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Opinion

Readers sound off on war profiteers, package theft and Ghislaine Maxwell

Grahamsville, New York: I recently read the vile, full-page essay written by Rabbi Dov Fischer. In The Country Vues, a weekly summer publication widely ...

Joe Hofmann
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Teach your kids resilience, before they’re taught something else

The October 7 Hamas atrocity was a cruel and horrifying event in and of itself; it was a pogrom in which the terrorists themselves ...

Joe Hofmann
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Opinion

Using NYC’s streets for all New Yorkers

Voters were drawn to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign because it promised to solve the city’s affordability crisis and made a connection with New Yorkers on ...

Joe Hofmann
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RPA sells out to Amtrak: Taking railroad’s money to promote Gateway boondoggle compromises its independence

Anything the nonprofit Regional Plan Association has to say about the future of Penn Station and Gateway is called into question because it has ...

Joe Hofmann
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Erin Brockovich: Harlem Legionnaires’ disease demands real action

My thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Harlem who have been afflicted with Legionnaires’ illness or who have lost loved ones to ...

Joe Hofmann
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Opinion

A Times Square casino is a bad bet

You might encounter stagehands going into practice, older New Yorkers introducing themselves to one another before lunch, or tourists from all over the world ...

Joe Hofmann
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Opinion

Injustice in Jersey: Former Trump attorney Alina Habba was illegally made federal prosecutor

The fact that a federal judge yesterday decided that Alina Habba, whom Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi had attempted to retain in ...

Joe Hofmann
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Opinion

Readers sound off on persecution of immigrants, Netanyahu’s plan and today’s pitchers

Los Angeles: To Laura Loomer and Stephen Miller: As a fellow Jew, I think everyone has the right to support their own thoughts and ...

Joe Hofmann
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N.Y.’s energy program needs all of the above

One may easily believe that the process should be all or nothing as New York’s shift to a clean energy economy proceeds. We must ...

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Opinion

City leaders must also pass their test

New York City students are returning to school riding a wave of unprecedented advances in math and reading as their backpacks unzip and classrooms ...

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