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May 23, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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Columns
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Column: Paying my dues — a tale of three unions
With the state Legislature upping the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour, and fast food workers agitating for a union, it brought to mind my own experience scuffling at low-paying jobs — and the three union cards I carried. I’ve seen unions from three distinct angles: the weird,...
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Gustavson Column: Can’t convince me I had the worst job ever
An outfit named CareerCast recently released a list of the “worst jobs” for 2013. To earn a spot on the list, a job had to feature “low pay, high stress, challenging work requirements and a poor employment outlook.” The top 10 list included such jobs as lumberjack, enlisted military personnel, oil...
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Column: A not-always-misspent life revisited
It’s a clear indication that you’ve reached a certain age when your social calendar, usually based on trips to the dump or the supermarket, now includes reunions. By definition, a reunion is a gathering of people who haven’t seen each other for an extended period of time, hence if you attend...
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Column: Wow, what a newsman we have
My mother, borrowing some folk wisdom from the Disney film “Bambi,” routinely told me when I was a lad that if I couldn’t say anything nice, then I shouldn’t say anything at all. Obviously, at some point over the years, I stopped taking Mom’s (and Bambi’s) advice. And yet I have something...
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Column: How to capture the northern dark
So there I was, standing on the Sound shore in Cutchogue Saturday night, looking out over the inky sky and black water, minding me own business and freezing me shamrocks off. Why, in the name of all that’s good and holy, am I out here by myself with a sharp wind...
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Column: ‘Kramering’ your way into newspapers
I wasn’t sure if the young people in the classroom were going to get the “Seinfeld” reference. I figured the St. John’s University journalism students I was invited to speak with Monday had to be 5, maybe 6 years old when that show went off the air. I was in Queens...
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Column: More tears for Newtown massacre
Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry at movies (“Shane,” “Cast Away,” etc.), I cried for two weeks straight as an 11-year-old at summer camp and I cried again Sunday night as we were watching “60 Minutes.” But I wasn’t the only one crying Sunday night. Many of those being...
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Column: What wine goes best with matzoh?
Did you know that the Beatles were not Catholic? It was a shock to learn that fact, which, as I recall, a sibling shared with 10-year-old yours truly on the way home from a trip to the barber shop one Saturday morning. Given that the old man served in the Army...
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Column: One life ends, but another begins anew
This is one of those columns that’s pretty much going to write itself, I think. Sometimes I struggle to find a worthy subject (and sometimes I don’t find one), but this week there’s just one thing on my mind: the continuum of life. That subject is unavoidable due to the confluence...
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Column: Pope’s concern for the poor is encouraging
Progressive Catholics are reportedly less than enthusiastic about the election to the papacy of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He is, after all, a 76-year-old conservative theologian who has spoken out forcefully and consistently against same-sex marriage, women in the priesthood, abortion and contraception But if these stands place him out of...
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Guest Spot: Look at the child, not just the test scores
I like to say good morning to our students. No, actually I love saying good morning to our students. When I say this I mean to several hundred students as they arrive, and not a few as I may see them passing in the hall. It’s a simple act that has...
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Column: The pipes were calling, but was it for me?
St. Patrick’s Day just isn’t the same anymore. For over a decade the annual celebration of all things Irish — and unfortunately things that have nothing to do Mother Eire (pronounced air-uh, not ear-ree) — meant riding a bus to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and onto Manhattan’s manic streets for THE parade....
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Column: Booing never made sense, but neither does a ban
I’ve never been a big fan of booing. Maybe that’s because it’s such an unnatural reaction. Screaming, crying, laughing, that’s all real stuff. You do it both on your own and in a group. When have you ever seen someone sitting by himself, booing? Booing is something you do from a distance,...
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Column: You’re not the only one who disagrees
As a newspaper editor, you often have to set aside your own opinions to allow others to use your pages to express theirs. Then you sit back and take the beating right alongside them when people in the community disagree. It’s a difficult spot to be in, but one I found myself...
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Gustavson Column: We made quite an unsatisfactory trade
I’m beginning to have some serious second thoughts about voting for Al Krupski for Suffolk County legislator. And that’s only because if he hadn’t won, and subsequently resigned his seat on the Southold Town Board, Jim Dinizio wouldn’t have been appointed to replace him. Is it naive to think that a...
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Equal Time: It’s about our health, not property rights
In response to John Betsch’s Feb. 14 guest spot “No need to fight over conservation,” I agree strongly that we should not have pointless divisions and am dismayed that he feels that property rights are being attacked. The water quality of our aquifers, bays and Sound are not a partisan issue,...
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Column: Quite a ride over 10 years for this newsman
Ten years ago this month, I was managing a video store in a Los Angeles suburb, still unsure where life would take me. One day on lunch break, I was sitting in my car reading a local paper when I noticed a classified ad for a part-time sportswriter. As a young man...
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Last chance to win our annual Oscars contest
Yes, it’s true, ladies and gentlemen! You have arrived at our annual Academy Awards contest column, wherein readers of same are challenged to pick the winners of the 85th Academy Awards, which will be revealed on ABC-TV on Sunday, Feb. 24. Once again this year, due in no small part to...
