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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty. — Voltaire

Labor Day falls Sept. 6 and ushers in the season to stock up on pens and notebooks, index cards and dirty looks. No, I do not mean back-to-school supplies — I mean back-to-work supplies. My apologies to Julius Caesar, but the real year — the work year — begins after Labor Day and it is time for our brains to click back into gear.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire

It was a hot, wet, indolent, summer in New York and years of conditioning, from grade school through college, have led us to expect that summers, more often than not, cast us into a state of...

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Dishing with Dee: Paladino makes appearance at meditation garden lunch

This was another busy, fun week. I can’t believe Labor Day is just a week away and summer will be over. Then again, we still have the beautiful Indian summer days to look forward to.

Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:12 AM EDT

Political Action: Primaries, petition challenges dominate politics in Queens

This year has turned Queens into a political battleground during the last several weeks, with petition challenges, court confrontations and primary races taking center stage.

Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:12 AM EDT

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