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NYC Bans Polystyrene Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups
Feb 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
Judge Upholds the 2013 Law Banning Polystyrene for Takeout Containers and Coffee Cups In 2019 restaurants must begin phasing polystyrene cups and containers out of use. This change is a result of a...
Has Your Loved One Been the Victim of Nursing Home Neglect?
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 123 123 recommendations | email to a friend
How Does Neglect Differ from Abuse? Finding out whether your parent, relative or friend has been the victim of nursing home neglect is vital for their wellbeing. Sadly, many elderly people are in s...
Matter of Van Patten—Undue Influence
Feb 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 117 117 recommendations | email to a friend
Probate Administration | Wrongful Actions There are certain basic legal requirements when a person transfers property, conveys a power of attorney or establishes a plan for the distribution of an e...
Legal Concerns for New York Restaurant Owners
Feb 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 136 136 recommendations | email to a friend
If you’re opening a new restaurant in New York City or the surrounding area, there are certain legal requirements you must put in place. You will need to choose a business entity and get your licen...
Certain questions are taboo for employers to ask in a job interview. The most obvious ones are questions that could be regarded as discrimination. If you ask these types of questions, you could be held liable if a discrimination lawsuit is brought against you. Do not ask questions that intimate at anything to do with age, race, color, national origin or birthplace, religion, disability, genetic information, gender/sex or marital/family status/pregnancy. (EEOC)
Feb 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 142 142 recommendations | email to a friend
2019 Is Here with New Salary Thresholds The New York State overtime salary threshold draws the line between exempt salaried workers, who must be paid for overtime, and those non-exempt workers, who...
MASPETH,NY-BUYING A BRICK 2F. VS A FRAME 2F.
Feb 05, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 328 328 recommendations | email to a friend
COLLECTION OF OPINIONS BY BROKERS IN THE AREA. BUYER BEWARE! BIG DIFFERENCE WHEN BUYING AN OLD FRAME 2F. HOME, MAYBE 100 YEARS OLD BY NOW, AND OR BUYING A YOUNG BRICK 2 FAMILY HOUSE, ESPECIALLY IF ...
Trump supporters still in denial-Why?
Jan 25, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 306 306 recommendations | email to a friend
How many Americans   are Pro Trump today, January 25, 2019?   It is hard to imagine, whether those who are still supportive of Trump knowing all the evidence put out so far, like how many staffers ...
Leo Vadalà’s “Some Grief, Some Joy” Will Move The Reader...
Jan 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 569 569 recommendations | email to a friend
Review by Tiziano Thomas Dossena Historical fiction  is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. The term is commonly used as a synonym for the  historical n...
The Ever Changing World of Web Design & Websites
Jan 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 494 494 recommendations | email to a friend
A Brief Look Back and Look Forward at Websites It's a fact that the world of web design and websites is ever changing. New improvements in design and technology emerge all the time. Can you imagine...
How Important Is ADA Compliance for Your Website?
Jan 11, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 740 740 recommendations | email to a friend
ADA Non-Compliance and The Beyonce Website Lawsuit According to the   Hollywood Reporter , the lawsuit alleges that visually impaired users do not have equal access to the website’s products and se...

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Was there an endorsement in there?
Talk about the lingering effects of Hurricane Irene! Assemblyman and congressional candidate David Weprin bowed out of a scheduled debate against opponent Bob Turner in Queens on Monday night, with...
Aug 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 103 103 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP shakeup on the horizon?
Let the jockeying for control of the Queens County Republican Party officially begin. Or rather, perhaps we should say officially “heat up” for this election season, because the jockeying has been ...
Aug 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 100 100 recommendations | email to a friend
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In some ways, we're just like Ed Koch
Well, the Democrats have settled on Assemblyman David Weprin - or at least the party bigs have decided on Weprin, the voters don't really get a choice - as their candidate to run in the September 1...
Jul 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 96 96 recommendations | email to a friend
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Oh, how those politicians live it up...all over the place!
Before we start, keep in mind that Pol Position works in a dingy, dark basement office where the few files that we actually keep are in water-logged cardboard boxes stored on top a piece of plywood...
Jul 13, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 100 100 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo in charge
What the hell is happening up in Albany?! After years of doing essentially nothing, the State Legislature was actually able to take action on one of the most controversial issues in not only New Yo...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 99 99 recommendations | email to a friend
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R.I.P. bluecollarcorner.com
We guess running an outspoken blog that generally veers far, far, far, far right-of-center and running for office in a strongly Democratic district that spans two boroughs don't exactly go hand-in-...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 98 98 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jimmy Mac is back.
Damn! If you just couldn't get enough of the eccentric Jimmy McMillan, the gloved wonder who ran for governor on the singular issue that the rent is just too damn high, then you are in luck. DAMN! ...
Jul 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 87 87 recommendations | email to a friend
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Groups supporting Congressman Anthony Weiner and groups calling for his resignation held competing rallies outside his office on Sunday.
Should he stay or should he go?
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Jun 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 87 87 recommendations | email to a friend
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The wide world of Twitter
So did he or didn't he? Looks like the world will never know for sure if Congressman Anthony Weiner sent that lewd tweet from his Twitter... Oh wait. Looks like he did. Weiner finally came clean Mo...
Jun 09, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 85 85 recommendations | email to a friend
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More on our Man of Mystery
Who would have thought that when we ran this picture a few weeks back of then-Governor Mario Cuomo and Mets ace Ron Darling and half-heartedly asked readers to identify the third man - “Mr. X” - in...
May 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 94 94 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ferrar0. Mondale & a bunch of other people
Community Board 6 in Forest Hills unanimously approved renaming a portion of the busy Austin Street shopping strip after the recently deceased Geraldine Ferraro, who at one time represented the are...
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 93 93 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jeffries goes exploring
Looks like there is getting to be a fairly sizable crowd of up-and-comers who wouldn't mind replacing longtime Congressman Ed Towns next election. It was long believed that Towns, who has represent...
May 10, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 802 802 recommendations | email to a friend
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He'll 'Trump' anything you've got!
We have to tell you, dear goslings, we really thought we were dreaming. Or at the very least that we had gone on a serious Night Train Express Wine Cooler bender and that we had just imagined the w...
Apr 26, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 103 103 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hevesi joining the club
Well, add Alan Hevesi to the long list of New York City politicians who went from constantly getting re-elected to getting sentenced. Last Friday morning, the Forest Hills native and former state c...
Apr 19, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 654 654 recommendations | email to a friend
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Weiner on a roll (his joke!) at dinner
We know that this event actually happened a couple of weeks ago, but we here at Pol Position would feel seriously derelict in our duties (and trust us, that doesn't happen very often!) if we knew t...
Apr 12, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 92 92 recommendations | email to a friend
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