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The editorial board is planning to weigh in about the immigration bill being introduced in Congress this week by the bipartisan "gang of eight" senators. The bill does a number of important things that need doing, such as reining in illegal entry into the country and retooling legal immigration to help employers, workers and the economy.

We're also talking about the retirement of...

The Boston Marathon bombings shook the nation. The media reports -- man hunt updates, Amtrak service suspended, family interviews, how many suspects, link to Al Queda, where is Chechnya— are overwhelming. What's important, what's not, what does this all mean?

I'm too young to remember how I felt on 9/11 so I have no frame of reference for how to analyze all the implications of the last 24...

Starting today, with this new Up on the Board feature, the editorial board will be blogging about what we just discussed at our weekday morning meeting. These meetings are where we talk about the news of the day and hash out our positions for the opinion sections of Newsday, Newsday Westchester and amNew York.

With the events in Boston developing so quickly, the editorial board decided to...

The bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon bring out the most devastating emotions: despair, depression, anxiety. But in the days after tragedy, we are usually overwhelmed by evidence that good still exists.

After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, for example, came the #26acts #20acts movement started by NBC News correspondent Ann Curry. The goal was for people to...

The Long Island Farm Bureau told the Newsday editorial board on Monday that the public has misconceptions about pesticides -- starting with their very definition.

Joe Gergela, executive director of the bureau, said in a meeting with the board that even ordinary baking soda and chlorine for pools fall into that category. And he said many pesticides serve the important function of protecting...

For the first time in a decade Congress is poised to take a high dive into the politics of immigration this week. Usually Washington waits until a problem becomes a crisis before taking the plunge. Not this time.

The situation with illegal immigration has actually gotten better. Border security has been beefed up dramatically in recent years. With the United States economy weak and the one...

The millennial generation barely knows how to lick an envelope, never mind care about whether mail is delivered on Saturdays. Mail is something that now happens instantly over the Internet.

In early February, the U.S. Postal Service announced it would reduce Saturday delivery to save $2 billion annually. The service's threat to stop most Saturday deliveries was withdrawn on Wednesday after...