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Columnists February 22, 2008
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Broad Channel Bits
Commentary By Liz Guarino
      The temperature this past week was a bit like a roller coaster! On Monday, there was a lot of fog even in parts of Queens nowhere near the water. We haven't seen any of that in quite a while. Temperatures were up in the 60's that day unusual weather for the middle of winter!
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From The Artists Studio Rockaway Artists Alliance
New Life Drawing Class And A Historic Artists' Haven
Commentary by Susan Hartenstein
      RAA CONTACT INFO: Phone: 718 474-0861; Fax: 718 474-4373; e-mail: rockart116@aol.com; website: www.rockawayartistsalliance.org The Westbeth Gallery is part of the famous Westbeth Artists' Housing complex located at 57 Bethune Street or 155 Bank Street in Manhattan's Far West Village. More abo...
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From the Editor's Desk
Young Cops Speak, And The Community Is Outraged
Commentary By Howard Schwach
      Sometimes, people are their own worst enemies. They talk too much to people who they shouldn't have talked to in the first place. That might sound like a strange statement from a newspaper editor, whose stock-in-trade comes mostly from getting information from people who don't want to give it, an...
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Historical Views of the Rockaways
Hey! Diddly! Dee! - A Sailor's Life For Me!
From The Rockaway Museum Commentary by Emil Lucev,Curator Dedicated To The Memory Of Leon S. Locke
      Ioften wonder how many saltwater sailors are left in the Rockaways? If you know what a jib is; or a yardarm; or an outrigger; or a spanker; or a mainsle; or a royal; or a flying jib; or the yards; or a capstan; or a marlin spike; or a bowsprit; a foremast; a mainmast; a spar; the rigging; the bow;...
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The Inner Voice
Commentary by Marilyn Gelfand
      Change always takes place whether we like it or not. Regardless of how we feel, time moves on and things happen that were unexpected. Even for those of us who try to maintain everything as it is, it must change. It's the nature of life to be part of change.
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Making Waves
Commentary By Jane Deacy Republican State Committee Member, 23rd A
      Two weeks after Super Tuesday and the Republicans have seemingly decided that John McCain will be the candidate to run, while the Democrats are still battling for turf with Barack Obama appearing to be catching a wave. Interesting times we live in.
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Looking Backward
      What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago... 20 Steven Oppenheim, 40, former administrator of the Seagirt Health Related Facility at 1410 Seagirt Boulevard, Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, February 16, to bilking more that $37,000 from Medicaid recipients and their families, and is facing se...
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On The Beach
Remembering 'Sully' As The Parade Goes By
Commentary By Beverly Baxter
      When I first moved to Rockaway more than seventeen years ago, one of the first events I attended with Owen Baxter, the man who would become my husband, was the Hearts and Shamrocks Dance at St. Camillus Hall. The minute I walked into the room, I felt this immediate sense of enchantment.
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School Scope
A Web of Intrigue
Commentary By Norman Scott
      Is there a vast neoliberal conspiracy to impose a market-based system on urban public schools in partnership with the business community leading to a move toward privatization, the weakening of teacher unions,
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The Body Politic - And Impolitic
Many A Slip 'Tween Cup And Lip
Commentary By Publius
      I have been around a long time. Those of you who know of Roman history or of the early history or our own nation know of me and what I did. Now, I'm back, writing on an irregular schedule for The Wave. Note my political ramblings and take them to heart, if you will. If not, then go your own way a...
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The Progressive
Change, Part II
Commentary By John Paul Culotta
      Last time the Progressive made some suggestions regarding social, economic and political changes that are not political promises, but genuine solutions to some of our nation's problems and challenges. Here is a continuation of these ideas.
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Simon says...
Commentary From the Desk of Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
      Have we been lied to? Have we been duped? Does the U.S. Post Office think we're stupid? The Daily News reported on Monday that Post Office spokesman Bob Trombley said that that they believe that the discarded mail was "undeliverable.
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