by Paul King | Oct 17, 2019 | Letters, Rockaway/NYC
The Weakest Link At the Oct. 8 meeting of Community Board 14’s Parks and Public Safety Committee, Dan Falt of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) said the plans for protection of the peninsula’s oceanside will be between Beach 9th Street and Beach 149th Streets....
by Paul King | Jul 15, 2019 | Letters, Race, Rockaway/NYC
Letter to Misdirected Revolutionaries Hello Rockaway Revolutionaries, My name is Paul King. If you have read my letters to the editor in the Wave, you know that I live in a different part of the multiverse, though I hope we can find some common ground. I started a...
by Paul King | Jun 13, 2019 | Letters, Race, Rockaway/NYC
The House Divided Dear Editor: I read Milan Taylor’s thoughtful letter in last week’s Wave with great interest and, ultimately, great disappointment. By force-fitting racial animus into the Edgemere discussion, he is wrong on the facts, wrong on the mechanics of...
by Paul King | Apr 11, 2019 | American Ideals, Letters, National Politics
It Wasn’t the Russians- Hillary Lost! Dear Editor: In last week’s Letters, Joan Mettler was right to say it is inappropriate to gloat over the Mueller report’s conclusions but she then proceeded to demonstrate the “collusion delusion” Harold Paez wrote about a...
by Paul King | Apr 4, 2019 | American Ideals, Letters, Race
What Privilege Looks Like Dear Editor: The word “privilege” has been overused and abused in recent years. Thanks to Jussie Smollett, Lori Laughlin and others, we got to see what social privilege looks like in the real world. Everyone in Chicago’s law...