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Vaccine arrives; deaths rise BY ROSE WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ New York state’s largest health system, Northwell Health, made history on Monday by vaccinating the first person in the United States against COVID-19. In a Zoom conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Michelle Chester, director of employee health care, injected Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine into Sandra Lindsay of Port Washington, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling was also present. “Today is V-Day in our fight against COVID-19,” Dowling told the governor. “This truly is a historic day for science and humanity, one in which we here in New York and across the United States have been waiting for quite some time.” The system said Lindsay’s parPHOTO BY SCOTT HEINS, COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO ticipation kick-started a long-anticipated vaccination deployment program throughout the country, Sandra Lindsay, a registered nurse and director of critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, Continued on Page 52 receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a live conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Police reform demanded in Nassau BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Chants of “No justice, no peace, no contract for the police” were

heard outside the Nassau County legislative building in Mineola last Thursday night as more than 100 people gathered to demand that the county not approve a new po-

lice labor contract until more public input is heard by oﬃcials. Representatives from the Long Island Advocates for Police Accountability, Long Island United to Transform Policing & Community Safety, Young Long Island for Justice, and various NAACP branches throughout Nassau County made up a prominent number of those

who gathered outside the county building. “This police contract is not considering needed reforms to the police,” Shanequa Levin of Long Island United to Transform Policing & Community Safety said. “They need to hear us because they don’t care. We need them to know that Black lives matter to us.” On Nov. 23, the County Legis-

lature approved a new labor deal with the 350-member Superior Oﬃcers Association, the county’s largest police union. The tentative deal is for eight-and-a-half years and awards raises totaling 15 percent and provides oﬃcers with a $3,000 stipend upon completion of the county’s body camera program, expected to begin by September. Continued on Page 44

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Man steals car after Hebrew Academy leaving police HQ website hacked

Vehicle stolen 10 minutes after he left custody: NCPD Anti-Semitic slurs put on school site BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

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Nassau County police were searching for a 33-year-old man who robbed a woman of her car no more than 10 minutes after being released from county police headquarters, according to law enforcement officials. A 62-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed, was sitting in her 2019 blue Cadillac SUV in front of 250 Old Country Road last Wednesday when a man identified as Patrick Blaszkiewicz approached the vehicle, police said. Officials said Blaszkiewicz demanded that the woman exit the vehicle. As she left it, he allegedly entered the car and began driving west on Old Country Road. The woman told officials Blaszkiewicz was wearing a hospital gown and blue scrub style pants, police said. Officials said he was released from the county’s police headquarters at 1490 Franklin Ave. 10 minutes before the alleged incident. There is no known address for Blaszkiewicz, according to a police news release. Efforts to reach a member of the Police Department for comment were unavailing. Officials urge anyone with knowledge of Blaszkiewicz’s whereabouts to call the Third Squad at 516-573-6353. The robbery was the second within a week in the Village of Mineola. Officials said an unknown man broke the glass from the front door of Enterprise Rental Car at 297 W. Jericho Turnpike in Mineola at 1:39 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6. The man was caught on a security camera entering the building and rummaging through the

The FBI and local police are investigating an anti-Semitic attack by hackers that placed Nazi images on the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s website. Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder told Newsday on Tuesday that the FBI had joined an investigation into the attack, which occurred on Monday, along with county police and the Lake Success police. The attack included anti-Semitic images, messages and songs, according to images circulated online. Pictures and videos from StopAntisemitism.org, a nonprofit whose mission holds “antisemites accountable” and creates “consequences for bigoted actions” were posted Monday around 4:30 p.m. The video features the home page of the school’s website with Nazi soldiers marching in the background. Screenshots of the website were then posted with anti-Semitic messages with slurs above a notification that the website was under construction. In the website’s “About Us” tab, there were more

pictures of Nazi soldiers holding up swastikas and referring to the school as the “North Shore Concentration Camp.” The tab also featured a profile on Adolf Hitler and outlined “field trips” the students would take to Auschwitz. The post said that students would have to “walk into an SS office and declare themselves as Jews,” and listed the deadline for the application as “January 1945.” The school’s headmaster, Daniel Vitow, was not available for comment on Tuesday, but told the New York Post on Monday that school officials were “aware of the situation and are actively working with law enforcement.” Officials from the Nassau County Police Department confirmed they are investigating but did not provide any additional information. A spokesperson said the county police are assisting Lake Success police in the investigation. Lake Success police referred calls to the county Police Department, according to Newsday. Liora Rez, the director of StopAntisemitism.org, said her organization was notified about the incident shortly after 4 p.m., according to the Post. Continued on Page 43

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Police are searching for 33-year-old Patrick Blaszkiewicz, who allegedly robbed a 62-year-old woman of her car last Wednesday morning. oﬃce, according to oﬃcials. The man was described as white, 5-foot-9, with a medium build, and he wore a black face mask, a black jacket, blue sweatpants with a white stripe on them, a gray hat, and black sneakers, according to a news release.

Oﬃcials reported no stolen items or cash, but the damage to the front door was estimated at $3,000, according to the news release. Eﬀorts to reach a representative from Enterprise or the Police Department for further information were unavailing.

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The North Shore Hebrew Academy High School’s website was hacked on Monday and featured anti-Semitic messages, images and songs, according to pictures from StopAntisemitism.org.

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Markowitz to join Viscardi Center board Great Neck resident, former Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance head to join school board BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Great Neck resident Steven Markowitz was appointed to the Viscardi Center’s board of directors after leaving the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Markowitz, who spent eight years as the holocaust center’s board chairperson, was appointed to the Viscardi Center board last week. Since moving to Great Neck in 1975, he has been an active member of the community. He is one of the Great Neck Student Aid Fund’s longest-serving members and also served as a member of the Gold Coast Arts Center’s executive board. Markowitz also served on the Village of Great Neck’s Board of Zoning Appeals and as a Temple Israel trustee for more than 40 years, three of which he was president. Markowitz’s reach also extends into politics, serving as president of the Democratic Club and vice chairman of the Nassau County Democratic

Committee. John D. Kemp, president and CEO of the Viscardi Center, cited Markowitz’s previous experiences as a reason for bringing him on the board. “Steven’s wealth of knowledge, particularly his government relations skills, will prove beneficial to the Viscardi Center as it continues to influence policy change on issues directly aﬀecting the lives of the children and adults with disabilities we serve and the programs we deliver on a local and national level,” Kemp said. The Viscardi Center was founded in 1952 by Dr. Henry Viscardi Jr., who served as the disability adviser to eight U.S. presidents. The center, located in Albertson, educates, employs and empowers people with disabilities, from children to adults. The center provides children with an education from pre-K through high school. It also provides transitional services for people who graduated from school and want to begin their careers

and provides diversity training and prospective candidates to a wide range of companies. Markowitz lauded the center’s accomplishments and services it provides and expressed gratitude for being appointed to the board of directors. “I have served on a number of not-for-profit, corporate, religious and political organization boards and none of those experiences compares to the meaningfulness and importance of the work of the Viscardi Center,” he said. “I am deeply honored that I have been asked to participate and will do my utmost to assist the organization and the children and adults that it serves.” Markowitz was elected as the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center’s third chairman in 2012 and served four twoyear terms prior to the center appointing Glen Head resident Andrea Bolender as his successor this year. Markowitz touted the importance of cultivating fresh ideas from new people and said choosing Bolender placed it in the right hands.

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Great Neck resident Steve Markowitz was appointed to the Viscardi Center’s board of directors last week.

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Nurse receives country’s 1st vaccine Sandra Lindsay of Port Washington given Pfizer inoculation, reports no side effects BY R O S E W E L D ON

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Nurse Sandra Lindsay of Port Washington displays her immunization card after becoming the first person in the United States to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Lindsay, who works in the ICU at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, says she will encourage everyone to take the vaccine.

It was one small pinch for a registered nurse from Port Washington, and one giant leap for the country, when she received the coronavirus vaccine on Monday. Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse at Northwell’s Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, received the vaccine, developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech, from Dr. Michelle Chester, director of employee health services for Northwell. She was the first person in the United States to receive the long-awaited vaccine, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s oﬃce and Northwell Health. Northwell CEO and President Michael Dowling stood by and Cuomo participated in the livestreamed event. “This is a special moment, a special day,” Dowling said. “This is what everybody has been waiting for to be able to give the vaccine.” Lindsay said she felt “great” after receiving the vaccination, and thanked her colleagues for their hard work, adding that she felt “relieved” and “hopeful.” “It didn’t feel any diﬀerent than when receiving the annual influenza vaccine,” Lindsay said. “I would like to thank all the frontline workers, all my colleagues who’ve been doing a yeoman’s job to fight this pandemic all over the world.” She added in an interview with the

television program “Inside Edition” that she was not suffering any side effects of the vaccine. “No side effects at all,” Lindsay said. “I’m feeling no aches, no pains. I took my temperature [the morning after] just to see what it was, and it was 98.1 degrees.” Cuomo thanked Lindsay and Chester for their work over the course of the pandemic. “Thank you for everything you’ve done for all New Yorkers through this pandemic,” Cuomo said. “I know how horrific it was. It was a modern-day battlefield, and that’s why the word ‘heroes’ is so appropriate for what you do – put your fear aside, and you step up every day to serve others, and you did it magnificently well, so I can’t thank you enough. This vaccine is exciting, because I believe this is the weapon that will end the war. It’s the beginning of the last chapter of the book, and now we just have to do it.” In remarks to the governor following her vaccination, Lindsay said she would continue to advise the public to wear masks and abide by social distancing guidelines, adding that she hoped the vaccination would mark the “beginning to the end of a very painful time in our history.” “As a nurse, my practice is guided by science and so I trust that,” Lindsay said. “So I encourage everyone to take the vaccine.”

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Northwell’s gun violence summit goes on Second annual event held virtually, features talks from Dowling, Bloomberg, Giffords BY R O S E W E L D ON On Thursday, Northwell Health hosted its second annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum, which brought together leaders across health care and other fields to discuss gun violence as a public health issue. The conference highlighted critical issues of gun violence in the United States, including public policy, advocacy and the role of government; corporate America, and finding a middle ground; and how health care partnerships can make a diﬀerence. In his opening remarks, Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling emphasized the importance of discussing the issue in the middle of the pandemic. “This is a public health emergency and it’s on us to keep the conversation going and work together to find solutions,” Dowling said. “Even amidst the pandemic, we should not step aside. We will succeed with COVID-19, but we have to make sure we deal with the other emergency – gun violence.” Michael Bloomberg, founder

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“This is a public health emergency”: Michael Dowling, Northwell Health’s president and CEO, delivers opening remarks at the health system’s second annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum. of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and co-founder of Everytown for Gun Safety and former mayor of New York City (2002-2013), was among the guest speakers at the event. “The pandemic is intensifying so many other long-standing per-

sistent public health issues, including gun violence,” Bloomberg said. “We all have a responsibility to do even more. Because if we grow the gun sense movement to include even more allies we really can save a lot more lives in communities across America.”

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giﬀords, who was shot in the head during a mass shooting that killed six people and injured 12 others, spoke on a panel with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania) about gun ownership and the role of government to enact

reasonable gun control measures. “We are at a crossroads,” Giffords said. “We can let the shooting continue, or we can act. We can protect our families, our future. We can vote. We can be on the right side of history.” Fitzpatrick, a former FBI special agent who carried a weapon as part of his job, said that transparency was crucial in passing gun safety legislation. “Policy is a huge piece of it,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s not everything, but it’s a big piece today. And including inclusive policies, obviously, legislation, both from the federal and state and sometimes a local level. And that will get you a long way to solving the problem, but it’s never going to be everything. We need a lot of openness and honest, transparent conversations with people that think diﬀerently about this issue to try to bridge that gap and bring people together. Because the one thing that binds us all together is we love our loved ones, and our children, and our neighbors, and our community members. And we don’t want to see anybody get hurt.” Continued on Page 54

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LIPA sues PSEG LI for Isaias response Claims for breach of contract, failure to oversee management seek $70M in damages BY R O S E W E L D ON The Long Island Power Authority has filed legal action against PSEG Long Island for breach of contract over its performance in response to Tropical Storm Isaias, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s oﬃce announced last Wednesday. The complaint seeks $70 million in damages for PSEG Long Island’s failure to adequately oversee outage management and communications systems and for the lack of business continuity plans that would have provided a fail-safe option when key systems broke down. The filing is a result of the state Department of Public Service’s and LIPA’s investigation reports in September and November and follows through with the department’s recommendation to the LIPA Board of Trustees. “Utility companies are beholden to ratepayers, and when that service is inadequate — or as in this case, a complete failure — those utilities need to be held accountable,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Utility companies like PSEG Long Island get paid to manage the aftermath of a storm, and time

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PSEG Long Island is being sued by LIPA for perceived ineffective response to Tropical Storm Isaias. after time they have failed to hold up their end. It’s inexcusable, and we’re going to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.” On the afternoon of Aug. 4, Tropical Storm Isaias struck New York, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that particularly impacted the mid-Hudson, New York City and Long Island regions. The storm caused extensive damage to electric distribution infrastructure that, in turn, led to lengthy outages for

a substantial number of New York utility customers. Peak outages aﬀected approximately 900,000 customers and lasted for nearly two weeks. The next day, Cuomo directed DPS to perform an expedited investigation into utility performance. The department investigated New York electric service providers’ preparations and responses to the storm, as well as launching similar investigative eﬀorts into telecom-

munication providers’ services. As a result of the investigation, the fastest ever conducted by New York’s utility regulator, three of the state’s largest utilities — Con Edison, Orange & Rockland and Central Hudson — now face potential penalties totaling $137.3 million, with Con Edison and O&R also facing potential license revocation. All three will be required to explain why penalties should not be imposed by the PSC for apparent violations of the laws, regulations and orders that are designed to ensure the safety and reliability of the electric system. PSEG Long Island was also the subject of the investigation, and numerous failures were identified by DPS. In October, Cuomo also introduced new legislation to hold utility companies accountable to the residents they serve. The new legislation would remove penalty caps for storm response violations, expedite the revocation process following repeated failures to provide safe and reliable service and require the Public Service Commission to cap the amount of money ratepayers contribute to utility executive’s salaries. The claim alleges PSEG Long

Island is in breach of obligations set out in its operating agreement with LIPA and seeks damages related to PSEG Long Island’s design, implementation, and testing of its outage management and communications systems, which failed during the storm. LIPA is also asking the court to order PSEG Long Island to urgently fix these systems to prevent future failures. LIPA CEO Tom Falcone said in a statement that LIPA was seeking relief from the courts “because we have an obligation to protect customers.” “PSEG Long Island must immediately fix these failed information technology systems and abide by its contract as we proceed in reviewing our legal, contractual, and termination options,” Falcone said. “PSEG Long Island has collected nearly half a billion dollars from Long Island customers over the past seven years while failing to meet its basic obligations.” State Department of Public Service CEO John B. Rhodes said the “outages that Long Islanders had to suﬀer during the recovery from Tropical Storm Isaias were unacceptable.” Continued on Page 45

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County OKs NIFA refinancing Curran, Nicolello say Nassau taxpayers will save more than $883 million over next 15 years BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

Nassau County’s legislative majority approved a deal on Monday that gives the Nassau Interim Finance Authority the ability to refinance county debt as the county struggles with the eﬀects of the coronavirus pandemic. The county’s proposed $3.3 billion budget for 2021 calls for the authority, which has overseen the county’s finances for the past two decades, to refinance $473 million in debt from the county and the finance authority, according to a county news release. Earlier in the year, a plan from Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, featured the finance authority restructuring $435 million in debt over 30 years. Majority oﬃcials said Curran agreed to reduce the bonds from 30 years to 15. The new agreement, according to the news release, will save taxpayers over $883 million over 15 years. “This deal negotiated by the Majority will save Nassau taxpayers hundreds of millions of

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Nassau County’s legislative majority announced approval of letting the Nassau Interim Finance Authority refinance county debt on Monday. dollars, and return money back to small business owner and residents, where it belongs,“ Nassau County Presiding Oﬃcer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said. “The Majority will continue to stand up for Nassau residents, and fight to lower taxes for working class families.” County spokesperson Michael Fricchione cited the bi-

partisan work of the Curran administration and the Republican majority legislators to find common ground to mitigate the pandemic’s harmful financial impacts. “This deal is a testament to bipartisan cooperation and the recognition that this crisis can only be weathered by working together,” Fricchione said. “The

declaration of need now paves the way for both the County and NIFA to responsibly refinance debt at historically low interest rates so that the County Executive has the resources to lead us out of this pandemic.” Finance authority Chairman Adam Barsky told Newsday that the organization “stands ready to assist the County in this unprecedented time of need that has been created by the COVID pandemic.” Approval by the finance authority is required by the end of the year, and the next board meeting was scheduled for Thursday. The deal also featured the creation of a “special revenue fund” to ensure that county operations will continue and will assist in paying back residents and businesses owed tax refunds. The fund will consist of surplus monies in any line of the 2021 budget, according to oﬃcials. Nassau’s sales tax revenue has been severely impacted by the pandemic, according to county figures. County projections from October’s annual budget report indicate the county will be down $261.7 million in sales tax rev-

enue, which makes up 40 percent of the budget. Majority leaders had previously questioned if county budget oﬃcials were “overly pessimistic” with their revenue projections, dating back to August hearings. Nassau’s deputy county executive for finance, Raymond Orlando, and Budget Director Andrew Persich answered questions from the County Legislature’s Budget Committee in August after being subpoenaed. “We share your goal of effectively managing the county’s budget using NIFA in such a way, if possible, to not go beyond its existing existence currently,” Orlando said. “We believe as you do that we should return the ultimate financial decision-making back to the county’s elected officials, the county executive and this Legislature.” Orlando also expressed concerns about the costs of the finance authority’s future involvement in restructuring debt but touted the “flexibility” that using the organization would provide to the county in order to remain financially afloat.

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Holiday car Over 400 students test positive parade brightens up communities BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

BY J OH N NUGENT The communities of New Hyde Park, Garden City Park and Herricks were treated to a parade of 70 vehicles, all decorated for the holidays, on Saturday. With sirens blaring and lights flashing, fire trucks from several departments in the area led the way after an honor guard of veterans from the Town of North Hempstead kicked oﬀ the celebration with the Pledge of Allegiance. The caravan, sponsored by the Lakeville Estates Civic Association, traveled over seven miles through many neighborhoods spreading the joy of the season. Association President Bill Cutrone organized the event. As the cars were lining up to begin the parade Cutrone said that despite the

protocols of masking and social distancing, “we hope to bring a little joy to the communities.” Jean Capobianco, treasurer of the association, added, “We hope for a big turnout and a very successful event.” Because of COVID-19 restrictions, participants were not allowed out of their cars at the lighting of a Christmas tree and a menorah at two locations along the parade route. The restrictions forced the cancellation of any formal ceremonies that might include the participation of clergy and public oﬃcials. Among those taking part in the parade were the Rev. Joseph Scolaro, pastor of Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church in New Hyde Park, and Rabbi Randy Ellen Sheinberg of Temple Tikvah in New Hyde Park. Continued on Page 44

The number of students who have tested positive for the coronavirus in public schools across the North Shore has risen to more than 400 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to state Health Department figures. As of Tuesday, 406 students on the North Shore had tested positive since the beginning of the school year. The increase of 66 confirmed student cases is the third most over a one-week period since schools began, according to state data. Public school districts that were analyzed included the Port Washington school district, Roslyn school district, Sewanhaka Central High School District, Mineola school district, East Williston school district, Floral Park-Bellerose school district, Manhasset school district, New Hyde ParkGarden City Park school district, Herricks school district, North Shore school district and Great Neck school district. The three school districts with the most cases among students are Great Neck, with 66, Sewanhaka, with 65, and Port Washington, with 60. Great Neck schools conducted

a total of 812 PCR tests on students and staﬀ members last week due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo designating the peninsula as a “yellow zone.” On Tuesday, Great Neck Superintendent Teresa Prendergast informed the community that every test came back negative. “While this news is reassuring, we cannot let our guard down,” Prendergast said. “Keeping our schools safe and open requires a constant commitment from all our students, families, staﬀ, and faculty. Please remain vigilant and follow health and safety guidelines at all times, especially during this holiday season. Our community’s actions over the recess will have a direct impact on our ability to continue in-person instruction in January.” An additional 45 cases were found in North Shore Hebrew Academy (25), North Shore Hebrew Academy High School (14), Silverstein Hebrew Academy (4), and North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School (2), all located on the Great Neck peninsula. Chaminade High School in Mineola also had 29 positive cases as of Wednesday, an increase of eight over the past week. Saint Mary’s High School in Manhasset had four cases and Saint Mary’s

Elementary School had three as of Wednesday. Efforts to reach representatives from the private schools were unavailing. In Port Washington, Guggenheim Elementary School has spent this week learning remotely due to understaffing, according to Superintendent Michael Hynes. In a letter sent to parents and community members, and posted to Facebook by the Guggenheim Home School Association, Hynes said that what was “happening across Long Island regarding the increase in people testing positive for COVID-19 is now directly impacting our district.” “An increasing number of our staff members have either tested positive, or have been identified as close contacts in out-of-school scenarios, and have been ordered to quarantine,” Hynes wrote. “With an additional three staff members who have tested COVID-19 positive, we have close to 20 percent of Guggenheim’s staff needing to quarantine. Unfortunately, even with the several additional staff members hired this summer, this is resulting in the district being understaffed at Guggenheim Elementary School.” Continued on Page 43

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A Manhasset resident who has worked at Rallye Motors in Roslyn for 39 years, Libsohn has authored, adapted or edited 10 books since 2014, with several featuring the writing of her late mother, Mitzi Libsohn. “I was always looking for ways to get my mother’s work out into the world,” Libsohn said in a phone interview. If it weren’t for the extra time she had during the COVID-19 pandemic, Libsohn says, she most likely wouldn’t have found and entered four international book contests in March. “It wasn’t for the pandemic, I don’t think I would have thought about these contests and researched it like I did since I had time to do it,” Libsohn said. “I was so nervous about entering. I said, should I, shouldn’t I? I didn’t know what I was up against. All these other authors, they have a lot of good qualities also, and I was going to be up against all these people?” Continued on Page 44

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No time to relax with COVID-19

onday’s headlines did a good job of capturing where we are with COVID-19: U.S. vaccinations begin as death toll tops 300,000. Which is to say we are at the beginning of the end of the pandemic at a time when it is at its deadliest and our following of the safety protocols is most needed. First the good news with a very local feel. A critical care nurse who lives in Port Washingtonreceived the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. “I’ve seen too much death, too much pain, too much suﬀering fear in the eyes of my employees every day,” said Sandra Lindsay, explaining her decision to be among the first to take the newly approved coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNtech. “I trust the science,” added Lindsay, an immigrant from Jamaica. “I had no hesitation.” The development of the vaccine by Pfizer and those developed by other pharmaceutical companies around the world a year after COVID-19 began its march across the globe is a remarkable scientific achievement. We now face an enormous logistical challenge of getting 75 to 85 percent of the population vaccinated to create the so-called herd immunity that would allow us to return to some kind of “normal” at a time when half the population is skeptical about taking the vaccine. The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden will hopefully succeed in overcoming the distrust created by his predecessor and his constant stream of disinformation about the corona-

virus. Doctors and other scientists predict vaccinations for the general public may not begin until March or April and the needed critical mass may not be reached until late summer or early fall. Until then, we must not become complacent. In fact, we need to be even more vigilant as we now head into the bleakest moment of the pandemic in the United States. The country is now averaging more than 2,400 deaths a day. More than twice as many deaths are being announced each day compared with just a month ago, and the number of infections has passed 16 million nationwide since the start of the pandemic. New York state surpassed 100 daily deaths from COVID-19 Monday, including 14 in Suffolk County — the most of any county in the state. The 128 deaths, reported by officials Tuesday, marked the first time in months the state has registered more than 100 deaths in a single day. During the summer, the daily total was in the single digits. “Everything we have done from the start of this pandemic has been based on the facts, and the facts are that COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all on the rise all across the country,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday. “We are on an unsustainable trajectory and if we don’t act now, hospitals could become overwhelmed come January.” Long Island surpassed 2,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the test results from Monday, with 1,171 in Suffolk and 908 in Nassau for a total of 2,079. Some 3,500 more New Yorkers will die from COVID-19 in the

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next few months while another 11,000 will end up hospitalized, Cuomo said. Cuomo has warned that the state could be headed for another spring-style shutdown of all nonessential services if New York’s coronavirus metrics do not improve over the next few weeks. New Yorkers are all too aware of what a spring-style shutdown means: economic devastation. Shuttered stores and restaurants, many for good, lost jobs and lost income. Unlike the COVID-19 outbreaks during the spring peak of the pandemic, 74 percent of current infections are traced back to small domestic social gatherings – so-called “living room spread.” One answer is that we sacrifice our travel plans and family gatherings for this year to help ensure that all our friends and family will be with us next year. We should also all accept Biden’s call for wearing masks for 100 days. But even these plans may fall short. If they do and a shutdown is needed, government must compensate businesses and employees for money lost by demands to shut down. This is not a matter of stimulus relief as the legislation is called. It REPORTERS Rose Weldon, Robert Pelaez

is really disaster relief. COVID-19 is a slow-moving natural disaster that has continued to exact a toll on Americans for months. And those aﬀected should be treated as disaster victims. Congress appears ready to make a deal on a new coronavirus relief package that would at least roughly follow a $908 billion plan developed by the Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan House group in which Congressman Tom Suozzi serves as vice chair. it seems inconceivable that Congress would not oﬀer additional relief to businesses, the unemployed, health care systems distributing the vaccine, and state and local governments by the end of this week. But we would have said the same thing last week, the week before that and the week before that for the last six months when the House approved a $3 trillion package. We were critical of Suozzi during the campaign for pressing at the time a plan that fell far short of what the House Democratic leadership was seeking. Now we, along with most Democrats, have come around to the idea of getting something at this point when it is so desperately needed by so many. And then going back to the bargaining table

after Biden takes oﬃce and addressing what was missed the first time around. A bipartisan group of senators introduced a $908 billion bill, split into two pieces, that is only intended to cover the first quarter of 2021. One would be a $748 billion piece of coronavirus relief that would include items like schools and hospitals. The other $160 billion would be money for local and state governments sought by Democrats and an unnecessary liability shield for corporations from COVID-related lawsuits sought by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin explained the need. “We’ve got people without nutrition, we have people without shelter, we have people without paychecks, they’re unemployed, we have hospitals that are being overburdened, we have health care workers, we have schools that need to be attended to – this covers all that,” Manchin said. If Congress does not come up with the money needed, then New York will have to find a way to deal with the financial and human carnage. In the meantime, we must all do our part to minimize the spread of the virus.

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ON THE RIGHT

Seven books for political buffs this Christmas

or people who give books as Christmas presents to political junkie friends, here are my 2020 gift book

picks: “Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City” by Philip Mark Plotch. For readers interested in understanding New York’s sad transit history, this is the book to crack open. In readable prose, Plotch exposes politicians of every stripe who made great promises and failed to deliver on upgrading and expanding the region’s mass transportation system. “Last Subway” focuses on the greatest boondoggle of all: the Second Avenue subway extension. What was to be the “most modern futuristic subway in the world,” faced delays for decades, soaring cost overruns, and project cutbacks. The first three stations, finally completed in 2017 and opened to much fanfare by Gov. Cuomo, cost an astounding $4.6 billion. Plotch points out that the 1.5-mile subway line “cost more than four times as much as new subway lines in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris and Tokyo.”

“The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Baker was one lucky guy. A friendship nurtured on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club with George H.W. Bush catapulted him into the inner sanctum of Washington power centers. He would go on to manage five Republican presidential campaigns between 1976 and 1992, serve as Reagan’s chief of staﬀ and Treasury secretary, and as Bush’s secretary of state. In 2000, he led the Florida recount legal team for George W. Bush. Like other Texas political icons—Speaker Sam Rayburn and President Lyndon Johnson—Baker understood power and was not afraid to use it. He was ruthless in protecting his political turf and did not hesitate to throw friends and foes under the bus. Baker was a political survivor, but an unlikeable one. He was an “avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal making over division, a lost art in today’s fractured nation.” “The Crisis of Liberalism: Prelude to Trump” by Fred Siegel.

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Dr. Siegel, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a City Journal contributing editor, is the nation’s top social scientist. His 2014 work, “The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class,” is must reading for anyone interested in understanding our political milieu. “The Crisis of Liberalism,” is a collection of Siegel’s most trenchant essays focusing on the 1960s liberal crack-up and the left’s growing disdain for America’s workingclass. “These essays,” the distin-

guished historian Vincent Cannato has observed, “are deeply relevant to understanding the turbulence and divisions that plague our nation today.” “The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War” by Catherine Grace Katz. This is a pleasant, behind the scenes, narrative of the famous Yalta conference in February 1945 that created the roadmap for the post-war world. While much has been written on the last RooseveltChurchill-Stalin meeting, this book is diﬀerent. It centers on the three women—Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill and Catherine Harriman, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman—who accompanied their fathers. “Daughters of Yalta” describes how these politically astute women aided and protected their fathers during the grueling conference. “Trump’s Democrats” by Jon A. Shields and Stephanie Muravchik. Since the late 1960s, workingclass New Deal Democrats, feeling unwanted by their party’s elitist leadership, have been shifting their

political allegiance to Republicans. This shift was most evident in 2016 when millions of rust-belt Democrats cast the votes that put Trump over the top in the Electoral College. While Trump lost in 2020, these “deplorables”—as Hillary Clinton called them — stuck with Trump. In “Trump’s Democrats,” the authors, who spent time interviewing folks in small communities populated by white working-class citizens, explain why these voters have viewed Trump as the best president since John F. Kennedy. And they reveal that, unlike most cosmopolitan Democrats, their “primary political allegiances are to their town or country — not racial identity.” “Mario Cuomo: The Myth and the Man” by George J. Marlin. Please pardon a bit of selfpromotion: Readers interested in understanding why among all the 56 men who have served as New York governors, Mario Cuomo was the most complicated, endearing, brilliant, pugilistic, and exasperating, should pick up a copy of my new book. Happy reading in 2021!

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

To be or not to be a democracy?

really hoped I was done with writing about our current political insanity. I really wanted to move on to problems like what to do about Hanukkah, a holiday that snuck up on me so quietly that I didn’t even have chocolate gelt in the house! I figured that with the Electoral College meeting on Monday surely the craziness was over. But I reckoned without Donald Trump. Even though his campaign has now lost — what is it, 50? 60? — lawsuits on the election, he and his zombie lawyers keep churning them out. And the greatest of all, aimed straight at the Supreme Court, was State of Texas v. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. According to everything I’d read, it didn’t stand a chance in the highest court. It boiled down to “we here in Texas don’t like how Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin ran their elections, so you need to invalidate their results.” What Texas really didn’t like, of course, was that Donald Trump had lost them all. On Friday, Dec. 11, the Supreme Court sent Texas packing.

In a brief unsigned order, they said: “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.” In other words, there is no way under the U.S. Constitution that Texas can sue other states over how they ran their own elections and there is nothing here for us to do. It’s the end of the road for all the “legal measures” President Trump wanted to explore. Does he accept that fact? Of course not. There are a few facts I am having trouble with myself. I have been forced to realize that although Donald Trump did not win the election, an enormous number of Americans still voted for him — almost half of an historic turnout. I would be willing to live and let live. The problem is his people do not want to be lived with. And I don’t know how to live

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A Look on the Lighter Side with that. Or with them. This president has cheered on many kinds of violence. There is one example, in particular, that I can’t forget. Shortly before Election Day, there was a Biden-Harris campaign bus full of staﬀ and volunteers on a highway in Texas, where it found itself surrounded by cars bearing Trump flags. The cars tried to stop short in front of it and otherwise run it oﬀ the road. The bus did, in fact, end up pulling over, and two events had to be canceled.

People could easily have been killed. When President Trump found out about this, did he chide his supporters? Did he say “violence is never acceptable”? Of course not. He said: “I love Texas!” There are many theories about what’s going on with Republicans: that they’re just humoring big baby Trump, that they just want access to his fans, that they’re afraid of him, or that in the words of columnist Paul Waldman, “hatred of liberals is all that’s left of conservatism.” But Sen. Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, thinks something even worse is going on: “This is a party that has a whole bunch of enemies of democracy inside its top ranks,” he says. “As we speak, a whole lot of flag-waving Republicans are nakedly trying to invalidate millions of legal votes, because that is the only way that they can make Donald Trump president again — because he didn’t win.” Murphy calls it treachery, saying simply, “You cannot, at the same time, love America and hate

democracy.” Besides the attorneys general of 17 states, there were 126 Republican members of Congress who signed on to the Texas lawsuit. Having sworn to uphold the Constitution, they joined an extreme attempt to overturn a perfectly legal election (probably violating the 14th Amendment in so doing). Treachery or not, it is certainly the act of extremists who refuse to see reason. For years our leaders have warned us not to negotiate with terrorists. But what do you do when the call for extremism is literally coming from inside the House? How can we negotiate with that? How can you split the difference between comprehensive health care for all on the one hand and people who will happily push your bus oﬀ the road and see you dead on the other? We can’t. We are not Schrödinger’s Cat. We cannot exist as a nation half dead and half free. Whatever the way forward is from here, I do not think it should include 126 members of Congress who do not believe in the democratic system.

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

Taking time to listen to the trees

hanksgiving Day started out rainy but then turned unseasonably warm. During a walk in the neighborhood we passed a tree and my younger son, who is eight years old, and I noticed there were buds on the tree. With little introduction, we started to have a conversation as if we were the tree. “Oh my, I’m still so tired, but the air is so warm. It must be time to wake up. My winter sleep was too short. I barely shed my leaves and closed my eyes before having to wake up and start growing again.” It was a sad conversation as we both understood the strain the trees and many plants are under with the unpredictable climate that is becoming our norm. It’s confusing and disruptive to have such warm temperatures in late November and December that the trees actually start blossoming. Many of us talk about how nice it is to have these warm days later and later into the year. But it’s also scary and sad. Of course I don’t miss shoveling mountains of snow every winter, but I do miss the deep

frosts that kill oﬀ the mosquitoes that bite and carry diseases, that give the plants time to rest and rejuvenate, and that allow all of us a chance to experience seasonal change and be grateful for the hot days of August during the cold blasts of January and February. On a larger scale, warmer winters means less snowfall and therefore less water in places like California. California farmers and residents depend on the snows in the Sierra Nevada for water for agriculture and drinking. The crops grown in California, like almonds, wine grapes, walnuts, pistachios and peaches, are impacted by less cold weather too. They need a certain amount of cold weather for pollination and without it the crops are diminished. Apples, cherries and pears also need a certain amount of cold weather to produce. In the southeast, warmer winters are hurting peach and blueberry crops causing as much as 80% crop failure. Like the confused tree near my home, the bees are coming out of their hives and eating more of the honey stored for winter. As they start being more active earlier, they require more

LYNN CAPUANO Earth Matters energy, and if they can’t get the nectar they need, they risk starvation. That would be the end of the honey supply and much more if there aren’t bees to pollinate our crops. Closer to home, we’re losing out on winter activities like skiing, snowshoeing and snowboarding as well as ice fishing and ice skating. Snow isn’t falling for ski areas to operate and the ice isn’t thick enough for people to safely ice fish or ice skate. I already mentioned mosquitoes, but let’s not forget ticks. With warmer winters the ticks spread farther, survive longer and infect

more people. The list could go on considering every region of the country and impacts around the world, but the point is made. While we may not love the lower temperatures, we need the cold winter months for our health, our food and our recreational activities. It may surprise you to learn that the solution to the problem is in our soil. Healthy, nutrient rich soil supporting diverse plants can and naturally does absorb significant amounts of carbon, a component of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases contributing to our warming winters. We get healthy soil by returning cattle to fields to graze rather then being fed from monoculture farms producing corn and soy, condemning cows and other livestock to be raised in barren pens. Animals raised for consumption should be grazing on open land where they contribute to the natural, productive, beneficial cycle of regenerative agriculture. Regenerative agriculture is simply a return to how people farmed for centuries before the introduction of pesticides, fertilizers and corporate farming practices that have all contributed to

the desertification of the very soil that can save us from the destructive impacts of climate change. Each of us can help by advocating for changes to our agricultural system as laid out in and subsidized by the federal farm bill. The farm bill is a package of legislation that eﬀectively controls how food is grown and what food is grown. The current farm bill expires in 2023 and now is the time to advocate for changes. Many organizations, from the National Wildlife Federation to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, have information about the farm bill and how to influence its content. Get on their websites and read about what they advocate for and then call your legislators and let them know what changes you want to see in the next farm bill. More immediately, find a spot in your yard to replace some of that grass with native plants and an edible garden. Then let the earth do what it does, absorb the carbon dioxide emitted from our cars, airplanes, energy sources and so much more. Our trees need their winter rest, and they can only get it with a cold winter.

VIEW POINT

Biden must tackle gun reform in first 100 days

here will be more than 300,000 empty chairs at holiday gatherings this year of those taken by the coronavirus. Eight years ago, there were 26 empty chairs because of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. And every year before and after, 33,000 lives have been taken by gun violence – a 9/11 every month — leaving empty chairs at the holiday table. The heart-wrenching tragedy of 26 elementary schoolchildren and their teachers at Sandy Hook in December 2012 was supposed to be the tipping point to finally get Republicans to accept rational gun safety measures. Didn’t happen. Didn’t happen after the Parkland school shooting or the unprecedented March for Our Lives on Washington. If anything, the Republicans succeeded in expanding gun use. Charlottesville, El Paso, Dayton, Las Vegas, Orlando – too many to list. Thoughts and prayers and nothing.

Former President Obama sought a new ban on assault weapons (which was in eﬀect 19942004) as part of sweeping legislation and 23 executive actions he announced in January 2013. Nothing got through the Republican Congress. As for Obama’s relatively modest executive actions, Trump, whose political fortunes were largely wound up with the gun rights crowd he zealously courted, they were largely reversed or not enforced. Now gun safety advocates are seeing the best opportunity since 1994 to eﬀect real reform with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. On the eighth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, President-Elect Biden stated, “Together with you and millions of our fellow Americans of every background all across our nation, we will fight to end this scourge on our society and enact common sense reforms that are supported by a majority of Americans and that will save countless lives.”

KAREN RUBIN View Point

Much is being put on Biden to use executive orders to undo the damage of Trump’s reign of tyranny, his abuse of power and declarations of “national security.” Gun violence prevention, a genuine public health issue exacerbated with the coronavirus pandemic and a national security issue, compels and justifies swift executive action by Biden. Here’s my list of most urgent measures: • Require national background check – a real one that

doesn’t limit to three days when the records are expunged and the seller automatically gets to buy a gun• Restore the ban on assault weapons, ban bump stocks, highcapacity ammo clips• Require guns be equipped with Smart Gun technology so that they can only be operated by the registered owner• Enact a Red Flag law enabling family members or law enforcement to petition a court to intervene and temporarily suspend someone’s access to guns if there’s evidence that person poses a serious threat to themselves or others. Bar anyone found to have committed domestic violence from possessing a gun.• Require proper security of guns in the home; make parents or guardians liable for criminal prosecution (negligent homicide, reckless indiﬀerence) if a minor gets access and uses the gun to commit a crime or injures themselves• Require certificate of training, licensing, registration (as for voting) and re-licensing (like driver’s licenses) every five years; create a national registry of gun owners.• Tax the purchase

of guns and ammunition to establish a Victim’s Fund, and to repay municipalities for providing security to schools, houses of worship, shopping malls, concert venues; public meetings• Require any gun purchaser to have insurance like for a car, covering health care for victims and self, property damage• Regulate online and private purchases; all gun, ammunition and accessory purchases must be through licensed, regulated gun shops But if the election of BidenHarris presents new opportunity for gun sense legislation from the White House, the task is made harder by Trump’s pro-gun advocates on the Supreme Court who so far have placed trumped-up claims of religious liberty above public health. It is interesting that the progun, rightwing majority on the Supreme Court – expanded by Trump’s three appointments — in Citizens United equated cash with free speech. In that same vein, guns are an instrument against Continued on Page 50

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Media must step up to defend democracy

onths before the 2020 presidential election, David Rothkopf published a history-shaping book. If you are like most Americans, chances are you have not read it and never heard of it: “Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump.” The indictments Rothkopf presents of Trump are the strongest ever made. If they are accurate, one must ask why the media (in its multiple forms) did not make this book a major public focus for what Trump described as “the most important election in American history.” Rothkopf has had extensive experiences as an academic (Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), as well as work as a journalist, and for international business groups, including once serving as managing director of Kissinger Associates. Our multitudinous media has never been challenged for eﬀectiveness as it has been during the Trump years. It behooves all of us to help seek ways to bolster all media so truth prevails and citizens

can foster democracy by making informed judgments based on reliable data. The urgency for needed reforms and new media mandates is manifested in the power of Rothkopf’s interpretations and evidence. The author writes: “The president of the United States is a traitor. He is a liar. He is a fraud. He is a racist. He is a misogynist. He is incompetent. He is corrupt. He is unfit in almost every respect for the high oﬃce he holds.” Rothkopf says Trump betrayed the United States by “placing foreign interests before those of the United States, always ultimately to serve his own greed or personal ambition.” Might numbers of the 74 million who voted for Trump have reconsidered if Rothkopf’s book and evidence received ample and sustained attention by our diverse media, from newspapers, magazines, broadcast radio and TV, Internet and various forms of social media? The author compares Trump with other traitors, beginning with Benedict Arnold and concludes that “the damage done [by

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field Trump] has been so great and the threats remaining are so profound that it is our duty as citizens to understand how they came to be and what their potential long-term significance is.” We are not expected to evaluate major judgments made in books by the credentials of authors, but Rothkopf’s range and depth of experience indicate that his research and writing merit serious consideration. So why has it not been forthcoming from our vast and diverse media? Especially pertinent is that the author researched and wrote his book before Trump began to

comment on the Covid-19 virus as something that would quickly be gone like the wind. “Traitor” was also written before the 2020 elections. Now, even principled Republicans (as well as commentators around the world), are saying that Trump’s insane vote challenges and obstructionism are undermining American democracy, citizens’ values and risking our national security. So, why aren’t more media sources seeking to place Trump’s continuing but losing eﬀorts to overturn a fair election in a deeper context with an examination of his lifetime of disgraceful conduct as shown in “Traitor?” Many of these criticisms of Trump’s character and conduct are not new. When in doubt check the web site of the appropriately named Lincoln Project (founded and expanded by Republicans and Conservatives who have publicly renounced Trump, many of them stating to the world that they were voting for Biden rather than risking another four years of Trump). In light of all of this, what kinds of media mandates can we seek to guard against the rise of another Trump and help to foster

better informed and more civically engaged citizens. The arrangements will need to vary depending on the nature of the media that is under consideration. We will also need to focus sharply on who will be asked to advance and support media literacy. A few short answers for now are: the magazine “Social Studies for the Young Learner” helps teachers promote attention to evidence and analysis (even for elementary schoolchildren; it is never too early to begin, especially as those youngsters are encouraged to bring questions and conversations to their family dinner tables. New York can be a model for other states; every 12th grader could be required to take a one-semester course called Participation in Government. There is curriculum flexibility so that media savvy and competence can be cultivated. A research fellow at Boston University and Harvard instructor, Lee McIntyre argues that we do not need to live in a “Post-Truth” world. He and others provide a range of alternatives (to be considered) that can guide our media for better service for democracy.

THE BACK ROAD

Looking at the effects of the ‘Loser of the Year’

n Thursday Dec. 10, 126 House Republicans signed an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit aimed at overturning the election results in four swing states. At the heart of this gutless action is an effort to disenfranchise millions of American voters and overthrow our democracy. On that same day Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most widely read Germanlanguage news websites, published a long article in German about President Trump under the headline “Der Verlierer des Jahres,” which translates as “The Loser of the Year.” The article criticized the president for refusing to concede the election and described him as “a man who was never concerned with the common good, but always with one thing — himself.” For almost a year, there has been the once-unimaginable loss of hundreds of thousands of loved ones to Covid-19. The

leaders of countries around the world oﬀer their sympathy and comfort to those left behind who will never have their loved ones by their sides again. But, not in the United States where, despite the loss of more than 3,000 souls for several days running now, an overgrown toddler rants and raves and plots to overturn an election that he lost decisively and spins conspiracy theories that have been roundly overturned by court after court. We have much to oﬀer at a time like this. My gratitude goes out to all those who provide local leadership during this unprecedented time of mass casualty and uncertainty, when what we sorely need is a president — a mature adult, to unify a nation in our time of grief, as opposed to the lameduck incumbent who sows hate and incites violence. Just this week a colleague from Idaho, where Trump-inspired right-wing extremism is

ANDREW MALEKOFF The Back Road

growing, shared this with me: “I’m in north Idaho. This week the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights in Boise was vandalized with swastikas. It’s the only location in the country

with an Anne Frank memorial and one of the only locations in the world where the U.N Declaration of Human Rights is on full display.”. Two months earlier, 14 suspects accused of plotting to kidnap and execute Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and then violently overthrow the state government were arrested and charged in state court. For all people of good will who have an interest in advancing the common good — respect for the person, the social well-being of all citizens, and peace, security and human rights, Der Spiegel oﬀers a welcome international re-

pudiation of a small-minded, self-obsessed man-child who has repeatedly been unable to meet to the moment with any degree of compassion, empathy or sound judgment. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of a group of nine (three of whom were appointed by Trump), who have repeatedly rejected Trump’s evidence-free claims of voter fraud, reminds us that “Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.” Andrew Malekoﬀ is a New York State licensed clinical social worker

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OUR TOWN

Golfer Patrick Reed is the ultimate grinder

atrick Reed has long been known as Captain America for his heroics at the Ryder Cup matches, but a better name for him would be The Grinder. His display of sheer will power coupled with short game wizardry was on ample display this past weekend as he led the way for three rounds during The Race to Dubai. For those of you not up to speed on the ins and outs of golf

on the European Tour here’s a briefer course. The Race to Dubai is the European Tour’s version of the FedEx Cup and large dollars are at stake. In fact, if Reed wins this week, it means an extra $7 million in the bank, give or take a few hundred thousand. Patrick Reed is the quintessential American workhorse, playing nearly every other week either in America or in Europe. He is the first American to earn the prestigious Order of Merit on

DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town

the European Tour and is singlehandedly making America a known presence for European golf. Over the last year Reed’s presence has been felt not only on the European tour but also in the majors in America, where he nearly won the U.S. Open, placed 10th at the Masters and 13th at the PGA Championship. He is hovering around the top 10 spot in World Golf Ranking. Why he loves golf in Eu-

rope is not clear to me. He was raised in Texas and is American through and through, hence the nickname “Captain America.”He has a steely backbone and tremendous focus and unlike most of his contemporaries he tends to get better under pressure, not worse. This tenacity and fortitude is reminiscent of Nicklaus in his prime and more recently Tiger Woods. So what is the secret sauce that Reed’s tapped into? Continued on Page 50

ALL THINGS POLITICAL

New York state needs a fiscal reality check

ast April, as COVID was decimating the financial markets and small businesses were being forced to close, New York State legislators passed a business as usual $178 billion budget. It was clearly evident at that time that revenue for the state was going to be dramatically lower because of the pandemic, yet spending was increased 6 percent from the previous year. Flash forward to today and the current projected $8.7 billion deficit is based on fantasy, because it doesn’t include the $8 billion in assumed recurring budget savings which were planned for but never

materialized. All told New York State’s pandemic related deficit is approaching $17 billion. In response to all the red ink Gov. Cuomo, as reported in a Dec. 9 Wall Street Journal article, said “we’re going to have to raise taxes.” There seems to be a conception that taxes in New York can be raised indefinitely to plug budget holes. Politicians would rather call for millionaires to pay more in taxes as opposed to doing the hard work of finding recurring savings and eﬃciencies, which were supposed to be part of the budget. CO-

ADAM HABER All Things Political VID has proven to many, especially those in the financial district, that they can work from anywhere, and

the high cost of doing business in NY isn’t worth it. Because the Trump administration gave a big middle finger to high tax Blue States, by not allowing for state and local taxes to be deducted from a taxpayer’s federal tax burden, the exodus from New York started as a trickle. Since COVID the pace has picked up considerably. A few examples of those leaving are Elliot Management, and it’s $41 billion fund run by Paul Singer, who is moving to West Palm Beach. Billionaire Carl Icahn permanently moved his business headquarters and residence to Florida, and

now Goldman Sachs recently announced it’s considering moving a money management division to the Sunshine State. New York’s population growth ranks near last nationally, and when the stats come out next year, we will see wealth has left at an extraordinary rate too. And residents and commerce will continue to flee because the top state tax bracket in New York is 8.82 percent, while it’s zero in Florida. Attempts to attract big business funded by tax breaks to New York have been met with fierce resistance. Continued on Page 45

DID YOU KNOW?

The many reasons to shop local in Nassau

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Tis the season! I love walking through North Hempstead’s downtowns during the holiday season. The streets become a winter wonderland. Street poles are decorated with hanging snowflakes or wrapped in garland. Stores are decorated with wreathes, lights, menorahs and trees. The air is brisk and every store is happy to greet you with a smile and holiday cheer. This year, we will see a different type of holiday cheer. The pandemic has changed our lives and the way we shop. Many shop online and get packages delivered to their homes but we cannot discount the idea of continuing to shop local. This doesn’t change the fact that small businesses drive our economy and should be supported. Roughly 60 million people are employed by small businesses throughout the United States.

That works out to about half of the entire private workforce. Those numbers mean that small businesses are always important to making sure we stayed employed and our economy keeps running. Whether on Main Street in Port Washington, Plandome Road in Manhasset, Old Northern Boulevard in Roslyn or Westbury Avenue in Carle Place, this is a great time to visit our downtowns and shop local. These “brick and mortar” stores that populate our downtowns create jobs for our neighbors and bring services to our communities. They are vital to creating a vibrant economy for Long Island. There is no better way to connect with your community, meet your neighbors and feel a sense of holiday spirit than by supporting local businesses during this holiday season.

WAYNE WINK

North Hempstead Town Clerk These “Main Streets” definitely have an important part in our community. They promote tourism and make our town a true destination by providing distinct character and adding to the flavor of what North Hempstead is really about. They provide delightful hospi-

tality and a wide variety of choices when we go out to eat with our friends and family. Our local businesses are the ones that contribute most to our neighborhood fundraisers and organization events. They provide gift certificates and merchandise to our PTAs, Scouts, Youth Athletic Leagues and other charitable causes. And when it comes to supporting important causes, the local Chambers of Commerce throughout the Town of North Hempstead facilitate and led the advocacy. Our downtown communities truly bring us all closer together. Throughout the town, there will be many holiday festivities taking place in the next few weeks. Visit your community events like Tree and Menorah lightings to meet our leaders, neighbors and business owners. Take a walk around and visit the stores

that surround these holiday occasions. You may find a store that will quickly become your favorite place to visit or a restaurant that has a delicious bowl of soup to warm you throughout the long winter. So please, this holiday season, bask in the joy of our Town’s offerings. Enjoy walking through our downtowns to see the diﬀerent holiday decorations, converse with the various store owners and eat at the wide array of restaurants that line our streets. Support your community by shopping local for the ever-growing gift list you are looking to fill, because when you shop locally, you are investing in your community. Now, I’m oﬀ to fa la la and walk the winter wonderlands of North Hempstead! Come join me this and every holiday season! Letters Continued on Page 38

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‘High-risk’ high school athletics postponed BY R O S E WELDON High-risk sports at the high school level across all seasons will be postponed until reauthorized by the state, the

New York State Public High School Athletic Association has announced. All 2021 championships in winter sports are also canceled, the association said. The New York State

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

A play at Sewanhaka High School’s 2019 Homecoming game. Football has been recognized as one of numerous “high-risk” sports which have been indefinitely postponed across the state.

Department of Health has determined these sports to be high risk: basketball, boys lacrosse, competitive cheerleading, football, ice hockey, volleyball and wrestling. The association’s officers said in a statement that they had made the decisions with input from the membership and the executive directors of 11 sections across the state, according to Executive Director Robert Zayas. “When examining the feasibility of Winter State Championships, it became apparent that travel and overnight accommodations would create a unique challenge for our member schools,” Zayas said. “At this time, we must prioritize maximizing student participation without a focus on championship events.” Continued on Page 52

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Hofstra appoints Susan Poser as new prez BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Hofstra University’s board of trustees unanimously appointed Susan Poser as the school’s president last week. Poser, who grew up in New York City, currently serves as the provost and vice chancellor for academic aﬀairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Poser’s accomplishments over the past five years were headlined by the 2019 acquisi-

tion of the John Marshall Law School, the first and only public law school in Chicago. “It is a great honor to be named the 9th President of Hofstra University,” Poser said. “Over the past two decades, Hofstra has benefited from outstanding presidential, board, faculty and alumni leadership, creating an excellent platform to meet the challenges of higher education in the post-pandemic world. I am looking forward to joining the

Hofstra community and building on this legacy for years to come.” Poser earned a law degree and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. Poser also clerked for Dolores K. Sloviter, who was chief judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. Her scholarly work has been published in law journals such as the Michigan Law Review and Georgetown Journal

of Legal Ethics. Poser served as a law professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, where she served as the associate to the university’s chancellor from 2007 to 2010. Nebraska’s College of Law moved up 35 points in the U.S. News rankings during her tenure as the school’s dean from 2010 to 2016. Financial contributions to the school also “increased significantly” during Poser’s tenure, according to a

Hofstra news release. Poser’s appointment, which is eﬀective Aug. 1, came after a year-long nationwide search conducted by Hofstra’s 13-member search committee, including faculty and student body members, according to the news release. The committee looked at more than 270 candidates and solicited feedback from the Hofstra community during the spring and early summer. Continued on Page 54

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7 facts about the

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Nocturnal animals and human night owls may rejoice during the winter solstice. On the winter solstice, people can witness the Earth’s longest night and shortest day of the year for their respective hemispheres. For individuals living in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice generally occurs between December 20 and 23 each year. Those in the southern hemisphere experience the winter solstice between June 20 to June 23. In 2020, the northern hemisphere’s winter solstice occurs on December 21. The solstice may come and go unnoticed, but it’s an interesting day on the calendar. 1. Not only will the winter solstice occur on a specific date, it also occurs at a specific time when the Earth’s semi-axis tilts furthest from the sun. This corresponds to when the North Pole is aimed away from the sun on the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth’s axis. At this point, the sun also shines directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. The information and trivia site Mental Floss says the solstice happens at the same moment for everyone on the plane. However, the hour it occurs depends on your time zone. 2. Areas of the Northern Hemisphere can have varying lengths of day and night on the solstice. For example, New York City may have nine hours and 15 minutes of sunlight on the winter solstice. If that upsets New Yorkers, they may be happy to be outside parts of Finland, some of which get less than six hours of sunlight on the solstice. 3. The word “solstice” is derived from Latin and means “sun stands still.” It was chosen to describe this cosmic phenom-

enon because the solstice sun seemingly appears in the same position at noontime for several days before and after the winter solstice - at its lowest point in the sky. 4. It is easy to mistake the solstices for the equinoxes, which also occur twice a year. However, the equinoxes occur in fall and spring and mark when the sun is directly above the equator and night and day are of equal length. 5. Despite the winter solstice indicating the beginning of the astrological winter, it may not be the coldest time of the season. Usually those temperatures are reserved for January and February. 6. The Farmer’s Almanac reports that many cultures marked the arrival of the solstice as a time of death and rebirth. Early man also kept track of the days by observing the sun’s position in the sky. In fact, historians believe Stonehenge was created to monitor the sun’s yearly “movement.” 7. Many traditions associated with Christmas originated during Pagan celebrations for the winter solstice. For example, Scandinavians would burn a juul (yule) log in the hearth in honor of the god Thor. Thor’s job was to bring the sun’s warmth back to the people. While the winter solstice and the lack of sunlight synonymous with it may not be something everyone looks forward to, there is a silver lining. Following the winter solstice, the hours of sunlight gradually increase by the day, eventually paving the way for the spring equinox.

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innovative classes offered this winter at the

gold coast arts center

BY K A R E N RU B I N There is no better antidote to the cold dark winter that is upon us than filling the season and one’s soul with art, music, theater, film. People are turning COVID-19 isolation into an opportunity to broaden skills, discovering new talents and exploring new interests. And the Gold Coast Arts Center, a regional nonprofit multi-arts organization dedicated to promoting the arts through education, exhibition, performance, and outreach, is adapting its programs to the new reality, which in an interesting twist, has enabled the center to expand its reach well beyond the Long Island community. Winter 2021 School registration has begun for classes starting in January. The arts organization has been able to continue to oﬀer about two-thirds of its catalog by adapting programs – some virtual, some still in-person in the arts center’s studios. “Our focus for Winter 2021 as it relates to school is flexibility,” says Julie Wostenholme, Marketing and development director, for the arts center. “During these diﬃcult times of Covid and with a second wave looming, our school team has proven itself to be a highly trusted resource and a dedicated concierge service to students and

families. We’ve evolved with the times by offering more options.” These include innovative programs such as:• Virtual, Hybrid & In-Person classes.• Multisession classes, One-Day workshops, Pop-Up classes & Create Your Own classes.• Host a Holiday Art, Dance or Chess Party with Family & Friends• Private lessons in all disciplines.• Film / Art Combo Series – first session is a film on Claude Monet, paired with a Monet themed painting class (this series is sponsored by HSBC in Great Neck).• A new focus on adult classes, workshops. One of the adaptations is that instead of offering programs that extend from winter into spring, because people are not comfortable committing to longer programs, most of the courses are divided into eightsession segments, but for specific classes, when you sign up for the winter session, you will be sent a promotional discount for signing up for spring session at same time. Even its renowned film festival and year-round cinema series, which was reintroduced last May, is in high gear, continuing to bring the best of independent new films with its at-home screenings. The series continues to offer two to three new films a month, partnering with film

distributors (a 50-50 split in the ticket price). You click to buy a virtual ticket ($10-12 per film) and have 48-72 hours to watch once you purchase. And you still have access to the hallmark of the center’s film festivals: special Q&As with directors and people connected with the film, as well as the ability to link to film reviews and critiques. (Tickets can be purchased for individual films, rather than a whole series.) The center’s cinema series films are now accompanied by “film kits,” so that in addition to seeing movies that have been specially curated, movie-goers can also enjoy a GCIFF Film Team Selection Review as well as Director Statements, Q&As and any other specialized collateral materials made especially for the arts center. “This is a highly competitive market so we are trying to make the film experience with us a very well-rounded one,” Wostenholme says. On view now: Ric Burns’ documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life”; “Conviction” a French courtroom thriller based on a true story (French with subtitles); and “Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band,” a musical documentary about finding purpose and meaning in life at any age, the transcendent power of music and the importance of

speaking out against anti-Semitism and bigotry, featuring an exclusive Q&A with director Tod Lending. Virtual, Hybrid & In-Person classes are offered spanning age groups, from 4 years old to teens and adults as well as family programs, and across a huge array of “the arts” — art, dance, music, theater, even robotics two virtual classes: for beginners, an intro to robotics, and programming, physics of robotics targeted to intermediate & advanced) and chess – a program that the center has offered for years, but with the “Queens Gambit” craze, now offers two new virtual chess classes. “People called to create their own chess class.” “We have kept up a robust program,” Wostenholme says. “We’re not offering everything, but we continue to offer the most successful, innovative and popular programs, well thought out to accommodate the times.” Indeed, one of the innovations is to “create your own pod” – customized class. People can propose a class to Ellen Schiff, Director of School for the Arts, and the arts center will arrange a teacher. The class can be customized and personalized for time, interest and competency level. Another innovation are oneday adult workshops, which do not require a commitment beyond signing up in advance. One of these new workshops is a “film & art” series –combining two disciplines: participants see a documentary of an artist’s exhibition and life on screen, which is then linked to a one-day painting class at the arts center (the elements can be purchased separately or as a combo). The January 7, “Adult Painting & Film” immersive workshop is focused on the life of Claude Monet and his most beloved paintings. “Watch how his art developed as the film, Exhibition on Screen: I, Claude Monet features his gardens at Giverny, and the series of paintings they inspired. Students will recreate their own rendition of The Bridge with the lively strokes that Monet used in this live inperson workshop.” No experience is required and the supplies are provided (sessions limited to 8). The center is hoping to offer one of these Adult Painting &

Film workshops per month. For programs that are offered in the arts center’s own building on Middle Neck Road in Great Neck, strict guidelines and protocols are maintained for anyone coming into the center to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of students, teachers, staff — socially distancing; only the students and program participants are allowed in; grids mark off six-feet separation; masks must be worn at all times, the center has a filtration system and keeps windows open where appropriate.Even virtual classes, taught online, are organized so the supplies are provided – people drive to the arts center and pick them up curbside. For example, an Adult Virtual Pastel Art Workshop is a 90-minute-session with an instructor, offered on January 24 (no experience necessary; supplies are included and can be picked up at the arts center; limited to 8 students). The arts center is also offering “pop-up classes” – one day workshops, for example in ceramics (artist Jude Amsel is offering a holiday ceramics workshop); and “create your own” classes, where people make a request and the arts center puts together an instructor. You can also host a customized holiday art, dance or chess party with family and friends to learn, say, cartooning. The arts center is also offering private lessons in all disciplines. – 45-60 minute sessions that are virtual, interactive, personalized to your learning style and experience, with the instructor providing feedback (people have signed on from Colorado and Chicago). All of these programs are prime for gifts and the Arts Center offers the opportunity to give the gift of art or membership. “How great to gift your parents or grandparents with an amazing class or workshop – they may discover some hidden talent or unexplored interest.” Purchases on Amazon can also support the arts center, which is a beneficiary on the Amazon Smile program (shop, then choose Gold Coast Arts in the Pick a Charitable Organization tab). The arts center remade the website, goldcoastarts.org, with user-friendly menu and easy access to all class registrations).

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Comfort takes center stage each winter. As people look to stay warm, many may be quick to turn up the thermostat so their entire home is toasty warm. But much like cranking air conditioners during the dog days of summer, turning up the thermostat each time the winter winds begin blowing can prove costly for homeowners. According to estimates from the National Energy Assistance Directors’ Association, homeowners spent an average of $911 on home heating costs in the winter of 2019-20. The winter of 2020-21 could prove even more expensive, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force much of the world to practice social distancing. That means many professionals are still working from home full-time, while even those who aren’t are no doubt spending more of their free time at home. All those hours spent at home figure to increase reliance on heaters this winter, which means heating bills are likely to go up as the temperatures go down. Finding ways to save on heating costs will no doubt prove a priority for many homeowners this winter, and the following are some ways to do just that.

· Add insulation. Extra insulation throughout the house can dramatically reduce home heating (and cooling) costs. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, adding insulation in attics, crawl spaces and basement rim joists can help homeowners save as much as 15 percent on heating costs.

· Lower the temperature on your water heater. Another way to trim your energy bill this winter is to lower the temperature on your water heater. The U.S. Department of Energy notes that, for every 10 F reduction in temperature on their water heaters, homeowners can save between 3 and 5 percent on their water heating costs.

· Close the flue on your fireplace. Fireplaces can keep a home’s inhabitants warm in winter, but only when they’re in use. When they’re not being used, fireplaces can allow heat to escape a home. When the fireplace is not being used, close the flue to prevent heat from escaping the house. Keeping all windows and doors closed throughout the day is another way to prevent unnecessary heat loss. · Have your HVAC system serviced before winter begins. Ineﬃcient HVAC systems cost homeowners considerable amounts of money each year. Annual maintenance performed by a certified HVAC professional can ensure filters are clean and operating at peak eﬃciency, saving homeowners the costly trouble of having to turn up the thermostat to overcome dirty systems. Home heating costs figure to increase this winter as people spend more time at home. Various simple strategies can help homeowners stay warm without overpaying to heat their homes this winter.

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Many changes are to be expected as fall gives way to winter. Temperatures drop for much of the country, and depending on where one lives, snow, wind and ice are to be expected. As beautiful as snow-covered landscapes can be, winter presents unique hazards, notably slippery roads and surfaces. Chilly temperatures also can put people at risk if they spend prolonged periods outdoors unprotected. According to the insurance company Carsurance, more than 156,000 crashes occur annually due to icy roads. Roughly 17 percent of all vehicle crashes happen in winter conditions. Winter hazards are not exclusive to driving, however. That means winter safety involves a consideration of a host of factors. 1. Changing visibility While slippery surfaces may contribute to some accidents, visibility can quickly change with winter weather. Blowing snow can contribute to whiteout conditions. In addition, fog can be hazardous to drivers, aviators and mariners and contributes to thousands of travel accidents every year, advises the National Weather Service. It’s important to slow down, leave plenty of distance, use your lowbeam headlights, and recognize when it may be safest to pull over, such as when visibility is significantly compromised. 2. Snow removal Shoveling snow or using a snowblower are common wintertime activities. Yet strenuous levels of activity in cold temperatures could put people at risk of heart attack, particularly if they are not acclimated to physical activity. Always warm up prior to shoveling snow to prepare the body for exercise. Go slowly and take frequent breaks. Avoid twisting and tossing

snow over your shoulder, which can contribute to back injuries. 3. Carbon monoxide poisoning Winter weather means turning up the heat or doing more indoor cooking. Carbon monoxide is produced through the burning of fuel in various forms, including stoves, engines, gas ranges, portable generators, and grills. The National Safety Council says carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that can go undetected as it builds up in enclosed spaces. Never warm up the car inside of a contained garage. Do not use portable flameless chemical heaters indoors, and have furnaces, water heaters and other fuel-burning appliances checked and serviced by a qualified technician annually. Be sure that carbon monoxide alarms are on every floor of the home, and take it seriously if the alarm goes oﬀ. 4. Black ice Black ice is a common winter foe. Black ice forms when temperatures rise above freezing during the day, melting any snow on the ground and causing surfaces to become wet. If the temperature drops once more while the ground is wet, a thin, transparent sheet of ice can form. Black ice also may occur if moisture in the air condenses and forms dew or fog, and then the temperature drops below freezing, says the National Weather Service. Black ice gets its name because it looks black on asphalt roads. However, it also can form on sidewalks and overpasses, or spots shaded by trees or other objects. Slowing down and exercising extreme caution are essential. Winter is a beautiful season. But it can be just as hazardous as it is awe-inspiring. Taking steps to stay safe in unpredictable conditions is a necessity each winter.

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January and February Oh the weather outside is frightful. Rather than succumb to cabin fever, people can use the winter months as the perfect time to visit area stores and score a few deals. Savvy shoppers understand that key items go on sale at specific points throughout the year. Learning how to shop the sales can lead to considerable savings. December 1. Toys: Toys are perhaps the best items to purchase in December. Apart from Christmas gifts, it is a good time of year to stock up on toys children have coveted, which can be put away for birthday presents or other occasions. Retailers tend to lower toy prices as Christmas approaches. 2. Holiday decor: Decorative holiday items also tend to be heavily discounted in December. Stores slash prices on ornaments, gift wrap, artificial trees, holidaythemed baking items, and much, much more. If it has a passing connection to the holidays, chances are stores will cut prices by 50 percent or more once Christmas is over. 3. Televisions: It’s possible to find

discounted TVs even after the Black Friday sales have come and gone. Keep eyes trained on the circulars and jump when sales are advertised, as inventory may be limited. 4: Bubbly: Competition in the market will help drive down the cost of champagne and other sparkling wines. According to the wine resource GuildSomm, 22 percent of all champagne sales are run during the month of December. January 5. Winter apparel: As the winter progresses, the amount of clothing stock in stores starts to dwindle to free up room for a new season’s worth of attire. Starting in late December and continuing into the latter half of January, retailers are eager to liquidate their stock of scarves, sweaters, boots, and winter coats. This is a prime time to replenish wardrobes. 6. Linens: “White sales” are traditionally in January, with home goods retailers running discounts all month long. These sales generally encompass towels, bed sheets, curtains, and other linens. 7. Fitness items: January is the ideal time to purchase a new gym membership or fitness equipment since these purchas-

es tie into New Year’s resolutions to get fit. Gyms may waive extra fees or oﬀer discounted rates. 8. Travel and entertainment: Most people return home after the holidays, and that can generate a slow travel season afterward. The travel industry attracts new customers with discounted

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Resolutions that focus on health and fitness are made each year. Numerous people are eager to lose weight, improve their physical fitness levels or even stop habits that can hinder their mental or physical wellness. As the new year ticks closer, indi-

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than alcohol, car accidents, guns, HIV, and illegal drugs combined. Smoking not only causes cancer, it also damages nearly every part the body, including the bones, reproductive organs, mouth, skin, eyes, and blood vessels. Quitting can help reverse the eﬀects of

years of smoking. 2. Limit alcohol intake. The phrase “everything in moderation” applies to alcohol consumption. Excessive consumption of alcohol can lead to liver and kidney damage. When these organs are not functioning properly, they cannot filter toxins out of the body, resulting in potentially irreparable damage. Resolve to cut down on alcohol consumption if you are drinking more than two drinks per day. 3. Address stress. It’s easy to underestimate the eﬀects of stress on the mind and body. Left unchecked, stress can contribute to heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure, says the Mayo Clinic. Resolving to reduce stress by adopting certain techniques can improve selfesteem and mood. 4. Exercise more readily. Physician Partners of America states that exercise can improve mood and sleep, help people control their weight, reduce the risk of heart disease, improve bone and

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he holiday season is upon us with Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa and is a time to think about doing for others during this deadly pandemic. As such it is time for caring, sharing, giving and helping others in need of human kindness. We also are required by our higher power to keep in our prayers those who protect us.

This is our police oﬃcers, firefighters, EMS, doctors, nurses, and the rest of our first responders. Times are hard for many of our neighbors. Like sickness from COVID-19 and the deaths of many family members and close friends and many of our neighbors who are unemployed. So please give to food kitchens, food pantries, and those organizations and community groups that

help the poor. Added to all this we are now having a severe blood shortage and donations are badly needed by those who can give the gift of life. All this I ask and not only during the holidays but all year long. This holiday season let’s make a diﬀerence and you will be glad that you did. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose

Great Neck shifting to GOP

t is time that the Nassau Republican Party devote funds and resources to LOCAL races, such as the district of “no-bail” state Senator Anna Kaplan. The Sunday Newsday (Dec. 13, 2020) article shows that the presidential Republican vote beat the Democratic vote by in excess

of 40 percent along the Great Neck peninsula. No other area in Nassau or Suﬀolk rivaled this result save the Five Towns in southwest Nassau. Furthermore, local media emphasis on Democratic-liberal themes is not a reflection of today’s Great Neck peninsula. They are a

remnant of the time when I was raised in the South Bronx, when so many liberal judges who released hoodlums back on NYC streets, resided in Great Neck. It’s easy to be liberal on the backs of others.

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In Passing How did we come to be here, pressed into A fragile, imperfect union—how do we Meet the future pushing past as on a city street Or subway during rush hour? Bound to a rhythm, And sworn upon a language and score that becomes More dangerous—years and years increasing the gaps. How does a child who asks for directions to the Edge of the world, somewhere, close the distance We had to overcome? For example, when young I was taught nothing heals the wounded soul like benevolence. Of course we travel far, but just as I choose to greet This way, how do you explain leaving it out? Then, maybe, we have two lives but only one is valid. And looking back, thank God I remember and believe. Stephen Cipot Garden City Park Wishing everyone: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Diwali, And the very best holiday season 2020-21 Letters Continued on Page 51

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Northern State “MYALERTS resurfacing complete

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BY R O S E W E L D ON Parts of the Northern State and Meadowbrook State parkways have been resurfaced as part of road renovation projects totaling $33.4 million, the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last Thursday. As part of these projects, pavement was refurbished along seven miles of the Northern State Parkway between the New York City boundary and the Meadowbrook State Parkway, in addition to 36 entrance and exit ramps on the parkway. “Modernizing and strengthening New York’s transportation network has always been one of our top priorities,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Well-maintained infrastructure plays an essential role in driving economic growth and keeps travelers safe. These projects have gone a long way towards improving driving conditions on Long Island’s busiest roadways and have made it easier for New Yorkers to get where they need to go safely and efficiently.” The office said that the Northern State Parkway is one of the most heavily traveled roadways on Long Island as a key route to New York City. An additional 8.5 miles of state road

on the island were resurfaced, including Hillside Avenue, or state Route 25B, from the Northern State Parkway to Jericho Turnpike, or state Route 25, in the Town of North Hempstead. Streets in the Town of Huntington, the Town of Brookhaven, the Town of Islip, and the Town of Smithtown were also resurfaced. New reflective lane markings, shoulder delineators and guide rail reflectors were also installed, and storm drains cleaned and repaired to prevent flooding during the course of the resurfacing projects. Area representatives such as state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck), state Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Garden City) and Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-New Hyde Park) responded positively to news of the repairs. “I take the Northern State Parkway to work every day, so I speak from personal experience when I say that the new paving and safety improvements are a welcome change for drivers getting around Nassau County, and this kind of investment in our infrastructure is absolutely critical to reducing traﬃc and keeping our economy moving forward,” Kaplan said. “I’m grateful for Governor Cuomo’s Continued on Page 50

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Business&RealEstate Renting versus buying a home I look in bewilderment at the approximately 32.9 percent (as of the third quarter of 2020 as per the Census Bureau) of those who are renting in the United States and wonder why in the heck are they in that position? Many reasons come to mind as to why this might be and why more renters aren’t buying. I know so many people who I have had conversations with about renting instead of buying while they are giving their wealth away month by month, year by year. I ask them: Have they thought about purchasing and the overall majority say “yes,” but either they don’t have enough for a down payment, they believe that their credit isn’t sufficient enough to qualify for financing or they say that a rental is less of an obligation financially than a mortgage. Little do they know, they are also obligated to pay their rent every month just like a mortgage, except their lease will never be fixed like a mortgage is for 15-30 years and provide the amazing benefits that go along with it. If I get a referral and we immediately create sufficient rapport so that they are open to having a dialogue with me, then I sometimes go a bit ballistic and give them a little tongue lashing as if they were my kids. (I never had to do this with my own because they usually listened to their dad!) I then explain to them, after getting enough information, that with the cost of their rental they probably could buy something. What I need to reinforce in no uncertain terms is what they are losing, e.g. the lack of gaining any appreciation, zero tax deductions and writeoffs (again handing it all over on a silver platter to their landlord) and the security of not having to move if their landlord doesn’t renew for whatever reason. Some of my past referrals were running small businesses out of their rentals and weren’t even considering the benefit and value of what they could actually use as a tax deduction on their business and/or personal tax returns. Most had some understanding but never conveyed enough or any of this information to their accountants. I have heard and continue to hear such ridiculous and illogical stories about how individuals and couples lack the knowledge and common sense (as I always say, “common

sense is no longer common” and getting much, much worse) and less than stellar approaches to financing and purchasing, even when it comes to either leasing or purchasing a car. Not to defocus, but here is a quick car story. Over the last two days, I went online in advance to figure out the price, all options that I desired and had to have so I was extremely prepared. I then visited my dealership and decided to trade in my car for a new 2021. I checked their digital sales board and found one of their people who had zero sales for the month of December. However, prior to committing, I negotiated by what some might call “squeezing” the sales associate (they do it to us brokers and agents, too, lol). I handled the transaction in an extremely professional manner, being transparent and very much to the point but very persistently nice and always passing positive compliments to not only the sales associate but to the financial and dealership manager all the way through and then did my “one of a kind” take-away. Well, I got everything that I wanted and needed at an amazing price and I just drove the car home tonight with a big smile on my face. Pretty much everything

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

in this world is negotiable, except birth, taxes, (unless you have a business) and death. I tell and show my clients how they too can potentially be a homeowner by thinking outside the box and being as creative as necessary within the law. I ask them if at any point in time whether they had in the past made any attempt to devise a plan of action and sat down to try to figure out how to do it. Most of the time they had said, sure, but they gave up before they even started because they were trying to do this on their own, without the necessary professional services of a mortgage and real estate broker or even so much as asking a finan-

cial planner in the various ways to come up with their down payment. We have assisted a multitude of renters to convert their mindsets from considering renting to realizing and becoming homeowners, even with less than 580 credit scores. FHA loans require a minimum 3.5 percent down payment for credit scores of 580 and higher. If you can make a 10 percent down payment, your credit score can be in the 500 – 579 range. However, due to the COVID-91 pandemic, many banks have increased their credit score requirements and are no longer accepting any scores less than 680 credit for an FHA-backed mortgage. But there are terms and conditions that need to be met — income, price range, etc. — and applicants are judged by their specific financial profile and situation. There are ways to be able to come up with that ever-important down payment. We can show you as well as guide you through the creative ways to accomplish this. So before you pull the trigger and consider thinking about renting or signing that lease, hold oﬀ and take a step back and get an education about buying. The inventory of avail-

able rentals just went up this past week, so there are more choices because demand slows at this time of the year as most people do not consider a move during the winter months. So if it ends up that renting is the only possibility, you do have time and choices. We are just a phone call away from a free 15-minute consult to provide you with the necessary information to determine your capabilities in purchasing. Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 6474289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

252 Colonial Avenue, Williston Park

90 Jerome Avenue, Mineola

6 bd, 2 ba, 1,682 sqft, Sold on: 8/26/20, Sold Price: $745,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Herricks

4 bd, 3 ba, 1,162 sqft, Sold on: 11/24/20, Sold Price: $800,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

66 Westbury Avenue, Mineola

404 Wellington Road, Mineola

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,000 sqft, Sold on: 11/24/20, Sold Price: $489,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,450 sqft, Sold on: 11/22/20, Sold Price: $496,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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More than 400 students test positive Continued from Page 11 In Sewanhaka, 51 of the 65 total positive student cases were on-site, while the rest were oﬀ-site, according to state figures. The North Shore school district, with 53, the Mineola school district, with 42, the Roslyn school district, with 34, and the Manhasset school district with 34, were the only other districts with 30 or more confirmed student cases. The East Williston and Herricks districts combined for 37 student cases, with East Williston having 21 and Herricks having 16. Despite being surrounded by areas with a high number of confirmed cases outside the classroom, schools in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park and Floral Park-Bellerose school districts had a combined 15 cases. New Hyde Park-Garden City Park had 10 cases, while Floral ParkBellerose had five. For more information on how school districts and their schools are faring with the coronavirus, visit https://schoolcovidreportcard.health.ny.gov/#/home. Rose Weldon contributed reporting.

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More than 400 students throughout the North Shore tested positive for the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic as of Wednesday.

$488M distributed to Madoff victims: Feds Continued from Page 12 The fund ultimately plans to return more than $4 billion in assets that have been recovered as compensation for losses suffered by the collapse of Madoff ’s firm. Another $5 billion in assets recovered by the U.S. attorney’s office are being separately paid to Madoff victims through the BLMIS Customer Fund administered by the Securities Investor Protection Act trustee. The Madoff Victim Fund is funded through recoveries by the U.S. attorney’s office in various criminal and civil forfeiture actions and is overseen by Richard Breeden, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in his capacity as special master appointed by the Department of Justice. Of the approximately $4.05 billion that

will be made available to victims through the Madoff Victim Fund, approximately $2.2 billion was collected as part of the civil forfeiture recovery from the estate of deceased Madoff investor Jeffry Picower. An additional $1.7 billion was collected as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with J.P. Morgan-Chase Bank N.A. for Madoff-related Bank Secrecy Act violations. Additional funds were collected through criminal and civil forfeiture actions against Madoff and his co-conspirators, and certain Madoff investors. “[The fund] is delighted to be able to bring recoveries for more than 30,000 Madoff victims to slightly over 80% — a milestone we have worked long and hard to achieve,” Breeden said. “This is MVF’s sixth distribution overall, and our second during

the global pandemic. Every distribution to the Madoff victims is important, but we are really thrilled to be able to deliver a recovery of more than 80 percent to over 30,000 victims. We are all thankful that we could get it done in the middle of COVID-19, and that these checks will be delivered at this time of traditional joy and glad tidings. We believe this percentage recovery on such a scale is an historic result for victims all over the world.” “That is an extraordinary level of recovery for a Ponzi scheme — but our work is not yet finished, and the Office’s tireless commitment to compensating the victims who suffered as a result of Madoff ’s heinous crimes continues,” Strauss said. The case is being handled by the office’s Money Laundering and Transnational

Criminal Enterprises Unit, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis A. Pellegrino is in charge of the case. Remission of the forfeited funds is being handled by the office and the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In the past year, Madoff, who the Bureau of Prisons confirmed in February has 18 months to live, has sought a compassionate release from prison due to health issues. Madoff ’s sons, Andrew and Mark, who grew up in Roslyn, were involved in the firm and told the authorities about their father’s crimes in 2008. They have since died: Andrew in 2014 due to mantle cell lymphoma and Mark in 2010 through suicide. Their mother, Ruth, has mostly stayed out of the public eye since her husband’s sentence began.

N. Shore Hebrew Academy website hacked Continued from Page 2 “We are horrified that hackers have targeted a Jewish school and exposed children to horrific Nazi imagery and messages,” Rez told the Post. Some of the more than 4,000 members on a “Mom and Dads of Great Neck” Facebook group discussed the incident online. “It’s nauseating and whoever is responsible for this should be prosecuted to the fullest degree,” one member said. “This is beyond disgusting and horrible,” another member replied. “It is so sad to see such incidents happened again in our community.” “I saw this and it’s just so disgusting. I hope they find who did it,” another

member said. “Here’s a chance for all of the community to stand together against this horrible act and bring light to this darkness.” State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck), who has been vocal on past antiSemitic incidents on the North Shore, said: “It’s truly unthinkable that anyone could be so consumed by anti-Semitism and hatred that they would commit such a vile and repugnant crime against our community during Chanukah, but this is a horrific reminder that hatred and antiSemitism are alive and well even in our own backyards, and we must ALL speak out in no uncertain terms that we reject it at every opportunity and in every corner of our community.”

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran urged people in the county to contact the county Police Department with any information on the attack, “I am disgusted by the Anti-Semitic online attack on the North Shore Hebrew Academy,” Curran said in a statement. “There is a zero tolerance policy for Anti-Semitism or any kind of bigotry in Nassau County. We will never accept anyone being abused or intimidated in this County because of who they are. Nassau County PD is investigating this incident, and I urge anybody with helpful information to reach out to the Police Department.” The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove

released a statement about the incident and stressed the need for continuous education on the Holocaust for students. “The display of Nazi symbolism and other indicators of hate have no place online, on Long Island or anywhere in the world. It is critical that we are ever vigilant to take action to counteract antiSemitism, hate and fear, and to heal the divisions in our society,” the statement said. “This hacking attack further emphasizes the need to educate adults and young people on the history of the Holocaust and the lessons for how people should and must conduct themselves today.” As of Tuesday, the website was shut down.

44 The Williston Times, Friday, December 18, 2020

Police reform demanded in Nassau Continued from Page 1 Levin said that the body camera initiative was not a satisfactory resolution to the need for effective police reforms. “There should be real, structural changes [to the police], and I’m not just talking about damn body cameras where they’re going to get a stipend to wear them,” Levin said. “I’m talking about real change, like how ticketing can be handled differently, how we handle mental health cases differently, how we handle drug cases differently, I’m talking about reducing the footprint of the police in our streets.” Fred Brewington, a Hempsteadbased civil rights attorney, said it is time to take the message of police reform “from the streets to the suites.” “If we don’t rise up, our ancestors will roll over,” Brewington said. “When we say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ we’re talking about a historical statement that needs to be said. We’re talking about a reason that Black people have been subjugated for 400 years when they came over in the bottom of slave ships.” Protesters also said the contract does not provide sufficient indications of needed reform as highlighted in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order signed in mid-June. The order requires

PHOTO BY ROBERT PELAEZ

More than 100 people gathered outside the Nassau County legislative building in Mineola Thursday to demand more reform in law enforcement. each police agency to conduct a plan to “reinvent and modernize police strategies” by April 1, when the state’s next fiscal year begins. The union membership is required to vote on the pact before it is sent for approval to the County Legislature and the county’s fiscal control board. Eﬀorts to reach a representative of the Nassau Police Benevolent Associa-

tion for comment were unavailing. Nassau County spokesperson Michael Fricchione released a statement touting the safety of Nassau County as identified in a U.S. News & World Report poll this year. “Nassau County is a national leader in both public safety and police reform,” Fricchione said, “having convened more than 50 public meetings

so far this year on strengthening police accountability, transparency and maintaining the County’s status as the safest community in America.” Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park), presiding oﬃcer of the County Legislature, said the Republican majority will keep the residents’ best interests in mind while considering the contract. “The Majority will thoroughly review the PBA contract once it is ratified by the union’s membership, and submitted to the Legislature,” Nicolello said. “Our determination will be based on what is in the best interests of Nassau’s taxpayers and residents as well as maintaining Nassau County as one of the safest places to live in the United States.” William Biamonte, chief of staﬀ to the County Legislature’s Democratic minority caucus, said the group supports police reform. “It is our duty to hear the public’s voice as we seek to produce a comprehensive, community-driven plan that meets the diverse needs of Nassau County residents while ensuring officers are optimally and appropriately equipped to uphold the highest standards of professionalism as they serve and protect the public,” Biamonte said.

Holiday car parade brightens up communities

PHOTO BY JOHN NUGENT

The Lakeville Estates Civic Association held a holiday car parade on Saturday.

Continued from Page 11 Several public oﬃcials attended, including state Sen. Anna Kaplan, Assemblyman Ed Ra and Assemblywoman-elect Gina Sillitti, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, and Nassau County Legislators Richard Nicolello and Ellen Birnbaum. In addition, Town of North Hempstead Clerk Wayne Wink and Town council members Lee Seeman and Peter Zuckerman were on hand. The Village of New Hyde Park was represented by Mayor Lawrence Montreuil and Trustees Richard Pallisco and Rainer Burger.

Jack Kott, a civic association board member, said there were at least two miles worth of cars. “What a phenomenal event just took place that I was privileged to participate in,” Kott wrote on the group’s Facebook page. “While checking many people in I got the feeling that everyone there was eager & happy to participate.” “We are a community with diﬀerent religions, diﬀerent nationalities, different political views, but we all come together for a common cause and hopefully we brought a little joy today to everyone,” Cutrone said.

Manhasset author recognized by global contest Continued from Page 12 After the majority of the year passed by, including a win for Best Author at Blank Slate Media’s Best of the North Shore contest, Libsohn received exciting news last week: four of the titles she submitted had been honored in their respective categories at Story Monsters Ink Magazine’s Royal Dragonfly Book Award contest. Libsohn’s “What is Love,” a biogra-

phy following her parents’ romance was named an honorable mention in the Biography/Autobiography/Memoir category; her work “Messages of Love Remembered,” made of her parents letters, took second place in the Letters, Journals and Diaries category; Mitzi’s “Immortal Kisses: Confessions of a Poet,” took second place in the Poetry category, and “Silhouettes — Literary Passageways,” reflections on literature written by mother and daughter,

took first place in the Other Nonfiction. “When I came home from work and saw that on my computer, I just about fell over!” Libsohn said. The next printings of those four books, she says, will feature a badge recognizing the awards won. Also in the new year, Libsohn will be self-publishing 10 children’s books based on her mother’s writings. She adds that Mitzi most likely would have been thrilled at the news of

the wins. “If she were here, she’d be screaming,” Libsohn said. “She’d be screaming and she’d be hugging me and kissing me, she’d be so excited. This one contest recognized the beauty and the brilliance of my mother’s writing, and they recognized the beautiful romance between her and my father that I wrote about in ‘What is Love.'” All of Libsohn’s books are available for purchase at Amazon.com.

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Continued from Page 16 free speech, free and fair voting, embraced by white supremcists, the Proud Boys and modern incarnations of the KKK to intimidate voters, protesters, elected oﬃcials and even electors. What is the point of carrying guns into the Capitol building at polling places, in town halls or to protests if not to intimidate, terrorize and coerce speech or voting? For the newest radical rightwing Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, who has made no secret of her radically pro-life stance and who seems only to apply her “originalist” doctrine to the 2nd Amendment and the 1st Amendment (but only as it pertains to religion, putting religious liberty over public health), I would suggest gun reform falls under free speech (1st Amendment) and voting rights (15th, 19th, 26th amendments). As for stripping a woman of her reproductive rights in the cause of prolife, I would suggest that addressing the epidemic of gun violence that takes 33,000 lives a year also falls under that category of protecting “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

“The pandemic is intensifying so many other longstanding persistent public health issues, including gun violence,” former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, said during Northwell’s virtual Gun Violence Prevention Forum, as reported in The Island Now. “This is a public health emergency and it’s on us to keep the conversation going and work together to find solutions,” Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling said. “Even amidst the pandemic, we should not step aside. We will succeed with COVID-19, but we have to make sure we deal with the other emergency – gun violence.” Polling has consistently shown strong majorities of Americans want action now. “This year we have elected the strongest gun safety presidential ticket in history with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice Presidentelect Kamala Harris,” writes Erica Laﬀerty of the Everytown Survivor Network. “Not only have we defeated the NRA’s greatest ally in the White House, but our movement is positioned to fight for real gun safety reform with President Biden in oﬃce.” Do it within the first 100 days.

Meet Patrick Reed, $33M in resurfacing aka ‘The Grinder’ roads completed: Gov Continued from Page 18 Well, I suspect the answer is simple. He works and works and works on his game. While many around him party, play less frequently and rest up, Reed is the guy who always shows up ready to play. He has consistently gotten the short end of the popularity stick with regards to media coverage. He is not been known as a media darling like Jordan Spieth or Ricky Fowler, but Reed is turning out to be the guy who wins more money, has more titles and is slowly earning the respect not only of fans but of the media itself and that is largely because he deserves it. Reed has the grinding work ethic of guys like Hideki Matsuyama of Japan or 2020 Rookie of the Year Sungjae Im of South Korea. This similarity may be why Patrick Reed has recently begun a collaboration with “grindworks,” Japan’s premier golf brand which employs the noted design

Patrick Reed, the ultimate grinder

gurus Kiyonari Niimi, Kenji Kobayashi and Tario Cham. It’s fitting that this ultimate grinder is aﬃliated with a brand called “grindworks.” Reeds’ focus is so good that it seems to matter not at all if he plays in front of fans or not. Despite the variety of distractions brought on by COVID and the lack of fans in 2020, Reed manages to climb to No. 8 in the Oﬃcial World Golf Rankings.This week Reed finished third at the DP World Tour Championship, which is the culmination of the Race to Dubai, making him the most visible of Americans in Europe. Week after week, month after month, and year after year Mr. Reed is the face of American golf globally. In some way he is similar to the little man from South Africa, Gary Player, the black knight, who tirelessly trotted around the globe and led the way for Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen and Brandon Grace. It’s notable that all those South Africans have the same laconic demeanor so useful for golfers. Patrick Reed, aka Captain America, The Grinder, will now, thanks to all his efforts and successes, lead the way for a new wave of young American talent to travel overseas to Europe and Dubai to bring back money, fame and big wins. Let’s just hope that Patrick Reed will finally get the credit he so richly deserves for pioneering all of this.

Continued from Page 40 laser-focus on investing in Long Island’s infrastructure, and I thank all the dedicated workers who worked throughout the pandemic to get this incredible project done.” “Improvements to these well-traveled roadways will enhance safety for motorists and help traﬃc flow,” Ra said. “I thank the Governor for his continued commitment to maintaining and modernizing our state roads.”

“I was delighted that I was instrumental in getting the Northern State Parkway repaved at the request of my constituents who from the first day I took oﬃce reached out and asked that I get the Parkway repaved,” D’Urso said. “I would like to thank the New York State Department of Transportation for putting the Parkway on its priority list and getting the repaving done in a timely matter and making the road a smoother ride for all motorists who utilize the Parkway.”

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Biden’s impossible Great Neck could task as president morph into Bronx

ack on Feb. 29, when Presidentelect Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary, it was clear he would clinch the nomination, and likely the presidency. In just 30 days, the country Mr. Biden would inherit isn’t at all like the one he saw the day he won. The equivalent of totaling your new car the second you leave the dealership parking lot. Once again, in the tradition of FDR, Clinton, and Obama, it will be left to a Democratic president to clear up the economic and social train wreck a Republican president left behind. It’s a no-win situation. These episodes exact a terrible price that can’t be made back. No one should underestimate the challenge before us. When Obama was inaugurated, David Letterman quipped that he was handed the keys to a store that had been shuttered for eight years. Now Mr. Biden gets the keys to one that’s been trashed, and the shelves stripped bare. I don’t know who would even want the job. The Murdoch press will ask why the economy hasn’t healed by March 1st and lay the failure at the feet of “policies” Democrats advocate. One of the best examples of this was an article written by George H.W. Bush’s head of the Council of Economic Advisers, Michael J. Boskin, who wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal on March 6, 2009 titled “Obama’s Radicalism is Killing the Dow.” Obama was in oﬃce for all of five weeks, and according to Mr. Boskin, he was tanking the market. Unfortunately for his predictive capability, the Dow bottomed just three days later and didn’t stop climbing for the duration of Mr. Obama’s two terms. Mr. Boskin is also the author of a book called “Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social security.” It was published in 1986. Like most of his kind, “always wrong, never in doubt.” In any case, Mr. Biden inherits a broken economy and a traumatized population. And they’re going to expect miracles that can’t be delivered even if the COVID crisis ends by Summer. It’s one thing to bail out of a recession caused by a turn in the business cycle. It’s quite another to recover from an

exogenous shock like this. Millions will live with economic precarity for some time to come. The good news is that the PresidentElect has assembled an outstanding economic team. Aside from the masterstroke of appointing Janet Yellen as treasury secretary, some lesser-known names, like Brad Setser of the Council of Foreign Relations, will bring sanity and discipline to trade policy, replacing Mr. Trump’s sloppy, drunken amateurs. Former Obama hands like Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute are in the transition team. Also as important is the restoration of the Council of Economic Advisors, which was turned into a horse stable by the Trump Administration. Media clowns like Larry Kudlow have thankfully seen their last day in the sun, replaced by seasoned professionals. Mr. Biden faces pressure from a younger cohort in the party that is impatient and demands long-overdue structural changes in the way we manage our economy. He demonstrated great (and grossly underappreciated) political skill during the primaries and managed to offer the progressive wing a platform they could live with. Now, he has to implement it. All economic policy going forward now hinges on two Senate seats in Georgia, which gives you an idea of how dysfunctional and outdated our electoral system is. One man, Mitch McConnell, did everything in his power to sandbag the economic recovery under Barack Obama. He will have no qualms about doing it again, even at the cost of the welfare of the American people. To him, all that matters is the kill. The ruse Mr. McConnell and his cohorts will use is a new found love of fiscal “discipline” and a call to “rein in reckless spending,” which of course, he had no objection to when it came to tax cuts and bailing out Mr. Trump’s murderous response to the COVID crisis. In any case, the return of political maturity and expertise is welcome. I wish I could say it couldn’t come too soon. For millions, it will have come too late.

hen I was exiting from the Cross Bronx Expressway into the Bronx, I saw a sign on the wire fence guarding the rear of an apartment building. The sign had this information: 4-bedroom house for $94,000, 2-bedroom house for $43,000, and it included a phone number. As the line of cars on the exit ramp moved forward away from the sign, I thought it must be a mistake. The asking prices seemed absurd to my Long Island mind. Yet as I navigated another block and two and three in the Bronx, I began to fathom the low cost of buying a house there. Buildings tall and taller and even taller than that are lined up like a 3-D animation with no breathing space between them until sometimes, sandwiched between, are the remnants of a suburb, a house or two made smaller by their giant neighbors, a house hard to sell. What is it real estate brokers say? Location, location, location. The Village of Great Neck where I live has 10,000 residents, as compared with the other eight villages, whose populations are, for example, 800, 1,000 and 2,500. As a consequence, bad decisions in my village have a ripple effect, an outsized sway on the others. My village spreads the irreparable consequences of its decisions. It promotes traffic congestion, triggers overcrowding in school classrooms and threatens the source of our supply of fresh drinking water. At one time this entire peninsula was a pasture for grazing cattle, and for much of the time since then it was an enclave, a sanctuary, a place protected by its zoning codes and the wisdom that put those codes in place. Recent decision-making by boards in the Village of Great Neck, however, are destined to doom the quality of life here on our peninsula, but the effects for now are hidden. Each time the board of trustees and zoning board approve outsized construction that downgrades the residential zoning of the side streets off Middle Neck Road Donald Davret (and Steamboat Road and East Shore Roslyn Road), all those feeder streets are im-

pacted, and in years to come Great Neck will be not just crowded, it will be the Bronx. To see the future of the Great Neck peninsula you have only to look at Great Neck Plaza, where private homes used to be the rule, not the exception. Today the village of Great Neck Plaza consists almost exclusively of apartment buildings, co-ops and condominiums, 90 of them, with private homes like lone outposts of the past. Our fresh drinking water, which comes from the wells in the aquifers beneath us, is as endangered as our living space and our property values. My village board has loosened the code on pools and has been approving swimming pools in private yards and in apartment buildings—in addition to approving all the new apartment dwellings and their faucets. The result of development beyond the capacity of the wells causes overpumping and that, in turn, causes saltwater intrusion, which causes wells to be closed and sealed. The big question is this: How long will it take for the loss of wells to force Great Neck to appeal to New York City to sell water from its upstate reservoir and bail out a thirsty peninsula (at a high price). Our peninsula community already has, for almost 60 years, the Parkwood Sports Complex with its series of spectacular pools administered by our Great Neck Park District, which is one of only two free-standing park districts in New York State and an enviable asset to life here. Yet the Village of Great Neck trustees seem intent on privatizing swimming. The Village of Great Neck’s profligacy with our water, our schools and our roads does not stand alone. Great Neck Plaza’s hi-rises are complicit in draining the peninsula’s resources and clogging the infrastructure. By the time you awaken to the future, my children will have sold my house at a handy profit, whereas many of you and your children will be selling your homes for $94,000. Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck

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Northwell conducts first vaccination in U.S. Continued from Page 1 as well as the first phase of Northwell’s three-stage rollout to essential frontline hospital personnel. Physicians, nurses and staff members working in direct contact with COVID-19 patients will soon receive the first dose of a two-dose regimen. Lindsay was the first person in the country to be vaccinated, according to Northwell and the governor’s office. Northwell received a limited supply of a few thousand doses of the vaccine, made by Pfizer and BioNTech, to be spread among eight hospitals. The regimen will require two injections, 21 days apart. The system said the vaccine has demonstrated 95 percent efficacy against infection with minimal side effects and works on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which has been in development for several years. Messenger RNA instructs cells in the body to make different proteins. To vaccinate team members, Northwell has prepared a three-phase prioritiza-

tion matrix to help deploy the vaccine to its over 74,000 team members. The plan factors in a person’s work/geographic area, department specialty, job function and age. To prepare, Northwell invested in procuring more than 20 minus 70-degree Fahrenheit freezers, which can store about 250,000 doses each. Northwell also stocked up on extra needles, gloves and swabs, and the health system has been working hand-in-hand with state and federal officials for a rollout. “This is a major milestone in our battle against COVID-19 and a remarkable effort by our researchers, scientists and health care providers,” said Dr. Mark Jarrett, Northwell’s chief quality officer and deputy chief medical officer. “Our detailed plan will push the seamless vaccination of these brave health care workers. We are very excited to enter the final stage of this pandemic.” Dowling added, “COVID-19 took our loved ones, disrupted our lives and forced

us to deal with unthinkable circumstances. But hope brings prosperity and we never ended our fight. We never did wave the white flag.” The vaccine’s presence on Long Island comes at a time when more than 9,000 people on the North Shore have tested positive for the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic in mid-March as of Sunday night. The figures were the most up-to-date ones that the Nassau County Department of Health provided on Wednesday. Nearly 2,000 people on the Great Neck peninsula had tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, according to county figures, which continues to lead the areas analyzed. The Village of Great Neck’s 574 coronavirus cases were the most throughout the peninsula, followed by the Village of Kings Point’s 411 and the Village of Great Neck Plaza’s 348. The Port Washington area’s 841 cases account for almost 10 percent of the North Shore’s positive tests. Nearly 200

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More than 9,000 people throughout the North Shore had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Sunday, according to county figures.

people in the Village of Manorhaven had tested positive for the virus, according to county figures. The New Hyde Park area accounted for 1,891 of the North Shore’s cases, with North New Hyde Park having the thirdmost confirmed positives, 703, out of any analyzed area. The villages of Floral Park, with 556 cases, and New Hyde Park, with 479 cases, were also among the top seven villages or unincorporated town areas in terms of positive tests, according to Health Department statistics. Municipalities and unincorporated areas that stretch into more than one North Shore area such as Flower Hill, Herricks, Albertson, Garden City Park, Searingtown and North Hills were counted separately and accounted for 1,266 cases, according to county statistics. The Village of Mineola saw the highest increase of cases over the one-week period with more than 75 new cases. Mineola’s 822 cases and Garden City’s 710 cases accounted for 1,532 of the 1,876 cases in the area that also takes in the Willistons. Manhasset, which has remained comparatively low since the beginning of the pandemic, had 553 cases, with around half coming from town-governed areas. It is the only analyzed area with fewer than 600 cases. The Village of Roslyn’s 183 cases may not seem high compared with other North Shore areas, but the cases per 1,000 residents, 64.17, is one of the highest rates in Nassau County, according to Health Department figures. Despite this, the village has seen one of the lowest one-month increases of any analyzed municipality, with fewer than 20 new confirmed cases since Nov. 11, according to county statistics. A total of 67,203 Nassau County residents had tested positive for the virus as of Sunday, and 2,285 had died since the pandemic began. More than 380 Nassau residents remained hospitalized due to the virus, with 53 in intensive care units and 37 on ventilators, according to county figures. Throughout New York, more than 790,000 people had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to state figures. Of that total, more than 35,200 people had died. In New York City, 364,000 people had contracted the virus, and 24,526 had died.

Association postpones ‘high-risk’ H.S. sports Continued from Page 19 The organization attributed the decision to “the increase in infection and hospitalization rates across the state of New York.” All state championships in winter sports, which include bowling, basketball, boys swimming and diving, competitive cheerleading, gymnastics, indoor track and field, ice hockey, skiing and wrestling, have been canceled, which the association attributed to “membership concerns associated with increased travel, hotel accommoda-

tions, transportation logistics, and the planning for meals.” “Furthermore, venue capacity limitations and social distancing restrictions make it increasingly diﬃcult to ensure the safety of student-athletes, coaches, and families,” the association said in a statement. “As an educator, I am witnessing firsthand the challenges our member schools are facing each day in addressing this pandemic,” said Julie Bergman, the association’s president. “It is important we continue

listening to the concerns being expressed by our membership when making decisions impacting interscholastic athletics.” Low- and moderate-risk regular season sports will continue to be permitted, the association says, and championships for spring and fall sports remain scheduled at this time. Plans from the state originally called for a year’s worth of high school athletics to be condensed to six months. All winter sports were to begin on Jan. 4, including basket-

ball, boys swimming and diving, bowling, competitive cheerleading, indoor track, wrestling, gymnastics, and dance/kickline; followed by fall sports on March 1, including football, soccer, girls tennis, cross country running, volleyball, sideline cheerleading, dance/kickline team, field hockey, and girls swimming and diving; and finally ending with spring sports beginning on April 22 and including lacrosse, baseball, softball, boys tennis, track and field, girls badminton and boys golf.

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Herricks seniors publish science research Two seniors in Herricks High School’s Honors Science Research Program have had their respective work prominently acknowledged. Aveena Desai and David Zhang have both participated in science research since their freshman year. They were mentored by teacher Renee Barcia and currently study under the guidance of teacher Caity Etri. Aveena is second author of an article that is published in the Meeting Proceedings, an online supplement of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. She co-wrote the piece, titled “Mutational profile analysis and related outcomes in primary and metastatic pancreatic cancer (PC),” with Abhinav Rohatgi, an oncology fellow from NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center. The pair will be presented with the 2021 Conquer Can-

cer Merit Award on behalf of Conquer Cancer, the American Society for Clinical Oncology Foundation and the 2021 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Planning Committee. Research for this project was a two-year endeavor that Aveena conducted under the mentorship of Dr. Alexander Hindenburg, associate division chief at NYU Winthrop (now referred to as NYU Langone Hospital). Her initial interest in oncology stemmed from her mother’s experience with breast cancer. Aveena was inspired by the way the doctors save lives and decided to pursue studies in this field of medicine. Early on, she spent time in the lab with Dr. Hindenburg, and a large digital data analysis component enabled her to continue working throughout the pandemic. She is leaning toward a future career in STEM, with hopes

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David Zhang

Aveena Desai

of becoming a doctor and incorporating research into her role. David co-authored an article titled “Harnessing nitric oxide for preventing, limiting and treating the severe pulmonary consequences of COVID19,”which was published in the Nitric Oxide journal in July. He

worked with mentor Dr. Joel Friedman of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Physiology and Biophysics to write the piece and conduct the research it includes. After recognizing the therapeutic potential of nitric oxide, David and his mentor embarked

on applying it to COVID-19. They were constantly in touch throughout the spring as David analyzed literature and data. “One of the most devastating clinical manifestations in severe COVID-19 cases is an exaggerated immune response that leads to the downward spiral of a patient’s health,” David said. “This journaldirectly addresses that by detailingthe therapeuticpotential of nitric oxide to improve clinical outcomes by mitigating the abnormal immune activity associated with COVID19’s pathophysiology.” Prior to the pandemic, David was focusing his science research studies on dual-purpose drug delivery systems incorporating nitric oxide. He received second place in Junior Science and Humanities Symposium’s biology category last year and aspires to become a scientific and clinical researcher and earn a Ph.D.

Student teachers gain full-circle experience Adelphi University students Nuvia Velasquez and Jennifer Godinho are going back to their roots as they finish up their education. Velasquez and Godinho are both Mineola graduates. They are now on the path to becoming teachers and are doing so by student teaching in the same district they grew up in, at Hampton Street School.

Godinho started her education at Hampton Street and Velasquez started at Jackson Avenue, which was formally a kindergarten through fifth-grade building. Godinho is student teaching in the same building she used to walk the halls as a child and with some of the same teachers. Velasquez is working side-by-side her former kinder-

garten teacher turned mentor, Nancy Ekloﬀ, who now works at Hampton Street. “Hampton Street School is where my love of learning first began. As I grew up, I wanted to be just like the teachers who made me love learning,” said Godinho. “The opportunity to student teach in the same schools where my love of learning grew

is an amazing full-circle experience.” Godinho and Velasquez say their education and positive experience in the Mineola Union Free School District is what inspired them to want to be teachers. “I hope one day my future students remember me in the same way I always remember

and honor my teachers at Mineola. I am forever grateful to have this opportunity,” said Velasquez. Godinho and Velasquez will be student teaching at Hampton until winter break later this month. The district is happy to have them back and wishes them the best of luck as they pursue teaching and finish their education.

Happening at the Williston Park Library Carl DelVecchio Memorial Library www.willistonparklibrary.org By: Donna McKenna, Director E-mail: wppubliclibrary@gmail.com Please be aware that the Library’s holiday hours are as follows: Christmas Eve—December 24—10am-1pm Christmas Day—December 25—CLOSED New Year’s Eve—December 31—10 am-1 pm New Year’s Day—January 1—CLOSED New titles added to the collection: Magnolia Table—Joanna Gaines One Perfect Summer—Brenda Novak Redhead by the Side of the Road—Anne Tyler Revenge—James Patterson Return—Nicholas Sparks Hush—James Patterson The Answer Is…—Alex Trebek Lincoln’s Sisters—Jennifer Chiaverini

Our New Daily Hours Are: Open for Browsing: Monday-Friday: 10am5:30pm. Vestibule Pick-Up: Monday-Friday: 10am5:30pm. Browsing & Vestibule Pickup: Saturday: 10am-4pm “Open for Browsing” means you can come inside, walk around the Library, and look for books and other items. Please limit your time to 30 minutes. Only one family at a time will be permitted in the Children’s Room. Items requested over the phone can be picked up in the Library vestibule. Please maintain social distancing practices while in the Library. All customers and staﬀ are required to wear face coverings at all times while in the Library, per Executive Order 202.17. Face coverings must cover both your mouth and nose.

Congregating is not permitted. Two computers are available for public use. Please return items in the outside book drops. For safety reasons, we cannot accept items returned inside the Library! Thank you for cooperating with the guidelines we have in place to keep us all safe. Adult Programs Valentine Cottage—Craft-to-Go— $20 material fee. Pick-up date TBD. Registration required at willistonpr@yahoo.com. Children’s Programs Holiday craft—December 14-24— Holiday “Grab-n-go” crafts will be available for children of all ages. Supplies are limited. Please check our website, willistonparklibrary.org, for this week’s DIY storytime.

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Gun violence summit goes on, virtually Continued from Page 6 Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), who has fought for solutions to gun violence after 20 children and six educators were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, said the problem is bigger than the astounding number of people killed

every year. “There are the family and friends who experience trauma after the death of a loved one,” Murphy said, adding that children exposed to gun violence “have levels of PTSD that are just as high as returning soldiers from Iraq or Afghanistan. These children can’t

learn, they can’t cope. They lack resiliency skills because the circuitry of their brains has been changed by the constant exposure to fear of gun violence all the time.” In one of the last events of the agenda, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts interviewed Ca-

landrian Simpson Kemp, whose son George Kemp Jr. was shot and killed in Richmond, Texas, in September 2013. “I’m seven years into this trauma, and it’s really hard for me to self-identify because I’m not that same person like I used to be,” Kemp said. “The challenge is tell-

ing myself that everything from the local, state and federal level, there’s so many diﬀerent gun laws and things that are out there trying to ensure that everybody that can use their center of influence is exercising in those spaces to be able to change the gun laws and keep our children safe.”

Hofstra appoints Susan Poser as new prez Continued from Page 20 “In Dr. Poser, we have found a higher education leader of exceptional experience, a collaborative and visionary person, and a scholar of great depth and intellect,” Hofstra Trustee and search committee Chairperson Donald Schaeﬀer said. “Dr. Poser’s leadership skills make her well prepared to succeed President Stuart Rabinowitz, whose extraordinary service has led to years of growth and development for Hofstra University.” Rabinowitz will end his tenure at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, completing two decades at the PHOTO COURTESY OF HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY university, which has seen notable growth and expansion over that time. Hofstra University appointed Susan Poser as the ninth Since Rabinowitz assumed ofpresident in the school’s history last week. fice in June 2001, Hofstra opened the

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