02.05.2019 Columns Guest Column: State education should focus less on blame game Did you go to elementary school in the 1970s or ’80s? Was it the 1950s or ’60s? If so, you probably took statewide standardized tests along with 100 percent...
01.27.2019 Columns Guest Column: The time to act on climate change is now The good news, we can save the planet if we act now, but if we fail to make a concerted effort today, climate change will overwhelm us.
01.13.2019 Columns Guest Column: Finding beauty in her final resting place On Dec. 23 a group of people gathered to bury a loving mom, wife, sister, aunt and friend.
01.06.2019 Columns Guest Column: Early challenges for county executive The leading political contest in Suffolk in 2019 will be the race for county executive, the top post in Suffolk County government.
12.23.2018 Columns Guest Column: A holiday tradition that differs by house At our house, Santa leaves fruit and nuts in the Christmas stockings. We understand it’s because he has traveled all over the world, to places where oranges and coconuts...
11.21.2018 Columns Guest Column: Returning home to the North Fork for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving always puts me in a reflective mood. Although I’ve lived in Los Angeles for the past two decades, my fondest childhood memories took place on the North Fork...
09.30.2018 Columns Guest Column: Dangers of dismissing climate change The renowned physicist Wolfgang Pauli once reviewed a paper that failed to reflect even a basic understanding of the physics involved. His remark has become one of the greatest...
09.23.2018 Columns Guest Column: The North Fork will always be home I arrived in Southold by bus in the summer of 1984, having agreed to a house share, sight unseen, with some friends from Rolling Stone magazine. I was 32,...
07.22.2018 Columns Guest column: Women’s rights under attack Our nation is in troubling times and we are seeing daily attacks on our fundamental rights and values. Our daughters and granddaughters are now faced with the threat of...
05.27.2018 Columns Guest Column: Remembering Uncle Al — and many others It started with flowers. We don’t know if it was a single bloom, a bunch of wildflowers picked at a roadside, a 19th-century floral arrangement called a “posy” or...