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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...

12.05.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Family Health and Wellness of Cornell Cooperative Extension needs your help

The Family Health and Wellness educators received devastating news recently. The 2021 Suffolk County budget reduced FHW funding to 0%, thereby eliminating funding for the entire department. For decades...

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