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Harsher Penalties in Traffic Crimes

Written by admin on August 18, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

There must be zero tolerance in hit-and-runs like the one that killed Michael Ward By Bette Dewing “We need as much to be reminded as informed,” Dr. Samuel Johnson so rightly opined. An August 5 Our Town letter about the death of Michael Ward, who was killed in a hit-and-run on the East Side, needs
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Weddings, Family and Heat Waves

Written by admin on August 4, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Our culture’s hyper-individualism is harming us all By Bette Dewing Weddings—ah, but what’s needed is a great revival of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s wedding message to Diana and Charles; it applies to our culture’s hyper-individualism too: “Any marriage which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom gaze obsessively at one another,
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The Scourge of Alzheimer’s

Written by admin on July 21, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Finding a cure for that most insidious disease By Bette Dewing Why am I crying, I wondered, as I read Juliet Macur’s New York Times story, “Sensing His Own Mortality,” about George Steinbrenner. More important to me than the avalanche coverage given Yankee baseball owner George Steinbrenner’s dying was how at 74, he spoke “with
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Recalling the Greatest Generation

Written by admin on July 7, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

A book and some flags to bring us together By Bette Dewing Happy birthday America? “Well, I didn’t see one flag displayed this Memorial Day on the Upper East Side,” said East End Avenue doorman Bob McNicol, frowning. “In Queens, Far Rockaway and other much more diverse places, flags are everywhere! After all, there’s a
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Mayoral Attention for Crimes of Traffic

Written by admin on June 23, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Yield to pedestrians, stop speeding and support mass transit for safer streets By Bette Dewing Just before the mayor’s weekly John Gambling WOR radio show, I heard the following public service announcement: “Parking violations violate the rights of disabled persons. Call 311 to report.” But where are the warnings to drivers and cyclists against their
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Let’s Get Outraged

Written by admin on June 9, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Without a high-emotion response, the most pressing problems go unsolved By Bette Dewing While I can hardly bear to think of the catastrophic Gulf oil spill, the president is wrong to say, “I’m hired to solve problems, not to show outrage.” Outrage is often essential to problem solving, including the following four
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More About Mothers

Written by admin on May 26, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Betty White, Bette Davis and Memorial Day 2010 By Bette Dewing Because columns, like exercise, diet and relationships, need continuity, here’s an update on the Share the Talk Club (“so nobody is left out,” remember?). It’s now my answering machine message, “and a little bell will ring to tell us we’re saying too much or
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Share the Talk Club

Written by admin on May 12, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Let’s discuss safe traveling and co-op and condo home transparency By Bette Dewing “If you see something, say something,” has long been my mantra, got me writing this column and countless letters to editors, and using 311 a lot (often about good or bad bus drivers). But speaking in public or in groups is forever
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Pick Up That Phone

Written by admin on April 28, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Here’s to more true public service messages, like this pre-cell-phone-explosion public phone booth Mother’s Day ad. Cell phones make it less physically “troubling” to pick up the phone, and most will be picked up on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, to call you-know-who. But is there the follow-up to make the everyday difference that counts?
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Let’s Shine a Light

Written by admin on April 15, 2010. Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

First, about looking better: sure wish we didn’t need to, but it will also make you feel better to keep those kindly incandescent lights glowing. They glow, not glare, like those that supposedly save the planet. Blight is more like it. Only incandescents are bio-degradable. The Municipal Arts Society lighting forum is unlikely to acknowledge
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