06.18.2023 Community Guest Column: Juneteenth’s path to a national holiday It’s said that a “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s certainly true of Opal Lee, a retired school teacher and mother of four from...
09.18.2022 Columns Guest Column: A climate change briefing for students As a new school year starts, let’s update our understanding of climate change. Here on our idyllic North Fork, we suffer from a malaise that I’ll call “back porch,...
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...
07.04.2022 Columns Guest Spot: On July 4, let us celebrate freedom We are indeed so blessed to live in America. I’m saddened to watch a negative theme permeate our culture that suggests America is an evil country founded on hypocrisy....
02.25.2022 Columns Guest Column: Gerrymandering hurts our democracy No one was surprised when Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the newly created New York congressional districts into law. The new districts included the gerrymandered 1st Congressional District, so last...
07.18.2021 Columns Guest Spot: As first loves go, this one was intense and heartbreaking Do you remember the day you fell in love for the first time? I do, like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful October day and for me it...
07.01.2021 Columns Guest Spot: It is our history that troubles so many You are looking at a photograph of me and my cousin Shannon Lanier. It is a photograph that illustrates why the 1619 Project is such a white supremacist’s nightmare,...
05.25.2021 Columns Guest Column: We must support extraordinary courage A year ago today, the world was in lockdown due to the pandemic. Many of us were glued to the news, and had heard about Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old...
02.11.2021 Columns Guest Column: Reflecting on nearly 20 years at helm of Peconic Bay Medical Center I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a brisk afternoon in mid-March 2001, nearly 20 years ago. I had completed two interviews with the hospital board and now...
01.30.2021 Columns Guest Spot: Five reasons to be vaccinated, two not to The old question — ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ — has become more urgent during this pandemic. I‘ve grappled with this question, and as a physician, have weighed the pros...
