EXAGGERATED EARL IS ANOTHER FALSE ALARM

“Hyping storms is really risky business” , Newsday, September 5, 2010 This danger, of course, is getting too complacent. No, not from the holiday. Complacency is what these three-day weekends are about — especially this one, heralding, as it does, the de-facto end of summer, even with all this rain. The danger comes from Exaggerated Earl,…

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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

It’s been a long hot summer, but now it’s time for the NFL regular season to get underway. If you haven’t read it yet, now would be a great time to pick up a copy of Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life by Ellis Henican and Sean Payton.  The New Orleans Saints…

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LIRR FIRST COMMAND: DON’T CATCH FIRE

“LIRR’s command upgrade will make ‘rail’ difference” , Newsday, August 29, 2010  How ’bout this for Command No. 1 at the LIRR’s new state-of-the-art Command and Control Center? Don’t. Catch. Fire. Unplanned conflagrations like the one that knocked out a 1913 switching room at Jamaica station can be truly catastrophic. Nearly a week after Monday’s cable…

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ELLIS HENICAN : “GUILTY AS CHARGED”

Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel)   On the August 21, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with the media’s coverage of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’.  Ellis, who lives…

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EMPLOYMENT UP—BUT LIVING-WAGE JOBS STILL SCARCE

“Jobs are coming back ” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 23, 2010  It’s the perfect good-news/bad-news story for today’s recessionary times. The jobs are coming back to Long Island – just not the paychecks. For the fourth straight month, private-sector employment is up on Long Island from twelve months earlier – 8,600 new jobs this time.…

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WHAT MAKES GROUND SACRED?

“Sacred Ground: Who Decides?”  Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, August 20, 2010  One day – not too soon, I hope – I will die. And when that tragic moment arrives, those who love me will be saddened. Then a nice person in rubber gloves will come along and squirt 409 spray on my desk. An hour…

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“KIND OF LIKE THE DRUDGE REPORT, RIGHT?”

Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories. (Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel)   On the August 7, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk, once again, turned to the media’s coverage of the Wikileaks investigation.  What…

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HELICOPTORS DROWN OUT SOUNDS OF SUMMER

“Henican: Holding pattern on E. Hampton copter flight plans” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, August 7, 2010  It’s as key to Hamptons-weekend extravagance as Diva vodka martinis and Lamborghini golf carts: The Friday-afternoon helicopter ride east. Wasting half the cocktail hour in LIE backups? Getting stuck on Route 27 behind a pokey landscaper’s truck? Only a schlub…

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NY MAYOR’S ELOQUENT SUPPORT OF MOSQUE

“Mike’s Gutsy Defense of Mosque”  Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, August 6, 2010  The predictable bashing has begun. Mike Bloomberg, defender of religious freedom, is getting plenty of grief for his principled support of what is incorrectly known as the “Ground Zero mosque.” Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, the Wall Street Journal editorial board – their throaty…

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