Diana Gordon, Author at The Suffolk Times

07.14.2022 Columns

Guest Column: DACA residents live in limbo in a worrisome age

Donald Trump did not always despise all undocumented immigrants. In 2017 he declared, “We love the Dreamers,” young people protected from deportation by DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood...

05.02.2020 Columns

Guest Column: The challenges of remote teaching during COVID-19

As a worker, are you essential, nonessential or front-line? COVID-19 has sorted us into categories we don’t usually contemplate. And what is essential work anyway? Excluding some people from...

11.17.2019 Letters

Featured Letter: For DACA recipients, homes hang in the balance

To the editor: On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the future of the policy that has protected young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children...

04.13.2019 Columns

Guest Column: Local schools adapt to changing populations

Five years ago, when I was writing my book about Greenport’s immigrants, a parent asked me to translate into Spanish a notice from her child’s school. It announced an...

10.01.2017 Columns

Guest Spot: Sad goodbye to Greenport’s Arcade

When I first spent summers on Shelter Island, in the 1970s, a favorite rainy-day excursion was a trip to Greenport to shop at the Arcade. If we needed beach...

01.11.2016 Columns

Guest Spot: Immigrants should be embraced, not excluded

When I set out from Greenport last month for the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Brooklyn, I didn’t know what to expect.

09.04.2014 Letters

Featured Letter: Older and low-wage workers need housing, too

To the editor: It is indeed important that Southold Town take steps to promote affordable housing. Long Island is in the throes of a serious housing crisis, as a...

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