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Suozzi, Kaplan, Sillitti declare after tabulating mail-in ballots BY ROSE WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ Riding a tide of absentee ballots, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) has won another term in the 3rd Congressional District over Republican challenger George Santos of Queens. In other races, state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) claimed victory in the 7th Senate District and Gina Sillitti, a Democrat from Manorhaven, declared victory in the 16th Assembly District. Democratic President-elect Joe Biden built a lead over Republican President Donald Trump in Nassau County as tens of thousands of absentee ballots were counted after initially trailing in the votes cast on Election Day. Nassau Democratic Elections Commissioner James Scheuerman said weeks ago that 142,962 absentee ballots were cast in Nassau County this year during the COV-

ID-19 pandemic, a figure that shattered the previous record of 48,000 in 2016. Mailed ballots began to be counted Nov. 10 under state law. CONGRESSIONAL RACES While vote counts immediately following Election Day placed Santos, a financial professional, ahead of Suozzi by more than 4,000 votes, absentee ballots gave Suozzi a final total of 122,931 votes to Santos’ 96,578 in Nassau County and the borough of Queens. Suﬀolk County has yet to announce its final results, though following Election Day Santos led there by over 3,900 votes. Santos thanked his supporters in a statement issued Tuesday. “Due to the hard work and determination of our grassroots supporters and donors, our campaign defied the odds by coming very close to winning New York’s 3rd Congressional race,” Santos said. “There may be more announcements coming from me in the near future regarding next steps, but for Continued on Page 38

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Veterans and residents in Williston Park gathered at the Village Green for a Veterans Day ceremony.

County planning cash grants to aid restaurants BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced a program Wednesday that will give nearly 300 restaurants grants up to $10,000 due to the coro-

navirus pandemic. Curran said the county’s $2.2 million investment will provide financial assistance to one of the industries hit hardest by the pandemic. As winter months quickly approach, Curran said, the program will help

full-service restaurants combat colder temperatures and any restrictions set forth by the state as cases continue to increase throughout New York and Nassau. Continued on Page 39

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500 cases on North L.I. schools rules Shore in single week not same as city

543 in Mineola most of any North Shore village Closures in near future not likely BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

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More than 6,700 North Shore residents had tested positive for the coronavirus since midMarch as of Wednesday, according to county figures. BY R OB E RT PELAEZ More than 6,700 people across the North Shore of Nassau County had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Wednesday, an increase of nearly 500 from last week, according to the county Department of Health. A total of 54,715 Nassau County residents had tested positive for the virus as of Wednesday, and 2,234 had died. More than 130 Nassau residents remained hospitalized due to the virus, with 26 in intensive care units and 13 on ventilators, according to county figures. The infection figures represent totals since the pandemic began in mid-March, including those who have recovered from the virus. The Great Neck peninsula once again had the highest num-

ber of confirmed virus cases, with more than 1,500 throughout nine villages and several hamlets since mid-March. The villages of Great Neck, Great Neck Plaza and Kings Point accounted for 1,041 of the peninsula’s 1,537 total cases, according to county figures. The Village of Great Neck had 451 cases, Kings Point had 371, Great Neck Plaza had 273, and the Village of Great Neck Estates also reached 100 cases, making it the fourth village in the peninsula to reach triple digits since the pandemic began. Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral encouraged residents to remain safe and recognize that the virus has not gone away. “COVID is still here,” Bral said during a Tuesday night board meeting. “I know many of us have pandemic fatigue

and are tired of wearing masks and social distancing, but I’m really urging everyone to continue your vigilance in this matter.” Last Thursday Bral sent a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo imploring him and other state officials to not shut down schools or restaurants, and attributed recent increases in infections to large gatherings in catering halls and other event venues. “Our schools have taken the utmost strict measures to ensure the safety of their students,” Bral wrote. “Schools in attendance are critical to mitigating mental health crises, including domestic violence incidents. I cannot underscore how vital this is.” The New Hyde Park area accounted for 1,429 of the North Shore’s cases, with North New Hyde Park having the second most confirmed positives, 541, Continued on Page 49

While many in New York City’s school system have been closely monitoring the rate of coronavirus infection, with schools required to close if it reaches 3 percent, that may not mean Long Island school districts should brace for the same mandate. Though temporary closures for cleaning, disinfecting and contact tracing have taken place in Long Island school districts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said schools may actually be safer for children, and acknowledged the diﬃculties closing them would cause throughout the state. “So we’ve made sure that it was a collective dialogue and what I’m trying to say to the parents and to the teachers now is, I know we said 3 percent,” Cuomo said Monday. “I know that was the rule. But we did that months ago and we’ve learned more since then and we’re more sophisticated and we have more testing.” Cuomo said if a region hits a 4 percent rate of infection, it is classified as a “red zone” and the state will come in and “close everything down.” But if a school district conducts tests and remains “below a certain number,” it will be permitted to reopen. “I think that makes sense,” Cuomo said. “But the parents and the teachers have to come because they are much more reluctant than you are suggesting. It’s not that everybody gets it. You have to educate them.” As of Monday, Nassau County’s rate of infection was 3.4 percent, according to County Executive Laura Curran. As of Tuesday, 144 students in public school districts across the North Shore had tested positive for the coronavirus since the beginning of the school year, according to state Health Department figures. By comparison, the total for the

North Shore a week ago was 108. Public school districts that were analyzed included the Port Washington school district, Roslyn school district, Sewanhaka Central High School District, Mineola school district, East Williston school district, Floral Park-Bellerose school district, Manhasset school district, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park school district, Herricks school district, North Shore school district and the Great Neck school district. The three school districts with the most cases among students are Port Washington with 28, Great Neck with 26, and Sewanhaka with 25. It was the second consecutive week that Port Washington had the most cases among students. The district also had five staff members test positive for the virus since the beginning of the school year. This was tied with Great Neck for the most in the area. Port Washington Superintendent Michael Hynes released a video on his social media platforms in response to the number of coronavirus cases the school district has seen inside and out of the classroom. “As many of us know, there is a significant increase in COVIDpositive cases in our area and that is causing many of us to take notice and wonder why this is happening,” Hynes said. “I believe our students and staff are the safest when they’re within our schools. Over the past several weeks I have implored our school community to make sure our students do not attend large gatherings, to make sure they are masked if they go out, to make sure they are socially distanced, and to not attend sleepovers.” Despite the increase in numbers, Hynes said he is confident that measures that have been taken in the district’s schools have been effective in combating the spread of the virus and lauded students and staff members for their efforts. Continued on Page 39

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Dems outspend GOP on North Shore

Ed Ra lone exception in outraising opponents for Congress, state Senate and Assembly BY R O S E W E L D ON

Sillitti’s GOP opponent, small-business owner Ragini Srivastava of Manhasset Hills, was listed as having raised $15,571.92 and Democratic candidates outraised and spent $3,680.04, and David Franklin of outspent their Republican opponents in all Port Washington, opposing Kaplan, is listbut one legislative race across the North ed as having raised $29,416.45 and spent Shore, according to federal and state data. $21,186.32. In total, candidates for five congressioThe two Republican challengers for Connal and state legislative races on the North gressional races were seen to have raised the Shore raised $2,502,970.48 in donations most among the GOP candidates. Financial and spent $3,334,497.62, according to docprofessional George Santos of Queens, chaluments and data from the Federal Election lenging Suozzi, was listed as having raised Commission and the New York State Board $100,977 and spent $216,699.09, the most of Elections’ campaign financial disclosures. of the Republican candidates examined. The campaign of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi Town of Hempstead Engineering Com(D-Glen Cove) of the 3rd Congressional Dismissioner Douglas Tuman of West Hemptrict raised and spent the most, with a total stead, opposing Rice, is listed as having of $1,326,183.94 raised from donors and raised $51,945.83 and spent $66,532.48. $1,888,037.74 in total disbursements and Among the candidates, Kaplan received expenses. the most donations from law enforcement State Sen. Anna Kaplan’s (D-Great organizations and their associated politiNeck) campaign for re-election in the 7th cal action committees, receiving a total of Senate District raised the second most, with $495,138.84, and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice’s CHART BY ROSE WELDON $12,500 from donors like the Nassau County Police Department’s Superior Oﬃcers (D-Garden City) campaign in the 4th ConAssociation, the Police Benevolent Associagressional District spent the second most at Candidates for legislative races on the North Shore raised a collective tion of NYC PAC, and the New York State $1,025,379.52. Troopers PAC, among others. Her opponent, The Kaplan campaign raised and $2,502,970.48 in donations for the 2020 elections. Franklin, is listed as receiving $100 from spent ($80,075.84) the most of any of the state Legislature races examined, followed ward Ra (R-Garden City) in the 19th Assem- raised and outspent the Democratic candi- one such organization, the Superior Oﬃby the Democratic campaign of Gina Sil- bly District, raising $47,450 and spending date, with the campaign of his opponent, cers Association of the Nassau County Police attorney and retired Army Lt. Col. Gary Port Department’s Public Education Corp. Ra relitti of Manorhaven in the 16th Assembly $15,984.01. Ra’s race was also the only one of the of West Hempstead, being listed as having ceived the second most from such organizaDistrict, which raised $73,062 and spent tions with $5,650. $16,898.58; and that of Assemblyman Ed- five where the Republican candidate outraised $1,535 and spent $34.

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Bail decision reserved on alleged spy NYPD officer from Williston Park seeks release on charges of supplying info to China BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A three-judge appeals panel on Tuesday reserved decision on whether to grant bail to NYPD officer and Williston Park resident Baimadajie Angwang, who is accused of supplying Chinese officials with information on Tibetans living in the United States. Arguments between Angwang’s attorney, John Carman of Garden City, and Eastern District prosecutor Matthew Haggans were centered on whether Judge Eric Komitee made “technical errors” in refusing to grant Angwang bail as he awaits trial and if Angwang hid previous employment with a Chinese businessman when he was questioned by pre-trial authorities, according to Newsday. Carman told Newsday that Angwang is “likely” to remain in federal detention until the start of the trial if he is not granted bail. Carman said he expects the trial to begin in 2022 or 2023, according to Newsday. Efforts to reach Carman or other officials for comment were unavailing. Angwang, 33, pleaded not guilty on Oct. 29 to federal charges that he supplied Chinese officials with information on Tibetans living in the United States.

He was also charged with committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding, according to the Justice Department. Last month he was ordered detained by U.S. Magistrate Roanne Mann in federal court in Brooklyn, according to reports. According to officials, Angwang faces up to 55 years’ imprisonment if found guilty. Court documents showed that Angwang told his official handler from China that he wanted to get promoted by the NYPD so he could bring “glory to China.” Judge Komitee initially ordered Angwang’s release on a $1 million bond before ruling that a hearing would be held to determine the severity of a possible sentence if he is convicted and if deportation would be required, according to reports. Komitee ordered Angwang’s release to be delayed so the prosecution and defense could make arguments regarding the severity of the alleged crimes. FBI Special Agent Steven Deck outlined Angwang’s alleged actions in a criminal complaint that was unsealed earlier in federal court in Brooklyn. Deck said Angwang “maintained a

relationship” with at least two Chinese consulates since approximately 2018, according to court documents. Angwang allegedly contacted one consulate cellphone at least 53 times from 2014 to 2017, according to court documents. One of the consulates, Deck said, was believed to be assigned to a subdivision of China’s United Front Work Department, responsible for “neutralizing sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of the [People’s Republic of China].” Tibet, according to the court documents, is an “autonomous region” in China, historically home to ethnic Tibetans and the spiritual home of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1951, when China occupied Tibet, a Tibetan independence movement for political separation from China has been present throughout the region, according to the documents. Thousands of ethnic Tibetans were believed to have been killed during periods of martial law and repression, according to the documents. Angwang, according to court documents, was assigned to the 111th Precinct in Queens and served as a patrol officer and a member of the precinct’s

crime prevention team. He was also a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve stationed in Fort Dix, New Jersey. Angwang allegedly used his position in the Police Department to provide the Chinese consulates access to senior police officials through invitations to official NYPD events, according to the documents. Deck said neither of the activities fell within the scope of Angwang’s duties and responsibilities for either the NYPD or the Army Reserve. “Had background investigators been aware of the full extent of Angwang’s contact with foreign government officials, Angwang would not have maintained his secret security clearance with the Department of Defense,” the complaint read. Angwang also allegedly lied by denying he had contacts with foreign government officials or consulates on an electronically submitted background investigation form. “As alleged in this federal complaint, Baimadajie Angwang violated every oath he took in this country,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “One to the United States, another to the U.S. Army, and a third to this Police Department.”

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Men stole valuables in From prosecutor Old Westbury: police to Kiwanis prez BY R O S E W E L D ON

Two Queens men were arrested for stealing credit cards and other valuables in Old Westbury and Garden City, according to the Nassau County Police Department. According to detectives, at approximately noon last Tuesday in the parking lot of 270 Wheatley Road in Old Westbury, Kevin Alvarado, 23, of 8303 32nd Ave., Queens, and Jonathan Millan, 19, of 2360 96th St. in Jackson

Heights, “while working in concert, did enter [a] vehicle and removed a driver’s license, car keys and multiple credit cards without permission to do so.” Police said the men then made purchases with the credit cards valued at approximately $1,200. The investigation led detectives to the parking lot of 158 Woodbury Road in Hicksville where the defendants were located and, at 1:30 p.m., “placed under arrest without incident,” according to the police.

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Further investigation determined that the two defendants were also responsible for removing assorted credit cards, personal papers and a watch from the parking lot of 174 Post Road in Old Westbury at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. Police said the proceeds and purchases were valued at approximately $17,000. The two were also determined to be responsible for a July 21 incident where assorted credit cards, cash and an Apple Watch were removed from the parking lot of 315 Stewart Ave. in Garden City. The proceeds were valued at approximately $1,000. The investigation is ongoing, and the county Police Department said that investigators were assisted by the Garden City Police Department and the Old Westbury Police Department. Alvarado and Millan are each charged with seven counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, one count of grand larceny, four counts of identity theft, four counts of criminal possession of stolen property and four counts of petit larceny. They were arraigned in Mineola.

BY R O S E W E L D ON Longtime Nassau County Assistant District Attorney Peter J. Mancuso, who spent the majority of his nearly 40-year career at the district attorney’s oﬃce specializing in financial crimes, will soon be retiring to serve as president of Kiwanis International. A native of the Lower East Side of Manhattan whose family moved to Freeport when he was young, Mancuso earned his B.S. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1970s. Just before graduation, he faced a choice that would aﬀect not only his professional life but also his personal life. “When I was about to graduate from college, I was choosing between two paths,” Mancuso said in a phone interview. “One was to go to business school, which I could have done at the Sloan School at MIT. The other was to go to law school, and I made the choice of law school because I thought I could do more good for more people while at the same time having a good life for myself.” Choosing to attend Cornell

University Law School “turned out to be a good decision,” Mancuso says, because he met his wife, Karen, while attending. “If I don’t go to law school, I don’t meet my wife,” Mancuso said. “We don’t have two children, we don’t have our grandchildren and life. The avalanche of life would roll in a different direction from that decision.” Shortly after his graduation from Cornell and passing the New York bar exam, in 1978 Mancuso attended a series of interviews with the Nassau County district attorney’s office, with the final one taking place with then-District Attorney Denis Dillon on a morning following a massive ice storm, during which Mancuso’s home had lost power. “When I changed into the one suit that I owned to meet the district attorney for the first time, my goosebumps had goosebumps,” Mancuso said. “I was freezing to death while I was changing my clothes, and I was right pleased to be in a nice, warm office being interviewed by the district attorney.” Continued on Page 48

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Ehud Olmert praises Biden in LIU talk

Former Israeli prime minster says he hopes president-elect returns U.S. to deal with Iran BY R O S E W E L D ON Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview hosted by a local college that he hopes President-elect Joe Biden has the “courage” to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and renegotiate “an even better agreement.” He also said that President Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, failed as leaders in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Olmert, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2009, spoke with journalist Rita Cosby over YouTube on Friday as part of the Headliners of Service Virtual Speaker Series at the Brookville-based LIU Post’s Global Service Institute. He began by saying that he thought that Trump, as well as his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, had “invested a lot of time and a lot of energy ... invested a lot of time and a lot of serious eﬀort out of great respect for the two parties involved here in order to try to bring about some kind of agreement, so that is recognized and respected.” “I must say that Donald Trump was a friendly president to the state

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Journalist Rita Crosby interviews former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as part of the Headliners of Service Virtual Speaker Series at LIU Post’s Global Service Institute. of Israel, there is no question about it, we are grateful for him,” Olmert said. “But of course, one must understand that even us, as much as we are obsessed with our own needs and our own diﬃculties and our own challenges, we think that it is very important that the president that will be elected to America will be good for America to start with. “If he will be good for America, and that’s what will be determined by the majority of people voting in America, then he will be good for the world, and then almost inevitably he will be good for Israel.” He said he saw Biden as “a great friend of Israel,” and that he preferred Biden’s attitude on the country to Trump’s.

“[Biden’s] attitude to the state of Israel is not the same as Trump’s,” Olmert said. “Not that he is less friendly to Israel, but he thinks that the only possible solution for the conflict in the Middle East must be based on two states. Which is also what Trump said, but also, no annexation, no unilateral steps, no building of settlements by the state of Israel, and he said it and he spelled it out in the most explicit way, only in the last few weeks before the elections. So here he is entirely diﬀerent from Trump, and to be honest and transparent, I prefer Biden’s attitude because it fits in with what I tried to do.” “I think that Joe Biden’s attitude is the right attitude,” he con-

tinued. “It is an attitude based on friendship and commitment to the security of the state of Israel, I have no doubt about it.” Throughout the discussion, Olmert was critical of his successor, Netanyahu, whom he has in the past compared to Don Corleone in the film “The Godfather.” “I am not on his side, I am against him,” Olmert said. “I think that he has long had to go, and I hope that he will be going soon. I think that he is not the right person at the right time for the right needs of the state of Israel. And I don’t want to go about other issues, but I’m talking about the substance of policies. I think that he is not the right person at the right time.”

He also criticized Netanyahu’s and Trump’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. “[Netanyahu] failed completely in coping, similar to Donald Trump by the way, in coping with COVID-19 and this was a complete failure, a complete inability to manage this in a proper way,” Olmert said. “We lost lots of lives, and over a million people in Israel are unemployed, which is the highest rate of unemployment we ever had in the history of the state of Israel, over 23 percent unemployment. “The national debt grew tremendously, people are rioting and demonstrating on a daily basis in all the parts of the state of Israel, and every weekend hundreds of thousands of Israelis riot because they feel that they were neglected by the government, particularly by Netanyahu, in the most important and sensitive and essential part of their lives.” Olmert, who spent 16 months in prison after being convicted of accepting bribes and obstructing justice during his time as mayor of Jerusalem and Israeli trade minister, predicted earlier this year that Netanyahu would face the same fate after being charged with bribery and fraud last year.

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New AI tool from Northwell aids patients Identifies patients who do not need to be woken overnight, helping them in recovery period BY R O S E W E L D ON

Northwell Health system. “Rest is a critical element to a paA team at Northwell Health’s Fein- tient’s care, and it has been well-docustein Institutes for Medical Research in mented that disrupted sleep is a common Manhasset has developed a deep-learning complaint that could delay discharge and predictive tool to identify which patients do not need to be woken up overnight – allowing them to rest, recover and discharge faster. The study’s results, based on 24.3 million vital sign measurements, were published in the Nov. 13 edition of Nature Partner Journals Digital Medicine. Led by Theodoros Zanos, head of the institute’s Neural and Data Science Lab and an assistant professor at its Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, and in close collaboration with nephrologist Dr. Jamie Hirsch, the team collected and analyzed data from multiple Northwell Health hospitals between 2012 and 2019, which consisted of 2.13 million patient visits. The team then used a vast body of clinical data from the patient visits, with factors including respiratory rate, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, body temperature and patient age, to develop an PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH algorithm that predicts a hospitalized patient’s overnight stability, and if the A team at the Feinstein Institutes for patient could be left uninterrupted over- Medical Research developed a deepnight to sleep. The clinical tool, called “Let Sleep- learning predictive clinical tool to ing Patients Lie,” is currently being rolled identify which patients do not need out through several hospitals across the to be woken up overnight.

recovery,” Zanos said. “Our findings highlight the safety and accuracy of machine learning-based solutions to pave the way for more peaceful and safe sleep in a hospital.” On average, a patient is woken up every four to five hours for vital sign checks. The study revealed that the predictive model allowed patients to be left undisturbed for half of the overnight visits in a hospital. The model’s success was achieved with extremely low risk; having only misclassified less than two out of 10,000 patient-nights. The tool also allows clinical teams to adjust the model’s predictive thresholds to implement a more strict patient assessment. Additionally, to ensure proper care, simple visual inspection of the sleeping patients during typical nurse rounds should suﬃce in detecting these misclassified patients, a procedure that is already part of standard nursing guidelines. The potential for implementing the “Let Sleeping Patients Lie” predictive model goes beyond patient care and has the potential to ease the nightly workload of hospital staﬀ, time management, and may help reduce employee stress and burnout. Nurses spend 20 to 35 percent of their time documenting vital signs, and approximately 10 percent of their shift

collecting them. This clinical tool would enable nurses safely and confidently to forgo half of the overnight vital sign measurements and could reduce the workload by 20 to 25 percent in a single overnight shift, facilitating focus on more acutely ill patients. “Dr. Zanos and his team’s expertise in machine-learning enabled them to invent an eﬀective solution for improving sleep,” said Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes. “Illness and hospitalization impair sleep cycles, and ... artificial intelligence in this domain holds significant promise.” The Neural and Data Science Lab, which Zanos heads, aims to develop algorithms that will power the next generation of bioelectronic medicine devices to enable early diagnosis, assess disease severity and personalize and adapt therapies. Current projects in the lab include decoding immune and metabolic states from vagal signals, closed-loop optimization of bioelectronic therapies, noninvasive bioelectronic analytics, and clinical predictive models and machine learning applied in health care data. Most recently, Zanos published a paper in the Springer Nature journal Bioelectronic Medicine, which reported how AI and machine learning tools could be used when making clinical decisions in treating coronavirus disease.

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Put an end to sham election of judges

enry Ford once explained consumers’ choice of color for a Model T this way: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black.” This is much the way Nassau County voters get to choose judges for the state Supreme Court, County Court, Family Court and District Court. Only in the case of picking judges the decision is essentially made by the leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties – rather than the owner of a car company that was subject to charges of collusion and to anti-trust lawsuits. This year as in past years the two parties along with the Conservative Party cross-endorsed the candidates for all 15 judicial posts up for election. The Independence Party showed its independence, sort of, by nominating four candidates for justice of the Supreme Court. But things did not go well for the challengers. As of election night, the top vote-getter among the Independence Party candidates was Patricia M. Blake. She received 7,718 votes. Her opponent, Erica Prager, received 493,644 – more or less evenly split between the Democratic line with 236,538 votes and the Republican line with 234,763. Prager got an additional 21,759 on the Conservative Party Line. Suffolk County Executive Steve Ballone, a Democrat who has often spoken out against cross-endorsements in Suffolk, was quoted by Newsday as saying it was “extraordinary that we allow this blatantly undemocratic and sham process to continue” in races for judgeships and other local offices in New York. In defending cross-endorsements, Jay Jacobs, Democratic chairman for Nassau and the state,

pointed out that under the rules of the New York State Unified Court System, candidates cannot campaign on political issues, only on factors such as their experience. That makes cross-endorsements valuable to voters trying to make choices in the ballot booth, Jacobs said. “When it’s the judiciary, I will bet a lot of money that other than the candidates’ mothers, no one knows who’s running or what they’re about,” Jacobs said. This may be a true but an odd point for a Democratic chairman to make given the party’s responsibility to promote its candidates. It’s also very disingenuous. One reason no one hears about the candidates is that they don’t have opponents. The public just might have a reason to learn about a particular candidate if given a choice. That’s the whole reason for political campaigns. Besides, even though voters may not have the chance to ask judges about their views on political issues, a candidate’s experience is not a bad criterion by which to judge. For instance, you might just want someone running for a 14-year term that currently pays $210,900 a year to have actual experience as a judge – something that party-picked candidates have lacked in the past. And even if we accept the party leaders’ contention that voters should not pick judges, why turn it over to the chairs of the two political parties – two private organizations whose leadership the public has no voice in picking, especially the 25 percent of voters who have no party aﬃliation? We already support this Republican-Democrat duopoly by putting the two parties in control of the Nassau County Board of Elections and its taxpayer-funded $7.5 million

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budget, a position they have used to dole out patronage to party faithful at the expense of efficiency and professionalism. Why further tip the scales with a system in which judges are picked behind closed doors and the lawyers who are selected may feel in some way beholden to a party leader? This can give the appearance of a conflict of interest and hardly inspires public confidence during trials for offenses like public corruption. It also makes the election ballot a sham by giving the appearance of voter choice when there isn’t any. Why bother? We would be better served by just taking the names off the ballot and holding a ceremony allowing the two party leaders to anoint the judges. Or we could adopt a system like that used for the selection of federal judges by the president and the Senate. It would be fair to point out the less-than-desirable choices that the president and the Senate have come up with during the Trump administration. But at least the public got a chance to vote them out. Republican and Democratic Party leaders in Nassau County maintain that cross-endorsements put the best candidates from all political persuasions on the bench and ensure that one party doesn’t control the courts. So much for the notion that judges leave their political persuasions at

the courtroom door. The leaders also said all judicial candidates were found qualified by the county bar associations this year, which is more than the Trump administration and the Republicancontrolled U.S. Senate can say. But were the candidates really the best qualified? Lisa Cairo ran unopposed for Family Court judge – a job that will pay her $136,700 a year during her 10-year term. Cairo is a managing partner at the Garden-City-based law firm Jaspan Schlesinger LLP.She is also the daughter of Nassau GOP Chairman Joe Cairo. It would be nice if we didn’t have to rely on her father’s opinion that she was the best qualified for the position. A year ago David Gugerty, then the Nassau Democratic elections commissioner and the Democratic Oyster Bay town leader, was selected – er, elected – a Supreme Court judge under the cross-endorsement deal. There he joined his wife, Helene Gugerty, on the bench. Small world. Christopher Ostuni, counsel for the Republican majority in the Nassau County Legislature, was also cross-endorsed in 2019. He is the son-in-law of former Republican Chairman Joseph Mondello, whom Cairo served for many years as deputy. Ostuni pulled out after the cross-

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endorsements of him and Gugerty prompted a federal lawsuit by a Nassau County lawyer, Thomas Liotti, seeking to halt the practice. Liotti argued in the suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District that once elected, judges who were cross-endorsed “are beholden to party leaders and their committees; lobbyists, lawyers and litigants who have supported them. The cross endorsements also guarantee patronage employment of law secretaries, law clerks and other court personnel hired by the cross-endorsed judges.” Liotti also alleged that the Republican, Democratic and Conservative parties “conspired and colluded together to deprive registered voters of a freedom of choice in voting rights as guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the United States Constitution and the First Amendment’s freedom of association provisions.” Liotti did not succeed in his lawsuit. But that doesn’t mean he was wrong. Henry Ford said the Model T only came in black to improve the efficiency of production and the quality of cars. That is more than we can say for cross-endorsements of judges by Democrats, Republicans and Conservatives in Nassau County. It’s time to put Nassau County voters back in the driver’s seat in the selection of judges.

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ON THE RIGHT

What happened to blue wave on Nov. 3?

or months, pundits, pollsters and Democratic Party spokesmen were insisting that on Nov. 3 a blue tsunami would wash away Donald Trump and his Republican sycophants. Joe Biden’s landslide victory, they told us ad nauseum, would make Chuck Schumer majority leader, increase Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House membership, topple GOP governors and turn numerous red state legislatures blue. Well, the blue tsunami turned out to be nothing more than an electoral trickle. True, Trump lost. Nevertheless, he received more votes than any Republican in history. His total, 73 million was 10 million more than he received in 2016. Working-class folks and seniors of every race and creed came out in droves for Trump. Those voters—once the key constituencies that elected Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy—deserted the party of their parents and grandparents because they were tired of Democratic Party elites who frowned upon their bourgeois values and ridiculed them as uneducated “deplorables,” “irredeemables,” and “chumps.”

As a result, Biden won the popular vote by only 4 percent, not the 8 percent to 10 percent polling experts preceded. As for the Senate, it is likely Sen. Mitch McConnell will remain majority leader. Predictions that Sens. Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins and Joni Ernst were slated for defeat were wrong. Senator Collins of Maine—the key target of Democrats because she dared to vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination—easily beat her opponent by 12 percentage points. Polls that had her losing by 9 percent were oﬀ by an astounding 21 points. Democratic expectations in the House failed to materialize. Instead of picking up 20 additional seats, Democrats are currently down 11 and that could grow once all the ballots are counted. Speaker Pelosi’s majority will be the narrowest since the 1940s. On state levels, contrary to predictions, Republicans gained one governorship and on Jan. 1 will control the governor’s mansion in 27 states. In state legislature elections, Ballotpedia reports that “Republicans won new majorities in at least two chambers: the New Hampshire State Senate and House of

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Representatives. There were no chambers where Democrats won new majorities in 2020.” Republicans will continue to have majorities in at least 60 state legislative chambers vs. the Democrats at 38. This will give the GOP an edge in redrawing congressional district lines next year. Most interesting, Trump made significant gains with workingclass minorities. Overall, he received 26 percent of non-white voters. Among Latinos, 32 percent cast their ballots for Trump, up from 28 percent in 2016. Support among black voters went from 8 percent in 2016 to 12 percent. An astounding 18 percent of black men voted for Trump.

In Florida, Trump made incredible gains in Latino communities. He won 55 percent of Cuban-Americans and overall Latino support for the president totaled 47 percent, up 12 points. These numbers explain why in heavily Latino Miami-Dade County, Biden carried it by only 7 percentage points vs. Hillary Clinton’s 30-point lead four years earlier. Texas witnessed similar shifts. In Starr County, located along the Mexican border and over 90 percent Latino, Democrats have routinely carried it by more than 43 percentage points. This year Starr County residents, The Wall Street Journal reported, “voted for President Trump in a red wave that moved the South Texas county from Hillary Clinton’s 60-point margin in 2016 to a 5-point win for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, the largest swing to Trump of any county in the U.S.” In neighboring Zapata County, which Clinton carried by 33 points, Trump beat Biden 53% to 47%. As for deep blue New York, Democratic expectations were also dashed. Donald Trump received 41 percent of votes cast vs. 36.52 percent in 2016. His vote total is up at least 300,000. Republicans are poised to pick

up two Congressional seats, and five Assembly seats. Democratic plans to obtain a veto-proof state Senate appear to have failed. Yes, even in New York, many voters made it clear they reject the plans of extreme leftist Democrats led by Congresswoman OcasioCortez to raise taxes, to defund the police, and to eliminate bail, charter schools and private health insurance. Reading the election tea leaves, State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs, took a shot at AOC. “AOC,” he said, “has no standing on how to run a general election in the suburbs and upstate. AOC is in a district that’s 6-1 Democrat and she couldn’t find a Republican in her district with binoculars … I invite AOC to come to Long Island and stand for election in one of our districts. You’ll see diﬀerent results.” While Trump may be on his way out, the conservative movement is not down and out. And if Biden succumbs to pressure form the radicals in his party and enacts the far-left programs outlined in the Sanders-Biden 110page Unity Manifesto, don’t be surprised if the GOP makes an even stronger comeback in the 2022 mid-term elections.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Let’s talk turkey for Thanksgiving this year

t is apparently time to start making plans for Thanksgiving. Or rather, to NOT be making any. Health warnings for Thanksgiving used to be about stuﬃng and not letting it sit in the bird after it’s been cooked. Now that’s the safest part of Thanksgiving. I tell you, it’s making a real mess of my plans. My son is on the phone. He has been quarantining specifically so he can come home, but first he has a question: “You’re making Thanksgiving like we always had, right?” “Why do you ask?” “Oh, Mom, the year’s been such a disaster, everything’s weird — I was hoping that one day, at least, could be like I remember.” “Well, sweetie, I feel that way, too. But if you are really remembering, you’ll know we never had Thanksgiving at home; we always went to your cousins’ house or your grandma’s. This year we can’t do any of that.”

“But you’ll still make a turkey, right? With stuffing and cranberry sauce and maybe even a pie?” “Does it have to be turkey? What if it was chicken instead? Or meatloaf?” “Why would you say such a thing?” “Because I know how to make chicken and meatloaf!” “Let me talk to Dad, OK?” After handing off the phone, I wandered around the kitchen, slamming cabinet doors. Why the obsession with turkey? I never much liked turkey anyway, except as the meat to put everything around. Literally: mashed potatoes at 1 and 2 o’clock; cranberry sauce at 3; stuffing from 6 to 9, and string beans back up to the top of the clock face again. Gravy splashed wherever. But that was at someone else’s house. I always brought the pie. I got back on the call again. “Sweetie, do you even like the taste of turkey?”

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A Look on the Lighter Side “MOM!” His dad took the phone away from me again. The real problem is that I have never successfully cooked a turkey. One time we were even given a free one from somewhere. But it was frozen solid! There was no way to thaw it in time for Thanksgiving, so we just left it in the trunk of the car (it was a very cold winter). A week or two later, we were

visiting folks who helped us take our luggage to the house. “What’s this?” asked our friend. “Oh, nothing. Put it back under the blanket.” “It’s a turkey!” “Maybe.” “Do you mind if we cook it?” “You mean while we’re still here? Um, sure, go right ahead.” And it was probably OK. I still don’t know; none of us touched it. I think everyone survived. Another year the four of us were stuck at home for Thanksgiving, too sniﬄy and sneezy to travel. I certainly didn’t feel up to wrestling with a turkey that year! I just barely had enough energy to make my grandmother’s family recipe of Beef-and-Cabbage Stew. And it was fine. Except I made so much and our appetites were so small that the potful lasted two weeks, at the end of which no one would ever let me make it again. And it certainly didn’t feel

like Thanksgiving. So the next time we found ourselves at home for the holiday, I gave in. I bought a turkey. I actually got it prepped and into the oven before disaster struck. Somehow I ran the broiler pan over my index finger, cutting it close to the cuticle and bleeding all over the linoleum (but not the turkey, thank God!) Someone suggested I get it stitched up at the Emergency Room, but who wants to go there on Thanksgiving Day? Even if there wasn’t a wait, it would surely have all the most junior people working. So I waited and used lots of Band-Aids, and eventually that finger healed. The cuticle ended up just a little bit crooked. So that’s a “No” on the turkey, no matter how homesick all of us get. I’ll roast chickens, if anyone needs poultry. I’ll even make my own crust for the pie. But as for roast gobbler, this family is going to have to quit — cold turkey.

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Food waste warms climate needlessly

s Thanksgiving is almost upon us, most of us are planning some kind of special meal, either a quiet COVID-19 dinner for two or a small family gathering. But how many of us are thinking about the leftover food that will be scraped into the garbage as we clean up the kitchen after our feast? Thanksgiving is one of my favorite food holidays, and thoughts of turkey soup and turkey curry, and those fabulous day-after turkey dinner sandwiches, complete with stuﬃng and cranberry sauce, are all part of the anticipation. However, using up leftovers is not everyone’s dream or an option for those with limited space. Commercial food preparers and restaurant kitchens routinely discard leftover food for reasons of economics. Food waste is particularly heavy on holidays, but it is actually a problem everyday in America, where one pound of food per person is wasted. This adds up to about 40.7 million tons (81.4 billion pounds) of food waste every year, or between 30-40 percent of the food supply, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The average American family of four discards $1,500 of food an-

nually. The greatest amount of food waste worldwide is food left in the field, or unharvested crops. In lowincome countries, 40 percent of food is lost due to the lack of refrigerated storage, eﬃcient transportation and infrastructure. But the United States holds the dubious distinction of being the worldwide leader in generation of household food waste, with the majority of this food being sent to landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food waste is the most common material in our landfills, accounting for 21.9 percent of all municipal solid waste. Landfilling of food waste contaminates our soils, water and air and has major environmental and economic impacts. Most significantly, when food waste is landfilled, it rots and produces methane, a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide. It actually has a warming potential of 21 times that of carbon dioxide, and municipal solid waste landfills are the third largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States. How you throw your food away matters. If you throw your vegetable and fruit leftovers into

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a regularly turned and well-maintained compost pile, you are not contributing to greenhouse gas releases into the atmosphere. This is referred to as aerobic composting, or the decomposition of organic materials using microorganisms that require oxygen. Aerobic composting requires the introduction of oxygen to compost piles to allow aerobic microbes to thrive. The only byproducts of aerobic composting are heat, water, and a very small amount of carbon dioxide, which is absorbed by soil and surrounding vegetation. Anaerobic composting is the method of composting similar

to landfilling, without introducing any oxygen, which means the breakdown of the organic materials takes much longer and produces little heat. This lack of heat results in the survival of many pathogens and causes significant amounts of methane to be released into the atmosphere. The other important issue surrounding food waste is the very real problem of food insecurity, a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. The statistics for the numbers of U.S. residents who are food insecure are astounding: more than 37.2 million residents in the United States; 2.2 million are New York state residents and 1.1 million are New York City residents. Tying the problems of food waste and food insecurity together seems to oﬀer a solution that will benefit the environment and, even more importantly, hungry people. Here on Long Island there are many groups focused on collecting food from farms, grocery stores and restaurants and delivering it to food pantries and food distribution centers. The need is greater than ever due to COVID with the loss of income for so many families. If

you have access or connections to food sources that would otherwise be wasted or want to help, you can contact Long Island Cares at licares.org (631-582-FOOD) or Island Harvest at islandharvest.org (516-294-8528 or 631-873-4775). One last word… when we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport and package it. Personal shopping habits, food storage and meal planning can go a long way to reduce food waste in our own kitchens. Recommendations from the EPA and other federal and state agencies include more careful planning of food shopping trips, using meals and leftover meals as a guide and sticking to a list. When you buy in bulk or stock up on sale items, think about freezing or processing those foods so they don’t spoil before you have a chance to use them. And add soups to your weekly menus – making soups, like minestrone, can be a great way to use up leftover vegetables. Overripe fruit and a few wilted greens whizzed in a blender with a scoop of plain yogurt and orange juice is a treat for the taste buds and a gift to the environment.

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Deaths loom as Trump stalls transition “More people will die if we don’t coordinate,” President-Elect Joe Biden said, answering a reporter’s question about the ramifications of Trump and the GSA Administrator Emily Murphy refusing to allow the transition process to go forward. The cost of “humoring” Trump in his campaign to overturn the will of American voters is that the incoming Biden administration has no oﬃcial information about the true state of the COVID-19 pandemic and no role in organizing distribution of a vaccine. The cost will be paid in lives and livelihoods. But, aside from a concept for distribution (Biden can watch “60 Minutes” for that), Trump has no actual plan for implementation. How do you transport and store the vaccines (Pfizer’s needs to be kept in super-cold conditions, at minus 94 degrees F). How do people get the shots, which require two doses? Do they have to travel to sites or can the vaccines be put into mobile carriers? How do you prioritize who gets the vaccine first since this will be a months-

long process to manufacture and administer, during which people are still getting sick (over 150,000 a day) and dying (likely 2,000 a day by Inauguration Day)? Who administers the doses and who pays for that? It is estimated to cost $6 billion and states and localities are out of money. Who is manufacturing the supplies needed – gloves, syringes, PPE – all of which are already becoming scarce again because of the failure of the Trump administration to nationalize a strategy or implement the Defense Production Act as infections and deaths surge throughout the country? “We can have a vaccine, but if no one is vaccinated, what is the use?” Biden said. “This vaccination process has not been thought through at all,” said Gov. Cuomo (after Trump said he would withhold the vaccine from New York state). “It’s just what Trump did with the testing, the PPE and the masks. He has no idea how to govern and his government is, frankly, incompetent.” What is more, there is a high level of skepticism – 50 percent of

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Americans don’t trust the vaccine because they are suspicious of whether the approval process was rushed because of political and financial gain. “Once you get past that, you have a scale that you haven’t even imagined,” Cuomo noted. “I’ve only done 12 million COVID tests in New York to date and I’ve done more tests than any other state. I now have to do 20 million vaccines? They’re talking about distributing it through Walgreens and doctor’s oﬃces. That’s nice, but there are no Walgreens and

national drug chains in communities of color and poorer communities” – communities that have been impacted at twice the rate and which represent a higher proportion of health care, frontline and essential workers. And who pays? The CDC said administering the vaccine would cost about $6.2 billion, but Trump has only allocated $140 million so like with testing and PPE, he said the states were on their own to figure it out. “Jesus couldn’t figure this out with loaves and fishes,” Cuomo quipped. “We’re broke. We haven’t gotten any stimulus and now we have a $6 billion vaccine distribution plan that no one has an idea about. It would be the largest government operation undertaken since World War II. It would go back to the old polio distribution days. “The mechanism, the public trust, the reaching out to the communities — it’s a massive, expensive undertaking that nobody is even contemplating right now.” It’s not just the logistics (and funding) to distribute the vaccine,

it’s who is setting the goal behind the plan. If the goal of vaccination is to eﬀectively end the pandemic through “herd immunity,” that requires 80 percent of the population to be vaccinated. That could take months, so there needs to be prioritization: health workers, essential workers and frontline workers (who are most vulnerable), workers who have lots of people contact (so they could be spreaders) and people most vulnerable to dying (older people and those with co-morbidities). It took just two weeks to go from 9 million to 10 million cases and just one week more to blow past that to 11 million, as the average number of dead surged passed 1,000 a day, with hospitals and health care systems around the country reaching their limits of beds but more significantly, health care professionals. The situation is so much worse than in the spring because instead of being confined to a few (mostly) blue states on the coasts, the surge is everywhere. Continued on Page 40

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OUR TOWN

Inspiring morality tale at the Masters

ach year the world of golf has four majors and invariably each has its own morality tale to tell. This year’s Masters, played at Augusta National Golf Club, was held in the fall, thanks to COVID-19, so it lacked the colorful flowering azaleas and the roar of the crowds on the back nine Sunday. But it did not lack the unique morality tale represented by Dustin Johnson. Like Odysseus, Dustin Johnson is indeed “the man of twists and turns driven time and again oﬀ course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.” Much like Odysseus, who took 10 years to get home, over the last 10 years Johnson was the man who shot a fourth round 82 at Pebble Beach to lose the 2010 US Open and three putted from 12 feet to lose the US Open to Jordan Spieth at Chambers Bay. Dustin Johnson was the man penalized two strokes by inadvertently grounding his club in the sand on the 72nd hole at Whistling Straits to lose the PGA Championship. Like Odysseus, when home was

in sight the winds blew him oﬀ course enough to give up 54 hole leads four times in majors and to mold the man who therefore has suﬀered humiliating defeats. But this time there has been a happy ending. Odysseus finally got to embrace his wife Penelope after 10 years of trying and DJ finally won the Masters and fell into the loving arms of his gorgeous fiancée, Paulina Gretzky. And from the looks of things, Paulina is clearly worth coming home to. Dustin Johnson’s life is a morality tale filled with loss, ridicule, shame, struggle and finally redemption. He grew up within an hour’s drive from Augusta, but the twists and turns he endured in his career included testing positive for cocaine and thereby incurring a six- month suspension from the PGA, a serious back injury after a fall down the stairs in his home and just two weeks ago he contracted COVID, which he seems to have overcome with grace and ease. Odysseus had the help of the Greek goddess Athena in finding

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his way home and it’s my guess that Paulina Gretzky and her father Wayne were of great assistance to him and perhaps through them he has learned all about discipline, hard work and focus. It was endearing to see him break down during a post-win televised interview with CBS reporter Amanda Balionis when asked what the victory meant to him. He was tearful and silent for a full 1 ½ minutes as he struggled to respond to her questions about how he felt about this win. As a psychoanalyst I have been asked more than once to explain why athletes so often break

down and cry during award ceremonies . There is virtually no literature on this phenomena, but my guess is that the combination of exhaustion, relief and joy converge and are like a tsunami of feelings which flood the athlete’s well-guarded defenses and break through during these interviews. And fans adore the display of feelings. The magic of golf was on fine display this year at the Masters despite the lack of crowds. This

tournament still had the refined beauty of Augusta National, the history of the event, the wonderful television coverage that kept commercial breaks to a minimum and finally a morality story of a hero who has struggled for 10 years to find his way home. So now, just like Odysseus, DJ, the man of twists and turns, has found his way into the history books, into the arms of his lovely fiancée and into our hearts as well.

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ALL THINGS POLITICAL

Trump election claims destabilizing America

n 2016 Donald Trump won the presidency by beating Hillary Clinton with 306 electoral votes, even though he lost the popular vote by almost 3 million. Regardless, Trump declared it an electoral vote “landslide.” Four years later, it looks like President-elect Joe Biden will win with the same 306 electoral votes, and take the popular vote by well over 5 million. Using Trump’s logic, Biden won by a bigger landslide. Then why are Trump and his supporters calling out election fraud and contesting the election?The most plausible reason is Donald Trump refuses to admit he is a loser. He’s never once admitted he was wrong or apologized for unseemly behavior during his presidency. Trump admitting he was fired, something he believes only happens to someone else if you watched any of the 14 seasons he hosted of the reality TV show The Apprentice, is something with which his narcissistic personality can’t reckon.Then there’s the lifestyle he’s grown accustomed to living at 1600 Pennsylvania

Avenue: Air Force One, private helicopters, a security detail, and a full staff of sycophants fawning at his every suggestion (no matter how ridiculous). As a private citizen, these cushy perks would be gone.Financially Trump is in trouble. He has $900 million in loans coming due in the next four years, in a COVID depressed commercial real estate market. There isn’t a single bank who will work with him and without the ability to refinance debt the President will be forced to unload his properties in a fire sale to raise cash. Trump also faces a nine-figure payment to the IRS when the audit is over. And he’s embroiled in 3,500 lawsuits that have varying degrees of unknown financial liability. What kind of person is involved in that many lawsuits? When Donald Trump leaves the Oval Office, he faces, at best, future financial difficulty; at worst, personal bankruptcy.When Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College by the same number of electoral votes, she graciously conceded within 24 hours of

ADAM HABER All Things Political election night. But there’s nothing gracious about DJT. Instead, he’s throwing the federal government into turmoil, with baseless claims of election fraud and specious lawsuits, all of which are getting thrown out by lower courts. There is little doubt that Trump will lose this battle. The New York Times, in a Nov. 11 front-page article, highlights several secretaries of state and attorneys general, in bipartisan union, all stating Trump’s claims of election fraud are unfounded. So, why are most high-ranking Republican oﬃcials sticking

by Trump, echoing election night claims of winning the election? Privately, they are whispering to their Democratic peers, saying they are afraid to speak out against Trump for fear of political retribution. Others are fighting the fight with the hopes of currying favor with Trump’s base because they too dream of Presidential glory. It’s a horrifically divisive display of selfish cowardice.Trump also points to faulty polling as a way to show fraud and voter suppression. The polls had him losing the popular vote by about 8 percent not the 3.5% currently tallied. And certain states had an even larger polling margin of error. However, this argument is ridiculous, because if you thought your candidate had a comfortable lead, you wouldn’t be as compelled to vote as if your candidate was behind and every vote counted.Our disingenuous president went so far as to tell his voters to only vote in person and not mail-in absentee ballots, and then feigned surprise when a vast majority of the absentee ballots went to Biden.

By not losing graciously, Trump is further dividing the country, causing turmoil and uncertainty in America. He’s even made the recent unprecedented move of replacing Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other top jobs in the Pentagon with loyalists. Not only does this leave America vulnerable to its enemies, there are some who feel he may use the military to stage some sort of coup.President Trump’s election behavior is a malignant cancer to America. Furthermore, the people voted him out. Currently, there is no scenario on the horizon where the president provides a path to an easy and peaceful transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden. Now he’s is trying to steal the election with some backhanded scheme to get Republican legislators, state oﬃcials or judges, to switch state certifications from Biden electors to Trump. Over the next 10 weeks until Biden’s inauguration, our Republic is in danger.

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The truth matters in our democracy, lives

f anything seems self-evident, it is that truth is vital in personal relationships and for the advancement of democracy. Historian R.R. Palmer described the founding of the United States as an aﬃrmation of “The People as The Constituent Power.” From John Adams to Franklin, Jeﬀerson, Dewey and many great philosophers of democracy, it has been emphasized that democracy works when the people (the many) can make informed judgments based on reliable knowledge. How have we fared during the past four years with the most extreme dissembler in our history pushing misinformation and outright untruths? For Americans who supported parts of Trump’s agenda, can they not see his Orwellian approach to power where “The Ministry of Truth” is actually “The Ministry of Lies”? As a master of branding, Trump’s labels and repetitions are right out of George Orwell’s “1984” horror story. The former Wall Street Journal Pulitzer columnist, Bret Stephens, left the Republican Party in 2016 because of Trump’s conduct. A few days ago, his essay in the New York Timeshad this subtitle: “The Conservative Movement Needs a Reckoning – ignorance was strength in ‘1984,’ as shamelessness is virtue to Trump’s GOP.” This week Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan “wor-

ries [because] Trump pushes conspiracy theories of election fraud.” He can’t accept “that he lost a fair election.” Former Republican National Security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster says Trump’s “conduct is wrong, regrettable.”[Some people believe Trump can’t help himself because he has a mental disturbance — that view is held by several of his own relatives]. Another former Republican head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoﬀ, says “Trump is playing Russian roulette with American democracy and our national security.” He says that Americans should “demand that Trump not undermine confidence in our democracy,” that “Americans should have absolute confidence in the 2020 elections.” He further emphasizes that Trump’s misinformation and lies “are dangerous to the Republican Party, but more so to our country.” He calls on Republican leaders to speak up and say that Trump’s abuses do not represent the Republican Party. If you want to see scores of Republicans and former Trump supporters who publicly renounce Trump and who announced support for Biden, check the website for the appropriately named “Lincoln Project.” What does Trump’s conduct now, and during the past four years, say about American democracy? On Nov. 13, a program

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field at Temple Emanuel in Great Neck featured a Nixon impeachment prosecutor, Nick Akerman, who addressed that issue in a probing, insightful analysis. He concluded that our system ultimately has worked because two major violators of presidential norms were ousted (Nixon by forced resignation and Trump by a decisive voting margin in 2020). In both cases, Akerman contended, it was the informed engagement of the public that saved us from these violators of democracy. Akerman drew on his experiences as assistant special Watergate prosecutor to explain why it was easier to remove Nixon than Trump; this is a fascinating comparison (worth checking whether Temple Emanuel has a tape of the presentation that you can see). Ultimately, the decisive power in the case of Nixon, said Akerman, was

a citizenry increasingly informed with truth, and with what Montesquieu called “le vertu,” the willed initiative. A quick view of Akerman’s penetrating analysis is that the Watergate special prosecutors had more support from Congress, including principled Republicans, and more latitude for gathering evidence so that not only legislators but the public also gained real data. Also, there was no Fox “Trump network” with which to contend. In contrast, he says that the Mueller Commission was limited by the failure of Congress to enforce indictments of those who refused to testify, and it was especially blocked by Attorney General Barr, who focused on defending Trump rather than serving American citizens. Akerman said the DOJ’s view that a sitting President cannot be indicted is not constitutionally supported. He said Trump typically used lawsuits to slow the process and “run out the clock.” Going forward from Trump, Akerman said we “need to fortify constitutional norms and restore checks and balances.” A special committee should not be set up under the attorney general (Barr’s misquoting Mueller was propagandized as exonerating Trump). Congress also needs to establish expedited processes regarding lawsuits and shorten time for ap-

peals. Keeping the public regularly informed in a timely way empowers citizenship. In “The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality,” authors Isenberg and Burstein focus on John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. Not only did both men place public service ahead of private profits, but both celebrated honesty and virtue as essential features of a democratic citizenry and especially of candidates for public oﬃce. John Adams emphasized that the most dangerous politicians in a democracy were those who “stoked the infectious emotions of fear and anger.” What is needed for democracy, both John and JQ Adams concluded, is “self-control” and “learned observation,” as well as a cultivation of “the sentiment of sympathy which held society together.” Historians evaluating Donald Trump are already emphasizing that he should never be forgiven for perpetuating the racist “Birther” lie about Barack Obama as a way to promote his national political ambitions. In the final question Akerman was asked how public awareness can be fostered so public engagement is based on truth. Akerman emphasized the sustained, attentive quests for reliable evidence and for credible witnesses. Continued on Page 43

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GOP gains prove need for bipartisanship

n recent weeks, chatter about a blue wave cresting on Election Day and spilling across New York state was inescapable. Two years after New York had fallen under single-party control, the pundits and Albany insiders took big Democrat gains for granted. It seems clear now, however, that we Republican representatives know our constituents a little better than the media does. As absentee ballot counts continue, we remain poised to gain seats in the Assembly, in the state Senate and in our congressional delegation. The successful issues we campaigned on- promoting public safety, battling the COVID-19 pandemic and reviving and revitalizing our economy should be the blueprint for our upcoming

Legislative session in January. It’s what voters chose. It’s what our Democrat colleagues should help us deliver by working across the aisle to forge real progress. On Nov. 5, Spectrum News reported that the governor believes Democrats “lost a messaging war over police and public safety.” I have a simpler explanationthey lost on the merits. Republican elected oﬃcials didn’t create the anxiety over dangerous criminals being automatically released after their arrests, copkillers being sprung from prison by the parole board and leftwing politicians calling for police departments to be defunded. We simply share it. We have compassion for crime victims. We have respect for law enforcement oﬃcials, and we have empathy for New Yorkers who want

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State Assemblyman to feel safe in their communities and secure in their homes. We’re asking Democrats to do the same. Let’s repeal bail reform and start from scratch with a bipartisan process that includes testimony from crime victims and guidance from experts like judg-

es, law enforcement oﬃcials and prosecutors. Let’s reject the false premise that we can either protect our communities from COVID-19 or revitalize our economies. We must do both. Our Conference sponsors legislation which would provide small businesses with tax credits to make renovations and upgrades preventing the spread of infectious diseases. We’d love help from across the aisle to get it on the governor’s desk. Finally, let’s close our budget gap by dealing with our balance sheet with pragmatism instead of accounting gimmicks. It’s time to move on from costly economic development programs that create profits for wealthy donors, create work for federal prosecutors and fail to create jobs for the middle class.

Let’s root out waste, fraud and abuse, particularly in our ballooning Medicaid program. These actions won’t just help us get through this period of economic uncertainty. It will help us drive down spending, drive down taxes and lure transformational private-sector investments that spark sustainable job growth. On Election Day, New Yorkers rejected the politics of oneparty rule. Suburban voters supported Republican candidates up and down the ballot who want to promote public safety, public health and responsible public budgets. My message to my Democrat colleagues is simple- even if you don’t want to listen to me, you should listen to them. Letters Continued on Page 33

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Jacobs slams AOC for comments on police BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Jay Jacobs, chairman of the Nassau County and state Democratic committees, criticized some Democratic candidates’ rhetoric as a reason for party losses

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Cortez, a Democrat who easily won re-election in the 14th Congressional District in the Bronx and Queens, said she believed too much funding has been allocated to the New York City Police Department, which has a $5.6 billion operating budget this year, according to state data. “I believe the path toward justice is a long arc,” the congresswoman said last Thursday to Fox News. “Safety is not just an officer with a badge and a gun.” “AOC has no standing on how to run a general election in the suburbs and upstate,” Jacobs told the New York Post. “AOC is in a district that’s 6-1 Democrat and she couldn’t find a Republican in her district with binoculars. I invite AOC to come to Long Island and stand for election in one of our districts. You’ll see diﬀerent results.” Continued on Page 47

Support group for COVID-19 survivors BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z As the coronavirus continues to spread throughout New York and the nation, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran highlighted an initiative on Long Island to aid residents’ mental health. Last Thursday Curran was joined by representatives from Emerge Rehabilitation and Nursing of Glen Cove to discuss a free, virtual support group available for everyone in the county who has tested positive for the virus. The biweekly support group, according to oﬃcials, provides people with an opportunity to conduct a dialogue with health professionals and other survivors and discuss lingering health or mental issues they may be facing. “For many of the thousands of residents who survived COVID-19, the battle is not yet over. While we still do not know the longterm eﬀects, there are reports of lingering symptoms that are plaguing these COVID-19 survivors and causing more stress in their lives,” Curran said. “I want all COVID survivors to know, whether you are dealing with physical or emotional complications from your battle with this unprecedented illness, you are not alone and there is help available.”

Oﬃcials from Emerge, which is operated by Paragon Management in Glen Cove, said in June they saw the need to promote dialogue between survivors and health care professionals to address potential mental health issues. The sessions began as a bimonthly aﬀair open for anyone to participate before becoming exclusive to survivors in Nassau County. Lisa Penziner, a psychologist and special projects manager at Paragon, said the mental burden that survivors can bear has the potential to develop into post-traumatic stress syndrome. “As we see more people who have recovered from the coronavirus, we know that many of them continue to have lingering health issues and in some cases, they show signs of post-traumatic stress syndrome,” Penziner said. “A support group provides people with an opportunity to be with others who are likely to understand what they are going through. This can reduce feelings of loneliness, distress, depression, anxiety and fatigue.” Penziner thanked Curran for highlighting the organization’s initiative and encouraged others who have contracted the virus to participate in the program. Continued on Page 47

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Port Holiday Magic show to go on BY R O S E W E L D ON The Greater Port Washington BID, the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, Residents Forward and Landmark on Main Street will hold their yearly Port Holiday Magic event on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 28. “This year is even more important than ever before,” chamber Executive Director Bobbie Polay said in a statement. “Not only PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON do our businesses need our support, but we can feel safer shopping in our own neighborSanta Claus greets a young fan at hood rather than a mall or at a box store.” last year’s Port Holiday Magic event. Festivities will begin at noon, with Santa

Claus arriving on a fire truck from Port Washington Boulevard to Manorhaven Boulevard. Stores throughout town will have special holiday oﬀers for shoppers, with some being for the whole holiday season and some arranging for delivery or pick-up. Shoppers can also enjoy live and recorded musical entertainment outside as they stroll from store to store and a number of holiday-themed backgrounds for holiday selfies, including an old-fashioned sleigh and more backgrounds on store windows. The organizations spearheading the event will be decorating the area for the season, with the business improvement

district installing lit snowflakes on the utility poles and the Chamber adorning Main Street lampposts with garlands, lights and red bows. Stores throughout town will be competing to win the Port Holiday Magic window decorating contest. To support businesses and shoppers, the Town of North Hempstead is suspending all Main Street parking meter fees for the day. The Port Washington Police District will provide extra safety for shoppers at the major crossings. Participating businesses include 3V Dental, Alper’s Hardware, Anthony’s World of Continued on Page 47

Northwell to hold 2nd gun violence forum BY R O S E WELDON Northwell Health has announced that it will host the second annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum, with leaders in health care and other fields discussing how to address the bloodshed in communities and gun violence as a public health issue. “Gun violence is a pub-

lic health emergency and it’s on us to keep the conversation going and work together to find solutions,” said Michael Dowling, Northwell’s president and CEO. “We have a great opportunity here to find common ground, speak about what is truly happening in our inner cities and other communities, and fix it. Our communities deserve better.” Among the headline

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Northwell Health President Michael Dowling speaks at the 2019 Gun Violence Prevention Forum.

speakers are Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and co-founder of Everytown for Gun Safety; former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who became a victim of gun violence when she was shot in the head during a mass shooting that killed six people and injured 12 others; U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), who fought for solutions to gun violence after 20 children and six educators were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School; and John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the United States. Erica Ford, CEO of Life Camp Inc., one of the leading violence prevention and intervention organizations in Continued on Page 47

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enior living communities often present an affordable and comfortable option for adults over the age of 55. Filled with like-minded and similarly aged residents, these communities can be the right fit for individuals no longer interested in or capable of taking care of a larger home. Senior communities are located all across the country. Finding one that meets your needs takes only a little research. Although they are often moderately priced and offer a variety of amenities, senior living communities sometimes suffer from a bad reputation. But such communities are not the “old age

homes” that some people purport them to be. Rather, they’re entire living neighborhoods that cater to the needs of an active resident base. These communities can range from independent living private homes or condos to managed care facilities. Residents may be able to enjoy organized outings, recreation, shopping, and socialization without having to venture far from property grounds. Some communities offer food services or an on-site restaurant. Fifty-five and older communities offer conveniences that many find irresistible. They’re frequently located close to shopping, dining and healthcare

• Determine the fees associated with a community. Can Medicaid or longterm care insurance pay for all or a portion of the fees? Which types of services does the monthly fee cover?

may indicate that the property must be kept in a certain manner. You may not be able to paint exterior items a certain color, nor put up fencing or set up outdoor patio furniture. Get the details before you sign anything. • Is this the type of community where you can age in place? Meaning, are there separate accommodations if you eventually need assisted living care? Some communities offer living options that vary depending on residents’ ages. • Be sure there are activities or amenities that appeal to you. You eventually want to find your niche and get together with a group of friends who share the same interests.

• Who is eligible to live in the community? Some restrict all residents to a particular age, while others do not. Rules may be in effect that include an age cut-off limit.

• You may want to find a community close to your children or other relatives. This way you will not have to travel far to visit others, and they will be able to visit you easily in return.

• Look into the particular home owner’s association rules. Bylaws

Following these guidelines can mean discovering a community where anyone can feel comfortable for years to come.

• Investigate the types of residents and who would be your immediate neighbors. What percentage of people live in the community all year long, and how many are part-time residents?

• Some communities are gated, which can increase feelings of safety. If this is a priority, look for housing under security.

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How to host virtual holiday celebrations Choose the right conferencing app Certain programs may work better than others depending on your needs. For example, if everyone has the same operating system platform (iOS or Android), you may be able to use an app inherent to that system, which won’t require a separate download or login. Apps also may be chosen depending on how many people can be invited in, as some set limits. Do your homework and conduct a test run prior to the holidays.

he 2020 holiday season figures to be vastly different than seasons past. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 has transformed daily life in many ways. The public has become accustomed to wearing masks while shopping, limiting the number of people in public venues and keeping their distance from friends and loved ones. Many events have been reimagined as virtual celebrations because of social distancing protocols. For those with large families or people with inherent risk factors that make them more susceptible to illness, sharing

the holidays over video conferencing apps may be the safest way to go in 2020. The following tips can help holiday hosts make the most of a virtual holiday experience. Pick a bright, festive spot Set up your tablet, smartphone or computer in a bright area with a festive backdrop. You’ll want others who join the virtual hangout to be able to see you clearly. A Christmas tree or a decorated fireplace in the background can set the scene.

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Blood drive comes Tankoos returns to Temple Sinai to Port Polish Hall A blood drive is being held at the Port Washington Polish Club at 5 Pulaski Place in Port Washington on Saturday, Nov. 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Appointments are strongly encouraged, with walk-ins allowed if scheduling & social distancing guidelines permit. To sign up, go to: https:// donate.nybc.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/285410

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Temple Sinai of Roslyn is excited to welcome Sandra Tankoos, author of “Two Jews = Three Shuls,” for a virtual Author’s Talk on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 pm. Now a resident of Florida, Tankoos set her murder mystery on Long Island, where she was a high school teacher, entrepreneur, and former president of Temple Sinai. When a well-respected rabbi is found murdered in his synagogue, many of the congregants become suspects.

Tankoos, who started writing the book after her presidency and completed it once she retired, hopes that after reading the novel “people will understand what those involved in religious life feel towards each other, despite their differences.” The program, sponsored by Sinai Reads, will be held via Zoom. For log-in information, please contact Adrianne Rubin, Director of Adult Engagement, at arubin@mysinai. org.

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N. Hempstead launches customer care software The Town of North Hempstead is proud to announce the unveiling of the first phase of the new Citizenserve software platform. Using this software the town will provide online Building Department services for residents. North Hempstead will

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All Kids Fair’s first virtual event a success The 10th annual All Kids Fair, which was postponed from its usual month of April to November 8, was virtual! This expo could not take place in its usual month due to COVID-19, but those who attended had a terrific time. This year’s All Kids Fair had a great line-up of virtual classes for kids of all ages with some for the adults, too. Some of the many kids’ classes were: Disney Singalong, Soccer, two Floral Arranging classes, and Family Yoga. For the adults, there were classes on Essential Oils, Fidelis Care Information, and Pampering Pitstop. The platform that the event took place on will store the information for the next 27 days, so all

are welcome to visit the platform and learn about the 35 exhibitors and their oﬀerings and enjoy over half of the classes, available on the site until December 8. Since families always enjoy our in-person petting zoo, this year there were virtual “live animal visits,” where farm animals such as sheep, goats and a mini-donkey were the stars. In addition to being educational, the “visits” were highly entertaining. Another new addition to this year’s event were “coﬀee talks,” opportunities for parents to interact with others at the same stage of life, such as those with a child who is an infant, toddler, elementary age, middle school age, high

school age, special needs, or gifted. All Kids Fair Director Barbara Kaplan said the time was right to pivot to an All Kids Fair virtual expo. “It was definitely not “just a Zoom event.’ It was a full-fledged virtual expo. We incorporated many of the activities of our live events plus some new opportunities such as our “virtual live animal visits” and “coﬀee talks.” Families had a great time learning at our many classes about services and products available to them.” Repeat attendee David Rosenthal of Oceanside raved about the event. “My girls had a blast! The younger one loved looking at the animals [in the virtual petting zoo], and my older one liked Cap-

tain America and the ballet class. They asked if there will be another All Kids Fair next month!” There were several non-Long Island based businesses this year that enjoyed the opportunity to make their services available to Long Islanders virtually. Magician Dennis Kyriakos of California hosted a fun performance. Annaline Dinkelmann of Teach Me Wall Street, a New York Citybased business, was a newcomer this year. She shared that “the All Kids Fair made it easy for the parents because we have the Christmas holidays coming up. Families were able to learn about things to do; it opened their eyes. I was very pleased with the event.”The

All Kids Fair, as always, had many diverse exhibitors including party entertainment, tutoring, activities, health/wellness products and services, non-profits, travel, and even a Girl Scout troop. Sponsors for this year’s All Kids Fair were: Long Island Parent Magazine, Your Local Kids Source, Jovia Financial, Blank Slate Media, Home Health and Spirit, Fidelis Care, SAT/ACT Sense, Clowns. com, and Law Oﬃces of Cohen & Jaﬀe. Those who wish to enjoy the platform now may do so at no charge. Register at www.Accelevents.com/e/AllKidsFair and enter Discount Code “Everyone” on the last page.

Silverberg named a ‘super lawyer’ Turkey dinner drive Stephen J. Silverberg has been selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list as one of the top New York metro area lawyers for 2020. This is an exclusive list, recognizing no more than 5 percent of attorneys in the state. Super Lawyers has named Silverberg to its select list of attorneys for 13 consecutive years, from 2007 to 2020. The firm is very pleased to announce that Scott B. Silverberg has been named to the 2020 New York Metro Rising Stars

list.

To qualify, New York Metro Rising Stars must be 40 years old or younger or have been practicing for less than 10 years. Recipients represent the top 2.5 percent of up-and-coming lawyers in the New York metro area. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional

achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. Stephen J. Silverberg is a resident of Williston Park. Scott B. Silverberg lives in New York City.

COVID-19 has hit Nassau County families hard, leaving more families in need than ever before. For just $45, you can sponsor a full Thanksgiving meal for a local family. To donate, please go to this link: http://www.kpsearch.com/df/holidayfarms/all-new.aspThanksgiving meals include:1 frozen turkey 10-12 lbs, 1 bag of Eastern potatoes, 1 bag of peeled baby carrots, 1 bag of Macintosh apples, 3lb., 1 apple pie (or other fruit or pump-

kin pie), 1 package of stove top stuﬃng, 1 package of Urban Meadow cranberry sauce, 1 package of Green Giant can vegetables corn, 1 64 oz bottle of Apple Dandy apple juice, 1 box of Breaktime cookies, (pk 12), 1 Holiday Farms re-usable bag or other re-usable bag. A special thank you to Holiday Farms for working with us again this year! Happy Thanksgiving from our families to yours! Adam Haber and Jeﬀ Kozuch

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THE BACK ROAD

Trump as a lame duck: ‘It is what it is’

colleague of mine who lives overseas raised this question, “What is going on with the USA election?” Imagining that he knew little about it aside from a few headlines, I replied as follows: “We have a lame duck, oneterm president — Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 election by a margin of electoral votes (306-232) that he referred to as a “landslide” when he won the 2016 election by a comparable lead. “By the way, in 2016 even

though he won, he lost the popular vote by about three million votes. He lost this year by more than five million votes. And, yes, you can lose the popular vote and still win the electoral college vote in the United States. No, it’s not a real college like a university. But that’s a story for another time. “Despite the fact that he overwhelmingly lost the November 3rd election, President Trump will not concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden. In fact, he has charged election fraud without any evidence

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whatsoever. Thus far, no judge anywhere in the US will accept any of his unsubstantiated claims that the election was “stolen” from him. “He has even asked for a hand recount of votes in Georgia, which is his right to do because he was defeated by a slim margin — about 14,000 votes. It’s gotten so dirty there that a top elected oﬃcial in that state – the Republican secretary of state, has received death threats for stating that the hand count of votes is tracking towards Joe Biden as the victor in Georgia.

Even his wife has received death threats on her cell phone. “Why is Trump doing this? Some say it is to generate online donations to pay oﬀ his campaign debt, under the guise of helping to mount a defense against the election that he says was “rigged”. This is called “monetizing the presidency”, something that he and his family have done consistently for the last four years; that is, used his elected oﬃce for private financial gain. Continued on Page 40

READERS WRITE

How to be thankful in the year 2020

his year’s Thanksgiving will be most troubling in America. To begin with our nation has been faced with the COVID-19 pandemic in which over 244,000 people have died from the virus and more are dying. There have been many shutdowns of

schools, businesses and sports for awhile. Added to all this, millions of hardworking Americans are put out of work. The question is what has the American people to be thankful for this yea, which is ending with suﬀering and pain? There will not be a Thanksgiving pa-

rade because it would draw a large gathering of people. And yet there is hope on the horizon for a vaccine that will save many lives in the spring. I believe this is where there is cause for hope and prayers that we can survive and be thankful. Thanksgiving is not about

what we don’t have but what we have and that is family and the need to help others in need. Therefore, I ask all those who can to give to local churches, community organizations that help those in need and also food pantries. Let me also point out the last part of the word Thanks-

giving is giving. So please help our neighbors in need. Remember this : When things have been the worst for Americans, we have found we have been at our best. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose

Trump trade failure shuts out United States

resh on the heels of a 12-year high in our trade deficit, we can notch another massive and perhaps ominous turn in our trade fortunes. Last week members of a longstanding Asian trade bloc, called ASEAN, signed what is known as the Regional Comprehensive Partnership, or the RCEP. However, in addition to the ASEAN nations, China, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand signed on. There is now a trade agreement not only between nations that are our trading partners, but also our strategic ones. If these nations fall into China’s economic orbit, it is only a matter of time before they fall in their political one. This could have been prevented by Trump following through with the Trans Pacific Partnership and sidelining China, but the Gorilla-In-Chief viewed any trade arrangement with ignorant suspicion. Now he’s driven the Pacific

Rim into China’s hands, and the next administration will find this impossible to undo. All of our post war efforts at building alliances across the Pacific and the Atlantic, a framework of global American economic and political influence, have now been shredded by a man who never had the slightest knowledge of how the world worked. It has never ceased to amaze me that even though Gov. Mitch Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, Romney had still gone through the massive eﬀort of preparing a full policy agenda for a transition period if he had won, ready for instant implementation. Trump strolled into the Oval Oﬃce like he had arrived for a dinner reservation. Not even a high school outline. His own ignorance and lack of preparation mirrored the lives of his own voters. This nation has paid a heavy price for Mr. Trump’s masterful manipulation of

America’s ignorant. The knuckle-dragging slobs driving their pickup trucks through town with their “thin blue line” flags, whose chief obsessions in life are the New York Islanders, porn and beer, never understood the meaning of having a place at the table or constructs like “soft power,” where the United States could shape policy in dozens of small ways to our advantage. They now face a bleaker economic future, and they’ll continue to scapegoat everyone one but themselves. Trump was everything they aspired to as “success” in life: sleeping with a porn star while his wife nursed his newborn child. This is their apotheosis of success. Education, temperament, the pursuit of knowledge, reasoned judgment and reserve are not part of their life aspirations. But a toilet bowl of gold? The perfect metaphor for the Trump world view. The country now turns on the twin axes of an ig-

norant population and an ever more complex world that will further escape their limited intellectual grasp. It’s an incendiary combination. As America enters a Brezhnev-like era, where a septuagenarian leadership still fawns over World War II era victories while the rest of the world embraces the future, the nation’s fortunes are slowly eroding and we are heading to an age of irrelevance. Experienced hands with an understanding of history and realpolitik did their best to steer our way through this new world. They were cast aside like table scraps by the Trump cult. Whatever prestige and respect we had in the global arena has been shredded, and I don’t believe anyone can restore it. The sun has set on the American era. We will never be “great again.” And now, as Mr. Trump leaves the Oval Oﬃce, denying that he lost, claiming election fraud, refus-

ing to co-operate with the incoming regime even at the cost of American lives, Mr. Biden will have to deal with an economic holocaust and getting this country healthy again. And the complaining

from the rabble will commence on Jan. 20 that he’s not working fast enough. Believe me. Donald Davret Roslyn

Main Street, Rhinebeck, New York, on Oct. 4

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Memories of MTA projects predict the future

ow ironic that a return of twoway tolling on the VerrazanoNarrows Bridge coincides with the 56th anniversary of its opening on Nov. 20, 1964. This reminded me of other past transportation history that most have forgotten. Design of the bridge did not include a pedestrian walkway, bicycle path or connection to the existing Fourth Avenue Bay Ridge subway line. The opening of the bridge in 1964 resulted in the subsequent demise of the 69th Street Brooklyn

— St. George Ferry. Few remember the long-forgotten proposed tunnel between 69th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and St. George, Staten Island. The concept was to extend subway service from the Brooklyn BMT line to Staten Island. Ground was broken with entrances at both ends in the 1920s, but the project quickly ran out of money and was abandoned to history. When living on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, friends and I would look to no avail in attempting to find the abandoned site filled in decades

The Swans Two swans casually cruise the attentive water And come to a stop. It’s a shallow backwater of a large pond, But no matter how many times their long necks Delve into the murkiness Their plumage is not aﬀected. But this is not a treatise on the world’s Inherent corruptions, nothing like that, And nothing abstract, it’s a story about purity. They add the dimension of beauty, And remain a reminder of innocence With the promise of grace. They will have long lives together, Completely absorbed in each other; No whims of the moment, and no distractions. I watched for a long time. In the slow fading light The first stars appear through the bare trees. Even in this world there’s sanctuary. Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

Swans by Stephen Cipot

earlier. Flash forward 100 years later and we have the proposed $10 billion Cross Harbor rail freight tunnel project. This project is sponsored by the NYC Economic Development Corporation and championed by Manhattan/Brooklyn Congressman Jerry Nadler as his No. 1 transportation priority. After 30 years of lobbying by Nadler, the project has yet to even complete the federal National Environmental Review Process. Don’t be surprised if it is doomed to become a relic of history.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Oﬃce. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road MTA Bus, NYCDOT Staten Island Ferry along with 30 other transit agencies in NY & NJ).

The case for wearing a mask

ime always bears out whose opinions are more valid than others. However, science and the scientific method, if applied accurately and consistently, leave no room for opinion. An opinionated theory is no longer an opinionated theory if it can be proven over and over with acceptable, minimal, statistical variation. This is the case with using masks in a pandemic. During the pandemic that swept the globe over 100 years ago, it is estimated that perhaps 50 million people were lost to that virus. Some areas of the United States historically enforced mask-wearing more than others and reportedly had lower death rates. However, not having a time machine to travel backward in time and do empirical research to verify such information, I can only speak from my own, recent empirical experiences. Having been a teacher of secondary school biology for many years, in addition to spending many years as a secondary school administrator, it is in my nature to view life using real facts, not opinions. Many times my own life experiences have taught me significant life lessons. One such experience involved a family member being diagnosed with one of the basic coronaviruses that have floated on Earth for decades… before COVID-19 (the current

novel coronavirus) hit the scene. When my family member was diagnosed with a basic coronavirus back in early 201 for which she was hospitalized for almost three weeks, I spent many days by her side in the hospital. As a four times cancer warrior over the past 11 years (continuing my battle against blood cancer, including numerous organ removals, weeks of radiation treatments, and years of chemotherapy), I am a high-risk person for dying if I contact any respiratory illness. My body’s immune system is significantly compromised. Yet, I was at my relative’s side in her multi-week stay in a local hospital for almost three weeks and I remained free of the basic coronavirus that she was battling in early 2019. Why did I remain free of my relative’s basic coronavirus? My answer: I wore a mask. Back on March 17, 2020, a few days before New York’s formal lockdown, I wrote the following letter to both President Trump and to Governor Cuomo, via their respective internet websites: “CORONAVIRUS PROTECTION POTENTIAL: Last year, when my (relative) h a basic CORONAVIRUS & she was hospitalized … I wore a mask…I am seriously immuno-compromised. Yet, even though I sat next to my (relative) for almost

three full weeks, I did not contract the virus. I believe it was because I wore the aforementioned mask…We need to protect everyone from the spread of COVID-19. I hope that my own personal biology in NYS public secondary schools for many years and found this observation of my own personal experience very significant.” I believe I was a “live experiment” using a mask while sitting for many days in an isolated hospital area for patients with both serious viral and/or bacterial infections. My experience may save others’ lives from this serious scourge of COVID-19. Is wearing a mask a foolproof protection against getting COVID-19? Certainly not. Careful handling of a mask to be worn is important, along with frequent handwashing and disinfecting hands being essential as well. Only in recent days has the CDC formally recognized what I knew since early 2019…wearing a mask gives significant protection for the wearer against becoming infected with a virus — a virus whose only mission is to ravage a body. Please, please, please wear a mask as if your life depends upon it because my personal experience makes me believe it does. Kathy Rittel East Williston

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Truth never mattered to Donald Trump

he president should have better protected us by dealing more eﬀectively in controlling the coronavirus. Apparently, he placed his faith of handling the situation in the hands of God. However, as I’m sure you know, the president does not have many connections with the fellow up above, but the one down below is being made so happy. So is Russia and many other nations hostile to our democratic ways. Although many of our people love Trump, especially his fellow Republican members of Congress, for their own protection they should not be within breathing distance of him. Nor should they hold his hand, even if wearing a mask, for so much of what comes out of his mouth is dangerous and contagious, especially his uncorroborated statements, and even when knowing better. According to informed sources, Trump has made over 22,000 uncorroborated statements. Had he followed the favorite motto of America’s first President, George Washington, that read “Honesty is the best policy”, he certainly would have been better oﬀ. The first printing of that proverb appeared in 1599 by Sir Edwin Sandys, an English nobleman and founder of the colony of Virginia. Many other famous Ameri-

can statemen incorporated this maxim into their writings including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine and Presidents Thomas Jeﬀerson, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe and Andrew Jackson. It also appears in Washington Irving’s ” Knickerbocker History of New York,” Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” and Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” It’s too bad that Trump did not follow in the footsteps of these great Americans. Instead, many of us know what he stepped into with his feet and his even bigger mouth. “I cannot tell a lie.” A myth attributed to a 6-year-old George Washington. “To corroborate or not to corroborate?” A way to check out whether it be a truth or a lie. Truth matters, unless you have another agenda and Trump’s was not “America First” but always “Trump First.” It’s too bad. He might have made a fairly decent president and now he might become the first former president to wind up in jail. At last now we can root for him to get what he so “richly” deserves. Because of him we must now pray: “Please, God, save America” in order for the world to once again say “God Bless America.” Alvin Goldberg Great Neck

If you aren’t afraid, you aren’t informed

id you know that pregnant women with Covid-19 appear more likely to develop respiratory complications requiring intensive care? Also at greater risk for preterm birth. Pregnant women with Covid are also more likely to be placed on a ventilator. (Source: Mayo Clinic and CDC) *Just because some young people have an easier time recovering from Covid when they contract it, does not remove the real danger to most people. You might be the one to develop debilitating neurological symptoms that won’t go away. Brain damage is increasingly being discovered in many Covid survivors. (Harvard Medical School) You might be the one to develop breathing problems that won’t go away. New information reveals the threat of permanent damage to internal organs long after the virus appears to be over. If you aren’t afraid — you aren’t informed. All the Gucci shoes and Prada purses in your closet can’t protect you.

An enviable collection of Ferragamo, Hermes and Cavalli can’t come to your rescue either. But a $4 face covering, if worn properly over nose and mouth, will. And if the fashionista in you won’t be caught dead in a baby blue face covering, basic black still goes with everything. You can look good and stay safe with fashionable face coveringoptions by Fendi, Dolce & Gabbana, Rag & Bone and St. John Collection, to name a few. Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale’s oﬀer an array of attractive options online. Ladies, you no longer have to choose between looking good and being smart about your health and your children’s health. The retail economy will thank you, too. By the way, Canadian doctors discovered that young people are seven times more likely to have a stroke from Covid than from typical flu virus. (Harvard Medical School) Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

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Business&RealEstate

Avoid hiring a friend as your broker First oﬀ, I want to wish all my readers a very relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday dinner with family and friends. However, if you have decided to get together, please, please wear your masks when not eating and be safe and healthy. It’s quite amazing but not surprising that sellers, investors, purchasers of residential and commercial properties, and even renters will hire their best friends to represent them when in many instances that just might be the worst decision of their lives to do this. Of course, there are many professionals in our industry who perform extremely well with their best friends and all goes well. I applaud them for doing their most professional job at representing their buyer friends as they should always do with all their clients whether they are best friends or not! There are presently some 1.4 million Realtors in the United States and 40,000 reside within Long Island’s expanded MLS now joined with the Hudson Gateway MLS servicing upstate New York We are now known as One Key MLS. However, this is far and few between with so many losing their friends due to issues, problems, and glitches during the transaction process and sometimes right from the get-go. My professional opin-

ion is this happens due to the lack of consistent day-in-day-out training that is necessary and required to be, as we say, ” on the top of your game.” The lack of pertinent and current knowledge, expertise, professionalism, and ethics is an issue and in so many cases discrimination is the culprit. (just check out a three-year investigation by Newsday Nov. 19, 2019 on the practice of “illegally” steering clients in which 68 Long Island brokers and agents got caught.) Here is the link to the article. https://projects. newsday.com/long-island/realestate-agents-investigation/ ). The majority of agents are of good substance and character who practice their business with ethical, client-first mindsets and common-sense practices. However, for many common sense is no longer common and many agents who may mean well by their clients lack suﬃcient knowledge to do their jobs properly. There is a correlation between the quality of an agent and their incomes, so if you ask what they earned in 2019 and 2020 there just might be a substantial diﬀerence due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this is understandable. However, the lack of knowledge and being able to pivot their business in our “new norm” and

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

earn a solid lucrative living have a lot of relevance to professional and ethical behavior. To some maybe it’s to create shortcuts to simplify the process to get their checks asap? But, maybe it’s just that it’s the path of least resistance, a quick and easy buck, possibly a hereditary thing passed down from generation to generation. No doubt and yes, your upbringing has so, so much to do with your behavior and how you approach and handle your business and your day-to-day job too! The path to “real estate gold” is available to those who put in the necessary and required eﬀort, disciplined actions, perseverance, diligence, and the sacrifice of their valuable time! I see and experi-

ence this every single day as I go out and perform my business. I am not singling out just realtors, but it runs the gamut of all industries and businesses and in many situations reflects the lack of continuous mentoring and training within companies. It’s quality before quantity because once you know the best way to approach negotiating or a task or sudden diﬃcult situation, you are much more prepared to handle and solve the issues that arise without calling for assistance or worse getting in trouble and breaking the law, leading to the repercussions of fines and potential revocation or suspension of licenses. Learning your trade from the beginning and continuing this by practicing and applying what you learn every day down through the years will always benefit those who choose that very lucrative path. Again, my professional opinion and years of experience have made me come to the conclusion that the lack of suﬃcient adequate and advanced training causes 99 percent of the problems, catastrophes, and failed transactions that could be avoided if proper knowledge was attained. If proper negotiations, dialogue, conversations, and transparency occur between all the parties, there would be more successful sales. Hiring

your friends can be a potentially slippery slope. For most the sale or purchase of a home is the largest and most wealth-creating transaction that consumers are involved in within their lifetimes, so why would you want to jeopardize this most crucial financial event? You should ask yourself, do I want to lose a friend and the potential loss of a property that I will fall in love with or keep my friend and hire a professional with the superior knowledge and expertise to successfully guide me through the complicated and many times the arduous process to a successful and happy ending? Obviously, the choice is always yours! Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) he with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

33 High Street, East Williston

179 Glenmore Street, East Williston

4 bd, 5 ba, 3,073 sqft, Sold on: 8/9/20, Sold Price: $1,392,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

3 bd, 3 ba, 1,972 sqft, Sold on: 6/17/20, Sold Price: $770,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

119 Princeton Street, Williston Park

17 Herricks Road, Williston Park

4 bd, 2 ba, 1,736 sqft, Sold on: 9/29/20, Sold Price: $715,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

4 bd, 4 ba, 3,097 sqft, Sold on: 9/1/20, Sold Price: $890,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Herricks

Editorâ€™s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Suozzi, Kaplan, Sillitti declare victory Continued from Page 1 right now, I would like to congratulate Congressman Tom Suozzi. We wish him well going forward for the benefit of our district and constituents.” Suozzi said in a statement Tuesday that Santos had called to concede that morning. “It is a great honor to serve as a member of Congress, and I look forward to continuing to work on behalf of the people I represent,” Suozzi said. “Our nation faces tremendous challenges and the division is distracting us from accomplishing our goals. I will work to try and bridge the divide and address the COVID pandemic, our unstable economy, the climate crisis and the need to rebuild our middle class. I will never stop fighting for Long Island and Queens and the people of our state and country.” The former mayor of Glen Cove and former Nassau County executive will serve a third term in oﬃce in the district representing Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas, and stretching from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suﬀolk County. In the 4th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) continued to lead Town of Hempstead Engineering Commissioner and Republican Douglas Tuman of West Hempstead, following her declaration of victory on Nov. 4, with 54 percent of the vote to Tuman’s 45 percent. She received 169,481 votes to Tuman’s 141,636 so far. Neither campaign responded to a request for comment, and it is not known if Tuman has conceded. The 4th Congressional District is situated in central and southern Nassau County, and includes Floral Park, Mineola, Garden City, New Hyde Park, Hempstead, Carle Place and Westbury. If declared the winner, Rice will serve a fourth two-year term. STATE LEGISLATURE RACES In the 7th Senate District, Kaplan defeated challenger and former Port Washington Police Commissioner David Franklin. The incumbent senator finished with 77,836 votes, over 55 percent, to Franklin’s 62,169, or 44 percent. Franklin thanked his team and congratulated Kaplan in a statement Tuesday night, saying that the absentee vote count

“fell far short of my expectations and hopes, and it was time to bow out.” “In the end we will have amassed well over 60,000 votes,” Franklin said. “As a candidate unknown outside of Port Washington that is humbling to me. Perhaps even more humbling is the fact that we had 80 volunteers making calls, doing lit drops at homes and planting signs all over the district. I had fun campaigning, meeting people all throughout the district as we knocked on doors to find out what the needs of the public were. The fellow candidates I encountered along the way are now friends. This was a great experience for me, and though it didn’t turn out the way we planned we left everything on the field. No regrets, no second guessing. Thanks to all who voted, volunteered, supported and prayed for me. You are forever in my heart.” Kaplan said in a statement Tuesday that Franklin had called her to concede that afternoon. “This afternoon I received a call from Dave Franklin, who graciously called to concede and to oﬀer his congratulations on my re-election,” Kaplan said. “We had a nice chat, and I thanked him for his call and for running a spirited campaign. Once again, I am extremely humbled and grateful to the voters of Nassau County for placing their trust in me to be their Senator for two more years. I promise I won’t let you down!” Kaplan, who first won against thenincumbent Elaine Phillips of Flower Hill in 2018, will serve a second two-year term representing the areas of Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Mineola, Garden City Park, North Hills, Albertson, Old Westbury, East Hills, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Estates, Albertson, Searingtown, Lake Success, Manhasset, Munsey Park, Plandome, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, and the entireties of the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas. In the 13th Assembly District, Assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove), led attorney and Republican candidate Andrew Monteleone of Syosset by 62 percent of the vote to Monteleone’s 37 percent. Lavine received 26,065 votes to his opponent’s 19,419. Lavine, who serves as chair of the Assembly Election Law Committee, turned his attention to vote tabulators in a state-

ment to Blank Slate Media. “Every American should be proud of the critically important service provided by our fellow citizens who collect, analyze and tabulate our ballots,” Lavine said. “I am extraordinarily proud of the work of these fine people. Those engaged in the arduous task of protecting our democracy have been unfairly criticized by demagogues seeking to cynically and corruptly demean the voting process. It is time for every American of good faith to recognize and acknowledge the great work performed by those who safeguard and count our ballots in the most diﬃcult of times.” He did not comment on the outcome of his race, and a request for comment to the Monteleone campaign was not returned. The district includes Roslyn, Greenvale, Sea Cliﬀ, Glen Cove and parts of East Hills and Westbury, and if declared the winner Lavine will serve an eighth term. In the 16th Assembly District, Sillitti, a 20-year government employee, overtook Republican candidate and small-business owner Ragini Srivastava of Manhasset Hills once the absentee ballots were counted after trailing the day after the election. Totals from the Nassau County Board of Elections showed that Sillitti had received 35,153 votes, or 53 percent, to Srivastava’s 30,093, or 45 percent. Sillitti declared victory in a statement to Blank Slate Media on Wednesday morning. “I am grateful to the voters of the 16th Assembly District for their confidence in electing me to be their voice in Albany,” Sillitti said. “I’m ready to get to work to help Long Islanders overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, rebuild our economy, and unify our community. Thank you also to the election workers that worked the long hours to make this election happen for all of us and ensure every vote was counted. This was an unprecedented election and they are the unsung heroes still working every day.” A request for comment from the Srivastava campaign was not immediately returned. The district includes Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset, Roslyn Heights, North Hills, Flower Hill, Lake Success, Baxter Estates, Manorhaven and Sands Point. Sillitti will succeed two-term Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-New Hyde Park), who announced in January that he would not

seek re-election. In the 19th Assembly District, Assemblyman Edward Ra (R-Garden City) continued to lead attorney and retired Army Lt. Col. Gary Port of West Hempstead. Ra received 35,641 votes, or 62 percent, and Port received 21,684, or 37 percent. Neither candidate had declared victory or conceded as of Wednesday morning, and requests for comment to both campaigns were unavailing. The district includes Glen Head, Old Brookville, Old Westbury, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Garden City and Mineola, and if decided in Ra’s favor will mean a sixth two-year term in the Assembly. NATIONAL RACE After initial election night results had him down by more than 6,000 votes, Biden had a commanding lead over Trump in Nassau County, winning by nearly 40,000 votes as absentee ballots continued to be counted. As of Wednesday, Biden received 348,355 votes, or 52.3 percent, compared with Trump’s 308,765, or 46.4 percent. Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen received 3,272 votes, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins received 1,704 votes, Independent candidate Brock Pierce received 1,715 votes, and 1,847 write-in votes were submitted in Nassau County. After trailing Trump early, Biden’s results now correlate with two previous presidential elections. In 2016, Trump received 292,025, or 44.7 percent, of Nassau County votes, compared with Hillary Clinton’s 350,570, or 50.8 percent, according to Board of Elections figures. In 2012, President Barack Obama won Nassau County with 302,695 votes, or 53 percent, compared with Republican Mitt Romney’s 282,131, or 45.4 percent. Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, said before the election that the country’s suburbs “have determined the winner of every presidential race, with the possible exception of one in 2012.” “The winner in the suburbs has gone on to win the White House and the party that has won more suburban seats in Congress goes out to control the gavel there,” Levy said. “So this race is really about who can take the suburbs.”

Port schools head appears in documentary Continued from Page 13 He recalled that as a child, he was “always playing around outside,” and he would “pretty much live” at the fields in Patchogue, playing pickup games with friends. “Now, as you can see, it screams hyper-organization for Little League sports,” Hynes says, as the camera cuts to advertising signs on fields. “And when I see this, this actually is the ultimate example of what our society has become. Organization — we tell kids what to do 24/7 even when they’re doing something they should be doing on their own.”

Hynes is also seen recording a phone call to Patchogue parents advising them that they have the right to opt out of state exams. “One of the things I found most interesting in my first year as superintendent was I didn’t see kids joyful, I didn’t see kids wanting to be there as much as they should,” Hynes said. “Schools are so focused on academics that we rarely focus on social and emotional growth.” He adds that only a few states require recess. In New York, the state Department of Education “strongly recommends that all

elementary schools oﬀer at least 20 minutes of recess on all or most days during the school year, and encourages schools to develop a recess plan to maximize this time for children’s health and well-being,” but no law requiring it has been passed. “The average recess for most kids is 10-15 minutes; that needs to change,” Hynes said. “The detractors were initially about, if you’re going to incorporate play into the day or extend recess, then how on God’s green earth are we going to fit all this curriculum within a school day? Since we implemented play and yoga and mindful-

ness, we’ve seen behavioral referrals being reduced by almost half, and I do attribute that to allowing kids to make decisions on their own.” Educators from the school district in Wilton, Connecticut, are then shown touring the Patchogue-Medford district with Hynes, reviewing the reforms. “What we’re doing here is so out of the ordinary, but it shouldn’t be,” Hynes said. “It should be ordinary.” “Chasing Childhood” is available to view for $12 a ticket at https://rb.gy/lhfxpo.

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County planning cash grants to aid restaurants Continued from Page 1 “It’s gonna be rough … People don’t want to sit outside and shiver eating their filet mignon or whatever,” Curran said. “When our restaurants are doing well, that helps lift up our entire downtowns.” According to Curran, a restaurant with up to 10 employees is eligible for as much as $5,000 in grant money, and a restaurant with 11 to 50 employees, is eligible for the maximum $10,000 grant. Restaurants that are able to receive the funds must be clear of any violations from the state and local health departments. Curran said the county Legislature must first approve the program, but provided no immediate timetable for it. Efforts to reach the Legislature for comment were unavailing. Curran said restaurants can begin applying for the grants on Nov. 30 for two weeks before money is awarded starting in January. Gov. Andrew Cuomo set forth new statewide guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus last Wednesday, ordering all restaurants, bars and gyms to close at 10 p.m. each day. The mandate, which took effect Friday, is part of the state’s efforts to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, cases of which have been spiking throughout New York and the rest of the country. With the holiday season quickly approaching, Cuomo said, a limit of 10 people was placed on indoor and outdoor gatherings at private residences. Restaurants, Cuomo said, will be permitted to provide curbside pick-

up or delivery past 10 p.m., but will not be allowed to serve alcohol to go. Cuomo did not mention how long the mandate will last. “If you look at where the cases are coming from, if you do the contact tracing, you’ll see they’re coming from three main areas: establishments where alcohol is served, gyms and indoor gatherings at private homes,” Cuomo said. Since the pandemic began in mid-March, more than 10.6 million Americans had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Friday, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 243,000 had died. In New York, 545,762 residents had contracted the virus, with more than 26,000 deaths caused by the virus. A total of 52,897 Nassau County residents had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Friday, according to figures from the Nassau County Department of Health. A total of 2,226 county residents had died as a result of the virus as of Friday. Curran and Health Commissioner Lawrence Eisenstein released a joint statement last Thursday urging residents to abide by the state’s health and safety mandates without completely cutting off social interactions with the holidays just around the corner. “Rather than panic, we recommend controlling what you can,” the statement read. “Take the simple measures which will allow you to go about your life while avoiding the virus. Although we can’t bring the risk of con-

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that restaurants, bars, gyms, throughout the state must be closed by 10 p.m. every night starting Friday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. tracting COVID down to zero whenever we leave our homes, protective measures can limit spread of disease, and dramatically shift the odds of remaining healthy in our favor.” Cuomo stressed the importance of local governments monitoring the spread of the virus in their areas and for residents across the state to listen to the statistics and guidance from health care professionals. “There are only two fundamental truths in this situation: it’s individual discipline and it’s government enforcement,” Cuomo said. “The reason we have been successful in reducing the spread in New York is we have been a step ahead of COVID. You know where it’s going; stop it before it gets there.

And you know where it’s going by following the science.” Mario Saccente, a representative of the Long Island chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association, said he and other restaurant owners hope the mandate is just a “temporary setback.” “There was a lot of disappointment from our member restaurants and bars with this news,” Saccente said in a phone interview. “Some are very concerned the next step is a closure again, some members questioned why Long Island at this time was included in this statewide mandate, but as usual, our member restaurateurs and bar owners alike will do what is asked.” The New York State Fitness Alliance, a coalition of gym owners created to help gyms reopen safely, released a statement on Facebook last Thursday imploring owners of fitness centers in New York to provide data that goes against Cuomo’s claim of gyms causing a spread of the virus. “Today’s announcement from the Governor of a 10 p.m. curfew for gyms and restaurants is cause for alarm, as it may be a warning sign of future mandates to come amidst the rising numbers of Coronavirus cases across the State,” the statement read. “We must act swiftly and respond with messaging and data that tells the other side of the story. We want to share the results with you that clearly demonstrate, in fact, we are seeing millions of safe visits with no evidence of the virus spreading in our locations.” Rose Weldon contributed reporting.

N. Shore districts less likely to close Continued from Page 2 “I can assure you, everything we are doing within our schools is extremely effective,” he said. “Our staff and students are doing such a remarkable job and I’m so proud of their hard work and diligence.” Great Neck Superintendent Teresa Prendergast said it will take a joint effort among students, parents, teachers and staff members to avoid potentially closing schools in the future. “So far, our district has been able to avoid school closures – which is a great sign that our health procedures and prevention policies are working,” Prendergast said in a letter. “But continued success requires everyone’s cooperation in school and, equally as important, outside of school. With the holiday season approaching and colder weather on the way, please do your part by following all health and safety guidelines.”

In Sewanhaka, 16 of the 25 total positive student cases were on-site, while the rest were oﬀsite, according to state figures. The North Shore school district, with 20, and the Roslyn and Mineola school districts, with 16 and 14 respectively, were the only other districts with more than 10 confirmed cases from students and staﬀ members. The remaining school districts combined for 30 total confirmed cases of the virus, according to state figures. Among the districts with 10 or fewer cases, Floral Park-Bellerose had one, the East Williston and New Hyde Park-Garden City school districts had six, Manhasset had eight and Herricks had nine. For more information on how school districts and their schools are faring with the coronavirus, visit https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/ home.

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‘It is what it is’ for election 2020 Continued from Page 33 “Donald Trump is sabotaging a transition, some have speculated because he plans to run again in 2024 and he cares more about thwarting the President-elect than he does our country. “Because he is a sore loser who is incapable of accepting defeat and will not concede, he has denied President-elect Joe Biden and his team with essential and timely access to critical intelligence and pandemic planning information. A peaceful transition of power will allow the President-elect to get a head start in taking over the efficient and equitable distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine nationwide. “Well-respected presidential historians report that no president in US history has ever behaved in this manner. Not even remotely. “Although the election outcome will stand and the incumbent will most certainly leave office on January 20th, he is using his final days to spin false narratives and conspiracy theories to poison the minds of millions of impressionable Americans who still stand by him. “The departing president appears to be doing all that he can to undermine democracy, to the delight of our foreign adversaries, while the Covid-19 pandemic that he has repeatedly said would disappear, rages on. “His legacy will be recorded as such and when he does finally leave he will do so without as much as a shred of dignity. Many millions will still revere him and denounce his successor as party to a coup d’état. “I know this must seem confusing, my friend. What’s more, half the people who are reading my response to your question, if they made it this far, are not the least bit happy about what I’ve just told you. Of that I am certain. “Nevertheless, to quote the President when asked about the rising pandemic death toll, “it is what it is”. Andrew Malekoff is a New York State licensed clinical social worker.

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Truth matters even in a time of Trump Continued from Page 18 Here, one can interject the analyses of historian Jill Lepore in her book, “These Truths,” and in her “New Yorker” articles, especially, “It was never thus” (April 27, 2018). Lepore’s essay is worth reading by every American who cares about honesty in politics and the future of our democracy. She cites a little known “fact-checking” during the Nixon impeachment. In the early 1970s, the special counsel asked the most eminent American historian, C. Vann Woodward, to assemble a group of historians to evaluate how Nixon’s conduct compared to all of the presidents who had preceded him. Their conclusion: Nixon was the worst; “It was never thus.” Lepore distributed that 1970s evaluation, based on evidence and credible witnesses, to the leading U.S. historians in 2018, including Columbia’s William Leuchtenberg, then in his 90s. They concluded that Trump was worse than Nixon! Just recently one of the many people

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Dem leader Jacobs exchanges words with AOC Continued from Page 20 Ocasio-Cortez said being a vocal outlier of the Democratic Party, of which Jacobs is a moderate, does not bother her and she intends to hold “all institutions accountable.” “I feel very centered and at peace,” she said Thursday. “This is what you brought me to Congress to do.” Jacobs’ argument of Democrats needing to tone down certain political rhetoric in order to win swing districts or states, has become more prominent among party moderates. Jacobs said certain idealogy and rhetoric can be beneficial in specific political districts, rather than overarching messages applicable to traditional blue and swing districts and states. “Those ideas play very well

in the districts that elect them,” Jacobs said. “They’re not sensitive at times to some of these swing districts. It’s not just congressional. It’s state Senate, Assembly – whatever it may be.” Ocasio-Cortez countered Jacobs’ claim and said swing district Democrats who lost focused too much time on ad spending rather than campaigning during the pandemic, tweeting, “Ideology + messaging are the spicy convos a lot of people jump to. Sometimes it’s about execution and technical capacity.” Both Jacobs’ and OcasioCortez’s views on how Democrats should run and win an election were highlighted in the race between incumbent state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) and challenger Dave Franklin, a Republi-

can from Port Washington. Franklin, who served three terms on the Port Washington Police District’s Board of Commissioners prior to running against Kaplan, seemed to be the most logical choice for law enforcement to heavily endorse. In an October interview with Blank Slate Media, Franklin said he would never think of defunding the police. “We were proactive with police training in our department, and we had a diverse police force in Port Washington,” Franklin said. “I think we have to concentrate on training across the board.” Kaplan, who did not directly side with Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks and calls for defunding the police, addressed the good law enforcement oﬀers the public while emphasizing a need for improve-

ments across the board. “I believe a vast majority of oﬃcers who make our community safe are good people,” Kaplan said. “They are there to do a job, to make sure residents are safe. We need to make sure everyone understands no one is above the law here.” According to Federal Election Commission figures, Kaplan received more than $12,000 in campaign funding from policeaﬃliated organizations compared with Franklin’s $100. As of last week, Kaplan led Franklin in the race for the 7th Senate District, 64,202 votes to 58,021, according to the Nassau County Board of Election figures, with many absentee ballots yet to be counted. The district includes Floral

Park, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Mineola, Garden City Park, North Hills, Albertson, Old Westbury, East Hills, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Estates, Albertson, Searingtown, Lake Success, Manhasset, Munsey Park, Plandome, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, and the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas. Oﬃcials from the Nassau County Board of Elections did not say when the counting of the ballots would conclude but did say results would be finalized by Nov. 28. Nassau Democratic Elections Commissioner James Scheuerman said 142,962 absentee ballots were cast in Nassau County this year during the COVID-19 pandemic, a figure that shattered the previous record of 48,000 in 2016.

Curran highlights free, virtual support group Continued from Page 20 “I’d like to thank the county executive for her support in getting the word out about the help that is available for COVID-19 survivors,” Penziner said. “It’s so important that as many people as possible know about this free support group.” The next support groups are scheduled to occur on Dec. 2, Dec. 9 and Dec. 30, all at 6 p.m. Those who are interested in participating should email lisa.penziner@paragonmanagementsnf.com or call 516-457-5585. “Thank you Emerge for starting this support group for Nassau’s survivors to start a dialogue with others that know what they are

going through and to get solutions from professionals,” Curran said. Curran has underscored the importance of residents maintaining as their mental health since the beginning of the pandemic in midMarch, often acknowledging “pandemic fatigue” as one of the most prominent stress factors people face on a daily basis. “While the recent resurgence of COVID on Long Island has created anxiety and rightful cause for concern, everybody can do their part to limit their risk, and protect their loved ones and neighbors,” Curran said in a joint statement with Nassau County Health Commissioner Lawrence Eisenstein. “Rather than panic, we recommend controlling what you can.

Take the simple measures which will allow you to go about your life while avoiding the virus.” More than 10.6 million Americans had been infected with the coronavirus as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 243,000 had died as of Friday. In New York, 545,762 residents had contracted the virus, with more than 26,000 deaths caused by it. A total of 52,897 Nassau County residents had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Friday, according to figures from the Nassau County Department of Health. A total of 2,226 county residents had died as a result of the virus as of Friday.

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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran highlighted a free, virtual support group for county residents who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Port Holiday Magic announced for later in Nov. Continued from Page 22 Floors, Arena Sports, AR Workshop, Attelia Baby, Ayhan’s Mediterranean Market, Ayhan’s Shish Kebab, Bach to Rock, Bistro GoFood, Blue Moon Project, Bluetique,

Bubba Brown’s Treasures, Dolphin Bookshop, Falconer Florist, Frank’s Pizza, Gino’s Pizza, Hair Studio, Hand and Stone Massage & Facial, Ichiddo Ramen, I Love Hearing, Impulse Boutique, JouJou &

Jorge’s Port Washington Animal Day Care, Massage Envy Spa, New York Fencing Academy, Om Sweet Om Yoga, Painting With Flowers, Pepe Rosso, Port Pop-Up Boutique, Port Salt Cave, Port Thai Place,

Port Washington Florist, Private Prep – The Coding Space, Schmear Bakery & Market, Shields Hardware, Suite 275, Sullivan’s Quay, The Wellground, Twin Pines, Wash Hair and Color Lounge, White

+ One, wit & whim and Yummy Gyro. Visit PortWashingtonBID.org for updates and a full list of oﬀers available on the day and throughout the season, rain, snow or shine.

Northwell to hold 2nd Gun Violence Prevention Forum Continued from Page 22 the United States, will provide insight on issues facing communities of color, and Thomas Jackiewicz, president of the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, who established the hospital’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention, will discuss health care collaboration. “We have an outstanding ros-

ter of experts who can not only speak to the issues of gun violence but who are living it every day,” said Dr. Chethan Sathya, director of Northwell’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention and a pediatric trauma surgeon. “As a pediatric surgeon, I too have experienced this firsthand, having pulled bullets out of babies. It’s a growing issue and we need to continue to have these important discussions to pro-

vide the attention it needs.” Northwell’s inaugural Gun Violence Prevention Forum in 2019 ended with Dowling pledging $1 million toward Northwell’s eﬀort, which helped create the health system’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention. In September, Northwell secured $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study gun violence prevention and estab-

lish the “We Ask Everyone. Firearm Safety is a Health Issue” research study, which instituted universal screenings for those at risk of firearm injury at three hospitals in the health system. Emergency department clinicians are now asking patients specific questions about having firearms in their homes to determine their risk of injury. “As we’ve learned this year with the pandemic, social injus-

tices and excessive gun violence, it will take us all working together to make significant change,” Dowling said. “The Gun Violence Prevention Forum will continue our momentum. But rest assured, we won’t stop until we finally have viable solutions for gun violence.” Due to the pandemic, the event will be held virtually at 11 a.m. on Dec. 10. Registration is currently open.

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Prosecutor to president Continued from Page 6 Mancuso said that his first year on the job involved â€œall the things that a newbie does.â€? â€œAt that point, we didnâ€™t have a parking and traďŹƒc violations agency in Nassau County, we had all traďŹƒc matters going through the District Court,â€? Mancuso said. â€œOne of the things you did when you first arrived in the oďŹƒce was to try cases in traďŹƒc court, and you had an opportunity to learn a little bit about trials in an environment in which failure amounted to very little by way of consequences. So you really learned what you were doing.â€? Mancusoâ€™s economic background from MIT would later be called upon, resulting in an invitation to join the DAâ€™s Commercial Frauds Bureau, where he later served as deputy chief. He also served as chief of the environmental protection unit, where he prosecuted the first successful hazardous waste felony case in New York state that would not be reversed on appeal. After eight years with the DAâ€™s oďŹƒce, in 1986 Mancuso turned to private practice, a time during which he first became acquainted with the Kiwanis Club of East Meadow, a community service organization focused on improving the lives of children. Mancuso said he â€œfell in love with the mission,â€? serving in numerous oďŹƒcer positions in the club before being elected lieutenant governor and leading 16 clubs across Long Island. â€œService has always been a component of who I am,â€? Mancuso said. â€œWhen I was in the district attorneyâ€™s oďŹƒce, I was engaging in public service as a full-time job. When I left the oďŹƒce in 1986 I was kind of looking for something I could do to be involved in a service sort of way in the community. Both gave me the opportunity to do that.â€? Following a short period as general counsel to a gasoline distributor â€œthat turned out not to work for the liking of anyone concerned,â€? Mancuso says, in 1994 he was invited to return to the DAâ€™s oďŹƒce and accepted.

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In the next 25 years, Mancuso worked on various cases, with the most high-profile being the 2004 Roslyn school district embezzlement scandal. He dealt with Assistant Superintendent and scandal bookmaker Pamela Gluckin, who he said was willing to cooperate with the investigation. â€œ[Gluckin] retained a lot of documents that supported her allegations against [thenRoslyn Superintendent] Frank Tassone that Tassone had encouraged her to destroy,â€? Mancuso said. â€œThrough her attorney she began producing documents for us that gave us a road map as to where to go next in the case. And we asked, why did you retain all this stuďŹ€? I mean, Tassone told you to get rid of it. And her response to us was because â€˜I thought it might come in handy someday,â€™ and she was right.â€? He said the cooperation led to Gluckin being â€œtreated more leniently than she would have been,â€? resulting in a plea deal for a 3-to-9-year sentence and being made to repay the more than $4 million she had embezzled. Throughout the following decades, Mancuso also stayed involved with the Kiwanis, being elected a trustee on its international board in 2016. In July, at a special meeting held in lieu of the 2020 Kiwanis International Convention, Mancuso was elected the next president of Kiwanis International, with his term set to begin on Oct. 1, 2021. His elevation partly led to the decision to retire, he said. â€œI just reached the point where I couldnâ€™t adequately do what is required in order to do my job here in the oďŹƒce, and at the same time do all the things I will need to do as president of Kiwanis,â€? Mancuso said. â€œI couldnâ€™t do all of those things at the same time. Itâ€™s been in my head for a number of years that if I was successful in getting elected as an oďŹƒcer, then I should retire at the end of the year and getting ready to do what I need to do to be a good president. Put together, it made sense.â€? Under the three administrations where he worked â€“ Dillon, now-Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, and current District Attorney Madeline Singas â€“ Mancuso said the DAâ€™s oďŹƒce was â€œa very warm, family-oriented atmosphereâ€? where people respected each other. He also praised the leaders, Dillon as a passionate â€œman of integrity,â€? Rice as â€œvery focused, very uncompromising,â€? and Singas as â€œjust a wonderful human being.â€? â€œEverything about [Singas] shows her level of devotion to family and her care for people who are in unfortunate situations,â€? Mancuso said. â€œAnd itâ€™s just a real pleasure working for somebody like that.â€? Mancuso and his wife, a practicing elder care attorney and estate planner, live in North Bellmore and have two adult children, Stephen and Cathy, and two grandchildren, Sam and Henry. He is also a past president of the Nassau County Bar Association, the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce and the MIT Club of Long Island, and previously served as dean of the Nassau Academy of Law. â€œI tend to look forward. I donâ€™t tend to look backward,â€? Mancuso said. â€œI do appreciate the fact that I was treated with respect by the people at the DAâ€™s oďŹƒce. And I hope that Iâ€™ve returned it to them.â€?

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500 positive cases on N. Shore last week Continued from Page 2 out of any analyzed area. The villages of Floral Park, with 396 cases, and New Hyde Park, with 377 cases, were also among the top six villages in terms of positive tests, according to Health Department statistics. Municipalities and unincorporated areas that stretch into more than one North Shore area such as Flower Hill, Herricks, Albertson, Garden City Park, Searingtown and North Hills were counted separately and accounted for 912 cases, according to county statistics. The villages of Mineola, with 543 cases, and Garden City, with 460 cases, accounted for 1,003 of the 1,244 cases in the area that also takes in the Willistons. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, in a news conference earlier in November, said she was worried about the increase of coronavirus cases in the Port Washington area. The area’s 634 cases are almost 10 percent of the North Shore’s positive tests. The towngoverned areas of Port Washington, with 364 cases, had a rate of positive tests averaging 2.93 percent over a seven-day period, according to county figures. Manhasset, which has remained comparatively low since the beginning of the pandemic, had 381 cases, with a majority coming from town-governed areas. The Village of Roslyn’s 171 cases may not seem high compared with other North Shore areas, but the cases per 1,000 residents, 59.96, is one of the highest rates in Nassau County, according to Health Department figures. According to figures provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the estimated population of the Village of Roslyn was 2,882 in 2018. According to Roslyn Mayor John Durkin, the rate of infection reported by Newsday and the population provided by the census are inaccurate. Durkin attributed some of the cases to people with underlying health conditions at the village’s two senior homes, the Atria and Assisted Living Roslyn. On Monday, Curran said Nassau County’s rate of infection was 3.4 per-

cent, the highest number since reopening began in late May. She said keeping schools and businesses open will be a top priority, and the county has everything needed to prevent a winter shutdown. “As county executive, I will continue to do everything I can to keep schools and businesses open,” Curran said. “I believe we have the tools and know-how to get through this winter without a shutdown, so let’s all do our part. Let’s continue to wear our masks, wash hands, practice social distancing, and avoid large gatherings to save lives, keep kids in school and ensure businesses can stay open.” Last week Curran joined with other local oﬃcials in announcing a free drivethru testing facility at the North Shore Hebrew Academy in Kings Point. Since then, the testing site’s location was changed to 600 Community Drive in Manhasset, the site of North Shore’s LIJ Health System building. A spokesperson for the county executive said the decision was made to relocate the site to handle more tests. “We came to a collective decision that it would be best to move the testing site to a location that is better able to handle a larger volume of testing and to avoid disruption to the school,” the spokesperson said in a statement. The testing facility is free to residents who schedule an appointment Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to oﬃcials, testing will be available to anyone 8 years or older. The consent of a parent or guardian is required for anyone 18 or younger. Community members will remain in their cars and receive nasal swabs for two diagnostic tests. After the swabs, residents will remain in their vehicles to await the test results and educational materials. Throughout New York, more than 568,000 people had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to state figures. Of that total, 34,516 people had died. In New York City, 290,018 people had contracted the virus and 24,146 had died.

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Please maintain social distancing practices while in the Library. All customers and staﬀ are required to wear face coverings at all times while in the Library, per Executive Order 202.17. Face coverings must cover both your mouth and nose. Congregating is not permitted. Two computers are available for public use. Please return items in the outside book drops. For safety reasons, we cannot accept items returned inside the Library! Thank you for cooperating with the guidelines we have in place to keep us all safe. Adult Programs Book Discussion—Wednesday—December 16—7pm via Zoom. Copies of Rules of Civility are available at the circulation desk. Please register at willistonpr@yahoo.comTo join Zoom Meetinghttps://adelphiuniversity. zoom.us/j/96026335775?pwd=NEhaUDVO b0Q3dFo0SUJuL1ZBYnNZUT09 Find your local number: https://adelphiuniversity.zoom.us/u/adXtc4WqKUOr go to zoom.us and click join meeting and enter this: Meeting ID: 960 2633 5775Passcode: WPBookDec Or just call 19292056099 and they will ask for the meeting id and password above. Children’s Programs Please check our website, willistonparklibrary.org, for this week’s DIY story time.

Herricks celebrates Unity Day in schools All three of the Herricks Public Schools’ elementary buildings celebrated Unity Day on Oct. 21 as a way to promote kindness, acceptance and inclusion. Many students and staﬀ members wore orange and participated in lessons and activities based on the theme. Students were taught how to be upstanders and help stop bullying.

Searingtown School classes participated in a Wrinkled Heart Lesson. Teachers displayed paper hearts that were wrinkled to illustrate the lasting impact of words. Students then wrote their names on paper band aid cutouts, which they decorated and taped around the hearts as a pledge of kindness.

Virtual Safety Day for Herricks students All Herricks elementary students participated in a virtual Safety Day presentation with officers Todd Atkin, Jesse Cooper and Michael Constanza from the Third Precinct on Nov. 10. They tuned in for a live stream during which the officers discussed stranger danger, safe bike riding and

what to do in various scenarios. Students practiced the “Run, Yell, Tell” approach to safety and watched a video. Mrs. Falcone’s third grade class at Searingtown School hosted the officers and students had opportunities to engage throughout the session.

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