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Olivia Winslow is an experienced, award-winning journalist whose reports have covered a variety of topics, from criminal justice, to social and economic issues, to census data analysis, all with an eye toward showing the impact of policy on people's lives in her home-base of Long Island and nationally. At Newsday for the last two decades, she has chronicled the existence of poverty on Long Island, often regarded as an affluent suburb, and the devastation of Superstorm Sandy that upended the lives of thousands and damaged the Island's shoreline and its infrastructure.
Julius Pearse had a plan when he sought employment in 1962 as a police officer in Freeport -- "break the color line and force them to hire blacks." He knew he wasn't wanted, a fact underscored when he was visited by a Freeport Police Department sergeant who was sent to interview him as a potential candidate.
WASHINGTON -- The "people's pope" Wednesday reached out of his popemobile and touched a few of the tens of thousands gathered to witness the pontiff's historic motorcade through the streets of the nation's capital.
Hempstead Village and Levittown are top features in a renowned Harlem research center's exhibit of the black suburban experience that chronicles African-Americans' inclusion in and exclusion from such locales nationally and their struggle to create their own communities.
Many homeowners near bays and canals on the Sandy-ravaged South Shore face a challenge that architects, engineers and geologists say is a vital consideration for raising or replacing a home -- bog and fill that can undermine a structure's foundation. From Atlantic Beach to Montauk, unstable material lurks beneath the surface.
More than 3,000 houses along Long Island's South Shore and barrier islands have been declared substantially damaged because of superstorm Sandy, a key designation that triggers rebuilding requirements in the floodplain. Owners of these homes who fail to meet the tougher codes may face financial penalties and insurance-rate increases -- consequences that could wash over their entire community.
They work hard, these single mothers - at times juggling two, even three jobs - for wages that still fall short of meeting their families' needs. And each resorts to a financial triage of sorts when there isn't enough money to pay for the necessities in a given month.