12 times • JULY 16, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com 26 THE COURIER SUN • JULY 16, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com editorial sun WWW.COURIERSUN.COM VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH GRAZIELLA ZERILLI STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JENNIFER DECIO, CHERYL GALLAGHER CRISTABELLE TUMOLA, ANGY ALTAMIRANO, KATRINA MEDOFF ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA, ALINA SURIEL CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI CRISTABELLE TUMOLA DEMETRA PLAGAKIS WARREN SUSSMAN CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. 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The advertiser agrees to hold THE COURIER SUN and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. “Should the drinking age be lowered to 18?” “Yes, several other countries are able to drink. Once you enter college you should be allowed to.” Anna Choi BY BROOKE RUTMAN “No, texting and driving is bad already.” Christine Markatos “Yes, why have to wait for 21 if it’s controlled. Years ago it was fi ne. Kids drink in parks anyway, might as well fi nd somewhere it’s controlled.” Farrell Corcorcan “Drinking should be outlawed, period. It’s poisonous.” Frank Camilo “Yes, people are going to do it anyway. Lowering it might stop it from happening because you’ll be allowed to drink. 18 makes sense.” Tania Chakraborty “Defi nitely not. At 18 your brain functions differently than at 21. Even at 21. 25 sounds like a good age to me.” Nicole Oliva street talk “Yes, I’m 23 and when I was 18 we were drinking less responsibly and secretly. It wasn’t as safe.” Chuck Hovanic “No, 18-year-olds have young minds. They don’t think about the consequences.” Isabel Ventura SNAPS QUEENS Rooftop view this weekend from Flushing rooftop. Photo by The Queens Courier Staff Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Instagram @queenscourier, Facebook page, tweeting @queenscourier or by emailing [email protected] (subject: Queens Snaps). Time to probe Homeless Services New York City, through the Department of Homeless Services, has a legal and moral obligation to provide shelter for the homeless. Indeed, it is fulfi lling the legal mandate but sorely lacking in fulfi lling anything considered moral. Proof of that was found in Queens last week, when the DHS admitted that the Skyway homeless shelter in South Ozone Park did not meet state regulations prohibiting sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of a school. The DHS claimed that state agencies allowed the shelter to house registered sex offenders even though Skyway was noncompliant with the law. Regardless, the DHS — which rightly notes that it must offer shelter to anyone, including registered sex offenders — should be responsible enough to know the rules when looking for potential shelter sites. Then, City Comptroller Scott Stringer again turned aside a contract to make permanent the temporary homeless shelter operating at the former Pan American Hotel in Elmhurst. He initially rejected the contract in May citing vermin infestation and other problems, and in denying the contract a second time, stated that the DHS “has not yet provided suffi cient documentation to show that the Pan American Hotel facility is safe, and that all outstanding violations and complaints have been corrected.” No landlord would be allowed to get away with the fl agrant violations that the DHS wants us to ignore for the sake of numbers. Shoving people into a forsaken place isn’t fulfi lling a moral objective — but that’s what the DHS is doing on our behalf. The truth is that the DHS and its nonprofi t partners have made lucrative agreements with property owners citywide paying them sometimes double the market rate to use former hotels and other spaces as homeless shelters. Increased housing subsidies cost a fraction of what the city is paying shelter operators and are more effective. Homeless New Yorkers deserve better care and a fresh start. That starts, in our opinion, with a full investigation of the DHS and its partners regarding these shelter contracts and their supposed “compassionate” treatment of the homeless. Stand guard at the railroad crossings The video is hard to watch: a tractor-trailer passing through a Maspeth intersection early on July 8 when, without warning, it’s smacked broadside by a speeding locomotive, dragged down the tracks while bursting into fl ames. Amazingly, the truck driver survived. It’s hard to tell what’s more frightening: the crash itself, or that the railroad crossing gates were only activated upon impact. The Long Island Rail Road, which owns the crossing, and the New York and Atlantic Railway, which leases the tracks and crossing from the LIRR, have traded claims of responsibility with each other over the crossings’ maintenance and operation. There’s no time to play the blame game. 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