Michael Dinnocenzo

Michael Dinnocenzo

137 Articles

Out of Left Field: Journey to boycott the Superbowl (Part I)

How many Americans made informed judgments not to watch this year’s Super Bowl? To reach that decision is to counter

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Out of Left Field: Trump criticism not limited to Dems, liberals

  Never in our history have so many members of a president’s own party offered so many searing criticisms of

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Out of Left Field: LIRR aside, my love affairs with trains

How extensive is your experience with trains? Perhaps, like many folks in our suburban era of the LIRR, there is

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Out of Left Field: Celebrating arts along Hudson, East rivers

It’s too late!  “River to River” – ended on June 25. New York City’s annual 11-day, June festival began in

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Out of Left Field: Past time to end ‘aristocracy of the robe’

Regardless of whether our president is a Republican or a Democrat, our nation will be much better served if we

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Out of Left Field: Give Long Island peace quests a chance

Long Islanders, across the age spectrum (from 19 to 90) are gathering at 7:30 on Wednesday, Aug. 2 at the

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Out of Left Field: Time to end life terms for Supreme Court

Do you agree that 18-year terms are long enough to sustain judicial independence and respect for separation of powers? Would

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Out of Left Field: Anti-Semitism unleashed — once again

Jews will not replace us!” That was the repeated chant of neo-Nazis and KKK marchers in Charlottesville. What were they

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Out of Left Field: Is football going to be our next tobacco?

Long Island’s great president, and lover of athletics, Theodore Roosevelt came close to abolishing football in the early 1900s. He

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Column: Long Island at the Peacemaker Award Gala

Last Friday, Peace Action New York, at its 60th year celebration, selected Hofstra students for the 2017 “Don Shaffer Peacemaker

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Column: Time to let the sunshine in

If you haven’t heard that resounding song from "Hair" in 1967, you can hear it now and participate in a

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Column: ‘JERKS IN NEW YORK’ and beyond

The title of this column comes from a volume that my creative, gift giving sister-in-law bestowed on me in a

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Out of Leftfield: Finding a moral compass

When living through such a vacuum in moral leadership, with a president who boasts that he does not read history,

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Out of Left Field: Tis the season for virtual ‘bardo’

“Bardo” is my word of the year for 2017. It also is a stage setting term for every New Year.

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Out of Left Field: 2017’s positive global and local legacies

  2017 was a demoralizing year for many Americans, as polls continued to show (particularly pegging Donald Trump at the

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