Legislators As Puppets, Only Term Limits Will Do
      The two elected officials who represent Rockaway in the State Assembly come with puppet's strings attached, and those strings are not controlled by the electorate, but by Sheldon Silver and Joseph Bruno, party leaders who control with an iron hand the Assembly and the Senate respectively.
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This Hole Can't Be Found At Dunkin Donuts
      Just as there is no doubt that Medicare is a boon for our senior citizens, there is also no doubt that the program is flawed in a number of ways, among them the major problems caused by the fact that the program cannot negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for better prices, the cap on ancillary services such as physical therapy and the infamous "Donut Hole.
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Editorial Comment
by Robert Sarnoff
     Medicare's "Do-nut hole"
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From The Editor's Desk
Stopping, Frisking Suspects: Racial Profiling Or Aggressive Policing?
Commentary By Howard Schwach
      The battle lines are drawn as I expected they would be when I first saw the story hit the pages of the daily papers earlier this week. First came the headlines NYPD Frisked Blacks At Five Times Rate of Whites, trumpeted the Daily News.
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