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10.31.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We can’t vote yet, so please don’t let your chance slip by

An urgent request from the sixth- and seventh-graders of the Peconic Community School: We need you to vote. We can’t, but you CAN! Your vote can change our country....

10.04.2020 Columns

Guest Column: A breakdown of the social order

My father was a lifelong Republican and my mother a lifelong Democrat. Yet in their 50-plus-year marriage, there was never a discussion, heated or otherwise, on candidates or political...

09.25.2020 Columns

Guest Column: When it comes to voting, the devil is in the details

By now, many of us feel like the prisoner in Frank R. Stockton’s 1882 tale, “The Lady or the Tiger?” It’s about an innocent hostage, barbarically tossed into the...

09.17.2020 Columns

Guest Column: Comprehensive plan fails to address critical public health issue

After years of effort, the Town of Southold has a final draft of its Comprehensive Plan. This deals with a multiplicity of important and complex problems facing the town....

08.08.2020 Columns

Guest Column: Save this last green corner in Mattituck

The Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association, as a rule, forgoes public endorsements, working instead to be a channel of information to the broad community. MLCA has been, and remains, neutral concerning...

06.28.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired

I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...

06.12.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We missed an opportunity to govern better

Let me first say that the last few months have been an extraordinary time of stress and sadness for all of us. This must be particularly true for our...

05.30.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Let’s certify businesses as ‘COVID compliant’

Confusion and mixed messages abound concerning the full reopening of the economy. Is it happening too soon or not soon enough? Will I be safe dining out or shopping...

05.29.2020 Columns

Guest Column: A survival plan for downtown Greenport

Many will recall when Greenport was a place few people wanted to come to, with vacant stores littering Front and Main streets and derelict and burned-out wrecks blighting the...

05.16.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Amid pandemic, another threat looms large for next generation

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” Well, young friends, you’re in trouble. No, it isn’t coronavirus that will make your...

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