06.07.2012 Columns Equal Time: Don’t point fingers on water quality The article “Get busy on water pollution” in the May 24 edition of The Suffolk Times demonstrates how little some well-intentioned environmentalists know about the subject. As a professional...
05.11.2012 Columns Equal Time: A soccer program for all local kids Have you been to the Aldrich Lane soccer fields recently, say between 3 and 4 p.m.? You may have seen our Red Bull trainer, Chris Colley, surrounded by a...
05.03.2012 Columns Equal Time: Oysterponds is simply giving a choice As the parents of two middle school students in the Oysterponds district who attend Greenport — not parents of a teacher employed by Greenport School — we have a...
04.24.2012 Columns Equal Time: There’s no reason to choose Mattituck My daughter teaches at Greenport High School, and I am a 22-year member of the Oysterponds Board of Education. These facts don’t disqualify me from writing this as a...
04.09.2012 Columns Equal Time: Better under Obama? Absolutely not I would like to reply to Troy Gustavson’s assessment that we would be worse off under a Romney presidency. Regarding his assertion that the Detroit bailout was integral to...
03.25.2012 Columns Equal Time: I’ve delivered for the 1st Congressional District I am proud to represent the North Fork in Congress and appreciate the opportunity to respond directly to recent criticism of my record in the local media. I write...
02.08.2012 Columns Equal Time: The Suffolk Times made the wrong choice Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Times/Review, under the leadership of “corporate officer” Troy Gustavson, writes an opinion piece accusing the North Fork Chamber of Commerce and...
10.06.2011 Columns Equal Time: Work with, not against, the vineyard After reading the debate of the Sherwood House Vineyards in the paper, I feel compelled to write my point of view as a concerned citizen and neighbor. The dispute...
03.23.2011 Opinion Equal Time: Sensationalized story got it wrong In a last-ditch effort to respond to the outrageous fallacies erroneously stated in this paper, I am writing to set the record straight once again, as it seems that...
03.02.2011 Opinion Equal Time: No need for animal shelter rancor We watched the Feb. 15 Town Board meeting, again and again. Unbelievable! Neighbors, including Town Board members, tried to discuss the required competition to seek an operator for the...