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Dr. Erika McEntarfer is a highly respected labor economist with deep expertise in labor market data. Like all BLS commissioners, she is bound by strict norms of nonpartisanship and statistical integrity.

They include two women — a Blackstone executive and a Cornell graduate — and two security guards, one of whom was an off-duty NYPD officer who was in uniform working a private security job as part of an NYPD program. The motive behind the shooting is still unclear.

“The benefit to the town is, number one, it’s more material that we recycle, which is a revenue source. And it’s a cost avoidance that we’re not burning [the paper] as regular refuse. So it’s a win-win on both sides.”

SMART general chairman Anthony Simon, who represents more than 3,000 LIRR workers, told The Point he and other union representatives aren’t stopping their fight to benefit from the overtime provisions.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Wednesday morning at Suffolk County Community College in Brentwood that increases the reimbursement rate for installation of an enhanced septic system to 75%, or up to $25,000.