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The unintended consequences of closing Rikers Freeport, L.I.: Let’s be honest. No one is going to close Rikers Island, and doing so could be disastrous. The money to close it doesn’t exist, nor is it coming from any imaginable source. Rather, the most practical and compassionate way to address the jail crisis is to develop small facilities to house mentally ill patients, get them off the ...

Western Springs, Ill.: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations and valuable gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow. Thomas said he and his wife were “dearest friends” of the billionaire and his wife for more than 25 years. How long would they have been dearest friends if Thomas was not a Supreme Court justice?

Morris Plains, N.J.: To Voicer Harvey Kaplan: You are absolutely correct and I have been saying it’s the doctors all along. I’m a victim. I was a very good athlete but had a painful back issue I dealt with my whole life. In my late 40s, my back went. I went to the doctor and he started me on Percocet 10. He gave me 120 pills a month.

Manhattan: I knew Irene Cara back in the 1970s! I tracked her down after her agent, Selma Rubin, told me she was giving a talk to a group of students at the New York Public Library on W. 52nd St. She was quiet and gracious and said yes when I asked her to perform a benefit concert for the famous Riverside Theatre Workshop, which started at The Riverside Church.

Sahuarita Middle School Assistant Principal Robert Beachy has been named new principal of Sopori School in Amado.