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STORY: Queens business leaders speak out on impending increase in
citywide parking meter rates
SUMMARY: This fall, the Department of Transportation (DOT) will
increase parking meter rates in Queens for the fi rst time since 2013.
REACH: 10,031 people (as of 8/13/18)
SPACEBALLS
3: THE QUEST
FOR ANOTHER
DISTRACTION
With America
being devastated by
nationwide flooding,
wildfi res destroying
California and
record-setting heat
waves caused by
the “hoax” of global
warming, people
are criticizing Trump
for saying he wants
to start a new branch
of our military — the
Space Force.
Th ey are complaining
that it would just
be another bloated
bureaucracy wasting
billions!
Th e security of our planet is paramount!
Trump is not an idiot. He’s
going to have the Space Force build
a wall around the Earth! And he will
make the Martians pay for it.
“To stupidity and beyond!”
Robert LaRosa, Whitestone
THE SPACE FORCE
IS STRONG WITH
THIS ONE
Th e Trump Administration wants
a Space Force, with Vice President
Pence warning that Russia and
China have already militarized the
fi nal frontier.
We need to protect the homeland
from attacks from outer space.
Russia and China are developing
technology that could attack our
satellites. A Space Command is long
overdue.
Let me also mention we could
face attacks from aliens unknown.
Remember today’s science fi ction
could be tomorrow’s reality.
Also, our population is increasing;
we now have a population from
6-7 billion,and by the year 2050 we
could have a population of 18 billion.
Th erefore, we need to explore
others worlds like Mars for possible
colonization. As such we would
need a Space Force to protect such
population.
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.,
Glen Oaks Village
THE POSTAL WORKER
ONLY RINGS ONCE
You suggest people should be able
to leave outgoing mail in their mailboxes
for the carrier to pick up the
next day when he delivers (Aug. 9
editorial).
Th is is ridiculous for several reasons:
A private house: Th e resident may
not remove their mail every day. So
how would the carrier know what
to take? Should he go through each
piece of mail and make an educated
guess thus delaying him on his
route?
An apartment building: A carrier
is expected to go through hundreds
of mailboxes to determine as I stated
above what goes and what stays.
One large building will take him
the amount of time to go through it
should take for his entire route.
Th e only way to ensure that mail
is not stolen is to post an armed
guard on each box as they do now
at each store and street in the city.
Nonsense, right? Well...
Steve Abraham, Rego Park
Editor’s note: In rural communities,
mailboxes are fi tted with
fl ags to note if the letter carrier
has dropped off a package. We’ve
observed some single-family homes
in Queens with such mailboxes outside.
Furthermore, as to apartment
buildings, a number of them have
communal mailboxes where tenants
can drop off their outgoing mail for
the postal carrier to pick up when
visiting each day. Neither of these
systems is perfect, but we merely proposed
that something similar could
be solutions to Queens’ mail theft
woes.
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