Polluting oil barons must pay for their messes
Opinion piece decries Exxon and others for repeated spills in the Arthur Kill waterway between Staten Island and New Jersey. It cites New Year’s Day 560,000 gallon leak, multiple February–March releases, a March 6 explosion, and calls for federal action, internal audits, and full damages paid by producers to restore wildlife and wetlands.
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Suit settlement over secrecy in AIDS case at Kings County Hospital
Taxpayers fund the hospital and judiciary yet are barred from knowing settlement terms in Dr. Veronica Prego’s negligence suit after a two month trial. Justice Aaron Bernstein ordered nondisclosure, arguing it is private, while criticizing the public’s lack of access to court proceedings. The piece condemns secrecy and urges transparency in how public funds and courts operate.
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Kings County Hospital Center
Brooklyn
Prego
State Supreme Court
Aaron D. Bernstein
Abrams Proposes Law to Bar Writing Card Numbers on Checks
New York Attorney General Robert Abrams urges the state Legislature to ban merchants from recording consumer credit card numbers and expiration dates on checks. The rule would require showing the card without writing down its numbers to protect sensitive data. Six educators honored by Business Week include Pine Grove junior high global studies teacher Donald Thompson and six others across Syracuse area schools.
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Business Week
Donald Thompson
Pine Grove
East Syracuse
Jacqueline Meyer
Lyncourt Middle
Mary Ann Niemezura
Roxboro Maddle School
North Syracuse
Tina Norton
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Community letters warn OMH cuts endanger services in Syracuse
A nurse from the Office of Mental Health urges residents to oppose budget cuts that would sack 262 clinicians and shutter day programs at Hutchings Center, warning that thousands statewide could lose primary therapy and local communities would see more disoriented individuals. Another reader blasts a radio station for damaging a longtime on air personality Big Mike, detailing his decade of charity work and announcing a station switch.
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Ome
State Office of Mental Health
Hutchings Psychiatric Center
OMH
Mary Lawless
Consolidated
John Terboss
Wyyy P'M
Big Mike
Mike
Auburn
Liverpool
Study on Thruway toll removal to guide Liverpool plan
A column argues for a $100,000 study to assess effects of toll removal on the Thruway through Liverpool, urging state action and clear evaluation of potential benefits and costs. The piece frames the inquiry as essential to informed policy.
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Liverpool
College basketball recruiting heat rises in Raw Recruits
Authors of Raw Recruits accuse colleges including Syracuse University and Pittsburgh of using legal and shady methods to lure top high school players, with Kentucky and others cited as possible NCAA violators. The book sparks debate on player pay, stricter coach rules, and harsher penalties, while urging reader opinions for Sunday Soapbox.
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University of Pittsburgh
University , Kentucky
NCAA
Toll booth data and consultants drive political paralysis
Edward M. Egloff Jr argues toll-takers count freeway traffic and feed raw data to representatives. He faults politicians for needing consultants who hire relatives or donors to produce impressive studies and defer responsibility by blaming costly reports.
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Edward M. Egloff, JR
Liverpool
Cuomo Faces Off Against New York Conservative Party
Cuomo attacks the Conservative Party's radio campaigns as irresponsible and deceptive. He defends his tax cut delay as balance to the budget, criticizes conservatives as self serving, and argues for better education, environment, infrastructure, and aid to the middle class and poor.
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Gov. Cuomo
Cuomo
Cuomio
Washington
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