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Are You an Independent or Joint Owner If You Own a Franchise Restaurant?
Feb 25, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
Authorl Stephen D. Hans For more than thirty years, a line was drawn that differentiated a franchiser and franchisee. The relationship between the two served each other well. Entrepreneurs looking ...
Septic Tank Pipe-Cover Crafts
Feb 25, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
Many yards have ugly septic tank pipes sticking up out of the ground, but not all yards have ones that stand out in the open. In some cases, the septic pipes are hidden amongst trees, bushes or oth...
Are Your Dress Code and Grooming Policies Violating Discrimination Laws?
Feb 18, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 90 90 recommendations | email to a friend
      Author: Stephen Hans Companies have the right to expect employees to be neat in appearance and follow a company dress code. Some companies require short hair for men and no one gives it a sec...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: FEB 2015
Feb 16, 2015 | 1 1 comments | 112 112 recommendations | email to a friend
February 2015 Queens NY Market Update  Home sales continued to decrease in January, significantly below last year, however, inventory ticked up slightly. In response to the low inventory levels and...
Ruby Tuesday Is Accused of Gender Discrimination Involving Men
Feb 12, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 147 147 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans It is common for the media to report on cases of gender discrimination where females did not receive equal pay or the same promotional opportunities as men. In contrast to t...
Stronger Mind, Happier You
Feb 07, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 180 180 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy A lot of emphasis is put on the body when talking about working out—those washboard abs, defined calves, slimmed thighs--but sometimes we forget that the mind is part of the body, to...
Know and Follow the Regulations for Tip Pools
Feb 04, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 214 214 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans In the restaurant business and hospitality industry in general, employees who provide services, such as servers, hosting staff, bartenders and bus persons typically receive ...
Queens Home Team Awarded Top Team at Keller Williams Realty Landmark II for Most Units Sold in 2014!
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 275 275 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 | 1 1 comments | 283 283 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 | 262 262 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...

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Amused to death
Dear Editor: Civil libertarians who are on the alert to oppose tyranny fail to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. The importance of an educated citizenry, as envisio...
Oct 09, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fund mass transit
Dear Editor: It is no surprise to transportation historians that the proposed new Metropolitan Transportation Authority 2015-2019 Five Year $32 billion Capital Plan is short $15.2 billion. The prob...
Oct 09, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obligatory "that Jeter was a real class act" letter
Dear Editor: Derek Jeter has just said his final farewell and has gone out a winner. He leaves with five World Series rings, sixth on the all-time hits list, and a player true to the game of baseba...
Oct 01, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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It's working
Dear Editor: Where are all the GOP bobbleheads who said Obamacare would destroy our country, ruin our economy, actually kill you and, according to GOP activist Dr. Ben Carson, was "the worst thing ...
Oct 01, 2014 | 1 1 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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Good old days
Dear Editor: The recent New York City Transit Museum's antique bus display as part of the annual Atlantic Antic festival this past Sunday was a great trip down memory lane. It was a time when bus d...
Oct 01, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Need real strategy
Dear Editor: Bravo to President Barack Obama for finally enumerating a strategy and taking decisive action against ISIS, the radical Islamic terrorists who have been reaping carnage in wide swaths ...
Oct 01, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Punish students
Dear Editor: With so many students in high school who are constantly misbehaving, which severely disrupts the learning process and causes many teachers to leave the profession, perhaps it is time o...
Oct 01, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Unique Opportunity
Dear Editor: Flushing Town Hall has been presented with a significant challenge this season, one that I hope your readers will help us meet. It’s not every day that an institutional supporter prese...
Sep 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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We'll miss the captain
Dear Editor: As we say goodbye to Yankee captain Derek Jeter, we are going to really miss him. He always was a true professional, always respectful to the media, and did a lot of volunteer work wit...
Sep 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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For millionaires
Dear Editor: Senator Mitch McConnell was recently heard thanking the Koch's "for the important work you're doing" and for "rallying to the cause." What cause? Putting Americans to work? Rebuilding ...
Sep 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 35 35 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hand gesture
Dear Editor: I have just seen a picture of dignitaries at the 9/11 ceremony. They were Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Ther...
Sep 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Get out & vote
Dear Editor: Vote! It's not only a privilege, it's a duty. It's also a shame on those too lazy to avail themselves of it; the very ones so eager to complain about our president's inability to move ...
Sep 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dodgy move
Dear Editor: Unpatriotic companies are moving their headquarters overseas (Burger King to Canada) and people are blaming Obama for these corporate inversions? A company buys a foreign subsidiary, a...
Sep 10, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Against Convention
Dear Editor: The United States Constitution has endured for more than two centuries, securing the blessings of liberty for all Americans. There are people now who seek to radically alter the Consti...
Sep 10, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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Honor the burger
Dear Editor: Celebrate "A trip down memory lane on the Hamburger Train" (Michael Perlman - September 4) by participating in National Hamburger Day on Thursday, September 18. Ignore all of the healt...
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Germany trusts Greece to fulfill bailout terms

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2014 file picture German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble gestures during a cabinet meeting in Berlin. s German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Sunday March 1, 2015 told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag he trusts Greece’s current government to fulfill the conditions for the bailout deal, but also made clear the country would not receive any further money if it didn’t. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)BERLIN (AP) — Germany's finance minister says he trusts Greece's current government to fulfill the conditions for the bailout deal, but also made clear the country would not receive any further money if it didn't.


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Coalition balks at signing peace accord for northern Mali
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A coalition of armed opposition groups says it's not ready to sign a peace accord for restive northern Mali.
2015-03-01 10:47:16 -0500
Chicago's 1st black major league baseball player Minoso dies

FILE - In a Aug. 24, 2013 file photo, former Negro Leaguer and Chicago White Sox player Minnie Minoso stands during the national anthem before a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Texas Rangers, in Chicago. Major league baseball's first black player in Chicago, Minnie Minoso, has died. The Cook County medical examiner confirmed his death Sunday, March 1, 2015. There is some question about his age but the White Sox say he was 92. (AP Photo/David Banks, File)CHICAGO (AP) — Minnie Minoso, who hit a two-run home run in his first at-bat when he became major league baseball's first black player in Chicago in 1951, has died, the Cook County medical examiner said Sunday.


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