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....
08.23.2014 Real Estate Real Estate: How a family saved a historic Cape Cod in Orient On picture-postcard-pretty Village Lane in Orient, residents worried not long ago about the fate of one of the street’s genuine treasures — a simple but handsome Cape Cod house...
05.31.2014 Opinion Column: Affirmative action for the well-connected It didn’t take a rocket scientist to read between the lines of the brochure I received earlier this year from my college alma mater. “Admissions 101: College Exploration Program...
09.01.2013 Columns Column: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the city to the North Fork. If you’re traveling by bus for...
07.22.2012 Columns Guest Column: Our ignorance on issues is just dangerous If ignorance is bliss, then Americans must be blissful indeed these days. Because so many of us display an appalling (and alarming) ignorance — just confirmed by a respected...
11.10.2011 Columns Guest Column: Don’t disparage the Wall Street occupiers It was, admittedly, a clever play on words. “Occupy Wall Street animals go wild …ZOO-COTTI!” trumpeted the cover headline of last Friday’s New York Post. The headline referenced a...
04.20.2011 Columns Guest Column: The wealthy should pay higher taxes It could have been worse. Indeed, It should have been worse. I’m talking about the tax bite Uncle Sam just took out of my bank account. It was simply...
01.17.2011 Opinion Equal Time: America leads the way (unfortunately) The more things change, the more they remain the same. Reading a follow-up story last week on the tragedy in Tucson in The Other Times headlined “Sadness aside, no...
08.12.2010 News Comptroller criticizes SCWA directors’ perks For more than 30 years the Suffolk County Water Authority gave its directors unauthorized fringe benefits, ranging from cars for personal use to health insurance and dental coverage, according...
08.05.2010 News Supe to trustees: Just say no If opponents of the Suffolk County Water Authority’s plan to build a three-mile-long water main from East Marion to Orient’s Brown’s Hills community had any lingering doubts about Supervisor...