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Brian Laline

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Executive Editor, Staten Island Advance/SILive
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On Staten Island, everything old is new again | From the editor

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By Brian Laline Verified
| Staten Island Advance Verified
Tony from Silver Lake, my buddy, fellow New Dorp High grad, and these days, bocce teammate, stumbled across a half-hour TV documentary about Staten Island he shared the other day. Visually, it captures much of the beauty of the place. Those interviewed, however, tell a different story. “The Island’s a mess from what the builders have done to it,” a young South Shore mom and Brooklyn transplant tells the audience from her perch on her home’s front steps. “The way they build houses so close together .
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The flag . . . when it was a symbol of unity | From the editor

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By Brian Laline Verified
| Staten Island Advance Verified
I thought I followed the quirks of politics in America pretty closely. Until dinner one evening with a few friends in the Road House. Over bourbons and burgers, I learned a few of my buddies, all patriotic on various levels, fear flying the American flag. Really. It’s not that they disrespect our country. It’s that they are afraid of their neighbors. I did not know this. It knocked me back a few steps. “I gotta look this up,” I thought.
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The issue: Abortion. The readers respond | From the editor

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By Brian Laline Verified
| Staten Island Advance Verified
I knew I was on thin ice a couple of weeks ago when I suggested Kamala Harris should know why she’s not sitting in the Oval Office right now. Kamala was demanding the Democratic National Committee release an “autopsy report” on the 2024 presidential race – the “whys” of why Donald Trump is breathing the rarified air in there instead. I knew I was on thin ice because one cannot talk about a delicate issue like abortion without expecting a reaction.
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