Village decision to expand building department oversight is a good one
      The decision by the Amityville Village Board of Trustees to hire an assistant building inspector was a good move. The Village has numerous housing projects, commercial developments and other changes either already underway or in the planning stages, all of which take a great deal of time and oversi...
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DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
by Kevin Eastwood
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Senator Johnson calls on Assembly to pass Civil Confinement law
      Dear Editor: Your editorial "New York Needs a Civil Confinement Law Now," (December 14, 2006), couldn't have been more timely. I just returned from an Extraordinary Session of the Legislature that was called by Governor George Pataki for the sole purpose of acting on civil confinement legislation...
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Teacher responds to article on ASD grievance decision
      Dear Editor: I am writing to set the record straight. You recently published an article titled, "ATA wins grievance decision; school board considers appeal." I do not wish to respond to the issues involved in this arbitration. I will leave that to the NYSUT legal representative, the school distri...
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