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Queens Home Team Awarded Top Team at Keller Williams Realty Landmark II for Most Units Sold in 2014!
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
The Queens Home Team at Keller Williams Realty, led by George & Abigail Herrera, were recently honored at the Keller Williams Realty Landmark II awards ceremony in Astoria, NY. Out of 160 Agents, Q...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare)
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
Author; Donna Stefans Re:Obamacare The Health insurance reporting requirements on the 2014 tax return are a bit complicated. If you and your family were covered by an employer health care plan for ...
A Different Slant on Class-Based Hiring Discrimination
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Most employers are familiar with the pitfalls of discriminating against applicants in protected classes under Civil Rights laws. For the most part, African Americans, Hispan...
← How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants? Are Employers Free from Liability When Using Staffing Agencies to Terminate Employees?
Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 31 31 recommendations | email to a friend
Companies often find that staffing agencies are valuable resources for helping them fill temporary or permanent positions and for handling human resources issues. However, recently, an outside staf...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 15, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 58 58 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the ...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: JANUARY 2015
Jan 14, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
January 2014 Queens NY Market Update  The pace of existing home sales increased in December, but remained below that in the same month of the previous year. Home prices declined as we moved in to t...
Negligence of Oregon Hospital Led to Wrongful Death of Patient
Jan 12, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 68 68 recommendations | email to a friend
Author:  Mark H. Sackstein, Esq. All it takes is one small mistake for a disaster to occur. No matter how much research is done when choosing a hospital, it is impossible to predict a situation suc...
Matching Workouts With the Results You Want
Jan 10, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 78 78 recommendations | email to a friend
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard friends complain about not getting the results they want, despite how much energy they’re putting into their workout.  People who want bigger muscles go t...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 08, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 86 86 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the way...
Immersed in ancient times; the performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. A review.
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 140 140 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Imagine being immersed in an ancient world, with colossal stone columns, palaces and images of deities, a marvelous music surrounding you and, thank God, no ce...

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A sincere thanks
Dear Editor: I would like your readers to know how great Dorie at Assemblyman Michael Miller's office has been, and to publicly thank her for all she did for me over the past week in my struggle wi...
Jul 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Con Ed should cut managers, CEO pay
Dear Editor: It's been more than a week since Con Edison locked out its 8,000 union workers and replaced them with 5,000 managers. Since then, we've had frequent power outages and reductions during...
Jul 11, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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The real problem with Obamacare
Dear Editor: We are getting no help from the television newscasters in understanding what the Obamacare issue is really all about. First, it is not the president's job to create laws. Second, the "...
Jul 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.N. treaty a hypocrisy
Dear Editor: I write to protest the UN-proposed "Small Arms Treaty," which would violate U.S. sovereignty, infringe upon our sacred Second Amendment rights, and also severely penalize our job creat...
Jul 11, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP created health care mandate first
Dear Editor: One would think that the Affordable Care Act mandate would be a win-win for both parties. After all, it was their concept and championed by the Heritage Foundation, an American conserv...
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U.S. slipping in education
Dear Editor: It would seem that all Americans would want our youth to be as highly educated as possible. The U.S has fallen to “Average” in international rankings, as released by the Organization f...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Assembly failed by not passing CPR bill
Dear Editor: It is difficult to express my disappointment that the Assembly did not pass our CPR in Schools bill to ensure that all students learn CPR before graduating from high school. In August ...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nadia Abbasi
Queens College Scholar
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Nobody cares
Dear Editor: The chorus of the politically correct want us to believe the horrible turnout on Primary Day was due to the fact that it was held in June and no September. Nonsense. One can always rem...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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A real sense of community
Dear Editor: This past week I’ve been lucky enough to attend many events that exemplify what is best about our country and, specifically, our community. One night the Astoria LIC Kiwanis, a local o...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thumb's up to Willets project
Dear Editor: I would like to congratulate Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ambitious plans for the redevelopment of Willets Point. I was at Citi Field on Wednesday for a game, and I saw firsthand the conditi...
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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More languages on the ballot?
Dear Editor: State Senator Toby Stavisky and Assemblyman David Weprin have introduced legislation requiring that voters be provided information in three more languages - Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi ...
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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You should choose if you love big cans
Dear Editor: New Yorkers face a 9 percent unemployment rate, a looming multi-billion dollar municipal budget shortfall, and critical issues dealing with education, housing, transportation, public s...
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Non-profits need the support of government
Dear Editor: Non-profit organizations that provide valuable services to the children and adults of our communities have been cut off from state money by Governor Andrew Cuomo. We all know that we a...
Jun 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Brooklyn Queens Day
Dear Editor: Thank you Madelyn Roesch! Wow, what memories. As a child in the early 50’s we marched in those parades. We all went to the church on Elder's lane and 88th Avenue North, but have lived ...
Jun 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive in tub

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2011, file photo, singer Whitney Houston, left, and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at an event in Beverly Hills, Calif. The daughter of late singer and entertainer Whitney Houston was found Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, unresponsive in a bathtub by her husband and a friend and taken to an Atlanta-area hospital. The incident remains under investigation. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — The daughter of late singer and entertainer Whitney Houston was found unresponsive, face down in a bathtub Saturday and taken to a hospital in the north Atlanta suburbs, police said.


2015-01-31 17:24:24 -0500
Japan PM Abe condemns Islamic State, vows justice for Goto
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday condemned the apparent killing of journalist Kenji Goto by Islamic State, vowing to work with other nations to bring those responsible to justice. "I feel strong indignation at this inhumane and contemptible act of terrorism," a grim-faced Abe said in brief remarks to reporters. "I will never forgive these terrorists." "Japan will work with the international community to bring those responsible for this crime to justice," he said, reiterating that Japan would not give in to terrorism. ...
2015-01-31 17:13:23 -0500
More than a foot of snow possible for Midwest, Northeast

A storm system will slide into the Ohio Valley on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 bringing a chance of accumulating snow to parts of the Midwest. Showers and thunderstorms are possible across the South. The Pacific Northwest will see a mix of rain and snow. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)CHICAGO (AP) — A storm gathering steam over the southern Rockies is expected to dump more than a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest, New York and New England, which is still recovering from a winter walloping it received just a few days ago. It's also bad news for those planning to drive to Super Bowl parties.


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