Sample Letter of Appeal State Unemployment Insurance Board

State of New York
Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board
P.O. Box 15126
Albany, NY 12212-5126
Re: A.L.J. Case No. 009-01152
Charles Taylor (DOB 1/9/68)
I wish to appeal the decision issued in regards to case no. 009-00152, based on the following reasons:
The opinion of the administrative law judge,Paula S. Yorke, Esq., as stated on page 3 of the enclosed Notice of Decision [...]

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Episcopal Pickles

When women departed their god-forsaken places in the home to work in factories and maneuver up and down corporate ladders, a most essential culinary art was abandoned—that of canning and preserving.
Just after the invention of the aluminum can, sometime in the early 1970’s, women, in droves, put away their pressure cookers, sharp knives and wide-mouth [...]

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Message on the Sidewalk

There are green tomatoes growing along the sidewalks of Underhill Avenue in Brooklyn. Why none of the rowdy children who dominate these smooth, glistening sidewalks with ripsticks, skateboards and I-Pods have not stopped to trample the vine or to toss one of at least a dozen baseball- sized fruits at oncoming cars is odd. Of [...]

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Black Underground Sea

A muddy creek carrying the stubble of erosion cuts through the tiny town of Petersburg, PA. Lumber rich woodlands were shaved of deep rooted trees—generations ago, clearing space for cattle, sprawling pastures, all-ears cornfields, irrigated acres of cash crop and backyards covered in green grasses and horseshoe pits.
The creek, named ‘Shaver’s Creek’, slowly scrapes at the [...]

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Pin Oak

A muddy river carrying the bloody sediments of erosion pumps through Petersburg. Oxygen infused pollen from creek bank honeysuckle gives not allergies but cavities to those who have breathed here. Winds in Petersburg on musty summer mornings, stings nostrils with a salty aroma—a slight seasoning fills the air—the exhaust from passing coal locomotives combines with [...]

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