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Hastings Man Writes About Firefighting In America

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Opinion 05/12/12

Suburban Dad: Hovering Helicopter Dads

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Even during an interlude of contentious elections, gay marriage and intrigue in China--not to mention the first Knicks playoff win since the earth cooled -- this was probably the most provocative headline of the ...

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Opinion 05/02/12

Suburban Dad: High School Redux, in Perpetuity?

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And so Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino gave his State of the County address a few days ago and it was an insufferable as any throw-in-the-kitchen-sink political address of our modern era, with its ...

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Opinion 04/22/12

Suburban Dad: Pay to Play, or Just to Wear?

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News broke recently that the NBA was seriously considering festooning team jerseys with advertisements, just like Major League Soccer, NASCAR and many other sports. What's next?

It wouldn't be a surprise ...

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Opinion 04/16/12

Suburban Dad: Stop Me Before I Farm Again

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At a certain point last year -- I don’t remember when precisely -- I became suddenly and utterly taken with the idea of raising a flock of chickens on my otherwise typical quarter-acre suburban plot.

I ...

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Opinion 04/04/12

Suburban Dad: Find Time to Coach (Obama Does)

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Far be it for me turn into a scold… But , considering, who can resist? 

I serve on the local Little League board, where the typical just happened: as we were careening toward opening day, we found ...

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Opinion 03/27/12

Suburban Dad: Chickens Are Not Unpheasant

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It could be my loaded imagination as a chicken owner, but it seems everyone is out to get us. First, there was the headline on this website that instantly had me putting up a squawk:

“New Rochelle Council ...

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Opinion 03/21/12

Suburban Dad: Spring Forward and Shirk Back

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Spring is upon us, which for men around the house means only one thing: report for duty. There are endless chores to tackle.  But there are two types of men who do chores. There are the earnest and ...

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Opinion 03/14/12

Suburban Dad: (Plenty of) Sex in the Suburbs

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

A suburban madam? Constant busts of local nail salons as fronts for sordid activity? What in the wide, wide world of sin and transgression is going on in our good, clean suburbs?  You used to think of “Sex ...

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Opinion 03/07/12

Suburban Dad: Crazy for Feeling so Country

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Is Dixie rising in Westchester and Connecticut? Every time I turn the radio on these days, I wonder. After all, on the public airwaves in the suburban ring around New York, we’re accustomed to Top 40 pop, album ...

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Opinion 02/28/12

Suburban Dad: If PTAs Were Run the Dad Way

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“What was once an easygoing volunteer group has begun to give way to male leadership,” said The New York Times last week, writing about the “changing face of the Parent Teacher Association,” otherwise known as ...

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Opinion 02/21/12

Suburban Dad: Tiptoe Through the Scholarships

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My ninth grade daughter has been obsessively playing the ukulele. Just my luck, huh? My kid picks up the only obscure instrument that doesn't potentially lead to a college scholarship. 

What, ...

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Opinion 02/13/12

Suburban Dad: Keep Peace, One Politician at a Time

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This is the way it usually works: politicians treat us all as if we just fell of the turnip truck. When anything even slightly disconcerting happens, they start flapping their gums about how they are sure to save ...

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Opinion 01/30/12

Suburban Dad: Will Tumbleweed Mall Ever Populate?

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Ridge Hill, the vast new outdoor mall, a public common of commerce perched on a hillside overlooking the New York Thruway in Yonkers, is a study in contrasts and ironies.

Long billed as both a ...

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Opinion 01/17/12

Suburban Dad: Keeping Score of Youth Sports

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Little in youth sports elicits more eye rolls and derisive laughter than this: when it comes to little kids, we often don’t keep score. 

I coach Little League baseball and the more competitive CYO ...

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Opinion 01/09/12

Suburban Dad: Dumb Criminals Can be Fun

by Marek Fuchs   Comment

From "CSI" shows to blockbuster movies and a neverending stampede of best-selling books, crime has become a cottage industry -- a commercial juggernaut. But these efforts probably--at least partly--glorify crime, ...

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Opinion 01/02/12

Suburban Dad: The List to End all Lists

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Since 2011 is now officially over, I have to ask: what did I miss?  Truth be told, I wasn’t really paying attention.  With all the trials and suffering in the world these days plus the Kardashians, I ...

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Opinion 12/27/11

Suburban Dad: The Real Cost of Backyard Chickens

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It sounded like a killer let loose in the chicken coop, so I jumped from the couch in hot pursuit.  With my bare hands—and still nearly napping, though my feet were suddenly flying—I was apparently going to ...

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Opinion 12/19/11

Suburban Dad: School Bonds Too Rich for the Rich

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Throw a dart blindfolded this week and you'd probably hit a failed school bond. You remember school bonds, don't you?  For decades, they've been our schools' ATM machines, figuratively speaking.  Any ...

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Opinion 12/12/11

Suburban Dad: Shop Local, Or Else

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It has become as much a part of the holiday season as counting blessings, singing carols and hearing out that drunk uncle when all we want to do is howl.  As we enter the Christmas shopping stretch, the ...

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