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make sure all the debris is cleaned up. This, combined with the excess amount of debris kicked up by Isaias, is why it has taken long for some streets to see pickup. Otherwise roads that are being milled or paved have been given priority. Officials asked that residents keep the debris in front of their house in the time being until the pickup process has concluded. In a town board meeting Aug. 13, Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) thanked the town highway workers who he said have been working 12 to 14-hour shifts working on the cleanup effort. The town saw over 1,600 trees come down, and more than 400 were involved with power lines.
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Officials from the Town of Brookhaven highways department said they were still in the process of picking up all debris from Tropical Storm Isaias that residents put out to the curb Sunday, Aug. 9. It may be another two weeks for the town to fully pick up every tree limb and leaf. The town originally asked residents to bring organic debris strewn about by Tropical Storm Isaias to the curb by Aug. 9 for pick up the following day. In a statement, town Highways Superintendent Dan Losquadro said the amount of debris has meant it has taken time
to get to every single street in the thousands of miles of town roads. All debris is being taken to 18 highway department yards and temporary staging areas across the town. “We appreciate residents getting their debris to the curb in a timely fashion,” Losquadro said in a statement. “I anticipate it will take at least another two weeks before we are able to get to all 3,700 lane miles of road in Brookhaven town. If we have not made our way to your neighborhood yet, please leave all brush and debris at the curb for this one-time bulk collection.” A spokesperson for the highways department said the town is broken up into four quadrants, and the head of each quadrant is effectively going through it street by street to
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Stony Brook University Facing a $109 Million Deficit The COVID-19 crisis has exacted a heavy toll on Stony Brook University’s finances, creating a $109.6 million deficit on the academic and research side. The pandemic cost the hospital and clinic an estimated $58 million, while it also cost the academic and research campus over $74.6 million in the past financial year, which includes $35 million in refunded fees, $12 million in lost revenue from cultural programs and facilities rentals, and $8.5 million in extra expenses, including cleaning and supplies, student quarantine costs and technology costs, according to message from new Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis published on her SBU president web page Aug. 12. Through a number of steps, including hiring freezes, the university has attempted to offset these costs, but that won’t be enough. The school is tapping into its central reserve fund, essentially the university’s rainy day pool, reducing it by over 50% in one year. McInnis, in an open letter on her web page, said this “is completely unsustainable.� Starting today, McInnis will hold a series of virtual campus conversations to provide more details and address questions, while she and university leaders search for long-term solutions to address a host of challenges that have presented a serious headwind to the school’s future budget. In disclosing detailed information, McInnis wrote that she believes such disclosures will help the campus work together towards solutions. “I believe that it is only by being open and candid and providing clear information that we can come together as a community to tackle our shared challenges,� she wrote in her letter. In her letter to the campus, McInnis detailed specific costs, while she also outlined the steps Stony Brook has taken to offset some of these financial challenges.
those that become open from staff and faculty attrition will save $20 million. Student housing refinancing will save $31.1 million in fiscal year 2021. An ongoing freeze on expenses covering costs for service contracts, supplies and equipment and travel will save about $2.3 million A cut to the athletic budget will save $2 million. Senior campus leadership, meanwhile, has voluntarily taken a 10% pay cut along with a permanent hold back of any 2% raise for all Management Confidential employees. At the same time, the university faces longer-term financial challenges. State support has declined since 2008, from $190.4 million to $147.7 million last year. That will be even lower this year. On a perstudent basis, state support in 2020 was $6,995, compared with $9,570. This year’s expected increase in tuition and the Academic Excellence fee have not been approved by the SUNY Board. The multi-year contracts that govern faculty and staff pay have not been fully
When SBU students left campus in March, many didn’t know what would happen in the future. Now that the campus nears the start of the semester, many students have decided they will not be returning. Photo by Kyle Barr
For starters, she wrote that the university has been “told to expect a 20-30% cut in state funding this year, or $25 million.� The school also had its allocation for last year retroactively cut by $19 million. “It is unclear when, if ever, our funding will return to current levels, let alone the levels of support we ideally receive as a top research institution in the region,� she wrote in her letter. Federal government restrictions on travel and visas, along with COVID impacts, have created a 17.5 percent drop in out-of-state and international students, which not only reduces diversity but also creates a $20 million drop in revenue. The number of campus residents will also decline by 40% for next semester, from 10,000 to 6,000, creating an estimated $38.9 million revenue loss. The bottom line, she explained, is that the $109.6 million deficit on the academic and research side. This she predicts, could become significantly worse. The measures the university has taken
offset some of that decline, saving the school an estimated $55 million, but the measures still do not close the budget gap and are not sustainable. A hiring freeze for new positions and for T
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support our local businesses,” she said. “This is definitely going to have an impact.”
Stony Brook University is one of the biggest driving economic engines of the North Shore. Not only does it offer a major learning institution for students all over Long Island, but it has facilitated a large number of housing possibilities for both faculty and students. Those students, meanwhile, are a live force generating sales for local restaurants, bars and shops. SBU’s announcement that it is facing at least a $109 million hole has sent a shudder through the residential and business side of the surrounding community. It has put yet another stake through the heart of so many economic centers that are already struggling from their own pandemic-related hurt.
It’s hard to gauge how much business Port Jefferson generates from Stony Brook, though recent efforts to increase the number of students and staff into the village has already been squashed due to COVID-19. The village has been funding everything but the campus-side advertising for the PJ-SBU Shuttle for the past two years. The village was putting up around $20,000 of its funds for the project, while the Port Jeff Business Improvement District also put up $10,000 of its funds to help support the shuttle program. The shuttle program was canceled due to COVID-19 March 15. Kevin Wood, the village’s parking and mobility administrator, said the shuttle was averaging about 150 riders a weekend before being canceled. “We will look to restart it for the spring 2021 semester depending on the state of the COVID-19 and restrictions,” he said in an email. “We will also look to share the expense equally between the village, the BID and SBU.” Barbara Ransome, Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce director of operations, said the pandemic has already done such a number on local businesses. She said village businesses are open and are being “respectful and careful” in compliance with New York State regulations, and she hopes those shops that stayed strong will survive, barring another shutdown. “My gut would say sure, it’s going to affect us,” she said. “The Port Jefferson Village is going to have a deficit — everyone is going to have a deficit. Everything’s going to have a trickle-down effect.”
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Gloria Rocchio, president of The Ward Melville Heritage Organization, recognized the effect Stony Brook University’s financial woes would have not only on Stony Brook Village Center, which WMHO oversees, but also a broader region extending beyond the Three Village area. The shops in Stony Brook are less than five miles from the university. SBU “is the largest employer on Long Island and that needs to be addressed,” she said. “The fact is the impact is not only going to affect the local community but the Long Island community. The ripple effect will be extraordinary.” George Hoffman, 1st vice president of the Three Village Civic Association, echoed Rocchio’s sentiments. “Unfortunately, I do think we will see some painful impacts in the community from the university’s dire fiscal situation,” he said. “The hiring freeze will reduce the pool of people buying homes in the area. Canceling the athletic season will hurt the restaurants and pubs. And having three-quarters of the students take courses online instead of on campus, will hurt restaurants and local shops that count on student customers. Stony Brook University has such a regional multiplier effect that their cuts and loss of revenue will reverberate through our area and through the entire Long Island community.” Jane Taylor, executive director of the Three Village Chamber of Commerce, said the hope is that any effect on the community would be short lived. “We’re grateful for the faculty and staff who
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Multiple local realtors in the surrounding community said the effect on the housing market surrounding the university is still uncertain, though a loss of students and faculty because of enrollment declines and a hiring freeze could put a damper on the industry. “The surrounding real estate is yet to be determined,” Port Jefferson-based American Way Real Estate’s David Guzzetta said. The number of campus residents has declined by 40%, which could potentially tank the market, he added. “If demand went down 40%, it would affect lo-
Stony Brook University is facing a huge financial hole in 2020, including a loss of students and likely faculty. This could mean many challenges for local industries and businesses who rely on that influx of people. File photo from SBU
cal housing by 5 to 10%, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but it is,” he said. “Anything more than that would be devastating. It sounds like a recession.” Though there is still time before the school year starts, the Port Jefferson realtor said the deficit could actually be good for the real estate market. “It could be the complete opposite,” Guzzetta said. “We won’t know until the semester starts, but students may not feel safe staying in a dorm and therefore want to live in off-campus housing by themselves to feel safer, which would actually boost the local real estate market.” Frank Edwards, a realtor from Douglas Elliman Real Estate located in East Setauket, said he believes that students will choose to stay on campus. “These kids aren’t going to be renting homes,” he said. Whether it be positive or negative, the East Setauket realtor said students will be the main driver in the market. “I don’t think it’s going to really affect staff
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funded, McInnis wrote in her president’s message. That has created an additional cost of $10 million for the 2020 fiscal year. Over the next five years, that compounds to $54 million. The rainy day fund is picking up $9.7 million of that scheduled contractual salary increase raise. The Tuition Assistance Program has been set at 2010 tuition levels, which creates a $9 million financial gap in fiscal year 2020. That is expected to rise in 2021. Stony Brook also recently learned, according to McInnis’s letter, that TAP will be funded at 80 percent of what the school awards to New York State students who rely on the program to access higher education. At the same time, the Excelsior
as much,” Edwards said. “It’s really going to be driven by the college students. They’re going to take up the on-housing campus too, but COVID may change that.” Edwards said he believes the market will continue to be sustainable. “I don’t think it’s going to really affect the real estate market,” he said. “I believe the market will be fine, when houses come up they go quickly in this area. I think we’re in a strong area. I think Three Village is a strong area.” The uncertainty surrounding the market may come as a result of COVID-19. When the pandemic began, it seemed that the market was going to decline on Long Island, but realtors in the area have actually seen the pandemic being a positive force in the market. “If you asked me four months ago, I would say we were going into a housing crisis but, believe it or not, Long Island is in a little spike because everyone from Manhattan with income is coming out to Long Island.” Guzzetta said. Program, which began in the fall of 2017 and allows students from families making up to $125,000 to attend school tuition free, may not accept new students this year. McInnis concluded with her hope that the university will come together in the same way it did during the worst of the pandemic in New York to address these financial challenges. “I fully recognize that you are operating in one of the most difficult environments any of us has experienced,” she wrote. “And, we are going to have to bring the same level of collaboration and innovation that you brought at the height of the COVID-19 response to our systemic budget challenges.” McInnis urged the staff to “work together, share the best ideas, challenge assumptions, and build on the excellence of Stony Brook University in order to continue to move this great institution forward.”
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Two Sets of Selden Siblings Awarded SC Honors
Two brother and sister teams from Selden were among more than 30 teenagers who earned medals of honor from the Suffolk County Legislature. The honors program is aimed at engaging local youth in their communities and helping them embrace personal development. At a Zoom ceremony July 30, Suffolk lawmakers congratulated the 31 participants on completing the 2019-2020 Distinguished Youth Award program, through which youth ages 13 to 18 work with local officials and mentors, connect with their communities, and set and work toward personal development goals over the course of a year. Medals were given to students during outdoor, drive-up presentations at the end of July. “I am so proud of these future leaders and commend them on their accomplishments as they coped with the challenges of a changing world during an unprecedented pandemic threat,” said Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer Rob Calarco (D-Patchogue). “We want to encourage young people to get involved in their communities, to challenge
them personally, and to teach them the value of setting goals and working diligently to achieve them – not just during this program but also throughout their lives.” The Distinguished Youth Award program, established in 2017, invites teenagers to set and work toward goals in at least two of four areas: volunteer service, which requires volunteering 200 hours to benefit members of the community; personal development, which requires assessing one’s own skills and spending 100 hours toward personal improvement; exploration, which requires visiting 15 Suffolk County parks; and physical fitness, designed to increase participants’ level of physical activity through 100 hours of promoting physical and mental well-being. Participants work closely with local elected officials and mentors to lay out goals for each category and a plan to accomplish them. Bianca and Vincenzo Ciaravino, of Selden, were awarded silver, while Scott and Jessica Alfano, of Selden, were awarded Bronze. The level of medal is awarded based on how many project areas they complete.
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Customers can apply for reimbursement at www.psegliny.com/claims. PSEG said claims cannot be processed over the phone. Customers will have until Sept. 16 to file claims. Reimbursement is expected to take up to 60 business days from when a form is completed and submitted to PSEG Long Island. The storm knocked out power to over 420,000 customers on Long Island and the Rockaways, according to a release from PSEG. The company claimed it had been the “the most destructive storm since Superstorm Sandy.” Almost 400,000 people lost power because of the storm, though more experienced outages in subsequent days due to further storms. For weeks, both residents and elected officials have called on the utility company to offer reimbursement for lost food or medicines while power was out. Some customers didn’t reportedly have power restored until more than a week after the storm hit Aug. 4. PSEG Long Island President Daniel Eichhorn has said the decision came because of understanding the financial straits people are in because of the coronavirus. “We recognize that losing power in August, together with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, was a hardship for many of our customers,” Eichhorn said in a release. “Given the unique combination of circumstances, we believe the right thing to do is to expand our claims process to ease the burden on the customers most impacted by Tropical Storm Isaias.”
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Who uses the post office? In 2019, 143 billion pieces of mail were sent to 160 million delivery addresses, with more than 31,000 offices being operated. Baby boomers and those who live in rural areas rely on the USPS to receive prescriptions and social security checks as well as pay bills more so than other demographic groups. But in a presidential election year, especially one during a pandemic where many are hesitant to cast their votes in person, mail-in voting could be what allows so many the chance to participate in democracy. Perhaps more importantly, it could possibly show just how amazing democracy can be if even more people are enfranchised. It’s been evidenced at the very local level. Residents were sent ballots for their school district budgets and trustee elections directly in the mail. What we saw was a massive increase in the numbers of ballots cast amongst all our local districts. The Smithtown school district, for example, saw over 8,000 more people cast votes compared to 2019 numbers. This is an example of how granting easier access to voting will result in more votes cast. How important is this? In 2016, only 58.1% of the voting age population cast their ballots, and that was during a presidential election year. Despite fears that mail-in ballots will somehow lead to voter fraud, experts have consistently said that states that have mail-in voting systems have not experienced notable numbers of fake or false ballots more than states lacking such systems.. It is in everyone’s interest to have more people participating in democracy. And with the White House’s constant refrain that voter fraud could occur if mail-in ballots are widely used, and with the administration having threatened to withhold funds from the USPS, it’s necessary to cast a critical eye on the controversial changes made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. His decisions have led to overtime cuts, reduced post office hours, changes to delivery policies and the removal of some sorting machines. The changes have already led to mail delays, including on Long Island, according to the Letter Carriers Local 6000, a L.I. and Queens-based postal union. Though DeJoy announced Aug. 18 he would be “suspending these initiatives” until after the election, we must remain alert. The postal agency itself has said delivering an estimated 80 million ballots nationwide will be difficult. Instead we should now focus on making sure the process runs as smoothly as possible. It’s true that the New York and California Democratic primaries were hurt by an inefficient infrastructure that was not made to handle the mass influx of votes. Reports say that thousands of such votes had to be discounted because of flaws by the people who cast them. The goal of the Suffolk County Board of Elections should be to increase its capability to handle what will likely be a mass influx of both mail-in and absentee ballots. Better yet, it should be incumbent on the federal government to supply local municipalities the capability to handle the new influx of votes. We agree with Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY3), who at a press conference Aug. 17 said we needed an “urgent call to arms to break through all the noise and focus on protecting not only the security of our elections, but the integrity and reliability of the United States Postal Service. Lives, livelihoods and our democracy are at stake.” We need to extend this thought process to the efficacy of our democracy itself. Improving people’s ability to vote should be a no-brainer in a society such as ours. We must cut through partisanship and remember just how important it is that every person should have a voice in government, despite — or more so, because of — the ongoing pandemic.
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Can the USPS Survive New Postmaster General It’s easy to criticize the U.S. Postal Service, as an Aug. 13 letter (“Post office should consider other options”) to this newspaper does, by just making stuff up. First, about the price of stamps. The letter writer demands the “price of stamps should be tied to the rate of inflation.” The fact is, it already is — by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. The writer wants the USPS to sell advertising space on mailboxes, post offices and trucks to raise money. What’s next? Putting up a gigantic ad on the Washington Monument to reduce the national debt? The writer leaves out the main reason why the USPS is running in the red. It’s because of the same 2006 law, which forces the Postal Service to pay in advance for the health and retirement benefits of all its employees up to 75 years in the future. This is an obligation required of no other government entity or private corporation. In addition, these funds must be invested in special Treasury bonds which yield almost nothing. This is far more restrictive than the Thrift Savings Plan, the standard federal employee retirement plan. If these crippling restrictions of the 2006 law were removed, almost all of the so-called USPS deficit would disappear. Earlier this year, Feb. 5, the House of
Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bi-partisan USPS Fairness Act, which would do precisely that. Unfortunately, the Senate, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R], blocked this legislation. The Senate inaction is one reason for the artificial post office “crisis.” Another and even more damaging reason is President Donald Trump’s [R] overt efforts to do everything he can to destroy it. Part of this stems from petty vindictiveness against Jeff Bezos, of Amazon and The Washington Post, which he hates because it tracks his falsehoods. Trump wants the Postal Service to exorbitantly hike rates on all of our mailed packages, because he thinks this would damage Amazon’s business model. But even worse, Trump wants to sabotage the post office so as to render it incapable of handling voting by mail, to further his scheme of voter suppression in the upcoming election. To do this, he’s appointed Louis DeJoy as postmaster general. His main qualification is he contributed millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign. DeJoy holds major financial interests In XPO Logistics ($30 million), a USPS contractor, and in trucking company J.B. Hunt, a USPS competitor. In addition, immediately after his appointment as postmaster general, he
bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of Amazon stock options, another USPS competitor, which would allow him to make a quick killing in the stock market if the price of Amazon stock rises. The main actions DeJoy has taken as postmaster general are banning overtime and decommissioning high-speed sorting machines critical to processing the mail, particularly to processing a deluge of mail-in ballots. Coincidence? This already has had a drastic effect in slowing down delivery times and ending the Postal Service’s historic commitment to prompt mail service throughout the country in all sorts of conditions. I don’t think it’s just me who’s noticed the effect: Mail I’ve sent out recently has taken much longer than usual to be received, and no mail was delivered to our house for several days. The United States Postal Service survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II, and continued to function without a hitch. The question is can it survive the presidency of Donald Trump? Note: I have no connection to the USPS and worked in the private sector my entire career. David Friedman St. James
Early Voting in Suffolk County Still Falls Short In 2019, early voting was signed into law in New York state. Each county is responsible for implementing the law, which requires a minimum of 60 hours of early voting hours and recommends one early voting polling location for every 50,000 registered voters. Our early voting implementation in Suffolk County fell short of other counties’ efforts. For example, Nassau County has 75 hours of early voting, and more locations than we do, even though Suffolk’s population is greater than Nassau’s. Additionally, when originally implemented, Suffolk residents could only vote in the one polling place in the township they reside in. These glaring inequities galvanized a group of grassroots organizers, including myself, to lobby for a more equitable implementation of the new law. We had three demands: being able to vote at any
early voting location in Suffolk County, more polling places — particularly in higher populated towns like Brookhaven, Huntington and Islip — and more early voting hours. In fall 2019, we won the victory of being able to vote at any early voting location in the county. In December 2019, our group of early voting advocates returned to the Suffolk County Legislature to lobby for more hours and locations for early voting. We stressed that this is not a partisan issue, that every registered voter deserves equal opportunity to make their voice heard, and that our democracy is stronger when it is easier to vote. I’m pleased to share that our voices were heard and three new additional polling locations were added, including one in Brookhaven. Our work is not done. We will not stop until the Suffolk County Board of
Elections provides one polling location per 50,000 registered voters, until our hours of early voting match Nassau County’s and until it is easier for every registered voter to make their voice heard at the ballot box. I encourage you to vote early this year. You can vote at any early voting location in Suffolk County in the nine days of early voting prior to Election Day. It is a way that you can vote in person with fewer people present, and make your voice heard in our democracy, even as we grapple with a global pandemic. The right to vote has been a hard-won fight, and I implore you to use your voice to push our democracy further on the path to a more perfect union. Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket Founder, Suffolk Progressives
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y mother often describes family rituals in her columns, whether they are the way we play baseball, the way we argue (remember the pancakes on my then teenage brother’s cantankerous head?) or the way we celebrate victories and help each other rise off the mat after defeats. Ever the driven optimist, my mother can turn the most lemony lemons into something much more palatable, often, as Julie Andrews did in “My Favorite Things” with a spoonful, or D. None two, of sugar. of the above It would be easy BY DANIEL DUNAIEF this week to lament the fact that, for the first time in decades, my family can’t see my mother on her birthday because of
the danger from bringing the virus to her home. We recognize that so many people are enduring so much more challenging disruptions to their routines and that we are fortunate to have each other and can share the events of the week with her through Zoom. So, instead of being disappointed by the distance, I will share ways in which my mother, who will celebrate this birthday with my brothers and not me, my wife and our children, has cast a long shadow, all the way to our doorstep. Well, for starters, my children and I can be, and often are, serious when the moment demands. And yet, a part of us can’t help imagining uproariously funny images or interruptions to a somber and important speech at just the wrong moment. I’m sure part of what was so familiar about my wife’s similarly mischievous nature comes from recognizing the moment when one of us feels compelled to answer a rhetorical question or to laugh during a silence.
My mother also has a keen ear for the words people choose to use or that immortalize them, much the way my children and I do. Of the many Winston Churchill quotes, she has, on occasion, shared this one: “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” I suppose that one isn’t too surprising, given her appreciation for animals which likely comes from her father, who grew up lactose intolerant on a dairy farm. Hmm, maybe that’s where she gets her sense of humor? Moving along, my family revels in our senses. We smell something wonderful, like baking cookies or the scent of new flowers in the spring, and we take a moment to appreciate the gift of the scent and our senses, which enable us to perceive and process it. My mother also has a spectacular appreciation for nature. A sudden dark sky isn’t cause for concern or disappointment, but is a chance to appreciate the variety of
weather that makes the coldest day warmer and the warmest day cooler. Now, given the times in which we live, I see my mother in both of our children as they handle the ever-changing rules and realities of a world that hasn’t yet conquered the virus. Our daughter could rue the inequities that are robbing her of a “normal” college education. Instead, she and her resilient friends are staying in touch, supporting each other, and looking forward, as my mother would, to the day when they can return to a campus they might have otherwise taken for granted. As for our son, despite his dedication and passion for baseball, which is a rite of passage each spring, he kept his head up and took time to train on his own, waiting for the moment when he could return, stronger and faster, to his field of dreams. We can’t wait to sing to you this year, mom, and to let you know that, even though we haven’t traveled to see each other, we are enjoying the echoes of your joie de vivre in the halls of our home.
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hat’s new?” is a question asked regularly in newsrooms all across the country, as editors and reporters plan for the next edition. During the third week in August, the answer typically is, “Not much.” A lull usually sets in as people realize summer is coming to an end and this is a time to get in “last licks” of vacation before the world of serious work and school returns. But not this year. There has been nothing typical about 2020. This year will go down in the history Between books as unique. you and me Here are some of the major BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF themes in the news today: the progress of the coronavirus as it rages across the south and west; the ongoing damage
to the economy the pandemic has caused; recognition of systemic racism in our nation and the protests that has engendered; attitudes toward the police; the growing crisis in the postal service alarming voters; the announcement of explicit diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) without first a settlement of the Palestinian question; the immigration issue again in focus with the selection of Kamala Harris as Biden’s vice presidential ticket mate; the changing face of America that nomination reflects; the reopening of schools; the reevaluation of a college degree vs. its costs precipitated by the prospect of Zoom classes and of course the Democratic National Convention held primarily via the internet. Notice I didn’t even list the damage caused by Isaias; the increasingly troubling relationship between the United States and China; the windstorms that wrecked Iowa’s coming harvest; the abdication of Congress in the face of public desperation for fiscal stimuli; the grand centennial celebration of the 19th amendment concerning women’s right to vote; the defiance of the current recession by the stock market;
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and the rush of New York City residents to buy houses in the suburbs and settle in for the long haul. And that’s just some issues. Almost all of these themes to some degree directly affect us here on Long Island. The one I would like to expand on, perhaps because it is the least confrontational and we have had enough confrontation for now, is the rapid change in American demographics. The last big wave of immigrants, who arrived at the turn of the 20th century, was largely from Eastern and Southern Europe. This time, the surge is made up of second generation Americans — the children of immigrants who came from around the world. In California, for example, almost half of the children are from immigrant homes of Asians, Hispanics and those who are biracial. For the first time in our country’s history, whites make up less than half under the age of 16, according to the Brookings Institute. According to The New York Times, more than a quarter of all Americans are immigrants or the American-born children of immigrants, the latter representing “about 10 percent of the adult population.” About 42
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million adults, or one in six of the country’s 250 million adults, are foreign-born. What are the consequences of this shift in population? This is nothing short of a transformation of this country’s identity “from a mostly white baby-boomer society into a multiethnic and racial patchwork,” according to The Times. “Boomers are 71.6 percent white, Millennials are 55 percent white, and post-Gen Z, those born after 2012 are 49.6 percent white … The parents of these modern children are from the Caribbean, China, Central America and Mexico” as well as India, Korea and more. They often came with higher education, mainly as a result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, but it’s their children who are moving into public life. They tend to feel “very patriotic about America,” according to Suhas Subramanyam, born of Indian parents who became the first Indian-American to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. This mix of immigrants brings cultural richness and energy to our society, not to mention great new foods.
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