury, who died at age 91 in 2012, know that the little screens would lead to big screens that would eventually possess children’s minds in a way books could not? How did he foresee that people would stuff their heads with the cerebral equivalent of cotRANDI ton candy and KREISS abandon intellectual pursuits for lives devoted to video games? Bradbury was a visionary. He prophesied that many new inventions had the potential to threaten civilized life. What he saw as science “fiction” has come to pass. We are living amid modern advances that have ironically set us back as a people in pursuit of enlightenment and knowledge. We live in an era when the great works of literature are reduced to and diluted into mini-works and summaries, Cliff Notes and comic books.
I urge you and your teenagers to read “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s 1951 novel that warned the world that it was moving inexorably toward a time of more technology and less humanity, more autocracy, and less freedom of thought. He described a time when fringe groups of fanatics would dominate by using invasive surveillance and harsh laws to squelch any resistance. He never mentioned QAnon, but he knew it was coming. Reading “Fahrenheit 451” today, in the time of alternate facts, false flags, big lies and other threats to our democracy, has left me shaken. Bradbury set the book in a city of the future, but he was writing during the time of the McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, emerging nuclear weapons and increased government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. He wrote a what-if tale of how a civilized people could lose their freedom by following false gods that pander to their darkest impulses. Seventy years ago he was writing about now, about selfserving political operatives and fake news and pseudo-patriots who tear down the scaffolding that holds up American democracy. “Fahrenheit 451” is a short novel
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about a future in which firefighters are tasked with burning books and the houses of people who hide them. When a woman stands defiantly in her doorway with her book in hand, they burn her, too. Books are banned because they “confuse” people with their ideas. Much of the population is beaten into acceptance of the new normal, with information and entertainment blaring at them from wall screens all day. No one walks outside. Everyone is suspect. It is a thriller about one man, Montag, a fireman who experiences a sudden awakening to the horrors he has perpetrated. His wife, a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, is addicted to the virtual world projected from the screens in her house. She and her friends are inured to authentic feeling, even within themselves. Montag goes on the run, with firemen in pursuit. Eventually he joins up with a rogue band of men — former professors and thinkers, now wanderers in the wilderness, each with large sections of books memorized for posterity. Bradbury’s hero wears a “sea clam shell” in his ear that presages the AirPod. Montag stops on the street to get money from a machine that didn’t exist
eventy years ago, Ray Bradbury was presciently writing about now.
in the 1950s. Overhead, supersonic aircraft drop bombs on cities. They are unmanned drones, much like the ones our government is using to assassinate terrorists thousands of miles away. He explores the risks of free thinking in a time of crushing conformity. In the world of “Fahrenheit 451” there is no privacy, no awareness of nature, simply the elevation of technology and the diminution of humanity. Why does Montag go rogue? What makes him realize that freedom of thought is worth dying for? His last job with the firemen is to burn down the house of a woman who is hiding books. When they arrive with their trucks and flame-throwers, she is standing in the doorway with a book in her hand, and she strikes the first match, killing herself as the house explodes around her. People will die for their books, Montag realizes. It’s something to think about when we read headlines every day about book bans and censorship of treasured literature. It’s something to act on when we see children who watch but don’t read in a time in America when only 25 percent of the population reads a book a year. Bradbury knew we need books to tell the story of ourselves and pass that story on to future generations. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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n chess, you can’t control the game unless you control the board. The same can be said about politics, and since the early days of the republic, state legislatures have had virtually complete control of the congressional and legislative redistricting process. After each census, states are required to draw new district boundary lines — a controversial process that far too often is steeped in partisanship. In fact, New York state lawmakers just approved those lines in recent weeks, making a number of changes, felt primarily when it comes to who represents us where in Congress. Nothing about redistricting is popular — especially when population declines force the Legislature to remove congressional districts completely, as New York had to do this year. That’s why then Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2011 what would eventually become a state constitutional amendment removing redistricting powers from the Legislature — which drew district boundaries for itself — and putting it in the hands of an “independent” commission.
We use “independent” ironically because it really wasn’t. The majority and minority parties in the Legislature each appointed four members, and those eight members chose two more people who were not registered members of either party. This commission held hearings and then drew new district late last year. What its members couldn’t do was come to a consensus. Without what would essentially be a bipartisan agreement, the entire process was thrown back to the very Legislature that held the power to draw the maps in the first place. Even if the commission had somehow found a way to agree on a final set of maps, it still required approval from the Legislature. Even in that scenario, the Legislature would only need to reject the maps drawn by the commission twice before it regained its original power to draw the maps its members chose. It’s like buying your wife a bowling ball for your anniversary, with the finger holes drilled to fit your own grip. Did anyone really believe that an inde-
pendent commission could craft district maps on its own that the State Legislature would actually approve? The odds were stacked against the panel from the very start, creating not an independent commission, but simply the appearance of one, while the process of drawing maps remained the same as it has been for the past couple of centuries. Gerrymandering is an age-old problem, and it’s hard not to look at some of the new districts — like the stretching of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi’s congressional district from northern Nassau County straight up past Little Neck Bay, and west to the East River and into Westchester County — and not see highly creative boundary drawing. Yet we can’t seem to get out of our own way to prevent it. A slight shift of a district line here, and a tuck there, can be the difference between true representation and an electorate skewed to support an elite few. Representation is the very essence of democracy. But if we’re not drawing district lines fairly, are we truly represented?
letters Will train platform barriers work? To the Editor: In his letter “Rail Lines Need Barriers” (Feb. 10-16), Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan pointed out a need for barriers on various railroad platforms. What he did not address, however, is how barriers would affect traffic on those platforms. First, if barriers are installed, there will be significantly less space on the platforms, which means that fewer people will have access to them. Second, while the technology exists to make the trains stop at the exact location so that their doors will open at the openings of the platfor m doors, that will require that all trains be the same length, no matter what the requirements for travel may be. Should the two sets of doors not match up exactly (within an allowable tolerance of about 18 inches) the passengers may not be able to detrain. Similarly, if the platform doors open and the train doors don’t, there will also be a lot of unhappy people.
There is no easy solution to this problem. Many people want immediate solutions, but in the real world, that doesn’t happen. And when action is taken, there are always unanticipated side effects that in some cases are worse than the original problem. LAWRENCE LEvY Rockville Centre
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hile the state’s election districts were recently redrawn — gerrymandered — by a progressive-Democratic majority in the State Legislature for the purpose of favoring their party, gerrymandering is not a particularly new political weapon. Those on both sides of the aisle have used their power to redraw district lines, depending on who holds the majority. The practice goes back to the 1800s, but this year’s redrawing by is unprecedented, ronaLd j. and comes at a when the rosenberg time self-proclaimed progressives’ larger political agenda ranges from defunding police to “bail reform” to demonizing the successful entrepreneur, i.e., capitalism. As U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi pursues his gubernatorial primary quest, his former 3rd Congressional District is now unrecognizable. The progressive gerrymander has recreated his congressional borders into what they now humorously call the Long Island Sound District. It now stretches from Smithtown in Suffolk County, along the lightly populated North Shore, into the densely populated Bronx, and ends in Democratic West-
chester County. While several Long Island Democrats have announced their intentions to run for Suozzi’s vacated seat, they will face a growing number of New York City-based progressives who see their population density and massive Democratic enrollment in the city and its environs as bulletproof at the ballot box. The numbers speak for themselves. The Village of Northport, part of the new 3rd C.D., has some 8,000 residents. The City of New Rochelle, in Westchester, which is also part of the new district, has some 80,000. Now consider who is lining up to run in the 3rd District so far: Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated moderate Democrat Jeff Klein a number of years ago. In a December tweet, Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez had nothing but praise for Biaggi. Also in the running is Melanie D’Arrigo, a self-described progressive who has been endorsed by former New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito, a city pol who once co-chaired the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. So these are the extremist candidates who stand a very good chance of assuming control of a new district designed to remove the potential of not just a Republican winning the seat, but of Long
Letters the Heralds in which he did not challenge the reader to think, to question, and to join him in creating a better community. Over the decades, his professionalism saw him literally on the front lines, reporting on everything from local events to major breaking news, and eventually overseeing the coverage that appears weekly in our local paper. Brinton has reported on not one, not two, but three once-in-a-lifetime events: the Sept. 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy and the Covid19 pandemic. He further demonstrated his professionalism and class when the Merrick Life transitioned to the Merrick Herald, paying tribute to the decades of community journalism by the Laursen family. Scott was not only our source of news. He was a neighbor and a parent in our community. You may have waved hello to him as he jogged through the neighborhood. You may have stood behind him on the bagel line. But you always knew his byline stood for probing and honest journalism. This is one reader who will miss our local journalism, celebrity and who thanks him for his almost three decades of service to the Merrick-Bellmore community. KYLE STROBER Merrick
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Islanders having any representation focused on Long Island issues. The implications have not gone unnoticed. Great Neck-based Democratic primary hopeful Robert Zimmerman is now warning Democrats and Republicans that he is the political firewall that could prevent a progressive from representing the new district. As he raises money for the primary, Zimmerman is reciting a list of moderate, centrist Long Island Democrats who now support his effort. His strategy is that of a seasoned professional, leveraging his public relations experience to focus his message, which is, essentially, “I am your last best hope to confront this city theft.” Of course, that presumes the Republican Party won’t field a candidate who can confront and defeat whoever the Democrats nominate in this now unrecognizable district. But the reality is that the tortured borders of the 3rd are a calculated move by New York City-based progressives to dismantle Nassau and Suffolk counties’ ability to project political cohesion and regional advocacy. If successful, they will have effectively eliminated any chance that the Long Island congressional delegation will be a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Consider what that means. Will a
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Bronx progressive/Socialist Democrat really work with a Long Island Republican to redress the loss of South Shore beachfront in a nor’easter? Will a Bronx progressive care about environmental damage along Smithtown’s coastline? Will a Bronx Progressive fight for infrastructure money for the Long Island Expressway? Because, after all, shouldn’t we all be punished for not using electric vehicles? And by the way, many constituents of this new Long Island Sound District have median incomes that progressives will find worthy of their most pungent demagoguery, because capitalism is an anathema to their political ideology. This ambush of Long Island by these progressives reveals a smug disdain for suburbia, its values, its people and its needs. To counter it, Long Island voters must recognize that we have been robbed of our voice in Congress. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. As a bicounty region, we have been mugged by those who cynically intend to walk off with one of our congressional seats. The answer is to recognize the ploy and respond appropriately on Election Day 2022. 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.
VALLEY STREAM HERALD — February 24, 2022
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