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The rabbi and his wife, Brocha, brought latkes, doughnuts and menorahs to share with the dozens of attendees.

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Village Chabad celebrates the Festival of Lights

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On Sunday, Nov. 28, members of the Village Chabad kicked off the Festival of Lights with a joyous celebration.

Rabbi Motti Grossbaum said more than 250 attendees attended the menorah lighting on the first night of Hanukkah at the Village Chabad’s center in East Setauket. In addition to lighting the first candle of the 20foot menorah with help from landscaping company Clovis Outdoor Service’s bucket truck, there was a juggling show by Jester Jim, a chocolate gelt drop as well as latkes, doughnuts and hot chocolate being served.

Village Chabad has erected public menorahs in the Three Village community for 35 years, including at the Smith Haven Mall and on the lawn of Stony Brookside Bed & Bike Inn, as well as setting up menorahs in local supermarkets and additional public intersections in the area, according to Grossbaum.

At the event, the rabbi encouraged everyone to go home and light their own menorah.

“We should put our menorahs by the window, and if people ask you, say, ‘Yes, I am Jewish, and tonight we are celebrating Hanukkah. I would love to tell you more about it. I would love to give you a latke or a doughnut, and Hanukkah is so much fun,’” he

said. “So, tonight is about our rededication.

It’s about our education and our commitment to our Jewish pride tonight, for the next eight nights and throughout the year.”

Last year the Chabad, which has members from the Three Village community and surrouding areas, was unable to hold a formal gathering due to COVID-19 restrictions.

“It was incredibly encouraging and inspiring to come together safely as a community, young and old, after the challenging time we’ve all been through,” Grossbaum said after the event. “It is clear that the message of Hanukkah is alive today as it ever was … that light, goodness, kindness, unity and hope will always prevail.”

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Dr. Sritha Rajupet administers second Pfizer shot to Smithtown’s Jonathan Miller, 10, with mother Andraia Miller by his side. Photo from Stony Brook Medicine

Children in Stony Brook Medicine clinical trial receive second vaccine

During Thanksgiving weekend, a dozen children under the age of 12 who took part in a Stony Brook Medicine trial, received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, according to a press release from SBM. The children originally received a placebo during a clinical trial.

For every two kids vaccinated in the COVID-19 vaccine trial in children under the age of 12, a third one received the placebo.

Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, directed the Pfizer trials for children aged 6 months to 11 years old at Stony Brook Medicine’s Advanced Specialty Care in Commack. The facility was one out of only 100 facilities worldwide to take part in the study.

The Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children has a lower dose than the one for adults, which according to SMB is appropriate for children’s lower body mass.

SMB said in the press release that like the adult vaccine, it is given in two doses, three weeks apart. While some children may experience similar short-term side effects such as aches or fever as adults did, they have them at much lower

rates than adults. It is estimated that for every million doses of vaccine given to children ages 5 through 11, 58,204 cases of COVID-19 can be prevented.

Michael and Lindsay Fischer, of Smithtown, enrolled their four children in the clinical trial.

Their 7-year-old son Tucker received the placebo during the trial. The parents wanted everyone vaccinated to protect family members when they visit them.

“If you have questions, call a pediatrician, see what they say,” Michael Fischer said. “We asked everybody that we knew in the medical field to find out if we should go ahead with any vaccinations when and if they become available.”

Andraia and Michael Miller are also from Smithtown and have four children. Their youngest, Jonathan, 10, was enrolled in the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial ages 5-11 through Stony Brook Medicine and received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Nov. 26. The couple’s older children were already vaccinated.

“When the opportunity for the trial came up, he said let’s try it,” Andraia Miller said. “He feels he’s part of science and part of history.”

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Perspective

Part two: Traveling on the edge of a pandemic

Taking a solo backpacking tour through Europe proves the scars of COVID-19 are deep

BY KYLE BARR DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM This is part two of a two part series.

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In Amsterdam, the classic Bulldog hostel, just one part of the company known for its pervasive marijuana products, was practically full to the brim compared to other hostels along my route. And still, people kept to their little groups, barely interacting with each other even in the spacious bar area.

Rosie, a young woman I met in Amsterdam and fellow American traveler from Detroit, talked of her own lonely experiences after she left friends in Istanbul, Turkey, to travel up to Dutch country.

There are ways to mitigate the loneliness.

Apps like CouchSurfing have the capacity for travelers to create hangouts. It’s how I managed to meet a group of international travelers all shut together in a tiny apartment in Amsterdam’s canal district for a house party/barbecue, where alcohol and marijuana loosened enough tongues to break through the concerns of pandemic life. Though that’s easier for young people, many of whom crowded along the rain-slick streets just outside the Amsterdam Centraal train station for a slimmed down version of Pride month festivities. None were wearing masks.

There are certainly places that seem to be trying to capture more of what prepandemic life was like. In Amsterdam and Denmark, masks are only worn in places where one can’t stay 1.5 meters away from people.

Of course, it’s a policy that is rarely if ever enforced, despite COVID cases peaking to a new high for the Netherlands in mid-July.

Despite what Dutch officials have recently said about limiting international travelers who come to revel in the famous smokefilled streets of the city center, the travelers there are undaunted.

Switzerland

The international travel industry grew to new heights up until just before the pandemic, but now many towns, cities and countries are starting to consider whether the general wealth that tourists bring to their homes is worth what they lose in a sense of place and community. The outdoor shopping malls of a city like Bern, Switzerland, are no longer flooded with travelers, and more locals can take the time to walk past the old town and up the hill to the Bern Rosengarten to enjoy a beer and the cool afternoon air with friends and family.

Left, attendees during a pared-down August pride celebration in Amsterdam. Above, Zurich, Switzerland, along the river Limmat, and below, the Gullfoss Waterfall in Iceland seen from high above. Photos by Kyle Barr

While in Switzerland I stayed with a native Swiss man named Pascal for two nights in his home, just a 20-minute train ride from Zurich. That city, so well known throughout the world as a tourist hotspot, no longer sees the crowds it once did. The surrounding mountains are trekked by locals, with more mountain goats than people. The way Pascal kindly greeted his fellows on the slopes of the Etzel mountain, located on the southern end of Lake Zurich, it seemed that a strong sense of polite community was still alive, and better exemplified away from the international crowds of a national center like Geneva or in the resort town of Zermatt, lingering under the craggy gaze of the Matterhorn.

Iceland and back home

On the final leg of my trip into Iceland, I reconnected with my brother. It was the

first time I met somebody I knew in seven weeks. We didn’t rent a car and were forced to take guided tours, one running down the brilliant length of the country’s south coast.

The other was a tour of the Golden Circle to massive sites around the center of the country. We were the only two people in a van with our tour guide. The other people scheduled for the tour bailed last minute and, instead of canceling, the tour operator still offered us our ride. The pandemic had been hard on tour guides. They are making less than 50% what they had been doing just two years ago. Iceland’s economy, and so many other countries in Europe, relies on tourism. In 2019, over 15% of the workforce in Iceland was in the tourism industry. Many European countries accounted for close to 10% of their total gross domestic product.

Some countries, like Greece, accounted for about 20% of their GDP. What will they do

if travelers do not show up at the rates they once did in the years to come?

These are big questions and impossible for one person to answer. Instead, as time moves on and the memories start to congeal in my brain, I’m left with an impression: Thousands of people laying under verdigriscovered statues built in a time centuries before, the uncertainty, the questions, sitting amid millions of lives trying to be lived dayto-day, wanting to see a future in which all can take one collective breath.

And like us back in the States, we’re still wanting and we’re still waiting.

Kyle Barr is a freelancer writer and the former editor of The Port Times Record, The Village Beacon Record and The Times of Middle Country.

Part one of this article appeared in the Nov. 25 edition of The Times of Smithtown and can also be found on tbrnewsmedia.com.

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COVID-19 concerns heighten as new variant is discovered

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Families opened their doors to each other during Thanksgiving, eager for a long-awaited reunion and hoping to keep out COVID-19. Stock photo

These mutations could alter the dynamic in the Stéphane Bancel indicated that vaccines may not be as effective against this variant.

Pigott suggested that too little is known to determine how effective the current vaccines would be against the new variant.

“We will learn more from the World Health Organization and the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] in the weeks to come,” Pigott explained in an email.

Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital/Northwell Health, said numerous mutations don’t necessarily mean this variant is any worse.

“It’s important to see what is the effect of these mutations,” Popp explained in an email.

The answers to whether the strain is more virulent or if the vaccines are less effective are still unknown. The next few weeks could provide a clearer picture, Popp said.

Doctors urged residents to become vaccinated and, if eligible, get the booster.

“My message to the public is to still get the vaccine,” said Khlat. “I wouldn’t tell people to wait” until companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna develop vaccines or boosters for the latest variant. COVID is a “killer.

I want everyone vaccinated as soon as possible.”

At the same time, hospitals are actively monitoring positive cases for the potential spread of the Omicron variant into the area.

Since the emergence of the new variant on Nov. 26, “Stony Brook’s labs have been hard at work in pursuit of an answer” to whether any patients have contracted the variant, Donelan explained in an email.

Stony Brook routinely sends 10 random samples of positive COVID swabs each week to the Wadsworth Virology lab for genomic sequencing. The hospital epidemiologist reviews the available electronic medical record of all positives to identify any patient who may have key characteristics, such as traveling in areas in which Omicron is more prevalent.

“Our lab is working directly with Wadsworth to facilitate rapid sequencing of any samples with high suspicion,” Donelan added.

Scientists are also trying to determine whether this variant has different symptoms and outcomes from the original virus.

The mRNA platforms from Pfizer and Moderna have the ability to pivot rapidly in the manufacturing process in response to changes in the genetic sequences of the virus.

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Despite the desire to relax, remove masks and go on with life, the pandemic, even prior to the emergence of a new, mutation-laden variant, has become a central concern among government and health care officials.

The stock market has felt the effects of concerns over the Omicron variant, hospitals are sending off some positive tests to check for the new variant, and the federal government is restricting travel from several countries in Africa.

While health care officials anticipate the inevitable presence of confirmed cases of Omicron in the United States and New York, they had already seen an increase in confirmed cases and had increased the need for treatment.

At St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown, the hospital provided monoclonal antibody treatment for 32 people the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, according to St. Catherine Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mickel Khlat. That is up from an average of four to five a day just a few weeks earlier.

That increase comes not only from a rise in group activities indoors, but also from a reduction in the immunity conferred by vaccines that are less effective after six months.

Six weeks ago, unvaccinated patients represented 80% of those who received monoclonal antibody treatments, said Dr. Khlat.

Recently, the percentage of vaccinated people who receive antibody treatment has risen to 50%.

“If you got the vaccine six or seven or eight months ago, your immunity is waning,” said Dr. Khlat.

Dr. Gregson Pigott explained that monoclonal antibody treatment could be lifesaving.

“The key is to seek treatment soon after a COVID diagnosis,” Dr. Pigott explained in an email.

The percentage of positive tests in Suffolk County has been rising at a rapid pace, mirroring the positive tests for the nation. The percentage of positive tests on a seven-day average reported on Tuesday, Nov. 29, was 5.3%. That is up from a seven-day average of 3.7% just two weeks earlier and 2.4% a month earlier, according to data from the Suffolk County Department of Health.

Dr. Susan Donelan, medical director of the Healthcare Epidemiology Department at Stony Brook Medicine, explained that this is likely a result of variable acceptance of vaccination opportunities, inconsistent or poor mask usage compliance, increased indoor activity, initiation of indoor heating and general pandemic fatigue.

At the same time, hospitals on Long Island and around the state are preparing and monitoring for the potential arrival of the Omicron variant, which the World Health Organization recently deemed a variant of concern in part because of the number of mutations to the spike protein.

“Thanksgiving gatherings, historically, have provided an annual springboard for cross-transmission of all sorts of respiratory viruses,” Donelan wrote. “This year shouldn’t be expected to be different.”

Pigott added that he would anticipate that the number of positive cases would rise.

As for travel during the December holidays, Pigott advises people to practice prevention strategies that include washing their hands frequently, wearing masks in public indoor settings, keeping their distance as much as possible in public and when people don’t know the vaccination status of others.

Khlat suggested that people didn’t necessarily need to cancel any holiday travel plans because of the new variant. He urged people to “be smart” and make sure they wear masks on airplanes and remain aware of their surroundings.

“We can’t be prisoners,” he said. He also recommended that people stay home if they have symptoms like sniffles or a cough.

Khlat, who is planning to travel in January, will bring along hand sanitizer and may wear an n95 mask.

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PUBLISHER’S EMPLOYMENT NOTICE: All employment advertising in this newspaper is subject to section 296 of the human rights law which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, disability, marital status, sex, age or arrest conviction record or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination. Title 29, U.S. Code Chap 630, excludes the Federal Gov’t. from the age discrimination provisions. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for employment which is in violation of the law. Our readers are informed that employment offerings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

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JOS. M TROFFA MATERIALS “We have had the privilege of advertising in The Village Times since the newspaper was first published in 1976!

After all those years, 45 to be exact, we have had amazing results thanks to their dedication and professionalism.

Minnie and Joann are wonderful and are sure to come up with valuable ideas for your individual advertising needs. Every week, Leah Dunaief & The Village Times staff provide an outstanding paper with factual and relevant information for the communities we all cherish. It is only natural to choose to advertise in their papers!

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ALL PRO PAINTING INTERIOR/EXTERIOR Power Washing, Staining, Wallpaper Removal. Free estimates. Lic/Ins #19604HI 631-696-8150. Nick BOB’S PAINTING SERVICE 25 Years Experience.

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Fully insured.

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SQUEAKY CLEAN “I am a lifetime resident of Saint James who has been advertising in the Times Beacon Record Newspaper for the last 5 years. Through advertising with this local publication, I have been able to extend my exterior cleaning services to many local Long Island homes. It has been a pleasure working with such a professional advertising team, helping to keep our neighborhood houses looking Squeaky Clean!”

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“For decades, the Village Times has been our paper to attract people who would appreciate our lifestyles in Port Jefferson and local towns. Efficient, affordable and reliable is the trademark of the Village Times. Thank You!”

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Letters to the Editor The missing presidential cognitive assessment test

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Navigate the holiday season safely

The best part of the holiday season can be celebrating with family members and friends. Often alcohol can be part of these events, and if a person doesn’t drink responsibly, their actions can lead to dangers on the road.

If drinking is part of the festivities or ingesting any other substances that can impair the senses, a plan of action is needed before the partying begins. There is no excuse for driving under the influence.

For decades, we have been familiar with sage advice such as having a designated driver, planning to sleep over at the home where the party takes place or calling a taxi. Of course, sometimes the designated driver decides to join in on the fun or it turns out there is no room to sleep at the house. In many areas, especially in our towns, there aren’t many taxi services.

Just a few years ago, scenarios such as the ones mentioned could spell danger if a person under the influence decided to get into the driver’s seat because they just wanted to go home.

Nowadays, there is no excuse for driving under the influence of any substance with phone apps to order car services such as Uber or Lyft providing another way to stay safe on the roads.

According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, better known as MADD, there are more than 300,000 drinking and driving incidents a day in this country. According to the grassroots organization, in 2019 this reckless form of driving led to 10,142 deaths that year, which breaks down to almost 28 people killed a day. There are also 300,000 injuries a year due to drinking and driving, according to MADD. All of these deaths and injuries could have been avoided if the drivers who caused them had a plan before drinking. And, let’s not forget, everyone can play a part in keeping impaired drivers off the road. When hosting a party, make arrangements for your guests who will be indulging themselves. Keep in mind the Suffolk County Social Host Law, which is primarily intended to deter underage drinking parties or gatherings where adults knowingly allow minors to drink alcohol or alcoholic beverages.

The holiday season is a time for celebrating the accomplishments of the past year and the promises of a new year. Let’s keep the roads in our communities safe to enjoy during the next few weeks and all year long.

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If there is any conceivable action of which former president Donald Trump [R] has not been accused, it is understating the importance of his personal accomplishments. Thus, when Trump took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test as part of his physical examination at Walter Reed Medical Center, it came as no surprise when he announced that the test had been not only very easy for him, but he had “aced it.” This sent his numerous detractors into paroxysms of apoplexy, which caused them to examine the test in great detail and pronounce unanimously that any normal person could easily pass it with no trouble at all.

Now, here we are in 2021, and the White House is occupied by President Joe Biden [D]. He recently took his physical at Walter Reed, and it was quite comprehensive, including optometry, otolaryngology (ENT), dentistry, orthopedics (foot and ankle, also spine), physical therapy, neurology, cardiology, dermatology, anesthesiology and gastroenterology. Very impressive, indeed.

But wait! What about his brain? No Montreal Cognitive Assessment test? How can this be? One possibility is that Biden is obviously the sharpest knife in the drawer and any such test would simply be a waste of his valuable time. He may need to visit the southern border, discuss military strategy with Gen. Mark Milley, figure out how to protect us from rain bombs due to climate change, show his son Hunter Biden how to repair a laptop or any of a myriad of other pressing tasks.

But let us consider a statement made by Biden a few weeks ago: “Um, you know, there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh you know, where [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt [D] came up with a thing, that uh, you know, was totally different, than a, than the, he called it, you know, the World War II, he had the War Production Board.”

Now, if this were a one-time blooper, such as the one made by former Vice President Dan Quayle [R] in 1992 when he told a sixthgrader in a spelling bee that “potato” should have an “e” on the end, we might laugh it off and move on. But Biden does this with noteworthy regularity, bringing his mental acuity into serious question. Fortunately (for him), his advisers may be monumentally misguided, but they are not stupid, and the likelihood of him being required to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test is about the same as Queen Elizabeth II being required to take a driving test in England, which is zero. Too bad for the United States.

Thank goodness that Vice President Kamala Harris [D] is waiting in the wings.

George Altemose Setauket

Argument to end cashless bail filled with falsehoods

The Nov. 18 editions of TBR News Media papers featured an article on Suffolk County Republican elected officials and bail reform [“Republican lawmakers call for change in bail reform”]. Their argument to end cashless bail is filled with falsehoods.

Bail was intended to ensure that a person appears in court if they are a flight risk.

Before bail reform was enacted in 2019, two people could be arrested for the same crime, and whether they were released or remained behind bars was dependent on one thing: Whether they had the money to make bail. That is a gross miscarriage of the justice system.

An excellent example of this would be to look at the recent case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was released on bail, after a GoFundMe campaign raised the $2 million bond. Contrast this with the case of Kalief Browder, who remained in Rikers Island for three years, two of them in solitary confinement, for allegedly stealing a backpack. Browder’s family could not afford to make bail, and he remained incarcerated for the crime of being too poor to navigate the criminal justice system.

Republicans say that this isn’t about race, but in the state of New York, almost 75% of the people behind bars are Black or brown, which is a disproportionate representation of the population. When a group of white male politicians gather, as U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY1], state Sen. Mario Mattera [R-St. James], Sen. Anthony Palumbo [R-New Suffolk] and Suffolk DA-elect Ray Tierney [R] did and talk about how cashless bail is “eroding society,” what they are advocating for is keeping more Black and brown people behind bars as they await trial. Particularly troubling was Tierney’s assertion that “criminal justice reform doesn’t keep us safe.” It shows a lack of understanding and awareness of the trauma mass incarceration has had on communities of color.

Keeping people locked up because they are too poor to make bail is pay-to-play justice. The choice of mass incarceration and public safety that Republicans present is a false one. The United States has a mass incarceration problem. We are 5% of the world’s population, yet we make up 25% of the global prison population. Much of this is based on draconian sentencing laws and drug laws that have historically targeted communities of color. Bail reform was a key step in beginning to correct this harm.

Anyone who truly believes in a justice system that works for everyone, no matter their income or their skin color, should support criminal justice reform and defend bail reform.

Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

Fix the 110-year-old East River Tunnels before spending billions more on Penn Station

MTA Acting Chair and CEO Janno Lieber’s plans for spending $10 billion in new assistance from Washington as a COVID-19 transit relief package, forgot the 110-year-old East River Tunnels.

Previous investments at Penn Station including the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall in the Farley building, $300 million new West End Concourse and $600 million new 33rd Street entrance have done little to improve the reliability of Long Island Rail Road service. They all fail to add any new additional Penn Station tracks or platforms. This results in no capacity increase for any new rushhour Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR or future new Metro North trains.

Leiber’s support for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s [D] estimated $6.7 billion Penn Station improvements does nothing for riders who have to deal with canceled or combined trains due to increasing frequency of problems with the East River Tunnels.

Amtrak continues to delay overdue major repairs to the four East River Tunnels until after the LIRR is expected to begin service into Grand Central Terminal in December 2022. Delaying the start of work by six years from 2019 to 2025 will increase costs by 300% to $1 billion. Continued deterioration of the East River Tunnels over this time period could result in an increased scope of work and accompanying service disruptions. Combined with responses to the procurement process from contractors, this could then result in a final price tag of several hundred million dollars more than the current engineers estimate.

Only one of four East River Tunnels can be taken out of service at a time for reconstruction. It will average one year or more to finish work on each tunnel. As a result, this project may not be completed until 2030. Until this work is over, it is impossible to increase rush-hour Penn Station capacity and guarantee reliable uninterrupted service.

There will continue to be a three-way competition between Amtrak, LIRR and NJ Transit for Penn Station rush-hour access, Metro North will also be looking for rush-hour access, resulting in a four-way competition. LIRR riders prefer safe and reliable service at a fair price without being accosted by panhandlers and homeless people. Stop spending billions more to raise ceilings, increasing circulation and adding more natural light at Penn Station until you have brought all four East River Tunnels up to a state of good repair. Commuters travel to and from Penn Station. We don’t live there.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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A plea for solutions instead of more sand castle destroyers

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hen she was little, my daughter loved to build sandcastles. She’d put wet sand in a bucket, gently pull the bucket back and marvel at the details in the castles that came out.

My son wasn’t as interested in building castles. He derived special pleasure out of stomping on the castles she made. It wasn’t just that it gave him power over the sand: he also felt power over his older sister, who was furious with him for D. None crushing her castles. of the above While I tried to

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF reason with him, which is almost as effective today as it was when he was two,

I came up with an alternative plan that required additional energy from me, but that created peace on the beach. I’d quickly put together a ring of 15 castles, grabbing wet sand and dumping it several feet from where my daughter was working on her creation.

Like a young Olympic sprinter, my son would race over to the collection of castles and stomp all over them, while my daughter slowly built her own city of sand.

These days, it seems, we are surrounded by people eager to stomp on everyone else’s sandcastles.

Sure, it’s satisfying to feel the figurative sand in our toes and to revel in tearing down what other people have created.

But, really, given all the challenges of the world, I think we should ask a few questions of all those people who are so eager to belittle, attack and undermine others. What’s your solution? What are you doing better?

How would you fix the problem?

Insulting others for their efforts, their awkwardness or their perceived flaws often seems like a form of ladderism. No one wants to be on the bottom rung of a ladder, so people try to push others down or to shout to anyone who will listen about how much better they are than the people below them. That seems to be a sign of weakness or insecurity, reflecting the notion that other people are below them.

In addition to dumping on others, we live in a society of people for whom hearing views that differ from their own somehow turns them into victims. Surely we have more choices than simply, “I’m right and you’re wrong.” If someone doesn’t agree with you, maybe it’s worth finding out why.

Anger, frustration and hatred, while they may make us feel slightly better in the moment, aren’t solutions and they don’t improve our world. They are a form of destructive energy, like stomping on sand castles.

We should ask more of ourselves and from our leaders. I’m tired of hearing about politicians who will fight for me. I don’t want to send people into office to fight against others who are trying to do the best they can for the country. I want leaders who will learn, listen and, gasp, reach across the aisle in the search for solutions.

While platforms aren’t as sizzling as slogans or take downs, they include ideas and potential solutions.

Civility makes it possible for us to hear and learn.

We have enough threats to our lives without needing to turn against other people or to give in to the urge to crush other people’s sandcastles to feel better. We don’t all have to be best friends, but it’d be nice to look forward to a holiday season and the start of a new year that focused on a shared sense of purpose. We need better ideas, not better ways to attack.

A big thank you to the federal government

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ince we were thinking of all we are grateful for this Thanksgiving, I can now add one more item to the list. It seems that government officials have finally noticed how important newspapers and media, especially local news media, are, and they want to help us survive. In fact, attitudes on the part of media members toward government have also changed in the last couple of years, thanks strangely to the coronavirus pandemic.

The grim numbers Between tell the story. According you and me to an article in this past

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF Monday’s issue of The New York Times, there are now 200 counties in the United States without a newspaper. These are being referred to as newspaper deserts. More than 2100 have shut down since 2004. This is in part due to the rise in digital media that has broken the business model

of advertising support for local newspapers, with the final blow delivered by COVID-19.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of journalists at newspapers fell to 31,000 last year from 71,000 in 2008.

At the same time, in order to stay afloat, many newspapers have accepted help from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program with forgivable loans, assuaging fears of publishers of an inherent conflict of interest in accepting federal help. After all, newspapers are considered the watchdogs of the powerful, including government, on behalf of the people. We have been leery of any quid pro quo by accepting government help until now. But there have been no restrictions or demands put on news gatherers in this program, proving that such support can work if properly administered, and those loans have doubtlessly saved the number of shuttered newspapers from being greater.

“I don’t think we’d be having this conversation [about government support for local media] if it were not for the impact of Covid and the role that it played in accelerating challenges the [news] sector has faced,” said Damian Radcliff, a professor at the University of Oregon School of

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A tax credit for local newspapers was one of the main items in the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, a bipartisan bill that appeared before Congress in 2020 and was reintroduced this year. Among its supporters was local U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1). When it stalled, it was then put into the latest $2.2 trillion package, as a payroll tax credit, the giant bill having passed the House and now awaits its fate at the hands of the Senate.

Why should the government help newspapers?

For starters, there is early precedent in United States history. The Postal Act of 1792 gave newspapers significantly cheaper mail rates.

The maxim about an informed public being the cornerstone of democracy still holds. A free press is enshrined in the First Amendment, and the way to help pay for it was, and still is, by reduced postage. To this day, newspapers that are so designated because they carry a significant percentage of news, as opposed to only advertising, move at the rate of first class mail.

As for local news that most directly affects everyday life, who but the local news outlets would routinely cover local school board, town

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board and civics meetings? It is in the local news where births, deaths. graduations and weddings are noted. Local student sports teams, student musicians and academic accomplishments are proudly published, as are local cultural events, exhibitions and fairs. In addition to holding local officials accountable, local newspapers define the boundaries of a community and strengthen its bonds.

Other ways that government can help news outlets include placing advertising from their various agencies. Such a program helped newspapers in New York City this past year for a total of some $10 million, at the behest of Mayor de Blasio. Although counties already advertise legal notices in newspapers, those are not usually equitably placed but rather are saved for the partisan papers by the party in control.

A legislator in New Jersey suggested giving residents a $250 deduction on their taxes if they subscribed to a local news outlet.

I can tell you that were we to receive any sort of financial help from the government, it would go directly toward publishing more local news for you.

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