John Henry, Author at The Suffolk Times

06.28.2019 Columns

Guest Spot: Shifting freight from road to rail on LI

You don’t have to be a transportation expert to grasp that something is seriously out of whack with how freight travels on Long Island and the rest of downstate...

05.28.2017 Columns

Guest Column: The unfinished business at Edwards Farm

Unless you’re looking for it, the Edwards Farm in Orient can easily escape your notice. You come upon it on the south side of Main Road just west of...

02.11.2017 Columns

Guest Column: Trump’s view of the press conjures Russia

Being of a certain age, I still like to buy the print editions of English-language newspapers when traveling abroad. And I’ve been able to get them, even in countries...

12.03.2016 Columns

Guest Column: Reflecting on President Obama’s tenure

It was election night in 2008 and I was in a packed hotel ballroom in downtown Cleveland surrounded by campaign volunteers for Barack Obama who’d gathered before a giant...

10.01.2016 Columns

Guest column: Don’t be fooled by equating Clinton with Trump

When Al Gore’s supporters blamed a third-party candidate, Ralph Nader, for his narrow defeat by George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, the renowned consumer advocate quipped that...

04.17.2016 Columns

Guest Column: Of primary concern — Bernie or Hillary

“I plan to vote for Bernie in the primary but Hillary in the general election.” I’ve been hearing that refrain fairly frequently from my Democratic friends as New York’s...

02.22.2016 Columns

Guest Column: The lessons learned from VW’s scandal

As Jeanne Markel tells it, she and her husband were so enthusiastic about their two Volkswagen “clean” diesels that the couple sang their praises to practically anyone who’d listen.

12.12.2015 Columns

Guest Column: Congressman Zeldin sticks to his guns

When the Daily News ran a photo of Congressman Lee Zeldin last week, it was the kind of publicity our representative could do without.

10.17.2015 Columns

Guest Spot: Finding insight on the way to a lighthouse

For more than 35 years, I’d been looking longingly at a picture of a lighthouse on a spectacular headland jutting into the Atlantic near the westernmost tip of the...

11.22.2014 Columns

Guest Spot: Safeguarding our scenery’s crown jewel

“When I cross that causeway, my whole mood changes.” My friend was referring to the emotional lift she gets every time she enters Orient from the west. No wonder....

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