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LIRR President Phillip Eng, who made the most money last year, moved down on the list, ranking at 4. Edward Popolizio, who works as a track foremen, took home the most overall last year. (Photo credit: Daniel Hampton/Patch)
LONG ISLAND, NY A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy.
Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000 in compensation. Compared to 2019, 59 workers made at least $250,000 and 10 made at least $300,000. In 2014, no employees made more than $300,000.
LIRR President Phillip Eng, who made the most money last year, moved down on the list, ranking at 4.
sure it doesn t happen again. there is no good reason to put hands on a reporter who is doing his or her job. soledad o brien and john harwood are back and i welcome first amendment attorney lee levine who wrote a book on the issue. lee, in your view from a fact-finding or investigative perspective, what is the significance of the president saying this to the fbi director in what he thought was a private setting? well, ari, the president said a lot of things similar to that publicly during the campaign. and i think a lot of us thought it was just bluster and figured that it was designed to whip up his crowds and whip up his base. what s chilling about him saying it to the fbi director in private means, or at least suggests, that he is actually serious about it. that s concerning. soledad let me read from a reporter with the public news service in west virginia, dan
press to stand up for itself. lee, what do you say to the argument that is more artfully made, not, of course, by necessarily president trump but by others who say, well, the face of the media is changing and institutions like wikileaks may have at one time looked a little more like a web publisher and now look more arguably like a handmaden to espionage. the espionage is the only thing that vaguely applies to the situation the president is talking about. allows for the prosecution of spying. what it doesn t provide for is the prosecution of people who are doing what anyone would recognize is journalism. whether they are a card-carrying member of the new york times or the washington post or something else, if they re doing journalism, the espionage act should not touch them. soledad, final thought? i am not afraid. i do not feel afraid that somehow, even with the
be the intent, the practical impact of the travel ban is that its first of all inappropriate constitutionally and won t have any impact on barring isis fighters from making their way to the united states. it s interesting, ambassador, you mentioned something really significant which is, what does he choose to emphasize before different audiences. clearly some forethought there. this was also raised directly in the legal proceedings about has the president ever backed down from the older anti-muslim rhetoric. his attorney at the doj who will probably argue this before the supreme court, currently the top lawyer they have, making a vigorous rebuttal to what the judges were presenting. has the president ever disavowed his campaign statements? has he ever stood up and said, i said before i wanted to ban all members of the islamic faith from entering the united states of america. i was wrong.
many cases would describe how afraid they were, some cases having to actually be escorted out because they were really worried about their security. and you establish a culture in which people think that journalists not only are not there to serve them but that actually journalists are the enemy. none of this really surprises me. i think the fcc case as well, where the apology said something like, i was freezing and starving and that s why that happened. it was very bizarre. so none of these things make a lot of sense, i think, but also they are part of this longer continuum of a president who clearly hates the press and knows how to leverage that, again, to reach his voters. let s be clear. i ll get to john in a minute. lee, one more question on this, to soledad s point. the constitution protects your right to hate the press. bring it on. this is an open society. the question is what does the constitution say about a president asking the fbi director to, quote, put journalists in ja