Wlodek May 18, 2013 at 08:37 pm
Scott,
If the BOE wanted the tax increase could have been close to 3%.
Marian Larson May 18, 2013 at 10:07 am
Scott, thanks for the recap. It was very informative and your time spent recapping it all is much…Read More appreciated.
MP Majority May 18, 2013 at 09:00 am
Noelle, I do plan on attending these meetings, and offering suggestions. My comments, by the way,…Read More were for BOTH teacher unions and administration. Those are only substantial places we can cut without adversely effecting the kids. If we cannot make a dent on healthcare contributions, then the battle has been lost and it will just be a matter of time before the bubble bursts, and all of our homes will be worthless. And speaking of double-taxation, we are paying substantial costs for our healthcare costs in the private sector AND we are paying for virtually free healthcare for our administrators and unions. If that isn't double taxation, I don't know what is.
Jean May 17, 2013 at 11:01 am
Bio-medical research should be open to anyone who can come up with life-saving cures and…Read More preventions. As for genetically modified babies, in the near future, it seems, children will have several biological parents, which is rather strange.
However, the argument for genetic modification is valid in that instead of having to invent treatments for the thousands of hereditary human diseases, we can stop these diseases in their tracks through generational attrition. Trouble is, people will still make babies the old fashioned way.
Pamela Fowler May 19, 2013 at 08:19 am
I tried and all I got for my trouble was to have it disappear into the void.
When will…Read More the-powers-that-be ever learn to NOT "fix" what isn't broken.
Wlodek May 18, 2013 at 08:34 pm
Yes, the new format is a problem. Are you guys contacting Patch with the feedback?
Ted Ratter May 18, 2013 at 05:16 pm
the site works very poorly on iphones. did you notice that too?
Oh, btw Miller Place school is…Read More not attempting to insult your intelligence... they stop seeing you as intelligent many years ago. You and me are now merely a host for likes of whatever you want to call them, a, perhaps bloodsuckers, a, I don't know, but head on over to SeeThroughny.net and check out the Administrations yearly payouts because as you know although they profess it's ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN, I got a feeling they have some other, very expensive and personal interest in the game.
Boards
All Boards » MP Majority May 17, 2013 at 01:41 pm
Spoken like a true teacher. Did you know that the average school teacher is only paying 15% of the…Read More actual cost of health care premiums for themselves and their families, when Medical healthcare insurance premiums are rising at an alarming 17% per annum? Do you realize that teachers are paid an additional stipend if they work more than 3 consecutive periods in a day? Are you aware that teacher pensions were protected during the stock market crash of 2008, when the average person's 401K was totally at risk? Perhaps if teachers realized how good they have it - look at the BIG picture and outside of their bubble - then they would complain less. Oh and yes, we need our loftily-paid Administrators to kick in some of the salaries, to help pay for stuff. Hard to believe the school districts' mantras that "it's all for the kids".
wendy L Berman May 10, 2013 at 05:20 pm
Our private street is willing to pay to have the sand plowed back up along our bulheads!!!! The Dec…Read More and the and the town of crookhaven will not allow it!!! The army corp of engineers are busy with the $$$$$ hamptons!!!!
Ted Ratter May 10, 2013 at 04:29 pm
sorry hit enter and it popped my statement in above too soon... I'm likely right that all towns…Read More along sound need to have remediation plans on board, but that doesn't mean they have the funds to get it done. I would not be surprised if the meatballs running crookhaven missed the mother-load of that Superfund.
Ted Ratter May 10, 2013 at 04:27 pm
Jennifer, if Bonner speaks about the town trying to buy the property next to east of Scotts beach…Read More (or scots - spelling?) forget about it. that property is meaningless to issues east of that point. Oh by the way this is not confirmed yet but I hear our new Highway guy is/was the lawyer for the guy who owns that track of land. crookhaven makes strange bedfellows hey?
Marian Larson May 9, 2013 at 06:45 pm
That made me smile! My mom passed away when I was a child and not a day has gone by in the past 37…Read More years that I don't think about her and wonder who this woman was who gave her children the gift of life but never had the opportunity to see her children grow up. The little that I remember of her warms my heart. I wish all mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers and Godmothers a blessed Mother's Day! :)
Weird News: Who's Buried Outside Home Depot?
Some stories are downright strange. Here's our wrap-up from around Northern Suffolk and the East End.
Comment Recommend Henry Powderly (Editor)