03.10.2021 Columns Guest Spot: Gone but not forgotten It was 40 years ago this week that my sister Michelle and her husband, Bill Becker, suspiciously drowned, leaving behind three young children. Bill was found dead at Matt-a-Mar...
03.11.2018 Columns Guest Column: Serving in the Army alongside ‘The King’ For many years afterward, it would be one of my favorite gambits at cocktail parties and other venues of idle gossip. Whenever the conversation drifted into the area of...
01.13.2018 Columns Guest Column: Confronting mental health disorders How do we, as a community, begin to address the very real mental health disorders — acute and chronic episodes of anxiety and depression, and addiction — of our...
11.22.2014 Columns Guest Spot: Safeguarding our scenery’s crown jewel “When I cross that causeway, my whole mood changes.” My friend was referring to the emotional lift she gets every time she enters Orient from the west. No wonder....
09.22.2013 Columns Guest Column: A road map for Goldsmith Inlet decision The significant issues surrounding Goldsmith Inlet in Peconic have led me to question the process of analysis and decision-making that has been in use to this point. I believe...
09.01.2013 Columns Column: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the city to the North Fork. If you’re traveling by bus for...
02.02.2012 Columns Guest Column: Wind power can play a role in Southold A meeting recently took place at Mattituck-Laurel Library regarding the Suffolk County Water Authority’s proposed wind turbine in Laurel. I was somewhat offended by the authority’s interest in having...
11.10.2011 Columns Guest Column: Don’t disparage the Wall Street occupiers It was, admittedly, a clever play on words. “Occupy Wall Street animals go wild …ZOO-COTTI!” trumpeted the cover headline of last Friday’s New York Post. The headline referenced a...
05.18.2011 Columns Guest Column: Many more deserve credit for fighting Northville Power Plant The recent Guest Spot about the misadventure of the Long Island Lighting Company with nuclear power in Northville offers but a single chapter. The full history of that saga...
