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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...

12.04.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Always tough and engaged, Arthur Tasker was a Greenport fixture

It is with a heavy heart that I write to pay tribute to neighbor, citizen, political gadfly and Greenport Zoning Board member Arthur Tasker. We met Arthur and Lucia...

11.13.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We must be better than the last four years

In 2016, following the election of Donald Trump, I wrote to The Suffolk Times in staunch opposition to him winning the presidency. His campaign was enough to demonstrate his...

11.07.2020 Columns

Guest Column: DA should handle police retirement party investigation

As The Suffolk Times has reported, “A dozen Orient Fire Department members or associates were exposed to COVID-19 at the district’s budget hearing Tuesday, the district confirmed in an...

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....

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